Order of the Oak Crown

Order of the Oak Crown Officer.

For his work on doing so, he was awarded the rank of Commander in the Order of the Oak Crown.

In that same year 1874 Grégoir was invested by the Dutch king with the Order of the Oak Crown.

The Order of the Oak Crown remained a Luxembourgian award; the Netherlands established the Order of Orange-Nassau instead.

In 1841 William II of the Netherlands, as Grand Duke of Luxembourg, created the Order of the Oak Crown.

He was knighted in the Order of Orange-Nassau, the Order of the Oak Crown and the Order of the Polar Star.

Jean Soupert was awarded several distinctions among which appointed knight of the Order of the Oak Crown, knight of the Order of Leopold (Belgium) and knight of the Légion d'Honneur.

In 1874 he returned to The Hague where he was a member of the Hollandsche Teekenmaatschappij and in 1879 he was awarded the Order of the Oak Crown by William III of the Netherlands.

The Order of the Oak Crown ceased to be awarded to Dutch subjects in 1890, when Queen Wilhelmina, as the only remaining member of the House of Orange-Nassau, succeeded her father as the Queen of the Netherlands.

When first established in 1841, the Order of the Oak Crown was constituted in a hurry, as the Grand Duke wanted to establish the Order before the Grand Duchy was granted a codified constitution (as it was in 1848).

Verveer was appointed Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown by King William III of the Netherlands on his 25th anniversary in May 1874, and in 1863 knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

Van Heeckeren tot Enghuizen was a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, and was a bearer of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown, awarded 25 August 1863.