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Imperial, royal, noble,gentry and chivalric ranks in Europe. Thane (/ ˈθeɪn /; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn) [1] was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, [2] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.
The Saltire is one of the key components of the Union Flag [58] which, since its creation in 1606, has appeared in various forms [59] following the Flag of Scotland and Flag of England first being merged to mark the Union of the Crowns, [60] an event occurred in 1603 when James VI, King of Scots, acceded to the thrones of both England and ...
In 2017, the Unicode Consortium approved emoji support for the flag of England, alongside the flags of Scotland and Wales, in Unicode version 10.0 and Emoji version 5.0. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] This was following a proposal from Jeremy Burge of Emojipedia and Owen Williams of BBC Wales in March 2016, [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The flag is implemented using the ...
The flag of Great Britain, often referred to as the King's Colour, first Union Flag, [1][2] Union Jack, and British flag, was used at sea from 1606 and more generally from 1707 to 1801. It was the first flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain. [3][4] It is the precursor to the Union Jack of 1801. The design was ordered by King James VI and I to be ...
The historical flags of the British Empire and the overseas territories refers to the various flags that were used across the various Dominions, Crown colonies, protectorates, and territories which made up the British Empire and overseas territories. Early flags that were used across the Empire (including the then Thirteen Colonies which later ...
Scottish Red Ensign, used by the Royal Scottish Navy: A Red Ensign with the Flag of Scotland in the canton. 1606–1707: Scottish Union Flag: First Union Flag with the Flag of Scotland superior to and overlying the Flag of England. c.1617: An early version of the Union Jack that appears on a painted wooden ceiling boss from Linlithgow Palace
A surviving Empire flag from a Royal Museums Greenwich collection. The early 1900s saw many calls for the British Empire to adopt a new flag representative of all its dominions, Crown colonies, protectorates, and territories. Such a role was already fulfilled by the Union Jack of the United Kingdom, but some regions of the empire were beginning ...
Flag of Stirling: The Scottish flag defaced in the centre of the saltire with the red lion rampant from the Scottish royal banner, with two caltraps in the upper and lower sections, and two spur-rowels in the left and right sections. Flag of the stannary town of Tavistock [citation needed] A white field with a blue bend, defaced with the coat ...