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Grand Master Flag
by Željko Heimer, 8 June 2002
Current Grand Master Andrew Bertie's flag
by Jaume Ollé
On this page:
See also:
His Eminent Highness the Prince Grand Master of the Order of
Malta, Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie. The upper image is the
flag of the Grand Master of the Order (according to Ivan
Sache), and the lower image is that of the current Grand
Master, and includes a Collar of the Order around the Cross.
Santiago Dotor, 4 May 1999
The white Maltese cross on red is the flag of the Grand Master
of the Order. The flag of the Order is a plain (St.George's)
white cross on red.
Santiago Dotor , 8 September 1999
I confirm it from Album des Pavillons. The flag of Grand
Master is captioned "in Roma". Would this mean that the
Grand Master uses a different personal standard when outside of Rome
? As the Order is "Sovereign", the Grand Master should
have the rank of Head of State and the possibility to make
official visits in "foreign" countries.
Ivan Sache , 8 September 1999
I suggest that the caption merely stated where the Grand
Master is found when he is at home, for the benefit of those who
don't know that the Villa Maltese is located in Rome, at 68 Via
Condotti, said to be a minute's walk from the bottom of the
Spanish Steps.
John Ayer , 9 September 1999
As the author of this caption, I confirm John's suggestion,
this is what I meant. in the caption of this flag in the oncoming
"Album des Pavillons" edition 2000 which will be
bi-lingual, I have merely written the caption : "Grand
Mastre - Grand Master"
Armand Noel du Payrat , 9 September 1999
by Ivan Sache , 28 Febuary 2000
In "Flags in South Africa and the world",
Proceedings of the XVIIth International Congress of Vexillology,
there is a rich paper by Adrian Strickland, entitled:
"The vexillological heritage of the Knights of Saint-John in
Malta" (pp. 277-287) . I have extracted few flags from the
valuable paper:
Standard of the Grand Master :
The personal standard of the Grand Master should be square
instead of rectangular as shown above . The second flag shown
above is the Grand Master's motor car used on official occasions
Ivan Sache , 28 Febuary 2000
According to Payrat (2000) - Grand
Master (2:3) - Red flag with white Maltese cross. The
construction details are given of this same flag in Flaggenbuch
1939 [Neubecker (1992)]. The size of the
circle circumscribing the cross is 28/44 of the hoist (i.e.
7/11). But Neubecker also gives the dimension between two
neighbouring vertexes of the cross (i.e. the side of the octogon)
as 11, but this can't be exactly so (my calculation gives a number on
three digits as 10.769, which is close enough).
Željko Heimer, 8 June 2002
In "Flags in South Africa and the world", Proceedings of the XVIIth International Congress of Vexillology, there is a rich paper by Adrian Strickland, entitled: "The vexillological heritage of the Knights of Saint-John in Malta" (pp. 277-287) . I have extracted a few flags from the valuable paper:
Grand Masters used to quarter their own personal arms with those of the Order in the first and fourth quarters, as for instance in the standard of Grand Master Pinto (1741-1773):
by Ivan Sache , 28 Febuary 2000
But arms were also often quartered per saltire, as shown in another standard of Grand Master Pinto:
by Ivan Sache , 28 Febuary 2000
Other Grand Masters did not quarter their arms, as for instance Grand Master Rohan:
by Ivan Sache , 28 Febuary 2000
The burgee ("gagliardetto") used by Grand Master Perellos (1697-1720) in less formal occasions seems to be canting:
by Ivan Sache , 30 October 2002
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta releases its own post
stamps (labelled in Italian 'Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta -
Poste Magistrali'). A current series of such stamps shows the
arms of the Grand Masters. These stamps could be an excellent
source to complete the Grand Masters' banner of arms series
partially shown above. Unfortunately, my stamp catalogue only
shows small black-and-white 'previews' of the stamps, of little
use here.
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2001
I have published the Sovereign Military Order of Malta's Grand
Masters Arms at my website: http://www.smom-za.org/smom/grandmasters/index.htm.
Fr. Gerard, 11 November 2001