Changes
{{Stars2|Category=Weapons}}
{{Spears}}
This article contains quotes from primary sources that mention banners. It is not complete and additional quotes will be added as discovered. <br>
<br>
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">Where all 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 80
:<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]
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -->
(Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans)<br>
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"Ragnar Lothbroc saga: Ragnar Lothbroc got a magic shirt from his wife Aslaug and his daughters are said to have woven a magic raven banner" - GET SOURCE <br>
[Anglo-Norman Studies VI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1983 edited by Reginald Allen BrownBROWN 1984: p.116]
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -->
==William of Poitiers, The Deeds of William, Duke of Normandy and King of England c.1071AD ==
(Gesta Willelmi ducis Normannorum et regis Anglorum) <br>
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"The duke therefore sought the favour of this apostle for the project he had in hand, and gladly received from him the gift of a banner as a pledge of the support of St Peter whereby he might the more confidently and safely attack his enemy." [DOUGLAS and & GREENAWAY 1995: p.227] <br>
<br>
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">"He then advanced in good order with the papal banner which had been granted to him bourne aloft at the head of his troops." [DOUGLAS and & GREENAWAY 1995 :p.233]
<br>
Apparently mentions the fighting man standard being sent to Rome. - GET SOURCE
==The Annals of St Neots (1120-1140AD)==
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">""<br>
Although written in the C12th, The Annals of St Neots was based in part on a now missing early version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. [SWANTON2000]
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -->
==Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum c.1129-c.1154==
* AD 752 Battle of Burford
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">“Ethelhun who led the West-Saxons, bearing the royal standard, a golden dragon, transfixed the standard-bearer of the enemy.” [BOHN 1853:p.130]
* AD 1016 Battle of Assandun
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">“King Edmund distinguished himself for his valour. For perceiving that the Danes were fighting with more than ordinary vigour, he quitted his royal station which, as was wont, he had taken between the dragon and the ensign called the Standard,....” [BOHN 1853:p.194]
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -->
==William of Malmesbury, Chronicle of the Kings of England c.1125AD==
(Gesta Regum Anglorum)<br>
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">“The king himself on foot, stood with his brother, near the '''standard'''; in order that, while all shared equal danger, none might think of retreating. This '''standard''' William sent, after the victory, to the pope; it was '''sumptuously embroidered, with gold and precious stones, in the form of a man fighting'''.” [GILES 1847:p.276]
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -->
==Master Wace, The Chronicle of the Norman Conquest c.1174==
(Roman de Rou)<br>
==References==
{{Ref|Book=Bacon 1914}}
{{Ref|Book=Bohn 1853}}{{Ref|Book=Brown 19831984}}{{Ref|Book=Chaney 1970}}{{Ref|Book=Douglas 1981& Greenaway 1995}}
{{Ref|Book=Giles 1847}}
{{Ref|Book=Giles 1848}}
{{Ref|Book=Gummere 1910}}
{{Ref|Book=Hewitt 1855}}
{{Ref|Book=Ingram 1912}}
{{Ref|Book=Laing 1907}}
{{Ref|Book=Morillo 1996}}
{{Ref|Book=Nelson 1991}}
{{Ref|Book=Reuter 1992}}
{{Ref|Book=Sellar 1907}}
{{Ref|Book=Stevenson 1904}}
{{Ref|Book=Swanton 2000}}
{{Ref|Book=Taylor 1837}}
