Marseilles (Municipality, Bouches-du-Rhône, France): Historical flags

Last modified: 2013-08-10 by ivan sache
Keywords: marseilles | cross (white) |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors

• Flag of Marseilles shown on ancient flag charts

See also:

• France
• Marseilles

Flag of Marseilles shown on ancient flag charts

Old flag of Marseilles - Image by Ivan Sache, 18 July 2001

Danckert's flag chart [ca.1700] [dan05] shows the flag of Marseilles (No. 80, Vlag van Marselle) as white with a square blue canton charged with a white cross. The canton is separated from the main white field by a thin black fimbriation.
This flag is rather odd, since the flag of Marseilles has been known for centuries to be a blue cross on a white field

Ivan Sache, 18 July 2001