Ensign for the Spanish Netherlands c.1520-c.1701 (Spain)

'Flanders' Ensign, possibly ensign of vessels operating in Flemish waters

Last modified: 2005-02-26 by santiago dotor
Keywords: cross: saltire (red) | saltire (red) | cross: burgundy |
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by José Carlos Alegría

• Description
• Civil and War Ensign c.1520-c.1701 (possibly ensign of vessels operating in Spanish waters)
• Galleons' Ensign c.1520-c.1701 (possibly ensign of vessels operating in American waters)

See also:

• Size of Ensigns 15th-19th Centuries
• Ensigns 1670s-1785
• Historical Flags 1506-1700 (Spain)

A horizontal tricolour of red-white-yellow (...) defaced with a Burgundy cross on the white stripe —sometimes centred, sometimes offset to the hoist— is usually reported as the flag of the Spanish Netherlands:

• Siegel 1912, table 33, Spanische Niederl[ande],
• Siegel 1912, table 46, Spanische Niederlande 1737, 1769 (Fladern) (bis 1714) and
• Calvo and Grávalos 1983, no. 101, Bandera de las Provincias de Flandes 1520-1648.

Santiago Dotor, 26 October 2000