Monday, 17 July 2017

Landsknecht Flags 2

Here's a set of flags for flags for Landsknechts in French Service. information on these flags is a bit scarce  and requires a bit of faith. The dark blue flags are taken from an anonymous painting of the Battle of Pavia (please see below) showing what look like Landsknechts attacking Imperial arquebusiers. Nevertheless given the artistic conventions of the time these could quite easily be French infantry flags; the same goes for the yellow flag with the cross of St Denis. The other two flags are courtesy of Stuart Mulligan and can be seen in his excellent blog here: http://stuartsworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/ and the Van Orley tapestries. The next Landsknecht flags will be 'Landsknechts in Imperial Service and these will be followed by some generic and heraldic flags, Cheers Pete



 


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10 comments:

  1. Oli17 July 2017 at 10:10

    These are superb Pete and I agree they could also be used as French infantry flags, in fact at a pinch some of them could be used for Swiss in French service as well.

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  2. Independentwargamesgroup17 July 2017 at 11:08

    Brilliant as usual Pete. I still havent got the plastic landsknects yet.

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  3. Nick The Greek17 July 2017 at 11:27

    Hi Pete,
    Will you be producing these flags in cotton as well as paper?

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    1. Pete7 August 2017 at 13:19

      Hi, I can do however the reproduction might not be as good on cloth as I haven't painted these in with the view to printing on cloth. cheers Pete

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    2. Nick The Greek26 August 2017 at 17:10

      Keen on all the French Flags (hopefully suitable for the Frenc Wars of Religion as Well?) & the landsknects in cloth.

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  4. Gunfreak1 August 2017 at 00:40

    I can't seem to get to your store.

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    1. Pete1 August 2017 at 02:47

      Hi Gunfreak, the store's on hold at the moment however the flags can be purchased via Ebay or direct from me at petesflags@yahoo.com; just let me know what you require and I'll send a paypal request including postage to you. cheers Pete

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  5. Gunfreak4 August 2017 at 13:57

    Excellent. Sent you a mail (incase it ended up in your spam filter)

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