Troy's Further Research on these Papal Knighthood

ORDER OF INFLUENCE OF THE PAPAL-LOYAL ORDERS

To recap & to clarify:

I conclude that the order of influential precedence within the Papal-loyal knighthood orders is:


1: The Order of the Golden Fleece - Spanish branch

(Grand Master: King Juan Carlos I of Spain [Head of the House of Bourbon];


2: The Order of the Golden Fleece - Austrian branch

(Grand Master: Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke & Prince (Austria), Prince (Hungary) [Head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine];


3: The Order of St Januarius

(Both branches: Hispano-Neapolitan [Grand Master: Don Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria] & Franco-Neapolitan [Grand Master: Prince Carlo, the Duke of Castro]; Note: the Dukes of Calabria & Castro are the disputing Heads of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies);


4: The Constantinian Order

(Both branches: Hispano-Neapolitan [Grand Master: Don Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria] & Franco-Neapolitan [Grand Master: Prince Carlo, the Duke of Castro];


5: The Order of the Holy Sepulchre

(Grand Master: "Papal Prince" John Cardinal Foley)


6: The Order of Malta

(Grand Master: "Papal Prince" Matthew Cardinal Festing);


7: The Orders of St John:

* English branch: "Sovereign" Head: Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom [Head of the House of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha a.k.a. Windsor]; Grand Prior, Prince Richard, the Duke of Gloucester [also House of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha a.k.a. Windsor];

* Dutch branch: Honorary Commander: Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands [Head of the House of Orange-Nassau];

* Swedish branch: High Protector: Carl XVI Gustav, King of Sweden [Head of the House of Bernadotte];

* German branch: Master: Oskar, Prince of Prussia [House of Hohenzollern - although not the Head of that House, which is Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia]

-Troy