{"id":1166,"date":"2013-11-11T17:58:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T17:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:51:10","slug":"1166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2013\/11\/11\/1166\/","title":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Northamptonshire\"<\/p>\n

The flag of Northamptonshire was the winning entry in a competition held in 2014 by the local county council, in conjunction with the Flag Institute, to select a flag for the county. The winning design, created by ABC member Brady Ells<\/p>\n

\"INSERT<\/a><\/p>\n

was unveiled at a ceremony held County Hall in Northampton, on September 11th<\/sup> 2014. the day of its registration.<\/p>\n

\"4<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The genesis of the design submitted by Brady Ells had appeared several years previously when, a prolific designer of flags, he had toyed with a potential flag for the county based on the claret and gold sporting colours of several of the county’s teams and associations.<\/p>\n

\"INSERT<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For the competition the design was\u00a0amended with the addition of a black fimbriation representative of the county’s leather working industry. The county was linked with a rose emblem to at least\u00a01665, when, heraldic historian C.W Scott-Giles reports, it appeared on a seal used by the county magistrates in Quarter Sessions and is believed to recall\u00a0an historic association with the house of Lancaster: Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Lancastrian King Edward IV (reigned 1461\u2013 1483) and ancestor of every English monarch since Henry VIII<\/a> and every Scottish monarch since James V, <\/a>was born at Grafton Regis<\/a> in the county.\u00a0A great many organisations in the county, especially sporting bodies, consequently feature a rose in their insignia and it naturally made its way onto the originally proposed flag design.<\/p>\n

At the time of the competition the judging panel\u00a0 decided to create a new rose that would be unique to the county\u00a0\u00a0by combining various elements of stylisation and colour that were used by different county bodies. The\u00a0splendid new uniquely Northamptonshire, rose was consequently the one used on the newly registered flag<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The flag of Northamptonshire was the winning entry in a competition held in 2014 by the local county council, in conjunction with the Flag Institute, to select a flag for the county. The winning design, created by ABC member Brady Ells was unveiled at a … 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":[8,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-county-flags","category-registered-flags","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","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=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}