The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by King Edward III of England in 1348 as "a society, fellowship and college of knights." It is now the oldest and highest order of chivalry in the British honours system.

Dates of installation/investiture, or, where that is unknown or not applicable, of appointment (app).

  • Sir William FitzWaryne (app c.1359)
  • Robert Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk (c.1348)
  • William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (1349)
  • Reginald Cobham, 1st Lord Cobham of Sterborough (app c.1352)
  • Sir Richard de la Vache (app c.1356)
  • Thomas Ughtred, Lord Ughtred (1358)
  • Sir Walter Manny (1359)
  • Sir Frank van Hale (app c.1359)
  • Sir Thomas Ufford (1360)
  • Lionel of Antwerp, later Duke of Clarence, 3rd son of King Edward III (1360)
  • John of Gaunt, later Duke of Lancaster, 4th son of King Edward III (1360)
  • Edmund of Langley, later Duke of York, 5th son of King Edward III (app c.1360)
  • Edward le Despencer, 5th Lord le Despencer (1361)
  • Sir John Sully (app c.1361)
  • William Latimer, 4th Lord Latimer (app c.1361)
  • Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (app c. 1365)
  • Enguerrand VII de Coucy, Earl of Bedford, son-in-law of King Edward III, protagonist of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror (1365)
  • Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1366)
  • Ralph Bassett, 4th Lord Bassett of Drayton (app c.1368)
  • Sir Richard Pembrugge (1368)
  • John Nevill, 3rd Lord Nevill of Raby (1369)
  • Sir Robert de Namur, brother-in-law of Queen Philippa (1369)
  • John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1369)
  • Sir Thomas Grandison (c.1369)
  • Guy Bryan, Lord Bryan (app c.1370)
  • Sir Guichard d'Angle (1372)
  • Sir Alan Buxhull (1372)
  • Thomas Beauchamp, 4th Earl of Warwick (app c.1373)
  • John V, Duke of Brittany, son-in-law of King Edward III (1375)
  • Sir Thomas Banastre (app c.1376)
  • William Ufford, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1375)
  • Hugh Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford (1375)
  • Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, stepson of the Black Prince (1376)
  • Sir Thomas Percy, brother of the Earl of Northumberland (1376)
  • Sir William Beauchamp (1376)
  • Richard of Bordeaux, Prince of Wales, afterwards King, son of the Black Prince (1376)
  • Henry of Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby, afterwards King, son of John of Gaunt (1377)
  • Sir John Barley (1377)
  • Sir Lewis Clifford (1377)
  • Sir Bermond Arnaud de Preissac (app c.1380)
  • Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Buckingham, 6th son of Edward III (1380)
  • Sir Thomas Felton (app c.1381)
  • John Holland, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, half-brother of King Richard II (1381)
  • Sir Simon de Burley, tutor of King Richard II (1381)
  • Sir Bryan Stapleton (1381)
  • Sir Richard Burley (1382)
  • Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, Thomas de Mowbray, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, Earl-Marshal (1383)
  • Robert de Vere, 1st Duke of Ireland, favorite of King Richard II (1384)
  • Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel, Admiral of the West and South (1386)
  • Sir Nicholas Samesfield (1386)
  • Edward of Norwich, Earl of Rutland, later Duke of Aumerle and then of York, son of Edmund of Langley (1387)
  • Sir Henry Percy, called "Hotspur", son of the Earl of Northumberland (1388)
  • John Devereux, 1st Lord Devereux, Governor of Calais (app c.1388)
  • Sir Peter Courtenay (app c.1388)
  • Thomas le Despencer, 6th Lord Despencer (c.1388)
  • William, Duke of Gelders and Jülich (1390)
  • William VI, Count of Holland and Hainault, Duke of Bavaria (1390)
  • John Bourchier, 2nd Lord Bourchier (app c.1392)
  • John Beaumont, 4th Lord Beaumont (app c.1393)
  • William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, Lord Treasurer (1394)
  • Sir William Arundel (c.1395)
  • Sir John Beaufort, illegitimate son of John of Gaunt (app c.1396)
  • Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent, nephew of King Richard II (1397)
  • John de Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (app c.1397)
  • Albert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, nephew of Edward III (1397)
  • Sir Simon Felbrigg (app c.1397)
  • Sir Philip de la Vache (c.1399)
  • Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry IV, afterwards King (1399)
  • Thomas of Lancaster, 2nd son of King Henry IV (1399)
  • John of Lancaster, 3rd son of King Henry IV (1399)
  • Humphrey of Lancaster, 4th son of King Henry IV (1399)
  • Sir Thomas Beaufort, later Earl of Dorset and Duke of Exeter, half-brother of King Henry IV (app c.1400)
  • Richard Beauchamp, 5th Earl of Warwick (app 1403)
  • William Willoughby, 5th Lord Willoughby de Eresby (app c. 1400)
  • John of Aviz, King of Portugal, brother-in-law of King Henry IV (1400)
  • Sir Thomas Erpyngham (app c.1401)
  • Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, Lord High Constable (1402)
  • Ralph Nevill, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1402)
  • Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (1403)
  • Richard Grey, 4th Lord Grey of Codnor (app c.1403)
  • William Ros, 7th Lord Ros of Hamlake (1403)
  • Sir John Stanley (1404)
  • Eric VII, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, son-in-law of King Henry IV (1404)
  • John Lovell, 5th Lord Lovell of Tichmarsh (1405)
  • Hugh Burnell, 2nd Lord Burnell (app c.1406)
  • Edward Cherleton, 3rd Lord Cherleton of Powys (1408)
  • Gilbert Talbot, 5th Lord Talbot, afterwards Lord Strange of Blackmere (app c.1408)
  • Sir Robert Umfraville (1408)
  • Sir John Cornwall (app c.1410)
  • Henry Scrope, 3rd Lord Scrope of Masham (1409)
  • Thomas Morley, 4th Lord Morley, Captain-General of all forces in France (1411)
  • Sir John d'Abrichecourt (1413)
  • Thomas de Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, commander at the English siege of Orleans (app c.1414)
  • Thomas Camoys, 1st Lord Camoys (1414)
  • Sir William Harington (1415)
  • William Zouche, 4th Lord Zouche of Hatingworth (1415)
  • John Holland, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, nephew of King Henry IV (1415)
  • Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford (1415)
  • Emperor Sigismund (1415)
  • Robert Willoughby, 6th Lord Willoughby de Eresby (1416)
  • Sir John Blount (1417)
  • Sir John Robessart (1417)
  • Hugh Stafford, 4th Lord Bourchier (app c.1418)
  • Sir William Phelipp (app c.1415)
  • John Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville (1419)
  • Sir Walter Hungerford (1420)
  • Sir Lewis Robessart (app 1421)
  • Sir Hertong von Clux (app 1421)
  • John Clifford, 7th Lord Clifford (1421)
  • John de Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham and Norfolk, Earl Marshal, (app 1421)
  • William de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (app 1421)
  • Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (1422, but declined the honor)
  • John Talbot, 7th Lord Talbot (app 1424)
  • Thomas Scales, 7th Lord Scales (1425)
  • Sir John Fastolf (1426)
  • Peter, Duke of Coimbra, third son of King John I of Portugal (1427)
  • Humphrey Stafford, 6th Earl of Stafford (1429)
  • Sir John Radcliffe (1429)
  • John Fitzalan, 14th Earl of Arundel (1432)
  • Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, grandson of Edmund of Langley (1433)
  • Edward, King of Portugal, nephew of King Henry IV (app 1435)
  • Edmund Beaufort, Count of Mortain, Constable of England, Regent of France (1436)
  • Sir John Grey (app c.1436)
  • Richard Nevill, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Lord Chancellor (app c.1438)
  • Albert, Duke of Austria, later Emperor (1438, but never installed)
  • Gaston de Foix, Captal de Buch (app c.1438)
  • William Nevill, Lord Fauconberge (app c.1439)
  • John Beaufort, 3rd Earl of Somerset, the grandfather of King Henry VII (app c.1439)
  • Sir Ralph Boteler (1439)
  • John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont, first Viscount created in England (1440)
  • Sir John Beauchamp, Lord Treasurer (1445)
  • Henry, Duke of Viseu, "Prince Henry the Navigator", 4th son of King John I of Portugal (1442)
  • Sir Thomas Hoo, (1445)
  • Alvaro Vasquez d'Almada, Comte d'Avranches (1445)
  • Jean de Foix, Captal de Buch (1446)
  • King Alfonso V of Portugal (1447)
  • Sir François Surrienne, Sire de Lunée (1447)
  • King Alfonso V of Aragon and Naples (1450)
  • William, Duke of Brunswick (1450, never installed)
  • King Casimir IV of Poland (1450, never installed)
  • Richard Woodville, 1st Lord Rivers, Lord High Constable, Treasurer of the Exchequer, father-in-law of King Edward IV (app 1450)
  • John Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1451)
  • Henry Bourchier, 1st Viscount Bourchier, Count of Eu (app c.1450)
  • Sir Edward Hull (1453)
  • John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (1457)
  • Thomas Stanley, 1st Lord Stanley, Chief Governor of Ireland (1457)
  • Lionel Welles, 6th Lord Welles (1457)
  • Emperor Frederick III (1457, never installed)
  • James Butler, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire and 5th Earl of Ormonde (1459)
  • John Sutton, 5th Lord Dudley (1459)
  • John Bourchier, 1st Lord Berners (c.1459)
  • Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, later Duke of Bedford, half-brother of Henry VI and uncle of Henry VII (1459)
  • Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, "Warwick the Kingmaker" (c.1461)
  • William Bonville, 1st Lord Bonville (c.1461)
  • Sir Thomas Kiriell (1461)
  • Sir John Wenlock (1461)
  • George, Duke of Clarence, brother of King Edward IV (app c.1461)
  • Sir William Chamberlaine (app c.1461)
  • John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, Constable of England (c.1461)
  • William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (1462)
  • John Nevill, 1st Lord Montagu, brother of Warwick (c.1461)
  • William Herbert, Lord Herbert, (c.1461)
  • Sir John Astley (1461)
  • King Ferrante I of Naples (c.1463)
  • Gaillard de Durfort, Seigneur de Duras et Blanquefort (c.1463)
  • John Scrope, 5th Lord Scrope of Bolton (1462)
  • Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan (c.1463)
  • James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas (app c.1462)
  • Sir Robert Harcourt (app c.1462)
  • Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, brother of King Edward IV (app c.1465)
  • Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales, afterwards 2nd Earl Rivers, brother of Queen Elizabeth (app c.1466)
  • Inigo d'Avalos, Conte de Monteoderisio (c.1467, never installed)
  • Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, brother-in-law of King Edward IV (c.1468)
  • [[William Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel (c.1471)
  • John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk and Earl Marshal (app 1472)
  • John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, son of the 1st Duke of Buckingham (1472)
  • Walter Devereux, 7th Lord Ferrers of Chartley (app 1472)
  • Walter Blount, 1st Lord Mountjoy, Lord High Treasurer (app 1472)
  • Sir John Howard (1472)
  • John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, brother-in-law of King Edward IV (app c.1472)
  • Thomas Fitzalan, Lord Maltravers, (1474)
  • Sir William Parr (1474)
  • Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, brother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth (app c.1474)
  • Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (app 1474)
  • Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (app 1474)
  • Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King Edward IV, afterwards King (app 1475)
  • Richard, Duke of York (Prince in the Tower), younger son of King Edward IV (app 1475)
  • Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, stepson of King Edward IV (1476)
  • Sir Thomas Montgomery (1476)
  • King Ferdinand V of Castile (1480, never installed)
  • Ercole d'Este, Duke of Modena and Ferrara (1480)
  • King John II of Portugal (1482, never installed, again in 1488)
  • Francis Lovell, 9th Lord Lovell of Tichmarsh, (app 1483)
  • Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Surrey (1483)
  • Sir Richard Radcliffe (1483)
  • Thomas Stanley, 2nd Lord Stanley, Lord Constable (1483)
  • Sir Thomas Borough (app c.1483)
  • Sir Richard Tunstall (app c.1484)
  • Sir John Conyers (c.1483)
  • John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, Lancastrian commander at the Battle of Bosworth Field (1486)
  • John Cheyney, Lord Cheyney (app c.1486)
  • John Dynham, 1st Lord Dynham (app c.1487)
  • Giles Daubeny, 1st Lord Daubeny (app c.1487)
  • Sir William Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby (1487)
  • George Stanley, 9th Lord Strange of Knockyrt, eldest son of the 1st Earl of Derby (app c.1487)
  • George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury (1488)
  • Sir Edward Wydville (1488)
  • John Welles, 1st Viscount Welles, uncle of King Henry VII (1488)
  • Sir John Savage (1489)
  • Sir Robert Willoughby (app c.1488)
  • Maximilian, King of the Romans, afterwards Emperor (app c.1490)
  • Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII (c.1491)
  • Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (app c.1494)
  • Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, afterwards King of Naples (1493)
  • John, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (1493, never installed)
  • Sir Edward Poynings (1493)
  • Sir Gilbert Talbot, 3rd son of the 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (app c.1495)
  • Henry Tudor, Duke of York, younger son of King Henry VII, afterwards King (c.1495)
  • Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (app c.1495)
  • Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1495)
  • Sir Charles Somerset, illegitimate son of the 3rd Duke of Somerset (c.1496)
  • Edmund de la Pole, 6th Earl of Suffolk, nephew of Edward IV and Richard III (1496)
  • Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex (1496)
  • Sir Thomas Lovell, Speaker of the Commons (1498)
  • Sir Richard Pole (app 1499)
  • Sir Richard Guildford (app c.1500)
  • Sir Reginald Bray (1500)
  • Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset (1501)
  • Philip the Fair, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, son of the Emperor, afterwards King Philip I of Castile (1503)
  • Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (1505)
  • Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (app c.1504)
  • Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent (app 1505)
  • Lord Henry Stafford, brother of the Duke of Buckingham (1505)
  • Sir Rhys ap Thomas Fitz-Urian (app c.1505)
  • Sir Thomas Brandon (1507)
  • Charles of Ghent, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, afterwards King of Castile and Emperor (app 1508)
  • Thomas Darcy, 1st Lord Darcy (1509)
  • Edward Sutton, 6th Lord Dudley (1509)
  • King Manuel I of Portugal (app 1510, never installed)
  • Sir Thomas Howard, afterwards 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1510)
  • Sir Henry Marny, Lord Privy Seal (1510)
  • Thomas West, 8th Lord de la Warr (1510)
  • Georg Nevill, 5th Lord Bergavenny (1513)
  • Sir Edward Howard (app 1513, died before installation)
  • Charles Brandon, Viscount L'Isle, married Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII (1513)
  • Giuliano de Medici, Duc de Nemours, brother of Pope Leo X (app 1514, never installed)
  • Sir Edward Stanley, younger son of the 1st Earl of Derby (1514)
  • Thomas Dacre, 3rd Lord Dacre of Gillesland (1518)
  • Sir William Sandys (1518)
  • Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter (1521)
  • Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, brother of the Emperor, afterwards King of Hungary and Bohemia and Emperor (1524)
  • Sir Richard Wingfield (1522)
  • Sir Thomas Boleyn, father of Queen Anne Boleyn (1523)
  • Walter Devereux, 9th Lord Ferrers (1523)
  • Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle, natural son of King Edward IV (1525)
  • Robert Radclyffe, 10th Lord FitzWalter, (1524)
  • William Fitzalan, 18th Earl of Arundel (1525)
  • Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (1525)
  • Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, natural son of King Henry VIII (1525)
  • Ralph Nevill, 4th Earl of Westmorland (1525)
  • William Blunt, Lord Mountjoy (1526)
  • Sir William Fitzwilliam (1526)
  • Sir Henry Guildford (1526)
  • King Francis I of France (1527)
  • John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford (1527)
  • Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (1531)
  • Anne de Montmorency, later Duc de Montmorency, Constable of France (1533)
  • Philippe de Chabot, Comte de Charny et Buzançais (1532)
  • James V, King of Scots, nephew of King Henry VIII (1535)
  • Sir Nicholas Carew (1536)
  • Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland (1537)
  • Thomas Cromwell, Lord Cromwell, afterwards Earl of Essex (1537)
  • Sir John Russell, Lord High Admiral, Lord Privy Seal (1539)
  • Sir William Kingston (1539)
  • Thomas Audley, 1st Lord Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor (1540)
  • Sir Anthony Browne (1540)
  • Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, uncle of the Prince of Wales (1541)
  • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk, a noted poet (1541)
  • Sir John Gage (1541)
  • Sir Anthony Wingfield (1541)
  • John Dudley, 7th Viscount Lisle, Lord High Admiral, father in law of Lady Jane Grey and chief adviser in the later years of Edward VI (1543)
  • William Paulet, 1st Lord St John of Basing, Lord High Treasurer (1543)
  • William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, brother-in-law of King Henry VIII (1543)
  • Sir John Wallop (1544)
  • Henry Fitzalan, 19th Earl of Arundel (1544)
  • Sir Anthony St Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (1544)
  • Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury (1545)
  • Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Baron Wriothesley, Lord Chancellor (1545)
  • Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, afterwards Duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Grey (1547)
  • Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby (1547)
  • Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, brother of Somerset, 3rd husband of Queen Catherine Parr (1547)
  • Sir William Paget (1547)
  • Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon (1549)
  • George Brooke, 9th Lord Cobham (1549)
  • Thomas West, 9th Lord De la Warr (1549)
  • Sir William Herbert, (1549)
  • King Henry II of France (1551)
  • Edward Clinton, 9th Lord Clinton, Lord High Admiral (1551)
  • Thomas Darcy, 1st Lord Darcy of Chiche (1551)
  • Henry Nevill, 5th Earl of Westmorland (1553)
  • Sir Andrew Dudley (1552)
  • King Philip of Naples, son of the Emperor, husband of Queen Mary I (1554)
  • Henry Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex (1554)
  • Duke Emanuel Philibert of Savoy, Spanish governor of the Netherlands (1555)
  • William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral (1554)
  • Sir Edward Hastings (1555)
  • Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu (1555)
  • Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Chief Governor of Ireland (1558)
  • William Grey, 13th Lord Grey of Wilton (1557)
  • Sir Robert Rochester (1557, died before installation)
  • Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1559)
  • Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland (1559)
  • Sir Robert Dudley, afterwards 1st Earl of Leicester, son of the Duke of Northumberland and a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I (1559)
  • Duke Adolphus of Holstein (1560)
  • George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, custodian of Mary, Queen of Scots (1561)
  • Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, 1st Cousin of Queen Elizabeth I (1561)
  • Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (1563)
  • Ambrose Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick, brother of Leicester (1563)
  • Sir Henry Sidney, father of Sir Philip Sidney (1564)
  • King Charles IX of France (1566)
  • Emperor Maximilian II (1568)
  • Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, custodian of Mary, Queen of Scots (1570)
  • William Somerset, 3rd Earl of Worcester (1570)
  • François, Duc de Montmorency, son of the Constable Montmorency (1572)
  • Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (1572)
  • William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Lord High Treasurer and Chief Minister of Elizabeth I (1572)
  • Arthur Grey, 14th Lord Grey of Wilton, Chief Governor of Ireland (1572)
  • Edmund Brydges, 2nd Lord Chandos of Sudeley (1572)
*Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (1574) See also: