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English: Flag with a white cross on a red field, supposed to represent an early form of the Reichssturmfahne or Imperial War Flag, used alongside the Imperial Banner. It was smaller than the imperial banner, carried before the emperor or his appointed commander in battle.
When the Holy Roman Empire took part in the Crusades, a war flag was flown alongside the black-gold imperial banner. This flag, known as the "Saint George Flag", was a white cross on a red background: the reverse of the St George's Cross used as the flag of Lombardy and England. [1]
The Reichssturmfahne was not a flag, but a banner. Meyer's Lexikon of 1897 says s. v. Banner: " [...] When investing a fief, the Emperor had together with this Imperial banner in black and yellow a second banner in red for the investion with penal judicature.
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War flag of the Holy Roman Empire: Red swords crossed on top of one another on a field. The top of the field is black and the bottom of the field is white. 15th century: War flag of the Holy Roman Empire: A non-rectangular [clarification needed] flag depicting a black eagle on a yellow field with a red bar on top c. 12th –early 14th centuries
the Imperial Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire in the first and fourth quarters and the Snake of Milan in the second and third quarters. 1398–1701 1st Flag of The Principality of Piombino: A white field with a chess themed diagonal red stripe. 1410–1516 3rd Flag of The Kingdom of Sicily under The Crown of Aragon An inverted version of the ...