Christoph Schönborn
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Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter Adalbert Schönborn, OP is a Bohemian-born Austrian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1995 until 2025. He was chairman of the Austrian B
Cardinal Schönborn in 2020
His birthplace and ancestral castle, Skalka Castle in modern Vlastislav
Schönborn at the consecration of the papal cross at Danube Park, Vienna, 2012
Schönborn (with crosier) and Archbishop Peter Stephan Zurbriggen walking in the Otto von Habsburg funeral procession
Order of the Golden Fleece
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The Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece is a Catholic order of chivalry founded in 1430 in Bruges by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to celebrate his marriage to Isabella of Portugal. Today, t
Christoph Schönborn
…Austrian Bishops' Conference from 1998 to 2020 and was made a cardinal in 1998. He is a member of the Dominican Order. Schönborn is Grand Chaplain of the Order of the Golden Fleece (Austrian branch), of which he has been a member since 1961. He is also a member of the formerly sovereign House of Schönborn, several members of which…
Collar and badges of a knight of the Spanish order
Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, with the collar of the order (portrait in c. 1450 by Rogier van der Weyden)
The order was founded by Philip the Good to celebrate his marriage to Portuguese princess Isabella of Avis.
Baudouin de Lannoy, c. 1435, one of the first knights of the Golden Fleece, inducted in 1430