List of honours received by Józef Piłsudski explained

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 (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

• • 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
    • 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
    • Order of the Karađorđe's Star^[2]
• Latvia
  • Order of Lāčplēsis, Class I
    • 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
    • Collar of the Order of Carol I
  • Order of Michael the Brave, Classes I, II and III (Romania)
• Hungary
  • Grand Cross of Merit^[3]
    • 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)

Notes and References

1. 11 November 1929 . Pilsudski v. Daszynski . Time . subscription . https://web.archive.org/web/20090815041117/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,737985,00.html . dead . 15 August 2009 .
2. Book: Acović, Dragomir. Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. 2012. Belgrade. Službeni Glasnik. 368.
3. Book: Piłsudski, Józef . Urbankowski, Bohdan. 1989. Myśli, mowy i rozkazy. Warsaw. Kwadryga. pl. 978-83-85082-01-9. 281.