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The flag and coat of arms of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, or the Jerusalem flag, [2] display a white cross on a red field (blazon gules a cross argent), ultimately derived from the design worn by the Knights Hospitaller during the Crusades. The flag represents the Sovereign Military Order of Malta as a sovereign institution.
Coat of arms of the Knights of Malta from the façade of the church of San Giovannino dei Cavalieri, Florence, Italy. Vehicle registration plate of the Order, as seen in Rome, Italy Flags of Knights Hospitaller in Saint Peter's Castle, Bodrum, Turkey. Left to right: Fabrizio Carretto (1513–1514); Amaury d'Amboise (1503–1512);
The only flag used in Malta in the time of the Knights consisted of a white symmetrical cross on a red field with the cross having a width of 1/5 the height of the flag – similar to the flag of England, colors reversed with a proportion of 5:3. The flag is still used by the Knights' modern successor, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
The flag of the Knights of Malta, a white cross on a red field, [10] was a more likely source of the Maltese colours, inspiring the red and white shield used during the British colonial period. [7] The flag used by the knights was also known to be the oldest still-in-use national flag.
Malta Civil Flag (Unofficial) White-red vertical bicolor with George Cross on blue canton. 1967–1974: Queen Elizabeth II's Personal Flag for Malta: One of Queen Elizabeth II's personal flags. This flag was used when she was Queen of Malta until it was made redundant by the introduction of a republican form of government in 1974.
Although chiefly associated with the Knights Hospitaller (Order of St. John, now the Sovereign Military Order of Malta), and by extension with the island of Malta, it has come to be used by a wide array of entities since the early modern period, notably the Order of Saint Stephen, the city of Amalfi, the Polish Order of the White Eagle (1709 ...
The Knights of Malta had a strong presence within the Imperial Russian Navy and the pre-revolutionary French Navy. When Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy was appointed governor of the French colony on Saint Kitts in 1639, he was a prominent Knight of St. John and dressed his retinue with the emblems of the Order.
The Knights of Malta — former/current members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Members of the allied Category:Protestant orders of chivalry are usually referred to as a Knight of St. John (British) or as a Johanniter (German).