|Christian II, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden||1481||1559|| |- |Sigismund I of Poland||1467||1548|| |- |Jacques de Luxembourg, Comte de Gavre||?||1530|| |- |Adrien de Croy, Comte de Roeulx||?||1555|| |- |rowspan=24|1531||John III, King of Portugal||1502||1557||Charles V's brother-in-law |- |James V, King of Scots||1512||1542|| |- |Ferdinando d'Aragon, Duke of Calabria||1488||1550|| |- |Pedro Fernandez de Velasco, 3rd Duke of Frias||1485||1559|| |- |Philip, Duke of Bavaria||1503||1548|| |- |George, Duke of Saxony||1471||1539|| |- |Beltran II de la Cueva y Toledo, 3rd Duke of Albuquerque||1477||1560|| |- |Andrea Doria, 1st Prince of Melfi||1466||1560|| |- |Philip of Austria, Prince of Asturias||1527||1598||Charles V's eldest son, later Philip II of Spain. Head of the order from 1555 |- |Reinoud III van Brederode||1492||1556|| |- |Ferrante Gonzaga, Duke of Ariano||1507||1557|| |- |Nicholas, Count of Salm||1503||1550|| |- |Claude de la Baume, Seigneur de Mont-Saint-Sorlin||?||1541|| |- |Antoine, Marquis de Berghes||1503||1567|| |- |Jean de Hennin, 1st Comte de Boussu||1480||1562|| |- |Charles, 2nd Comte de Lalaing||1506||1558|| |- |Louis de Flandres, Seigneur de Praet||1488||1555|| |- |Georges Schenck, Seigneur de Tautenburg||1480||1540|| |- |Philippe de Lannoy, Vicomte de Sebourg||1460||1535|| |- |Philippe de Lannoy, Seigneur de Molembaix||1487||1543|| |- |Alfonso d'Avalos d'Aquino, Marquis del Vasto||1502||1546|| |- |Francisco de Zuñiga, 3rd Count of Miranda||?||1536|| |- |Maximilien d'Egmont, Count of Büren||1509||1548|| |- |René de Châlons, Prince of Orange||1518||1544|| |- |rowspan=21|1546||Archduke Maximilian of Austria||1527||1576||eldest son of Charles's brother, King Ferdinand. Later Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II |- |Iñigo Lopez de Mendoza, 4th Duke of l'Infantado||1503||1566|| |- |Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alva||1508||1582|| |- |Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence||1519||1574||later became the first Grand Duke of Tuscany |- |Albert V, Duke of Bavaria||1528||1579|| |- |Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Piedmont||1528||1580||later Duke of Savoy |- |Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma||1524||1586|| |- |Juan Esteban Manrique de Lara, 3rd Duke of Najera||1504||1558|| |- |Friedrich von Fürstenberg||1496||1559|| |- |Philippe de Lannoy, 2nd Prince of Sulmone||1514||1553|| |- |Joachim, Seigneur de Rye||?||?|| |- |Ponthus de Lalaing, Seigneur de Bugnicourt||1508||1558|| |- |Lamoral d'Egmont, Prince de Gavre||1522||1568|| |- |Claude de Vergy, Comte de Gruères||1495||1560|| |- |Jacques, Comte de Ligne||?||1552|| |- |Maximilien de Bourgogne, Marquis de Vere||1514||1558|| |- |Peter Ernest, Count of Mansfeld||1517||1604|| |- |Jean de Ligne, Comte d'Arenberg||1525||1568|| |- |Pierre de Barbançon, Stadtholder of Hainault||1500||1557|| |- |Jean de Lannoy, Seigneur de Molembaix||1509||1560|| |- |Pedro Fernández de Córdoba, 4th Count of Feria||1518||1552|| |- |rowspan=19|1555||Henry II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel||1489||1568|| |- |Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, Margrave of Burgau||1529||1595||second son of Emperor Ferdinand I |- |Philippe de Croy, 3rd Duc d'Aerschot||1521||1595|| |- |Gonzalo II Fernández de