Talk:Order of the Black Eagle

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The German Empire never had orders! It was a union of kingdoms and duchies, each with their own orders.

Contents 1 External Link 2 Orange sash color 3 Caption for Friedrich Wilhelm picture 4 Capitular knights

[edit] External Link

The link to Orders and Medals of the Kingdom of Prussia and other selected German States is a link to imaginary medals awarded to Napoleonic war-gamers! Any objection to removing it?

Avalon 11:39, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Not only is it a link to wargamers' imaginary medals, the images there are stolen from other websites, including mine. Since I am overhauling the article anyway, I am removing the link. Airbornelawyer 21:45, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orange sash color

The article stated previously "It was meant to honour the Queen's descendency from the Dutch family of the princes of Orange and the founder of that dynasty William the Silent, champion of the Protestant cause in Europe." I have removed that, pending provision of a source. It is also in the German version, which does provide a more extensive list of references, but also does not source the statement about the sash color. This English version also says "Queen" but doesn't say which queen. Airbornelawyer 00:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Caption for Friedrich Wilhelm picture

The caption under the picture of Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm indentifies the large cross he is wearing as that of the Black Eagle order. However, upon closer examination it can be seen that this decoration is actually the Grand Cross of the Pour le Mérite, an extremely rare order awarded only five times (and for which the gold, rhomboid decoration is the breast star). The giveaways are the color and style of the eagles between the arms of the cross, and the bust of Friedrich der Groβe at the center. Also, it was not customary to wear the neck badge of the Order and the sash at the same time, as the sash already bore the badge on a rosette, making the display of the neck decoration redundant (the same is true of most great chivalric orders, i.e. the Garter). Sdguy7 16:29, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Capitular knights

What exactly is meant by "capitular knights"? Olessi (talk) 15:44, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Knights of a chapter of the order. In the case of this order, members were generally either certain nobles (such as members of the House of Hohenzollern) who automatically were awarded the order, or others who were inducted into the order and became members of the chapter of the order. Airbornelawyer (talk) 21:29, 7 February 2008 (UTC)