Order de la fidélité et constance
The Orden de la fidélité et constance ( German: of Loyalty and Resistance ) was a short-lived knightly order of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .
Foundation, endowment
The order was by Duke Adolf Friedrich III. († 1752) donated before or in 1745 and only awarded by him in a few copies. There is no record of the exact date of the foundation or the purpose of the foundation.
Medals
The sign of the order was a gold, blue enamelled cross, which essentially had the shape of a Latin cross with points like the Maltese cross . At the upper end the tips were missing, here was a ring through which the ribbon was pulled. The initials AF of the founder were found drawn together as a monogram in gold and covered with a princely hat on the upper half of the cross post; Fidei et con was written on the beam and on the lower half of the stake. Both sides of the cross are equal to each other.
Knight
Christian Ulrich von Ketelhodt calls himself a knight of the ducal Mecklenburg order de la fidélité et constance , who was princely privy councilor, chancellor, government and consistorial president of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . The medal he was given on October 21, 1745, according to his own information, was passed on as a venerated souvenir in the family, with the permission of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, until the 19th century . In 1809 it was established that the order in question did not exist, so to speak, as nothing could be found about it, but that if Mr. The government council wanted to consider and wear the order as a family souvenir, which the Duke ( Carl ) had absolutely nothing against, but did not decide on a formal authorization, which could be seen as a resurrection of the dead or even as a renewed foundation could.
As another knight of the order, according to Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch , only the stable master Daniel von Altrock was known by name.
literature
- Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch : Meklenburg-Strelitz order. In: Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. 7 (1842), pp. 211–215 ( full text )
- Jörg Nimmergut: German medals and decorations , Munich 1997.
- Constantin von Altrock: History of the family of Altrock , Berlin 1901
- Peter Ohm Hieronymussen: The Mecklenburg-Strelitz Orders and Decorations , Copenhagen 2000