Orders, decorations, and medals of the Netherlands

In the Dutch honours system, most orders are the responsibility of ministers of the Netherlands Government.

Over the centuries, hundreds of medals, decorations for merit or valour and orders of knighthood have been instituted by the successive governments of the Netherlands.

Their successors, the House of Burgundy, founded the famous Order of the Golden Fleece.

In 1781 a medal called the "Doggersbank medaille" was awarded to the officers who took part in the Battle of the Dogger Bank against the British fleet.

The order of wear of Dutch Honours is published in the Official Gazette of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.