{"id":26,"date":"2013-02-20T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caernarfonshire.abcounties.com\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:48:42","slug":"the-flag-of-caernarfonshire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/caernarfonshire\/the-flag-of-caernarfonshire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flag of Caernarfonshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a banner of the arms attributed to Owain Gwynedd whose kingdom covered most of the present day county. This same pattern of three gold eagles on a green field, arranged horizontally, was mentioned by the seventeenth century poet and historian Michael Drayton as the banner borne by the men of Caernarfonshire at Agincourt. &#8220;<i>Those of Caernarvon&#8230;Three Golden Eagles in their ensign bought,<\/i>&#8221; The county&#8217;s long association with the three eagles was maintained in the design of the arms borne by the later county council where they appeared as a horizontal band across the middle of the shield. The eagles of Snowdonia were used on the arms of the Caernarfonshire County Council (1889-1974) and on the badge of the Caernarfonshire police in the 1940&#8217;s.\u00a0 The flag continues the age old association.<\/p>\n<p>For further information about the registration and the adoption of the flag see:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Caernarfonshire Eagles: Development of a traditional Emblem and County Flag\" href=\"http:\/\/caernarfonshire.abcounties.com\/documents\/2014\/04\/the-caernarfonshire-eagles-development-of-a-traditional-emblem-and-county-flag.pdf\">The Caernarfonshire Eagles: Development of a traditional Emblem and County Flag<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a banner of the arms attributed to Owain Gwynedd whose kingdom covered most of the present day county. This same pattern of three gold eagles on a green field, arranged horizontally, was mentioned by the seventeenth century poet and historian Michael Drayton as the banner borne by the men of Caernarfonshire at Agincourt. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/caernarfonshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/caernarfonshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/caernarfonshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/caernarfonshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/caernarfonshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/caernarfonshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/caernarfonshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/caernarfonshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}