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Neither the 1898 Act of foundation, nor Statutes and other legal texts regulating the Order mention any restrictions on nationality of the recipients. Given the challenging political climate at the time, it would not have been unrealistic for the Order to have been awarded to (no more than a handful of) foreign nationals, however these awards – if any – have never been officially published by neither the Official Gazette nor by the Chancery of the Royal Orders. Acović (Op. cit. #4) speculates that the Emperors Franz-Joseph I of Austria and Nicholas II of Russia, as well as the Shah of Persia (presumably Mozaffareddin Shah Qajar, the 5th Qajar King of Persia) might have been among foreign recipients. While the former two are not improbable, the motives for including the latter are not entirely clear.
Total count of domestic recipients of the Order
| Year | I Class | II Class | III Class | IV Class | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899 | 4 | 13 | 43 | 110 | 170 |
| 1990 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 38 |
| 1901 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 15 |
| 1902 | None | None | 1 | None | 1 |
| 1903 | 1 | None | None | None | 1 |
| Total | 9 | 22 | 66 | 128 | 325 |
Full List of domestic recipients of the Order
Awarded in 1899
I Class
- King Alexander I, the Sovereign of the Order
- Former King Milan (abdicated in 1889), King’s father
- Queen Nathalie, the Queen Mother
- Jovan Ristić, Former Prime Minister, Member of the 3rd Regency Council (1889-1893)
II Class
- Jovan Belimarković, General, Member of the 3rd Regency Council (1889-1893)
- Antonije Bogicević, General, President of the State Council, Former Defense Minister
- Dr. Hipokrat “Vladan” Djordjević, Prime Minister
- Ilija Djuknić, General
- Djordje Katardzi, General
- Dimitrije Cincar-Marković, General
- Čedomilj Miljatović, Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, former Foreign-and Finance Minister
- Jovan Mišković, General (Ret.)
- Stojan Novaković, Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, former Prime Minister
- Inokentije (Pavlović), Metropolitan of Belgrade of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Kingdom of Serbia