David M

Thanks

It has been a while. So I am trying this again....

So what medals do we see here?

Plus the centre of the medaillon appears to vaguely represent a vertical figure, just as is the case with the st. Henry order

Right. As I stated before ? Right. Thats what I said in my previous post. Well copied ?

No he was not because Bernard jr was born from a morganatic marriage as stated above.

Its somewhat more complicated than that. Bernhards parents marries morganatically. His mother was made a Countess of Biesterfeld at her wedding and both sons got their mothers name at birth. His mother and he and his brother Aschwin got the princely title in 1916 from his uncle the last reigning prince of Lippe-Detmold with the predicate of Durchlaucht. Subsequently at his wedding with Juliana he became HRH The Prince of the Netherlands. A Reichsfreiherr was made by the HRR emperor before the desolution of the empire in 1806. A Freiherr was made by any other kind of german souvereign at any given point in history before 1918. Barons were used mainly by the baltic germans and often had a russian or swedish grant as origin. To make things easier, in some periodes of time Baron used to be the speakingtitle for a Freiherr

Fürst is the title of the head of a house whereof the younger members are either princes or counts. E.g. Fürst Bismarck, other members are of comital rank; Fürst zu Sayn-W-H, younger members are princes. All depends on how, when and through whom the title of Fürst was initially acquired, either with primogenitur or not

Where is Duingi?

Its about a case he worked on. Ibviously a murdercase in Celle which ended in 3 executions

I still think the crown on the marriage medal is one of the finest I have ever seen

Makes a lot more sense, thanks ?

So is OEK2 the austrian iron crown order 2nd class? Pretty high for a hof fourier with 4th class awards

Did you already get the texts transcribed? If not, send me a DM and I can see what I can do

Nice! Congratulations ? I am sure it was quite some work

I would like to read it 2

What that 3rd medal.with the white ribbon?

I guess they are there to keep the chain in place

The other thread was mentioned here only 4,5 years ago already.....

Not even a la suiite?

I do think it is much rather a Fürstenkrone

This one you mean?

I think its Hamburg

Oh I see. I have seen this some time before and always wondered. Thanks

I always wondered about the cap(?) of these officers. Why does his look different to me