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The badges of the Order of the
Elephant issued in 1633, were on the reverse augmented by the badge of the Order of the Armed Arm. At the next year's issue, it was, however, removed. In 1634 Christian IV offered the two still living knights, Christen Friis and Albret Skeel, to exchange the Armed Arm
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Elephant. There is also one specimen of the order, with the monogram of Christian V, which suggest that he considered reviving the order. Instead he created the order of the Dannebrog in 1671.
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The order was bestowed for the first and only time on 2 December 1616, at the great celebrations that took place in
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The recipients dignities are those held during the Kalmar war, and at the time of the knighting.
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in 1633–1634. The order is regarded as a predecessor of the
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hanging from a clasp; at the end of the chains were a
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544:Laursen, L. (1926). "Væbnede Arm".
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