Last modified: 2024-08-31 by rob raeside
Keywords: vexillological terms |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
On this page:
Flag of the Hitler Youth 1933 – 1945, Germany (fotw)
Flag of Savoy, France (fotw);
National Flag of Switzerland (fotw);
Flag of Pisa, Italy (fotw);
State Flag/Naval Ensign of Denmark (fotw).
Please note however, that whilst several of the types used on flags are detailed separately herein – the cross throughout as given in 1) above, the Greek cross, the Celtic cross, the Scandinavian cross, the saltire (or diagonal cross), Cross of Lorraine, the swastika, and the Maltese cross – numerous other variants exist (mostly used in heraldry but which also sometimes appear on flags), and the majority of these are listed below.
Flag of Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium (fotw)
Flag of Otze, Germany (fotw)
Gonfalon of Albano Sant'Alessandro, Italy (fotw); Gonfalon of
Baradili, Italy (fotw)
Former Flag of the
Falange Venezolana, Venezuela (fotw)
Flag of the Church of Norway (fotw); Arms of Negoslavci,
Croatia (fotw); Flag of Vestby, Norway (fotw)
Please note as may be seen in the illustrations above, various types of cross can be used to make up a cross cantonée, and that a Jerusalem Cross (a cross-potent cantonée constructed of a cross-potent and four Greek crosses or of five crosses-potent) is one specific type.
Example;
Flag of Tianeti, Georgia (fotw);
Arms of The Kingdom of Jerusalem c1200 (CS)
Flag and Logo of the
Church
in Wales, UK (fotw)
Arms and Flag of
Woltwiesche, Germany (fotw)
Please note that a cross that is divided only along either its horizontal or vertical centre-line is properly blazoned using a full description – for example, “party per fess argent and azure a cross-humetty
counterchanged" as shown below.
Flag of Zaprešić, Croatia (fotw);
Flag of Flag of Davos commune, Switzerland (fotw);
Flag of Weddingen Borough, Germany (fotw)
Flag of Zurrieq, Malta (fotw)
Flag and Arms of Tursko, Czechia (fotw);
Flag of Palomares del Río, Spain (fotw)
Please note that, unless referring to a plain cross, this term is always accompanied by a further description, for example a “Cross
of Pisa couped”
as illustrated above, or a “cross crosslet couped” as shown in the following definition.
Flag of Mozhginsky District, Russia
(fotw); National Flag of Tonga (fotw); Flag of Pisa,
Italy (fotw)
Flag of Dobrzyca, Poland (fotw);
Flag of Costuleni, Moldova (fotw);
Flag of Echt, The Netherlands (fotw)
Arms and Flag of Espinho, Portugal (fotw)
Arms and Flag of Sé, Portugal (fotw)
Introduction | Table of Contents | Index of Terms | Previous Page | Next Page