{"id":109,"date":"2012-01-12T00:08:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:51:10","slug":"northumberland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2012\/01\/12\/northumberland\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumberland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although not registered as a “traditional”\u00a0design, Northumberland’s flag\u00a0is of ancient origin and in essence is\u00a0certainly part of a local tradition, of some ancient standing. The Venerable Bede, England\u2019s first historian, records a banner of purple and gold which hung over the tomb of St Oswald, the 7th century king of Northumbria. The flag for this ancient kingdom is now generally regarded as having 8 alternate stripes of red and gold (yellow). Later, in medieval times, the colours were adopted by the first Earl of Northumberland. The modern version, a banner of the arms of Northumberland County Council,\u00a0 features these traditional \u201cpales\u201d of Northumberland interlocked to represent the stones of Hadrian\u2019s Wall which runs through the county.\u00a0The arms were granted in 1951. As noted, under heraldic law, such a banner is the strict property of the armiger (arms holder), but the County Council \u201creleased\u201d the banner for general use by Northumberland folk in 1996 and the Flag Institute duly registered it, noting in doing so, that Northumberland is wider than the county council area. The registration of the Northumberland flag fulfils a 1,200-year tradition of the county\u2019s association with the colours red and gold. Additionally, these arms being unusually uncomplicated, are easily rendered as a flag unlike most such council arms.\u00a0 The motivation to release the flag to the public was\u00a0obvious, in essence the pattern had been used in the county in one form or another for centuries and there was a clear and evident association of the pattern with the county, akin to that of Essex and its seaxes for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although not registered as a “traditional”\u00a0design, Northumberland’s flag\u00a0is of ancient origin and in essence is\u00a0certainly part of a local tradition, of some ancient standing. The Venerable Bede, England\u2019s first historian, records a banner of purple and gold which hung over the tomb of St Oswald, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[29,28,30],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-registered-flags","tag-bede","tag-hadrians-wall","tag-st-oswald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}