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Author Topic: Sir John Hawkwood's White Company  (Read 870 times)

Offline Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye

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Sir John Hawkwood's White Company
« on: November 07, 2021, 02:01:14 PM »
...aka "The Great Company of English and Germans", aka "The Great Company of English"...

What banners would they have flown? Did they have their own banner? (I can't seem to find a reference to it, except maybe the Cross of St. George)

Or would they have flown the banners of whoever had hired them?

And a question about banners in general: if the condottierri had their own banners would they also fly the banners of the city they were employed by, sort of like how British battalions fly the King's/Queen's flag alongside the regimental flag?

Offline Ranthony

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Re: Sir John Hawkwood's White Company
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2021, 02:44:17 PM »
I read a little previously about his service to Florence and the following site has his coat of arms aside that of Florence.

Perhaps this site may be of some use?

Good luck on the search.

https://theoppositeofamoth.blogspot.com/2009/07/knight-of-dark-renown.html?m=1

Exodus 1:10 KJV
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

 

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