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Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris
Matthaei Paris Chronica Maiora I
Banners of the Hospitalers and Templars and the Oriflamme of France, 1241


Flags of Hospital and Temple and Oriflamme of France.

Chronica Maiora II, Saint Albans, England, ca. 1240–53. Folio 142r, MS 16II, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Figure 153, p239 The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora by Suzanne Lewis, 1987.

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See also Shields and banners & Balcanifer flees with standard of the Temple.
Standards of the Military Orders in Armies and Enemies of the Crusades 1096-1291 by Ian Heath, based on Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris.
The Royal Banner in Armies and Enemies of the Crusades 1096-1291 by Ian Heath.







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