List of Military Orders
This list is intended to be comprehensive. The orders are listed chronologically according to their dates of foundation (in parentheses), which are sometimes approximate, and may in significance vary from case to case, the foundation of an order, its ecclesiastical approval, and its militarisation occurring at times on different dates.
- Knights Hospitaller (1080)
- Order of Saint James of Altopascio (ca. 1075)
- Sovereign Military Order of Malta (1099)
- Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (1113)
- Knights Templar (ca. 1118)
- Order of Saint Lazarus (ca. 1123)
- Order of Aviz (1128)
- Order of Saint Michael of the Wing (1147)
- Order of Calatrava (1158)
- Order of Aubrac (1162)
- Order of Santiago (1170)
- Order of Alcántara (1177)
- Order of Mountjoy (c.1180)
- Teutonic Knights (1190)
- Hospitallers of Saint Thomas of Canterbury at Acre (1191)
- Order of Monfragüe (1196)
- Order of Sant Jordi d'Alfama (1201)
- Livonian Brothers of the Sword (1202)
- Order of Dobrzyń (1216)
- Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy (1218)
- Knights of the Cross with the Red Star (before 1219)
- Militia of the Faith of Jesus Christ (1221)
- Order of the Faith and Peace (1231)
- Militia of Jesus Christ (1233)
- Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1261)
- Order of Santa María de España (1270)
- Order of Montesa (1317)
- Order of the Knights of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1318)
- Order of the Dragon (1408)
- Order of Saint Maurice (1434)
- Order of Our Lady of Bethlehem (1459)
- Order of Saint George of Carinthia (1469)
- Order of Saint George of Parma (before 1522)
- Order of Saint Stephen (1561)
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