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- The gonfalon, gonfanon, gonfalone (from the early Italian confalone) is a type of heraldic flag or banner, often pointed, swallow-tailed, or with several...
- seated on a horse (emphasising poverty), with Beauséant, the "sacred banner" (or gonfanon) of the Templars, argent a chief sable (Matthew Paris, c. 1250)...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...