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2. Heraldic flag - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Royal standards of England - Wikipedia

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   The royal standards of England were narrow, tapering swallow-tailed heraldic flags, of considerable length, used mainly for mustering troops in battle, in pageants and at funerals, by the monarchs of England. In high favour during the Tudor period, the Royal English Standard was a flag that was of a separate design and purpose to the Royal Banner.

4. Gonfalon - Wikipedia

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   Gonfalon with coat of arms of the Italian comune of Montebuono.. The gonfalon, gonfanon, gonfalone (from the early Italian confalone) is a type of heraldic flag or banner, often pointed, swallow-tailed, or with several streamers, and suspended from a crossbar in an identical manner to the ancient Roman vexillum.

5. Schwenkel - Wikipedia

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   Illustration of arms attributed to Jesus, with a schwenkel on a banner. In vexillology, a schwenkel is a type of flag accessory that was used in medieval heraldry. [1] It consists of a long, narrow strip of cloth, [2] usually of a different color than the main flag, that hangs from the upper corner of the flagstaff.

6. History of heraldry - Wikipedia

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   Heraldry developed in the high medieval period, based on earlier, "pre-heraldic" or "ante-heraldic", 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 ...

7. Heraldic badge - Wikipedia

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   A heraldic badge, emblem, impresa, device, or personal device worn as a badge indicates allegiance to, or the property of, an individual, family or corporate body. Medieval forms are usually called a livery badge , and also a cognizance .