Order of the Kestrel

Order of the Kestrel
Awarded by the Grand Duke of Yonderre
Type	Dynastic order
Established	August 1, 1622
Country	Yonderre
Criteria	Meritious services to arts, politics or sciences
Status	Active
Founder	Auguste I de Houicourt
Grand Master	The Grand Duke of Yonderre
Classes	Cross Grand Cross Grand Cross with Sash
Post-nominals	OC

The Order of the Kestrel (Burgoignesc: Ordre de Crecerelle, Gothic: Falkenorden), known informally in Yonderre as simply the Kestrel Cross (Burgoignesc: Croix Crecerellesc, Gothic: Falkenkreuz), is a Yonderian order presented by the Grand Duke of Yonderre rewarding meritious contributions to the arts, sciences and politics. It was founded by Auguste I de Houicourt on August 1, 1622 as a chiefly military order and then reformed in 1766 by Guillaume IV de Donne into something more closely resembling the modern order. The order is often awarded to highly succesful Yonderian musicians, actors, politicians and scholars as well as foreign diplomats and rulers who have contributed to Yonderre.

Description

The Order of the Kestrel is worn on the wearer's left chest from a blue ribbon with white-red-white border stripes. The cross consists of a gilt cross, enamelled in white, with a blue-enamelled central disc bearing a white kestrel. For the Grand Cross, the order is worn is worn on an eight-pointed silver star without the ribbon with the cross of the Order superimposed upon it. For the Grand Cross with Sash, the wearer wears the badge on a blue sash with white-red-white border stripes on the left shoulder.

Notable Kestrel Cross recipients

Grand Cross with Sash

• Professor Thibaut d'Avignon, father of modern paleontology (1887)
• Knight-Castellan Benno de Caryale, Marshal of Yonderre (1944)
• Professor-Baron Phillipe d'Everard, professor of paleontology (1932)
• Professor-Baron Rachet d'Everard, physicist (1886)
• Knight-Baron Rachet d'Everard, Marshal of Yonderre and Yonderian Ambassador to Burgundie (1978)
• Professor Killian Lange, paleontologist (1859)
• Professor Eberhard Sass, chemist (1856)

Grand Cross

• Mathieu le Fêvre, movie director and owner of Primo Kino (1982)
• Professor Falco Jour, paleontologist (1945)
• Professor Joanus Leon, paleontologist (1945)

Kestrel Cross

• François Artanis, singer and actor (1968)
• Dom Martinez, Carto-Yonderian singer and actor (1968)
• Seisyll ap Morgan ap Iuan, Arlywydd of Caergwynn (2024)