Order of Saint Hubert

Royal Order of Saint Hubert
Collar of the Grand Master, plus exemplars of the Knights Cross, Order of Saint Hubert
Awarded by The Head of the Bavarian Royal Family
Type	Catholic chivalric order
Royal house	House of Jülich (1444–1609) House of Wittelsbach (1609–present)
Motto	In Treue Fest (Firm in Fidelity)
Status	Rarely Constituted
Founder	Gerhard VII, Duke of Jülich-Berg
Sovereign	Franz, Duke of Bavaria
Grand Master	Prince Max
Grades	Knight Grand Cross with Collar Knight Grand Cross
Precedence
Next (higher)	None (Highest)
Next (lower)	Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception Royal Order of Saint Elizabeth

The Royal Order of Saint Hubert (German: Sankt Hubertus Königlicher Orden), or sometimes (German: Königlicher Orden des Heiligen Hubertus) is a Roman Catholic dynastic order of knighthood founded in 1444 or 1445 by Gerhard VII, Duke of Jülich-Berg. He sought to commemorate his victory over the House of Egmond at the Battle of Linnich on 3 November, which is Saint Hubert's day.

The establishment of the Order occurred during a long-term, intermittent territorial dispute, initially between the Dukes of Jülich and the Dukes of Guelders, who were descended from a female line of the House of Jülich. The dispute began in the 1430s, when Arnold, Duke of Gelderland claimed the duchy of Jülich and the county of Ravensberg, and was resolved in the 1614 Treaty of Xanten, which established the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg of the counties of Ravensberg and Mark with the duchies of Cleves, Jülich and Berg. In 1778, Charles Theodore, Duke of Jülich and Berg and the Count-Elector Palatine, succeeded his childless cousin, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria and brought the Order to Bavaria.

Initially, the order was open to men and women, although limiting the number of male companions to sixty. It commemorated the conversion of Saint Hubert and his standing as the patron saint of hunters and knights. Over time, the award had other uses as a reward for loyalty to the monarch and service to the princely state.