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The Order of Prince Henry (Portuguese: Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique) is a Portuguese order of knighthood created on 2 June 1960, to commemorate the quincentenary of the death of the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator, one of the main initiators of the Age of Discovery. Minor reforms of the constitution of the Order occurred in 1962 and 1980.[1] It is a five-tier order, whose titles are awarded for relevant services to Portugal and for services in the expansion of the Portuguese culture, its history and its values (with a particular focus on its maritime history). The number of members in each grade is restricted by its constitution, and titles are attributed by special decree by the Grand Master of the Order, ex officio the President of Portugal.
The following is a complete list of Portuguese citizens and institutions awarded the Grand Collar of the Order, the highest grade, usually reserved for heads of state.
Source for the list: "Entidades Nacionais Agraciadas com Ordens Portuguesas", Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas (Office of the President of Portugal). Retrieved 18 February 2019.
Portuguese recipients edit
| Date | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 4 October 1968 |  António de Oliveira Salazar
|
Former Prime Minister |
| 20 September 2001 | Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira
|
Former Governor of Macau |
| 3 November 2014 | José Manuel Barroso
|
Former President of the European Commission; former Prime Minister |
| 20 June 2016 | António Ramalho Eanes
|
Former President |
| 5 April 2018 | Jorge Sampaio
|
Former President |
| 5 July 2022 | Aníbal Cavaco Silva
|
Former President |
| 27 October 2022 | Vítor Constâncio
|
Former Vice-President of the European Central Bank |
Foreign recipients edit
| Date | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 20 October 1960 |  Juscelino Kubitschek
|
President of Brazil[2] |
| 21 July 1965 | Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
|
President of Brazil |
| 27 July 1967 |  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
|
|
| 19 February 1968 |  Anastasio Somoza Debayle
|
President of Nicaragua |
| 31 May 1973 |  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh[2]
|
Consort of the British Monarch |
| 12 June 1975 |  Elena Ceaușescu
|
First Lady of Romania |
| 16 March 1976 |  Edward Gierek
|
First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party |
| 16 March 1976 | Henryk Jabłoński
|
Chairman of the Council of State of Poland |
| 16 March 1976 | Piotr Jaroszewicz
|
Prime Minister of Poland |
| 2 April 1978 |  Marshal Josip Broz Tito
|
President of Yugoslavia |
| 17 April 1978 |  Juan Carlos I, King of Spain[2]
|
Abdicated in 2014 |
| 21 October 1978 |  Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
|
President of France |
| 13 February 1979 |  Ernesto Geisel
|
President of Brazil |
| 14 August 1979 |  Pál Losonczi
|
Chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary |
| 21 August 1979 |  Todor Zhivkov
|
Chairman of the State Council of Bulgaria |
| 24 August 1982 |  Baudouin, King of the Belgians
|
|
| 30 August 1982 |  Samora Machel
|
President of Mozambique |
| 19 August 1983 |  Hosni Mubarak
|
President of Egypt |
| 2 September 1983 |  Fra' Angelo de Mojana di Cologna
|
Prince and Grand Master of Sovereign Military Order of Malta |
| 29 September 1983 | François Mitterrand
|
President of France[2] |
| 18 April 1984 |  Rudolf Kirchschläger
|
President of Austria |
| 20 June 1984 |  Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark
|
Abdicated in 2024 |
| 24 November 1984 |  Denis Sassou Nguesso
|
President of the People's Republic of the Congo |
| 12 December 1984 |  Mobutu Sese Seko
|
President of Zaire |
| 29 September 1985 |  Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
|
Abdicated in 2000 |
| 31 January 1986 |  Manuel Pinto da Costa
|
President of São Tomé and Príncipe |
| 31 January 1986 |  Aristides Pereira
|
President of Cabo Verde |
| 13 January 1987 |  Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden
|
|
| 21 January 1987 |  Jaime Lusinchi
|
President of Venezuela |
| 25 January 1988 |  José Eduardo dos Santos
|
President of Angola |
| 4 February 1989 |  Virgilio Barco Vargas
|
President of Colombia |
| 19 June 1989 |  Richard von Weizsäcker
|
President of Germany |
| 22 March 1990 |  Rodrigo Borja Cevallos
|
President of Ecuador |
| 22 March 1990 |  Francesco Cossiga
|
President of Italy |
| 22 March 1990 | Fra' Andrew Bertie
|
Prince and Grand Master of Sovereign Military Order of Malta |
| 9 April 1990 | Joaquim Chissano
|
President of Mozambique |
| 12 November 1990 |  Christos Sartzetakis
|
President of Greece |
| 12 November 1990 | Brunó Ferenc Straub
|
Chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary |
| 14 May 1991 |  Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands
|
Abdicated in 2013 |
| 22 April 1992 |  Mauno Koivisto
|
President of Finland |
| 26 March 1993 |  Hassan II, King of Morocco
|
|
| 4 October 1993 |  Dawda Jawara
|
President of The Gambia |
| 18 October 1994 | Lech Wałęsa
|
President of Poland[2] |
| 20 November 1995 |  Nelson Mandela
|
President of South Africa[2] |
| 17 December 1995 |  Juan Carlos Wasmosy
|
President of Paraguay |
| 9 February 1997 | Aleksander Kwaśniewski
|
President of Poland |
| 17 October 1997 | Rafael Caldera
|
President of Venezuela |
| 16 April 1998 |  Leonid Kuchma
|
President of Ukraine |
| 12 May 1998 |  Akihito, Emperor of Japan[2]
|
Abdicated in 2019 |
| 13 August 1998 | Roman Herzog
|
President of Germany |
| 30 September 1998 |  Ernesto Zedillo
|
President of Mexico |
| 4 February 1999 | Jacques Chirac
|
President of France |
| 13 December 1999 | Albert II, King of the Belgians
|
|
| 13 December 1999 |  Constantinos Stephanopoulos
|
President of Greece |
| 14 March 2000 |  Fernando Henrique Cardoso
|
President of Brazil |
| 15 March 2000 |  Emil Constantinescu
|
President of Romania |
| 29 March 2000 |  Milan Kučan
|
President of Slovenia |
| 8 June 2000 | António Mascarenhas Monteiro
|
President of Cabo Verde |
| 26 September 2001 |  Ricardo Lagos
|
President of Chile |
| 14 November 2001 |  Fernando de la Rúa
|
President of Argentina |
| 17 December 2001 |  Omar Bongo
|
President of Gabon |
| 3 January 2002 | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
|
President of Italy |
| 27 February 2002 |  Alpha Oumar Konaré
|
President of Mali |
| 22 April 2002 | Pedro Pires
|
President of Cabo Verde |
| 19 August 2002 | Thomas Klestil
|
President of Austria |
| 7 October 2002 |  Georgi Parvanov
|
President of Bulgaria |
| 7 October 2002 | Ferenc Mádl
|
President of Hungary |
| 24 October 2002 | Tarja Halonen
|
President of Finland |
| 14 January 2003 |  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
|
President of Algeria |
| 29 May 2003 |  Arnold Rüütel
|
President of Estonia |
| 29 May 2003 |  Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
|
President of Latvia |
| 29 May 2003 |  Rolandas Paksas
|
President of Lithuania |
| 13 February 2004 |  Harald V, King of Norway
|
|
| 31 January 2005 | Heinz Fischer
|
President of Austria |
| 6 May 2005 | Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
|
|
| 21 September 2005 | Nicanor Duarte
|
President of Paraguay |
| 14 February 2006 |  Xanana Gusmão
|
President of East Timor[2] |
| 31 May 2007 | Valdas Adamkus
|
President of Lithuania |
| 13 November 2007 | José Ramos-Horta
|
President of East Timor |
| 5 March 2008 |  Abdullah II, King of Jordan
|
|
| 1 September 2008 | Lech Kaczyński
|
President of Poland |
| 7 November 2008 | Michelle Bachelet
|
President of Chile |
| 8 November 2008 |  Hugo Chávez
|
President of Venezuela |
| 11 December 2008 |  Eddie Fenech Adami
|
President of Malta |
| 2 March 2009 | Horst Köhler
|
President of Germany |
| 20 April 2009 |  Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar
|
|
| 10 May 2009 |  Abdullah Gül
|
President of Turkey |
| 19 April 2012 | Bronisław Komorowski
|
President of Poland |
| 10 May 2012 | Taur Matan Ruak
|
President of East Timor |
| 11 June 2012 | Jorge Carlos Fonseca
|
President of Cabo Verde |
| 14 November 2012 | Juan Manuel Santos
|
President of Colombia |
| 19 November 2012 |  Ollanta Humala
|
President of Peru |
| 29 July 2013 |  Ricardo Martinelli
|
President of Panama |
| 2 June 2014 | Enrique Peña Nieto
|
President of Mexico |
| 1 July 2014 | Armando Guebuza
|
President of Mozambique |
| 17 June 2015 | Klaus Iohannis
|
President of Romania |
| 21 November 2016 |  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
|
President of Egypt |
| 25 January 2017 |  Tomislav Nikolić
|
President of Serbia |
| 27 January 2017 | Prokopis Pavlopoulos
|
President of Greece |
| 10 May 2017 | Horacio Cartes
|
President of Paraguay |
| 23 May 2017 |  Macky Sall
|
President of Senegal |
| 12 September 2017 |  Alassane Ouattara
|
President of Ivory Coast |
| 10 October 2017 | Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands
|
|
| 10 October 2017 | Máxima, Queen of the Netherlands
|
|
| 1 March 2018 | Frank-Walter Steinmeier
|
President of Germany |
| 27 April 2018 |  Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
|
President of Croatia |
| 15 May 2018 | Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
|
President of Malta |
| 22 October 2018 | Philippe, King of the Belgians
|
|
| 22 October 2018 | Mathilde, Queen of the Belgians
|
|
| 22 November 2018 | João Lourenço
|
President of Angola |
| 25 February 2019 | Martín Vizcarra
|
President of Peru |
| 16 April 2019 | Kersti Kaljulaid
|
President of Estonia |
| 19 June 2019 | Mario Draghi
|
Former President of the European Central Bank; later Prime Minister of Italy |
| 31 May 2021 | Borut Pahor
|
President of Slovenia |
| 9 December 2021 | Angela Merkel
|
Former Chancellor of Germany |
| 27 March 2022 | Katerina Sakellaropoulou
|
President of Greece |
| 5 April 2022 | Carlos Vila Nova
|
President of São Tomé and Príncipe |
| 12 April 2022 | Rumen Radev
|
President of Bulgaria |
| 19 May 2022 | Francisco Guterres
|
President of East Timor |
| 26 June 2022 | Iván Duque
|
President of Colombia |
| 28 June 2022 |  Uhuru Kenyatta
|
President of Kenya |
| 30 June 2022 |  Muhammadu Buhari
|
President of Nigeria |
| 28 July 2022 | José Maria Neves
|
President of Cabo Verde |
| 7 October 2022 | Nicos Anastasiades
|
President of Cyprus |
| 14 October 2022 |  Albert II, Prince of Monaco
|
|
| 23 February 2023 | Katalin Novák
|
President of Hungary |
| 23 March 2023 |  Luis Abinader
|
President of the Dominican Republic |
| 12 April 2023 | Egils Levits
|
President of Latvia |
| 23 May 2023 | Abdelmadjid Tebboune
|
President of Algeria |
| 14 July 2023 |  Miguel Díaz-Canel
|
President of Cuba |
| 18 July 2023 |  Nana Akufo-Addo
|
President of Ghana |
| 22 August 2023 | Andrzej Duda
|
President of Poland |
| 3 October 2023 |  Maia Sandu
|
President of Moldova |
| 24 October 2023 |  Umaro Sissoco Embaló
|
President of Guinea-Bissau |