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This article contains quotes from primary sources that mention banners. It is not complete and additional quotes will be added as discovered. <br>
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:<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]
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:<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]
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(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>
[BROWN 19831984:p.116]
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==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>
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:<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]
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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]
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{{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}}
