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In heraldry and vexillology, a heraldic flag is a flag containing coats of arms, heraldic badges, or other devices used for personal identification. Heraldic flags include banners, standards, pennons and their variants, gonfalons, guidons, and pinsels. Specifications governing heraldic flags vary from country to country, and have varied over time.
A major stage in the development of flags in the west was the art of heraldry. Heraldry, which developed in approximately the second quarter of the 12th century, primarily deals with identification by means of devices placed on shields, with these symbols becoming the means by which knights and later other upper-class individuals became ...
Heraldic tradition fully developed in the 13th century, and it flourished and developed further during the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Originally limited to nobility, heraldry is adopted by wealthy commoners in the Late Middle Ages (Burgher arms). Specific traditions of Ecclesiastical heraldry also develop in the late medieval ...
Armorial of Asia; Armorial of Europe ... Gallery of sovereign state flags; ... NGW.nl, Heraldry of the world: International Civic Arms (33,000 arms of countries, ...
Heraldry developed in the High Middle Ages based on earlier traditions of visual identification by means of seals, field signs, emblems used on coins, etc. Notably, lions that would subsequently appear in 12th-century coats of arms of European nobility have pre-figurations in the animal style of ancient art (specifically the style of Scythian art as it developed from c. the 7th century BC).
The war flag of the Mongol Empire was the same as the banner at right, except the horse tails were off-black instead of off-white as they were cut from black instead of white horses. Heraldic flags are forms of vexilloids with designs based on heraldry, a famous example being the Oriflamme of France. The Chola empire had the tiger as their ...
Flags of China (2 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Chinese heraldry" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Pages in category "Flags of Asia" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...