Order of Saint Isabella

Order of Saint Isabella

The order of St. Isabella , port. Ordem Real de Santa Isabel , was a Portuguese order of women and was on November 4, 1801 by Prince Regent João VI. donated by Portugal . The statutes were revised on April 25, 1804 by his wife Carlota Joaquina .

The order had, apart from the ladies of the royal family, a maximum of 26 members and these had to be of aristocracy and at least 26 years of age or married to be accepted. The order was one class.

Order decoration

An oval gold medallion with entwined flowers is raised by a gold royal crown . The image of St. Isabella is framed on one side by a laurel wreath and below it the motto of the order Pauperum solatio (To the consolation of the poor). On the back, the year MDCCCI and the initials of Princess Carlota LC with the inscription Real Orden de Santa Isabell can be seen.

Ribbon and way of wearing

A rose-red ribbon with two white stripes was placed over the right shoulder to the left hip as a sash . The medal could also be worn on the bow on the left chest.

literature

• Maximilian Gritzner : Handbook of the knight and merit orders of all civilized states in the world. Weber, Leipzig 1893 (reprint: Reprint-Verlag Leipzig, Holzminden 2000, ISBN 3-8262-0705-X ).
• Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all in Europe flourishing and extinct orders and decorations. Rudolph & Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, pp. 220f. online .