Editing Commander (section)

===Chivalric orders===
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The title of commander is used in chivalric orders such as the [[Sovereign Military Order of Malta]] for a member senior to a [[knight]].  The title of knight commander is often used to denote an even higher rank.  These conventions are also used by most of the continental orders of chivalry.  The United Kingdom uses different classifications.

In most of the British orders of knighthood, the grade of knight (or dame) commander is the lowest grade of knighthood, but is above the grade of companion (which does not carry a knighthood). In the [[Royal Victorian Order]] and the [[Order of the British Empire]], the grade of commander is senior to the grade of lieutenant or officer, but junior to that of knight or dame commander. In the British [[Venerable Order of Saint John]], a commander ranks below a knight.