Order of Marie Eleonore

The order of Marie Eleonore was a Swedish order of women .

It was donated by the widowed wife Maria Eleonora von Brandenburg of the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf . He was killed in the battle of Lützen in 1632 and the order should remember him. Only princesses were honored with this award.

Order decoration

The order decoration was a crowned golden heart and showed the grave of the deceased. The motto of the order was: “Post mortem triumpho et morte vici multis despectus magna feci”, which means “After death I triumph and through death I have won; although despised by many I have accomplished great things ”means.

literature

Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all in Europe flourishing and extinct orders and decorations. Rudolph and Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, p. 219, online .

Individual evidence

↑ Damen Conversations Lexikon, Volume 7, 1836, pp. 84-85
↑ Max Löbe: motto, motto and sayings of German princely families of the XVI. and XVII. Century. Barth, Leipzig 1883, p. 35. ( Digitized in the German Digital Library )

[1] Damen Conversations Lexikon, Volume 7, 1836, pp. 84-85

[2] Max Löbe: motto, motto and sayings of German princely families of the XVI. and XVII. Century. Barth, Leipzig 1883, p. 35. ( Digitized in the German Digital Library )