Córdoba (1520-1578)||1520||1578|| |- |Don Carlos of Spain||1545||1568||eldest son of King Philip II |- |Luis Enriquez de Cabrera, 2nd Duke of Medina de Rioseco||?||1572|| |- |Alfonso de Aragon, 3rd Duke of Cardona||?||1562|| |- |Charles, Baron de Berlaymont||1510||1578|| |- |Philippe de Stavele, Baron de Chaumont||1508||1562|| |- |Charles de Brimeu, Comte de Meghem||1524/25||1572|| |- |Philippe de Montmorency, Count of Horn||1518||1568|| |- |Jean IV, Marquis de Berghes||1528||1567|| |- |William I, Prince of Orange||1533||1584|| |- |Jean de Montmorency, Siegneur de Courrière||?||1563|| |- |Johan I of East Frisia||1506||1572|| |- |Wratislaw von Pernstein||1530||1582|| |- |Francisco Fernando d'Avalos d'Aquino, 5th Marquis of Pescara||?||1571|| |- |Antonio Doria, Marquis of San Stefano||?||?|| |- |Ascanio Sforza-Sforza, Count of Santa Fiora||1520||1575|| |- |rowspan=9|1559||Guidobaldo de Montefeltre, Duke of Urbino||1514||1574|| |- |Marco-Antonio Colonna, Prince of Tagliacozza||1535||1584|| |- |Philippe de Montmorency, Seigneur d'Achricourt||1502||1566|| |- |Baudouin de Lannoy, Seigneur de Molembaix||1518||1559|| |- |Guillaume de Croy, Marquis de Renty||1527||1565|| |- |Floris de Montmorency, Seigneur de Montigny||1528||1567|| |- |Philippe, 2me Comte de Ligne||1533||1583|| |- |Charles de Lannoy, 5th Prince of Sulmone||1537||1568|| |- |Antoine de Lalaing, 3rd Comte de Hoogstraten||1535||1568|| |- |1560||Francis II, King of France||1544||1560|| |- |1561||Joachim von Neuhaus||?||1584|| |- |1565||Charles IX, King of France||1550||1574|| |- |1566||Don John of Austria||1547||1578||illegitimate son of Charles V; later the victor of Lepanto |- |1573||Eric II, Duke of Brunswick||1528||1584|| |- |rowspan=2|1581||Joao, Duke of Braganza||1547||1583|| |- |Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia||1550||1615||later commander of the Spanish Armada |- |1583||Philip, Prince Asturias||1578||1621||only surviving son of Philip II, later King Philip III of Spain. Head of the order from 1598 |- |rowspan=16|1585||Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy||1562||1630||son-in-law of Philip II |- |Luis Enriquez de Cabrera, 3rd Duke of Medina de Rioseco||?||1596|| |- |Juan de la Cerda, 5th Duke of Medinaceli||1544||1594|| |- |Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor||1552||1612||son of Maximilian II and nephew of Philip II |- |Archduke Charles of Inner Austria||1540||1590||youngest son of Ferdinand I |- |Archduke Ernest of Austria||1513||1595||younger brother of Rudolf II, nephew of Philip II |- |(William, Vilém) Guillaume Orsini de Rosenberg||1535||1592|| |- |Leonhard Harrach von Rohrau und Pirckenstein||1514||1590|| |- |Horace de Lannoy, 4th Prince of Sulmone||?||1597|| |- |Wilhelm V, Duke of Bavaria||1548||1626|| |- |Francesco de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany||1541||1587|| |- |Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma||1545||1592||nephew of Philip II; from 1586, Duke of Parma |- |Francesco de Montefeltre, Duke of Urbino||1549||1631|| |- |Vespasiano I Gonzaga Colonna, Duke of Sabbioneta||1531||1591|| |- |Carlos de Aragón||c. 1520||1599|| |- |Diego Fernández de Córdoba, 3rd Marquis of Camarasa||1524||1601|| |- |rowspan=10|1586||Marc de Rye, Marquis