The Ordre de l'Union Parfaite was created by Queen consort

Queen consort

A queen consort is the wife of a reigning king. A queen consort usually shares her husband's rank and holds the feminine equivalent of the king's monarchical titles. Historically, queens consort do not share the king regnant's political and military powers. Most queens in history were queens consort...

 Sophie Magdalene of Denmark and Norway

Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach

Sophia Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach was queen-consort of Denmark and Norway as the wife of King Christian VI of Denmark and Norway.-Background:...

 on August 7, 1732, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of her happy marriage with King

King

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 Christian VI of Denmark and Norway

Christian VI of Denmark

Christian VI was King of Denmark and Norway from 1730 to 1746.He was the son of King Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway and Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. He married Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and fathered Frederick V.-The reign and personality of Christian VI:To posterity Christian...

. Given to both men and women, L'Union Parfaite was the first Dano-Norwegian

Denmark–Norway

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 order. Its motto was In felicissimæ Unionis Memoriam ("In Commemoration of the Happiest [Marital] Union").

Conferral of the Order ceased after the death of the Queen on May 7, 1770.

The French

French language

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 name can be translated as Order of the Perfect Union or Order of Friendship. The use of French was not unusual in the eighteenth century royal Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 court or in Sophie Magdalene's German

Germans

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 homeland, where other such examples exist, such as the Ordre pour le Mérite

Pour le Mérite

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 and the Ordre de la Sincérité

Ordre de la Sincérité

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Insignia

The badge

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 or "jewel" of the Order was a white enamelled cross, each arm of which was capped by a golden crown

Crown (heraldry)

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. Between the arms, a golden Norwegian

Norway

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 lion

Lion

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 bearing a golden, white-shafted halberd

Halberd

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 alternated with a red-enamelled, golden-headed Brandenburg

Brandenburg

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 eagle

Eagle

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. A blue oval medallion, encircled by diamonds, imposed on the center of the cross displayed the crowned intertwined monogram

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s of Sophie Magdalene and Christian VI. The silk

Silk

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 ribbon

Ribbon

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 was dark blue, edged with silver (the ribbon has become discolored over the centuries, but the original hue can still be seen in numerous painted portraits

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 of the recipients).

Gentlemen wore the cross in a left buttonhole of their coats. Ladies bore it on their left breasts.

Men

• Count Frederik von Ahlefeldt (1770)
• Count Frederik Carl Christian Ulrik Ahlefeldt (1770)
• Count Christian Conrad Danneskiold-Laurvig (1758)
• Friedrich Carl, Duke of Holstein-Plön (by 1759)
• Gustav Grüner (1751)
• Count Carl von Hesse-Cassel (March 31, 1759)
• Count Frederick von Hesse-Cassel (March 31, 1759)
• Count Christian Christoffer Holck (1764)
• Baron Adam Christopher Holsten
• Poul Vendelbo de Løvenørn (1739)
• Volrad August von der Lühe (1747)
• Count Adam Gottlob Moltke
  Adam Gottlob Moltke
  Count Adam Gottlob Moltke , Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat, born at Riesenhof in Mecklenburg.-Early life:...
  
   (1747)
• Frederik Christian von Møsting (1763)
• Count Frederik von Oertz (1761)
• Johann Christoph von Reitzenstein
• Claus Reventlow (1751)
• Count Ditlev Reventlow (1756)
• Count Conrad Detlev Reventlow (1750)
• Mogens Rosenkrantz (1763)
• Baron Holger Rosenkrantz (1767)
• Baron Verner Rosenkrantz (1763)
• Andreas Rosenpalm
• Count Hans Schack (1735-1796) (1763)
• Count Werner von der Schulenburg (1750)
• Baron Georg Wilhelm von Søhlenthal (1738)
• Henrik Stampe (1770)
• Christian von Støcken (1761)
• Frederik Christian von Qualen (1768)
• Baron Frederik Wilhelm Wedel-Jarlsberg (1763)
• Adam Levin von Witzleben (1732)
• Frederick Louis von Woyda (1767)

Women

• Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
  Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
  Duchess Juliane Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , , was queen of Denmark between 1752 and 1766, second consort of king Frederick V of Denmark and Norway, mother of the prince-regent Hereditary Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway and herself de facto regent 1772–1784.- Early life and queen :Born...
  
  
• Christine Sophie von Gähler (née von Ahlefeldt) (1765)
• Amalie Juliane von Günterrode
• Christine Armgard, Duchess of Holstein-Plön (by 1759)
• Countess Anna Joachima Danneskiold-Laurvig (née von Ahlefeldt)
• Dorothea Christine, Princess of Denmark (by 1759)
• Sophia Magdalena Krag Juel Vind
  Sophia Magdalena Krag Juel Vind
  Sophia Magdalena Krag Juel Vind , was a Danish Salon holder, landowner and noble. She is considered to have exerted considerable political influence in Danish politics during the late 18th century....
  
  
• Eleonora Marie von Lüttichau
• Anna Susanna von der Osten
• Charlotte Dorothea Reventlow (née Scheel von Plessen)
• Countess Anne Sophie Schack
• Princess Wilhelmina Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Nordborg-Pløens (1749)
• Margarete Giedde Vind
• Frederica Duchess of Württemberg (1699-1781)