The Order of Vitéz is a Hungarian order of merit which was founded in 1920. It was awarded as a state honour from 1920 to 1944, and continues as a semi-independent order of chivalry under Captain General vitéz József Károly von Habsburg, head of the Palatinal branch of the House of Habsburg.
Image: Horthy Miklós kormányzó
Image: General Hugó Sónyi
Image: Joseph August of Austria (1872 1962) in 1917
Image: Vitéz kisbarnaki Ferenc Farkas
Archduke Joseph August of Austria
Archduke Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia was a Feldmarschall of the Austro-Hungarian Army and for a short period head of state of Hungary. He was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the eldest son of Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (1833–1905) and his wife Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1846–1927). Joseph August's grandfather had been Palatine Joseph of Hungary (1776–1847), Palatine and Viceroy of Hungary, a younger son of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Archduke Joseph August of Austria
In the front, the Boroevic Throne, named after Svetozar Boroević, near Opatje selo in Slovenia. In the back, a fingerpost and a monument built by the 43rd Infantry Regiment in honour of Archduke Joseph.
