This article is about the Swedish order founded in 1653 by Queen Christina of Sweden. For the modern American freemasonic organisation, see Order of the Amaranth.
The Order of Amarante, or Amarante Order (French: La frairie d'Amarante; Swedish: Amaranterorden), was a fraternal order of Swedish knights, founded in 1653 by Queen Christina of Sweden at Epiphany. The Order was established in honor and memory of her meetings with the Spanish ambassador Antonio Pimentel de Prado, who originated from Amarante, Portugal. He was also the first to receive the award. The Order was limited to 15 knights, who had to remain unmarried.
The members of the Order had to take part in a supper on Saturday evening at Jacobsdal, called the "Feast of the Gods" in the happy Arcadia. Ulfeldt was god Jupiter, Pimentel was dressed as a war god Mars and Radziejowski as Bacchus 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 the Grand 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 from Greekἀμάραντος[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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^. Amarantherorden.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-25. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
^"Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἀμάραντος". Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
www.amaranterorden.se
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C. G. U. Scheffer, Stora amaranterordens historia (1942).
April 10, 2024
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