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    Gonfalon (redirect from Gonfanon)
    The gonfalon, gonfanon, gonfalone (from the early Italian confalone) is a type of heraldic flag or banner, often pointed, swallow-tailed, or with several...
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    study of seals. Seals go from depicting a few coats of arms on a rider's gonfanon to equestrian seals bearing coats of arms on the shield. One theory assumes...
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    seated on a horse (emphasising poverty), with Beauséant, the "sacred banner" (or gonfanon) of the Templars, argent a chief sable (Matthew Paris, c. 1250)...
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    show it as a white gonfanon with a black chief (argent a chief sable). Jacques de Vitry, writing in the 1220s, mentions the gonfanon baucent and explains...
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  • the stern. Fanion A small flag that the French military uses. Gonfalon, gonfanon, or gonfalone A heraldic flag that is suspended and pendent from a crossbar...
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    on the region's website (in French) as "Écartelé : au premier d’or au gonfanon de gueules bordé de sinople (Auvergne); au deuxième de gueules à la croix...
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    British company colour. The name derives from the Italian word gonfanone, or gonfanon. They were often attached to a small staff which was placed in the muzzle...
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  • top of the coat of arms is the symbol of Württemberg. Below is a banner (gonfanon) which is the symbol of the Counts of Tübingen. "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität...
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    emblazoned on flags. To start with, the banners were extensions of the gonfanon, which consisted of a flag tied to a lance, but soon became diverse displays...
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    et de gueules de 8 pièces (qui est Turenne), sur le tout parti d'or au gonfanon de gueules frangé de sinople (qui est Auvergne) et de gueules à la fasce...
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  • et de gueules de 8 pièces (qui est Turenne), sur le tout parti d'or au gonfanon de gueules frangé de sinople (qui est Auvergne) et de gueules à la fasce...
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    Arms of Guy II and of comtes d'Auvergne : or a gonfanon gueules frangé de vert...
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    following the Battle of Hastings. Count Eustace carried his papal insignia, a gonfanon with three tails charged with a cross, which William of Poitiers said was...
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    Bohemia used a coat of arms bearing a black eagle in a silver shield. Red gonfanons had appeared earlier. From 1253 a two-tailed silver lion in a red field...
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  • Royal Heraldry Society of Canada (1966– ) – it publishes a newsletter (Gonfanon) and two journals (Heraldry in Canada and Alta Studia Heraldica) and hosts...
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    difficult. The two crosses present on the flag likely originate from a gonfanon flown on the stern of some of these ships. The crosses were originally...
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    made by Gino and Alberto Anselmi, architecs [sic] from Napoles [sic]. The gonfanon, green with the emblem, seems that wasn't never manufactured [sic]. Kuipers...
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    Modern interpretation Attribution 1135 Ralph I, Count of Vermandois: A gonfanon is found on an equestrian seal dated to 1135 that depicts a chequy pattern...
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    French and modern English gonfanon, a very rare word, and through Italian gonfalone to English gonfalon, synonymous with gonfanon. The modern terms have...
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  • family. The original coat of arms consists of a red three-tailed banner (gonfanon) with gold rings and fringes on a gold shield. The counts of Montfort adopted...
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    (Segur). Overall gules a mace or, a chief of the same, charged with a gonfanon gules (Sarras.) Charles d'Albert The Duke of Lesdiguières, duchy-peerage...
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  • of Montfort, 1816–1850: Per pale and per fess,to the dexter, Argent, a Gonfanon Gules, to the sinister, in sinister chief, Or, a Stag's Antler Sable, and...
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    Coat of arms from the Zürich armorial. The heraldic charge is a Gonfanon, derived from that of the Tübingen and Montfort coats of arms....
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    proper, a lamb rampant winged Argent nimbed Or unguled Gules supporting a gonfanon Argent its cross Gules and streamers pendant Gules, Argent and Gules each...
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    of arms used by the noble families within the clan (szlachta). Gules: a Gonfanon or surmounted by a Maltese Cross of the last. Crest – on a crowned helmet...
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  • publishes a biannual journal, Heraldry in Canada, a quarterly newsletter, Gonfanon, and has published the reference books Canadian Heraldry (1981) and A Canadian...
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