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 <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -->===The Song of Roland, 1040-115AD [BACON 1914] LEONABD BACON 1914===*Verse 4 :<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"And Geoffrey of Anjou, the bearer of the King's gonfalon" [BACON 1914] *Verse 33 :<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"Through Cerdagne, and through the valleys and the mountains they marched on, <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Until of the French army they saw the gonfalon. <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Where aU the twelve companions with the French rear-guard <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">King Marsile will not tarry till he have joined the fray" [BACON 1914] *Verse 39:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"They held Valentian lances, and shield on shoulder wore. <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">White and blue and vermilion were the gonfalons they bore." [BACON 1914] *Verse 59:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"Then an embroidered banner he gave unto Grandoign <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">To lead his men against the Franks that battle they might join. <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">And therewithal was given to Grandoign the whole command." [BACON 1914] *Verse 125:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"And onwards Geoffrey of Anjou bore the great Oriflame — <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Because it was Saint Peter's, it bore the Roman name." [BACON 1914]:Note: Oriflame was the name of Charlemagne's banner *Verse 137:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"Right through the Prince's body his golden banner bore. <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">He smote him dead seven hundred of his servitors before." [BACON 1914] *Verse 142:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"Ogier the Dane and Charlemagne well the great strokes laid on, <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">And Neimes and Geoffrey of Anjou that bore the gonfalon. <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Ogier the Dane in all things a hero good was he. <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">He spurred the steed beneath him, and let him gallop free. <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">On him who bore the Dragon he let drive a buffet dread. <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Down to the earth before him he hurled Lord Amboire dead. <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">And the banner of King Baligant in that hour came to ground. <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">And Baligant beheld it fall, and the ensign of Mahound <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Without a man to guard it. In his heart he saw it plain <br>:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">How wickedness was on his side and the right with Charlemagne" [BACON 1914] 

{{Quote|50|*Line 11,450:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">“When Harold had made all ready, and given his orders, he came into the midst of the English, and dismounted by the side of the standard, Leofwin and Gurth, his brothers, were with him; and around him he had barons enough, as he stood by his gonfanon, which was in truth a noble one, sparkling with gold and precious stones. After the victory William sent it to the apostle, to prove and commemorate his great conquest and glory.”|[PICKERING 1837]</span><br>}}{{Quote|50|:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">“L’apostoile li otreia, un gonfanon li enveia, un gonfanon et un anel, mult precios e riche e bel; si come it dit, desoz la pierre, aveit un des cheveuls Saint Pierre”|Line 11,450 [MICHEL 1836: p.147] </span> Charlemagne: An Anglo-Norman Poem of the Twelfth Century edited by Francisque Michel 1836}}