Misplaced Pages

This is a list of monarchs who were Freemasons, and lists individual monarchs chronologically under the countries they ruled, monarchs who ruled more than one country are listed under the one they are most known for, or the dominant nation in a personal union (i.e. Christian X listed under Denmark and not Iceland). Those listed below were members of a Freemason Lodge sometime during their lives. Some, like Alexander I of Russia, would later outlaw Freemasonry in their territories, while others would continue supporting the organization for the rest of their lives.

Andorra

• Jules Grévy
• Alexandre Millerand
• Gaston Doumergue
• Paul Doumer – Grand Secretary of the Grand Orient of France (1892)

Anhalt-Köthen

• Friedrich-Ferdinand

Afghanistan

• Habibullah Khan

Baden

• Karl Friedrich – Grandmaster of the National Lodge of Baden

Bavaria

• Maximilian I Joseph

Belgium

• Leopold I

Bikaner

• Ganga Singh

Brandenburg-Ansbach

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich
• Karl Alexander – Amicus eminens et protector ordinis in Franconia

Brandenburg-Bayreuth

• Friedrich
• Friedrich Christian

Brazil

• Pedro I

Breslau

• Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch
• Joseph Christian Franz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein

Brunswick

• Karl I
• Ferdinand (also Order of the Illuminati)

Bulgaria

• Alexander I

Carnatic

• Ghulam Husain Ali Khan

Cooch Behar

• Nripendra Narayan

Courland

• Karl Christian Joseph – Superior et Protector Ordinis in Saxonia

Denmark

• Fredrik V
• Fredrik VI
• Christian IX
• Fredrik VII
• Christian VIII – Grandmaster of the Danish Order of Freemasons
• Fredrik VIII
• Christian X

Egypt

• Tawfiq
• Abbas II
• Hussein Kamel

Frankfurt

• Eugène de Beauharnais – Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy (1805-1814), Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Italy

Ghana

• Ofori Atta I (Okyenhene or King of Akyem Abuakwa) – (1912-1943)
• Azzu Mate Kole II (Konor of the Manya Krobo Traditional Area) – (1939-1990)
• Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II (Asantehene) – (1931-1970)
• Oyeeman Wereko Ampem II (Gyaasehene of Akuapem and Amanokromhene) – (1975-2005)
• Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II, Asantehene, 1931 – 1970
• Otumfuo Osei Tutu II (Asantehene) – (1999–present), Grand Patron, Grand Lodge of Ghana; Sword Bearer, United Grand Lodge of England; Grand Patron, Grand Lodge of Liberia

Gwalior

• Jiwajirao Scindia

Germany

• Wilhelm I
• Friedrich III – Master of the Order, Grand Landlodge of the Freemasons of Germany

Hanover

• Ernst August – Grandmaster of the Grand Lodge of Hanover
• Georg V – Protector of Freemasonry in Hanover, Grandmaster of the Grand Lodge of Hanover

Hawaii

• Kamehameha IV
• Kamehameha V
• Kalākaua

Hesse-Darmstadt

• Ludwig VIII
• Ludwig X (also Order of the Illuminati)

Holland

• Lodewijk I – Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France (1805)

Holy Roman Empire

• Franz I

Hyderabad

• Mir Osman Ali Khan

Jaipur

• Bhawani Singh

Jordan

• Hussein bin Talal

Mascara

• Abd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyiddīn

Mecklenburg-Schwerin

• Friedrich Ludwig

Mecklenburg-Strelitz

• Adolph Friedrich IV
• Karl II – Patron of the united Lodges of the dominions of the Electorate of Brunswick, Duchy of Mecklenburg, Principalities of Münster-Waldeck and Hildesheim

Mexico

• Augustin I
• Maximilian I

Moldavia

• Constantin Mavrocordat
• Mihai Draco Suțu
• Alexandru Ipsianti

Montenegro

• Petar II Petrović-Njegoš

Mysore

• Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar

Naples

• Gioacchino I

Netherlands

• Willem II

Norway

• Haakon VII

Ottoman Empire

• Murad V

Pataudi

• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

Patiala

• Bhupinder Singh

Perak

• Idris Shah II

Poland

• Stanisław II August

Portugal

• Pedro IV
• Fernando II

Prussia

• Friedrich II
• Friedrich Wilhelm II
• Friedrich Wilhelm III

Rampur

• Raza Ali Khan – Grandmaster of the Grand Lodge of India

Reuss-Lobenstein

• Heinrich LXXII

Sarawak

• James Brooke

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

• Ernst II

Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

• Johann Adolf
• Ernst II (also Order of the Illuminati)

Saxe-Meiningen

• Karl Friedrich III
• Karl Wilhelm
• Georg I Friedrich Karl

Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

• Karl August (also Order of the Illuminati)

Serbia

• Mihailo III
• Aleksander
• Petar I

Sikh Empire

• Duleep Singh

Spain

• José I – Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France (1805)
• Amadeo I

Sweden

• Adolf Fredrik – Master of a Stockholm lodge
• Gustaf III – Vicar of Solomon
• Karl XIII – Grandmaster of the Swedish Order of Freemasons, and Army Master of the Order of Strict Observance
• Karl XIV Johan – Grandmaster of the Swedish Order of Freemasons, and of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons
• Oscar I – Grandmaster of the Swedish Order of Freemasons, and of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons
• Karl XV – Grandmaster of the Swedish Order of Freemasons, and of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons
• Oscar II – Grandmaster of the Swedish Order of Freemasons, and of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons
• Gustaf V – Grandmaster of the Swedish Order of Freemasons
• Gustaf VI Adolf – Grandmaster of the Swedish Order of Freemasons

United Kingdom

• James VI – Fellowcraft Freemason (Lodge Scoon and Perth No. 3 in Perth) (1601-1625)
• George IV – Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England (1790-1813)
• William IV
• Edward VII – Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England (1874-1901)
• Edward VIII
• George VI – Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland (1936-1937)

Wallachia

• Scarlat Ghica
• Grigore II Ghica
• Alexandru Moruzi

Westphalia

• Jérôme I – Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Westphalia

Wurttemberg

• Friedrich II Eugen
• Friedrich I

Yugoslavia

• Aleksandar I

References

1. Daniel Ligou. Dictionnaire de la Franc-Maçonnerie. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006.
2. ^ Marc de Jode, Monique Cara and Jean-Marc Cara (eds.). Dictionnaire universelle de la Franc-Maçonnerie. Larousse, 2011.
3. Initiated in "L'Amitiée Lodge" on 21 May 1883 (Histoire de la Franc-maçonnerie en France - Faucher and Ricker 1967)
4. Dictionnaire de la Franc-Maçonnerie (Daniel Ligou, Presses Universitaires de France, 2006)
5. Ce que la France doit aux francs-maçons (Laurent KUPFERMAN, Emmanuel PIERRA, ed. Grund, 2012)
6. Dictionnaire de la Franc-Maçonnerie, page 363 (Daniel Ligou, Presses Universitaires de France, 2006)
7. Dictionnaire universelle de la Franc-Maçonnerie, page 245 (Marc de Jode, Monique Cara and Jean-Marc Cara, ed. Larousse, 2011)
8. Histoire de la Franc-Maçonnerie française (Pierre Chevallier, ed. Fayard, 1975)
9. "Amir Habibullah Khan: Afghan Reformer and Freemason".
10. McMahon, Henry A (1939). An Account of the Entry of H. M. Habibullah Khan Amir of Afghanistan into Freemasonry. London, UK: Favil Press, Ltd.
11. ^ "Masonindia.in".
12. ^ Denslow, William R (1957). 10,000 Famous Freemasons. Columbia, Missouri, USA: Missouri Lodge of Research.
13. ^ Freemasonry comes to India masonindia.in
14. ^ "Shillong Freemasons Lodge 61". shillonglodge61.org. Archived from the original on 2014-08-22.
15. ^ Speth, George William. Royal Freemasons. Masonic Publishing Company, 1885, pp. 24-29.
16. Tarik Sabry, Layal Ftouni. Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice. London: I.B.Tauris, 2016.
17. ^ "Famous Indian Masons « District Grand Lodge of Bombay". Archived from the original on 2018-03-31. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
18. "Prince Lot Kapuaiwa Kamehameha - the First Full Blooded Hawaiian Freemason".
19. "The New Palace". The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. January 3, 1880. Retrieved January 16, 2017 – via Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
20. "Famous Masons | the Grand Lodge of Maryland".
21. Audrey Carpenter, John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England, (London : Continuum, 2011), ISBN 978-1-4411-2778-5, p. 47
22. Maclolm Davies, The masonic muse : songs, music, and musicians associated with Dutch freemasonry, 1730–1806. (Utrecht : Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 1995), ISBN 90-6375-199-0, pp. 22–23
23. "In Mozart's Vienna, Freemasonry had flourished under the Habsburgs mainly due to the influence of Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine, who, himself, was a Freemason." Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart – Master Mason Archived 13 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
24. Famous masons mastermason.com
25. Thomas C. Wright, Latin America since Independence: Two Centuries of Continuity and Change, Rowman & Littlefield 2017, p. 77.
26. ^ "R.S.M.: The History of Masonry in Moldova (1733-1812)". 25 March 2015.
27. ^ "Познати Масони Архива - The Alliance of United Grand Lodges of Serbia". www.lodge.rs. Archived from the original on 2018-04-14.
28. "Welcome to MasonicPaedia.Org". masonicpaedia.org. Archived from the original on 2002-10-09.
29. "Vrijmetselarij".
30. "Hür ve Kabul Edilmiş Masonlar Büyük Locası Derneği". 162.243.49.51. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014.
31. "Freemasons (Or Templars) in Turkey".
32. Arthur Edward Waite (2013). A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Volume I. Cosimo, Inc. pp. 287–8. ISBN 9781602066403.
33. James Van Horn Melton (2001). The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe. Cambridge University Press. p. 267. ISBN 9780521469692.
34. Long, S. (1995, December 8). Hush-hush world of the Freemasons. The Straits Times, p. 8. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.
35. ^ "Freemasonry in Yugoslavia".
36. ^ "UGLS_Famous_Freemasons". www.uvls.org.rs. Archived from the original on 2018-05-10.
37. "The life of a British Maharaja".
38. Ross, Michael. The Reluctant King: Joseph Bonaparte, King of the two Sicilies and Spain. London, Mason/Charter, 1977, pp. 34-35.
39. Causing, J, 1969, Freemasonry in the Philippines: a comprehensive history of Freemasonry during a period of 209 struggling, glorious years 1756-1965, GT Printers, Cebu City, Philippines.
40. Denslow, Wm. R. (1958). 10,000 Famous Freemasons. St. Louis, Mo: Missouri Lodge of Research
41. ^ "The Grand Lodge of Scotland". Archived from the original on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
42. "Penelea Filitti, p. 61."

See also

• List of presidents of the United States who were Freemasons
• List of Freemasons

v t e Freemasonry
Fraternal organisations with origins in the United Kingdom in the 18th century, sorted by bodies, lodges, locations and rites
General	Abbreviations Chamber of Reflection History Grand Lodge (List) Landmarks Manuscripts Music Masonic myths Rites Ritual and Symbolism Lodge Research lodge	Square and Compasses Freemasons' Hall, London, headquarters (1775/1933-) of the United Grand Lodge of England (1722-)
Anglo-American Freemasonry	Eurasia British Isles United Grand Lodge of England Grand Lodge of Scotland Grand Lodge of Ireland Swedish Rite Swedish Order of Freemasons Danish Order of Freemasons Icelandic Order of Freemasons Norwegian Order of Freemasons Grand Lodge of Spain Grand Landlodge of the Freemasons of Germany Armenia Belgium Cyprus Czech Republic Finland France India Germany Italy Regular Grand Lodge Grand Orient Luxembourg North Macedonia Malta Netherlands Philippines Portugal Romania Russia Switzerland Turkey Australia and New Zealand United Grand Lodge of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory Grand Lodge of New Zealand Americas United States Alabama California Connecticut Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska New Jersey New Mexico New York North Dakota Ohio Pennsylvania Tennessee Texas Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin African-American Prince Hall Freemasonry Canada Manitoba Newfoundland and Labrador Ontario Latin America Brazil Chile Costa Rica Dominican Republic Mexico Venezuela
Continental Freemasonry and Co-Freemasonry, including CLIPSAS	Eurasia Le Droit Humain (several countries) Belgium Grand Orient Female Grand Lodge Grand Lodge Denmark Spain Catalonia France Grand Orient Mixed Grand Lodge Greece Ibérico Italy Grand Orient of Italy Grand Lodge Female Grand Lodge Malta Poland Portugal Romania Turkey Americas Universal Co-Masonry Venezuela United States Canada Mexico
Appendant Orders	Non-Denominational Allied Masonic Degrees Grand College of Rites Holy Royal Arch (Anglo-European) Royal Arch Masonry (American) Order of Athelstan Order of Knight Masons Order of Mark Master Masons Order of the Scarlet Cord Order of the Secret Monitor Order of Royal and Select Masters (Anglo-European) Cryptic Masonry (American) Royal Ark Mariners Shriners Christian Only Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests Knights of the York Cross of Honour Knights Templar Masonic Order of the Bath Order of Saint Thomas of Acon Red Cross of Constantine Reformed and Rectified Rite Royal Order of Scotland S.R.I.A. Royal Order of Eri Societas Rosicruciana Sovereign Order of Knights Preceptor York Rite Sovereign College Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite USA Northern Jurisdiction Southern Jurisdiction Supreme Council of Louisiana
People	List of Freemasons A–D E–Z monarchs US presidents Freemasonry and women
Places	Masonic Buildings Libraries
Anti-Masonry	Anti-Masonry Conspiracy theories Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory Morgan Affair
Category

• Lists of Freemasons
• Lists of monarchs
• British Freemasons