| Order of Amarante | |
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| Awarded byChristina of Sweden | |
| Type | Chivalric order in one class |
| Established | January 6, 1653 |
| Motto | Dolce nella memoria |
| Status | Disestablished |
| Grades | Knight |
| Statistics | |
| Total inductees | 15 |
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TheOrder of Amarante, orAmarante Order (French:La frairie d'Amarante;Swedish:Amaranterorden), was afraternal order of Swedish knights, founded in 1653 byQueen Christina of Sweden atEpiphany. The Order was established in honor and memory of her meetings with the Spanish ambassadorAntonio Pimentel de Prado, who originated fromAmarante, Portugal. He was also the first to receive the award. The Order was limited to 15 knights, who had to remain unmarried.
Order members were those "who participated in the Queen's most intimate pleasures."[This quote needs a citation] Among the original members were (besides the Spanish ambassador) the French ambassadorPierre Chanut, Venetian ambassadorFrancesco Morosini, Denmark'snational stewardCorfitz Ulfeldt, Poland's crown chancellorHieronim Radziejowski, chamberlainChristoph Delphicus zu Dohna,Jacob De la Gardie,Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie and Clas Tott (1630–1674). The Order was also awarded toWładysław IV Vasa, ElectorJohn George of Saxony, andFrederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege.
The members of the Order had to take part in a supper on Saturday evening atJacobsdal, called the "Feast of the Gods" in the happyArcadia. Ulfeldt was godJupiter, Pimentel was dressed as a war godMars and Radziejowski asBacchus into the hall on a barrel with a large vinstop in hand.[1] There were fourteen dancing couples on the first evening.
In 1656, the Order was dissolved. In July 1760, the Order of the Amarant was revived again as theGrand Order of the Amaranth [sv] in Stockholm, Sweden by Claes Qvist. The Order holds its ceremony and ball in Stockholm at Grand Hotel every even year since mid of the 19th century.
"Amaranth" derives fromGreekἀμάραντος[2] (amarantos), "unfading," with the Greek word for "flower," ἄνθος (anthos), factoring into the word's development as "amaranth." The more accurate "amarant" is an archaic variant.
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