The Order of the Star of Ethiopia was established as an order of knighthood of the

Ethiopian Empire The Ethiopian Empire, historically known as Abyssinia or simply Ethiopia, was a sovereign state that encompassed the present-day territories of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It existed from the establishment of the Solomonic dynasty by Yekuno Amlak a ...

, founded by the

Negus ''Negus'' is the word for "king" in the Ethiopian Semitic languages and a Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles, title which was usually bestowed upon a regional ruler by the Ethiopian Emperor, Negusa Nagast, or "king of kings," in pre-1974 Et ...

of Shewa and later

Emperor of Ethiopia The emperor of Ethiopia (, "King of Kings"), also known as the Atse (, "emperor"), was the hereditary monarchy, hereditary ruler of the Ethiopian Empire, from at least the 13th century until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975. The emperor w ...

Menelik II Menelik II ( ; horse name Aba Dagnew (Amharic: አባ ዳኘው ''abba daññäw''); 17 August 1844 – 12 December 1913), baptised as Sahle Maryam (ሣህለ ማርያም ''sahlä maryam'') was king of Shewa from 1866 to 1889 and Emperor of Et ...

in 1884–1885. It is currently awarded as a house order by the Crown Council of Ethiopia. The Order was established to honour foreign and domestic civilian and military officials and individuals for service to the country, and is considered the fifth ranking order of the Empire of Ethiopia alongside the Order of Menelik II. All grades of the Order are approved for wear as a foreign order (i.e. after all British and other Commonwealth decorations) in

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, as it is on the "Schedule of Approved Countries and Awards".

Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. ...

herself was awarded the Chain and Collar of the Order of the Seal of Solomon.

Grades

; First Class # ETH Order of the Star of Ethiopia - Grand Cross BAR

Grand Cross (GCSE) ; Second Class # ETH Order of the Star of Ethiopia - Grand Officer BAR

Grand Officer (GOSE) # ETH Order of the Star of Ethiopia - Commander BAR

Commander (CSE) ; Third Class # ETH Order of the Star of Ethiopia - Officer BAR

Officer (OSE) # ETH Order of the Star of Ethiopia - Member BAR

Member (MSE)

Recipients

* Head **

Haile Selassie Haile Selassie I (born Tafari Makonnen or ''Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles#Lij, Lij'' Tafari; 23 July 189227 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as the Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles, Rege ...

* Grand Crosses ** Abbas II of Egypt ** Alfred, 2nd Prince of Montenuovo ** Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ** Sidney Barton **

Edward VII Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until Death and state funeral of Edward VII, his death in 1910. The second child ...

** Carl August Ehrensvärd (1892–1974) **

George VI George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until Death and state funeral of George VI, his death in 1952 ...

** Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark ** Hussein Refki Pasha ** Seyoum Mengesha ** Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger ** Alamsyah Ratu Perwiranegara * Grand Officers ** Johannes Brun (officer) ** Clifford Henry Fitzherbert Plowman ** Tunku Osman ** Paul Scully-Power * Commanders ** Guy Gibson Campbell ** Ralph Cobbold ** Meir Dizengoff ** Adolf Bredo Stabell (diplomat) * Grand Cordons ** Amha Selassie ** Kenneth Anderson (British Army officer) ** Desta Damtew ** Prince Makonnen * Officers ** Philip Norton Banks ** Lord Edward Gleichen ** Yngve A. A. Larsson ** John Qvale * Members * Unclassified ** Leonid Artamonov ** William Horwood (police commissioner) ** Harald Juell ** Gordon MacCreagh **

Mary of Teck Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 186724 March 1953) was List of British royal consorts, Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 Janua ...

** Georgios Prokopiou ** George C. Thorpe

References

Literature

* ''Honneur & Gloire. Les trésors de la collection Spada'', Paris: Musée national de la Légion d’honneur et des ordres de chevalerie, 2008, p. 354–355. * «Ethiopian Imperial Orders» i Guy Stair Sainty og Rafal Heydel-Mankoo: ''World Orders of Knighthood and Merit'', andre bind, Buckingham: Burke's Peerage, 2006, p. 779–781. * Gregor Gatscher-Riedl: '' Die Orden des äthiopischen Kaiserreichs und der salomonidischen Dynastie.'' In: Zeitschrift der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Ordenskunde, Nr. 91, Wien, August 2013, p. 1-22.

External links

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