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by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 October 2008On this page:
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Flag of Grandmaster Emmanuel de Rohan de Polduc (1775-1797)
It is a
quarterly divided square flag. The 1st and 4th quarter are showing the white
Greek cross in a red field of the Order of St. John. The 2nd and 3rd quarter are
showing the personal arms of the grandmaster. In a red field are nine red
diamonds ordered three times three and fimbriated golden (= yellow). Flag is
hoisted upon the mainmast.
Source: Capt. Joseph M. WISMAYER: “The fleet of
the order of St. John 1530-1798”, Midsea Books, Valetta(?) 1997; ISBN
99909-75-30-2; frontpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 October 2008
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by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 October 2008
Flag of Grandmaster Emmanuel de Rohan de Polduc (1775-1797) (plain flag)
It
is a rectangular flag. In a red field are nine red diamonds ordered three
times three and fimbriated golden (= yellow). Flag is stuck upon railing at port.
Other sources of the coat of arms are showing the diamonds connected with one
another, forming a golden lattice.
Source: Capt. Joseph M. WISMAYER: “The
fleet of the order of St. John 1530-1798”, Midsea Books, Valetta(?) 1997; ISBN
99909-75-30-2; frontpage
Klaus-Michael
Schneider, 22 October 2008
Gules nine mascles or are the arms of the family of Rohan. In
crystallography, a macle (cognate to German Masch, mesh) is a complex crystal
made by the reunion (by interpenetration of juxtaposition) of several crystals
of the same kind but with different geometrical orientations; in heraldry, a
mascle is a lozenge voided by a smaller lozenge in the middle. Philippe Rault
writes in Les drapeaux bretons [rau98] that macled crystals are common in the
Breton forest of Quenecan, which belonged to the family of Rohan until the
Revolution, and might have been the origin of the coat of arms of the family.
The mascles of Rohan are found in several Breton coat of arms, for instance the
municipal arms of Landivisiau,
Crozon and Loudéac.
Ivan Sache, 22 October
2008