{"id":1321,"date":"2014-01-28T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T11:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flags.abcounties.com\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:51:09","slug":"denbighshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/2014\/01\/28\/denbighshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Denbighshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Denbighshire1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Before its formal award of arms\u00a0Denbighshire County Council used a\u00a0lion rampant as a seal<\/p>\n

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

as recorded in Arthur Fox-Davies’s 1894 Book of Public Arms<\/p>\n

In 1962 the same rampant\u00a0lion was included in the formal arms granted to the council\u00a0 \"DenbighshireWhilst several sources have suggested that the lion derives from the arms of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, who built Denbigh Castle, it should be considered that the castle was constructed as an instrument of suppression of the local population and it would therefore be rather peculiar for the council\u2019s arms to celebrate this aspect of the locality\u2019s history. Additionally the De Lacy arms were unequivocally acknowledged as being yellow with a rather unusual, distinctly purple lion.<\/p>\n

\"De<\/p>\n

More likely is that the lion recalls the arms, a black lion rampant on a white field,<\/p>\n

\"Powys<\/p>\n

assigned to the mediaeval Welsh kingdom of Powys Fadog which included swathes of modern day Denbighshire. The same\u00a0lion appeared on the badge of the former Denbighshire Constabulary<\/p>\n

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

Administrative reforem abolished the Denbighshire county council in 1974\u00a0but the sucessor Clywd administration retained the black lion in its own coat of arms<\/p>\n

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

Whilst this body was itself abolished in 1996 two local groups established in the time of its existence also use the black lion in their insignia; Clwyd- Denbigh Federation of Womans’ Institutes<\/p>\n

\"Clwyd-Denbigh-Federation-Chairman-substitute-image-of-the-federation-badge[1]\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and Girlguiding Clwyd<\/p>\n

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

The design was incorporated into the\u00a0badge of the “Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire Joint Fire Service”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Whilst in this illustration the upper half of the lion appears to be green, the context makes it clear that this was intended to be the black lion on white of Powys Fadog, to represent Denbighshire,\u00a0whilst the lower half being a red lion\u00a0on gold represents Montgomeryshire.<\/p>\n

In 1996 a newly constituted Denbighshire County Council reeceived new arms which nonetheless retained the original black lion rampant of Powys Fadog\u00a0\"Denbighshire<\/a><\/p>\n

Accordingly the armorial banner based on this design, which has been a persistent\u00a0and widely used county emblem, has been suggested as a\u00a0likely flag for the county. However there is also another design associated with this entity. It is attested that in the 13th century a younger brother of the House of Powys succeeded to the throne ahead of an older one\u00a0and upon his accession\u00a0amended the arms to include a field of red and white stripes<\/p>\n

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\nAn equally\u00a0viable contender for the flag of\u00a0Denbighshire, similarly derived from the insignia of Powys Fadog, is thus the armorial banner of this second set of arms used there, with the black rampant lion on a red and white striped field<\/p>\n

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

which certainly makes a more visibly effective flag than the all white version, which would\u00a0inevitably be frequently indiscernible against cloudy skies.<\/p>\n

This flag has flown at the\u00a0Saith Seren\u00a0pub Wrexham<\/p>\n

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

Thanks to Brady Ells and Philip Tibbetts for their contributions to this entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before its formal award of arms\u00a0Denbighshire County Council used a\u00a0lion rampant as a seal as recorded in Arthur Fox-Davies’s 1894 Book of Public Arms In 1962 the same rampant\u00a0lion was included in the formal arms granted to the council\u00a0 Whilst several sources have suggested that … 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":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-county-flags","category-proposed-traditional-emblems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","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=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcounties.com\/flags\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}