Order of Merit of Savoy

As of 1988, the Order of Merit of Savoy was organized parallel to the Civil Ordre of Savoy by S.A.R. the prince Victor-Emmanuel. This Order was created to reward those and those having rendered a service particular and for importance to the Royal Maison of Savoy or to the chief of this one; it is also decreed with the foreign personalities which cannot receive the Civil Ordre of Savoy. Lastly, it honors those which could have received the precedent if the large Master decreed it. The hierarchy of eight classes is similar to that of the Ordre of the saints Maurice & Lazare:

Knight/Rammed
Officier
Commandeur/Dame di Commenda
Grand Officer
Large Chevalier Cross/Dame Large Cross

The branches of the Greek cross are covered with white enamel. In the center of the cross, the monogram in gold letters of prince Victor-Emmanuel of Savoy (VE) is included in a round enamel blue-sky medallion. The ribbon is tiercé of a white band between two blue bands. The medals of officer, commander and large-officer are surmounted by a royal crown. That of Grand Cross comprises in more four small royal crowns placed between the branches of the cross. The large-officers and the Grand Crosses carry a plate on their dress.

The dress of church of the knights about the Merit of Savoy is a long blue coat sky, without handle. Its collar and is embroidered of one gallon in gold wire. On the heart, the cross of the Order is bent. A blue and white braided cord, fixed in the back passes over the shoulders and runs in front of the coat; it ends in two houppelandes same colors. This coat is identical for the knights of the Civil Order of Savoy. The Roman dressmakers name besides it commonly " Civil Savoia". The knights can wear white gloves. Contrary to the dress of the Orders of the saints Maurice & Lazare, no distinctive mark makes it possible to locate the rank of the members of the Order.

See too

Internal bonds

supreme Order of Very Holy Annonciade
Order of the Maurice saints & Lazare
Order of the Crown of Military Italy
Order of Savoy
Civil Order of Savoy
List of civil and military honorary natures
List of the currencies of civil and military natures

External bonds

Official site of the dynastic Orders of the House of Savoy
Official site of the ESA Int. knights of the Dynastic Orders of Savoy

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