Ordre de l'union parfaite
The Ordre de l'union parfaite ("Order of the Perfect Union"), also Ordre de la Fidélité ("Order of Loyalty"), is an order donated by Queen Sophie Magdalene of Denmark and Norway in 1732 to ensure their happy marriage to celebrate. It was the first Danish award that was also worn by women.
The order consisted of a white enameled cross with a gold crown on each of the four ends. Between the arms of the cross are alternating the Norwegian lion in gold with a gold halberd and white shaft and the Brandenburg eagle in gold with red enameled wings. The center piece of the cross consists of a blue oval that shows the intertwined names of the royal couple, set in rose stones.
The Latin motto of the order is In Felicissimæ Unionis Memoriam .
Men wore the medal in the left buttonhole of their jackets. Women attached the cross to their left breast.
After the queen's death in 1770, the order was no longer awarded.
carrier
Men
- Adam Christopher Holsten
- Adam Gottlob Moltke (1747)
- Adam Levin von Witzleben (1732)
- Andreas Rosenpalm
- Claus Reventlow (1751)
- Conrad Detlev Reventlow (1750)
- Christian Conrad Danneskiold-Laurvig (1758)
- Christian Christoffer Holck (1764)
- Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (before 1744)
- Christian Friderich Knuth (January 29, 1770)
- Christian von Støcken (1761)
- Ditlev Reventlow (1756)
- Frederick Louis of Woyda (1767)
- Frederik Christian of Qualen (1768)
- Frederik Wilhelm Wedel-Jarlsberg (1763)
- Frederik Carl Christian Ulrik Ahlefeldt (1770)
- Frederik Christian von Møsting (1763)
- Frederik von Oertz (1761)
- Friedrich (March 31, 1759)
- Friedrich Karl von Holstein-Plön (before 1759)
- Friedrich von Ahlefeldt (1770)
- Georg Wilhelm von Søhlenthal (1738)
- Gustav Grüner (1751)
- Hans Schack (1735–1796) (1763)
- Henrik Stampe (1770)
- Holger Rosenkrantz (1767)
- Johann Christoph von Reitzenstein
- Karl of Hessen-Kassel (March 31, 1759)
- Mogens Rosenkrantz (1763)
- Poul Vendelbo de Løvenørn (1739)
- Verner Rosenkrantz (1763)
- Volrad August von der Lühe (1747)
- Werner von der Schulenburg (1750)
Women
- Amalie Juliane from Günterrode
- Anna Joachima Danneskiold-Laurvig
- Anna Sophie Schack
- Anna Susanna from the East
- Birte Rosenkrantz (1723–1763)
- Birgitte Sofie Gabel (1764)
- Charlotte Amalie Skeel (1750)
- Charlotte Dorothea Reventlow
- Charlotte Elisabeth Henriette Holstein (1770)
- Christine Armgard von Holstein-Plön (before 1759)
- Christine Sophie von Gähler (1765)
- Dorothea Christina von Aichelberg (before 1759)
- Eleonora Marie von Lüttichau
- Elisabeth Sophie Marie of Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg
- Juliane von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- Louise Friderica von Boyneburg
- Margrethe Marie Thomasine Numsen
- Margrethe von der Lühe (1768)
- Margarete Giedde Vind
- Sophia Magdalena Krag Juel Vind
- Friederike von Württemberg-Neuenstadt
- Wilhelmina Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Nordborg-Pløens (1749)
literature
- Bjarne Steen Jensen: Juvelerne e det Danske Kongehus. Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-17-07143-7 .
- Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all in Europe flourishing and extinct orders and decorations. Annaberg 1855.
- Dansk biografisk leksikon. Copenhagen 1887-1905.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl Andersen: Rosenborg: mindeblade fra de danske kongers kronologiske samling ( Danish ). Forlagsbureauet, Copenhagen 1867, p. 67 (accessed March 15, 2018).
- ↑ Carsten Rasmussen Porskrog: The princes of the country. Dukes and Counts of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2008, p. 304
- ↑ Carl Andersen: Rosenborg: mindeblade fra de danske kongers kronologiske samling ( Danish ). Forlagsbureauet, Copenhagen 1867, p. 67 (accessed September 22, 2017).
- ^ Claus Bjørn: Anna Sophie Schack (1689-1760) ( Danish ) Dansk Kvindebiografisk leksikon. 2010. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
- ↑ Michael Wenzel: The paintings of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06773-7 , p. 399 f.
- ↑ Painting by Duchess Elisabeth Sophie Marie, depicted with the Order of Loyalty in the HAB holdings , accessed on February 3, 2020