The Orders, Decorations and Medals of Denmark

Links & Other References

Acknowledgements

The assistance of the Danish Department of Defence is gratefully acknowledged, in particular their generousity in allowing the use of their illustrations of medals. Images and information has also been shared by Emmanuel Halleux, Preben Sloht Nielsen, Henrik Revens, and Sune Schønnemann.

Grateful thanks to La Galerie Numismatique, Liverpool Medals, the London Medal Company, Morton and Eden and Spinks, who have allowed the use of images from their catalogue.

Links

The Royal House of Denmark - The Royal Orders of Chivalry (Archived August 2022)

The Royal House of Denmark - Danske dekorationers indbyrdes rækkefølge [Order of Wear for Danish Decorations].

Danish Department of Defence - Medals (Archived June 2013)

Antonio Prieto Barrio - Ribbons of Denmark - Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - March Medals

Nils Georg Bartholdy Dannebrogordenen

Lukasz Gaszewski - Decorations and Medals of the Kingdom of Denmark

Hendrik Meersschaert - Hendrik's Medal Corner: Denmark

Ilya Repetski - World Awards: Denmark

Will Shade - Medals of Denmark (Archived March 2012)

Sune Schønnemann - SkibDen - excellent database of Danish medals (Archived 2023).

Eric Semon - Décations du Danemark

Sven Vik - World Orders and Medals: Denmark (Archived February 2016).

Mario Volpe - Tavole ordini STATI SCANDINAVI

Yuri Yashnev - For Merit: Denmark (Archived October 2007).

Napoleon Online - Decorations of Denmark (Archived December 2004)

Medalnj - Denmark

Wikipedia - List of orders, decorations and medals of the Kingdom of Denmark (largely the work of Sune Schønnemann)

MedalBook - Denmark

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