Louis Joseph Nompar de Caumont with the following knight orders (v.l.n.r.): Commander Cross Legion of Honor (Round the Neck) Order of Fidelity Order of St. Louis Order of the Dutch Lion Officierskruis MWO Louis Joseph Nompar de Caumont, 8th dean of La Force, Caumont and Paris parishes (Paris, April 22, 1768 - Saint Brice, October 22, 1838), was a French General and Aristocrat. In early 1818, the Duke dated a nomination in the Order of the Dutch Lion because he had been a commander of the Dutch rite of the Legion of Béon in 1793 as an emigrant, such as a royal-born nobleman from France.
King Willem I and Jan Willem Janssens, the consultant-asked chancellor of the Military Willems Order, hesitated strongly. Chancellor Janssens was involved in the case because he had already drawn up a list of Frenchmen to be decorated in the Dutch army by the Military Willems Order in 1817. Janssens assumed that the Duke had exchanged the two Dutch orders and would like to receive a Willems order.
The king nevertheless chose a Knight Cross in the Order of the Dutch Lion as a suitable decoration for the French veterans of 1793. He ordered on March 26, 1818, to send six embassies to Paris. Ambassador Fagel would then divide them and the king would homologate the appointments afterwards.
General Fagel declined in that spring General Major Crossard and Colonels Graaf Macnemara and Count C.H. you tertre The Duke of La Force received no distinction. It is possible that General Fagel fails to assign a knight cross in a new and not very significant order to a man of the weight of the duke of La Force, not fearing an affront.
On May 19, 1818, Chancellor Janssens told the king that the three newcomers knights were dissatisfied. After their appointment, their attention had fallen to the Military Willems Order and now they wanted this distinction. The king admitted almost instantly and sent six officer crosses to Paris on May 24th. However, the ambassador remained hesitant with regard to the Duke de La Force. The Duke was recorded in the Military Willems Order only on August 20, 1828. He had once again requested a decoration. This time he spoke unequivocally about a commandeur cross. The king who did not want to use international use to grant a foreigner committing his own country at least a distinction in the same degree to the Military Order of William ordered that the duke be one of three for ten years in the embassy saved officer crosses. Literature
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