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Quer (Municipality, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Flag of Quer - Image by Ivan Sache, 7 September 2019

Presentation of Quer
Symbols of Quer

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Presentation of Quer

The municipality of Quer (739 inhabitants in 2014, 1,463 ha; municipal website) is located 15 km of Guadalajara.

Quer was first mentioned on 6 March 1432, when King of Castile John II offered to Iñigo López de Mendoza, as a reward for his support against the kings of Navarre and Aragón, several villages located near Guadalajara, Quer included. At the time, Quer belonged to Catalina, the king's sister. On 15 March 1489, Pedro Gómez de Mendoza, Bishop of Sigüenza, swapped with Alvar Gómez his possessions in Guadalajara for the town of Maqueda.

Quer is the birth place of the Jesuit father and humanist Juan Páez de Castro (c. 1512-1570). Appointed Chronicler and Royal Chaplain of King Charles I (1555), he attended the Council of Trent. A scholar in Latin, Greek, Arab and Italian, Páez de Castro collected ancient manuscripts and codices. Philip II acquired his library after his death. His memoir Sobre la utilidad de juntar una buena biblioteca (1556) was a call for the establishemnt of a State library.

Ivan Sache, 7 September 2019

Symbols of Quer

The flag of Quer (photo) is prescribed in a Decree adopted on 21 March 2012 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 18 April 2012 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 77, p. 13,148 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular, with proportions 2:3. Horizontally divided in the middle, the upper part, red, and the lower part, green, a white triangle placed along the hoist, charged with the crowned coat of arms of the municipality.

The process of adoption of the flag was initiated in March 2009 by the Municipal Council, which commissioned the Spanish Vexillological Society to draft the flag.
[Revista Protocola, 8 June 2012]

The coat of arms of Quer is prescribed in a Decree adopted on 18 October 2005 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 1 November 2005 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 218, p. 19,192 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Per pale, 1. Gules a church tower argent, 2. Vert a wheat spike or. Grafted in base argent three mushrooms gules. The shield surmounted by the Royal Spanish crown.

Ivan Sache, 7 September 2019