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Please note that this word is recorded as having a Spanish origin (which remains unproven) however, the extent to which it was used in English medieval manuscripts is not known.
Alferous/Standard Bearers C17th (Wikipedia)
Notes
a) It is suggested that the alternative form was sometimes used in
medieval manuscripts
b) There is a possible relationship between this term and the
Spanish military rank of alférez or ensign (see also
‘ensign 5)’.
Arms and Flag of Torres Vedras, Portugal
(fotw)
Flag of the State of Virginia,
US (fotw);
Jack of the Batavian Republic 1797, The Netherlands (fotw);
Flag of Richmond 1914 – 1933, US (fotw)
Flag of Goppisberg Switzerland (fotw);
Arms of Radzymin, Poland (fotw)
Arms and Flag of Magdeburg (or Maiden-Town), Germany (fotw)
National Flag/Civil Ensign as regulated, and Alternative Civil Ensign of the
United Arab Emirates
(fotw)
Ambassador's flags: Sierra Leone,
Italy 1918 and Finland 1919 - 1920 (fotw)
American War Mothers/Armistice Day Flag,
US (fotw)
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