Castles and chateaux of old Navarre and the Basque Provinces, including also Foix, Roussillon and Béarn (1907)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L.C. Page & Company · leaf 63
given to noble chapters of military bodies,corporations, societies and the like. Finally there was a class which belonged towarriors alone. At all times illustrious soldiers adopted adevise, or symbol, which they caused to bepainted on their shields. These were only con-sidered as armoiries when… … Feudal Flags and Banners The banners of the feudal sovereigns were,many of them, very splendid affairs, oftenbearing all their arms and quarterings. Theywere borne wherever their owners went, — in Feudal France 33 war, to the capital, and at their country houses.At all ceremonious functions the…
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