Blood flag

The banner of blood , even the blood banner , was in the Holy Roman Empire the character originally entitled only to the king blood jurisdiction . The blood flag was - like all flags of that time - a square, red flag. When the sovereigns were enfeoffed with blood jurisdiction from the 13th century (blood ban), the blood banner was given to the feudal man as a sign of fief, together with the coat of arms banner of the territorial fief, with which the blood spell was linked.

Some of the enfeoffed also included the symbol of the blood banner as a so-called regalienfeld in their coat of arms .

Landsknechte also referred to the lost lot of a regiment as a blood flag.

literature

Georg Liebe: The soldier in the German past. Diederichs, Leipzig 1899 ( monographs on German cultural history 1), ( archive.org ), (reprint: Soldat und Waffenhandwerk. Diederichs, Düsseldorf et al. 1976).

Remarks

^ Curt O. von Querfurth: Critical dictionary of heraldic terminology. Nördlingen 1872, p. 118 ( digitized version ).
↑ Swabian dictionary , based on the Adelbert v. Keller started collections and with the support of the Württemberg state , arr. by Hermann Fischer . 1. ABP Tübingen 1904, Sp. 1231 ( archive.org ).

[1] Curt O. von Querfurth: Critical dictionary of heraldic terminology. Nördlingen 1872, p. 118 ( digitized version ).

[2] Swabian dictionary , based on the Adelbert v. Keller started collections and with the support of the Württemberg state , arr. by Hermann Fischer . 1. ABP Tübingen 1904, Sp. 1231 ( archive.org ).