List of honours awarded to Józef Piłsudski

Józef Piłsudski has been awarded numerous honours, domestic and foreign.

Polish National honours[]

National honours[]

• Order of the White Eagle (1921)
• Order of Virtuti Militari
  • Knight's Cross
  • Commander's Cross
  • Grand Cross
• Cross of Independence with Swords (6 November 1930)
• Order of Polonia Restituta
  • Commander's Cross with Star
  • Grand Cordon

Military honours[]

• Cross of Valour (four times)
• Gold Cross of Merit (Poland) (four times, including in 1931)
• Cross of Merit of the Central Lithuania Army
• Cross of Silesian Merit and Valor
• Officers' Badge "Parasol" (1912)
• Officers' Badge "For Faithful Service" (1916)
• Cross Kaniowski (1929)^[1]

Other honours[]

• Scouting Cross (1920)
• "Gold trade union" Chief Fire Brigades Union [78]
• Badge "Józef Piłsudski Polish Legion Commander" (1916) [80]
• Commemorative Badge of former prisoners from the years 1914–1921 Ideological (1928) [81]

Foreign honours[]

•  Austria-Hungary:
  • Order of the Iron Crown Class III (Austria-Hungary)
•  Belgium
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold
•  Bulgaria
  • Order of Saint Alexander with Swords
•  Brazil
  • Grand Collar of the Order of the Southern Cross Class
•  Czechoslovakia
  • Czechoslovak War Cross 1918
•  Estonia
  • Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class I (Estonia, 1930)
  • Cross of Liberty
    • Grade I
    • Grade III
•  Finland
  • Grand Cross of the White Rose of Finland with Collar
•  France
  • Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, No. 25864 (continuous numbering) and the Médaille militaire
•  Spain
  • Grand Cross – Yellow Decoration of the Order of Military Merit
•  Japan
  • Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
•  Kingdom of Yugoslavia
  • Order of the Karađorđe's Star^[2]
•  Latvia
  • Order of Lāčplēsis, Class I
•  SMOM
  • Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Class IV
•  Portugal
  • Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword
•  Kingdom of Romania
  • Collar of the Order of Carol I
  • Order of Michael the Brave, Classes I, II and III (Romania)
•  Hungary
  • Grand Cross of Merit^[3]
•  Kingdom of Italy
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of Savoy

Honorary doctorates[]

• Jagiellonian University (28 April 1920) [102]
• Adam Mickiewicz University (11 November 1933)
• University of Warsaw (2 May 1921) [103]
• Stefan Batory University in Vilnius (September 1921)

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