Crown of castile flag: Historical Flags (Castile and Leon, Spain)

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Historical Flags (Castile and Leon, Spain)

Historical Flags (Castile and Leon, Spain)

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Castilla y León

Standard of the Conquest of Seville, 1248
Castile in the Book of All Kingdoms, c. 1380
Kingdom of Castile and Leon 1230-1516 (flag used until early 15th century)
Civil Ensigns of Castilian Ships
Pre-autonomical Flag of Castile (late 1970s)
Military Flags until 1474

See also:

Legendary “Purple Banner of Castile” or “Commoners’ Banner” (Pendón Morado de Castilla or Pendón de los Comuneros)
La Mancha flag proposals 1906 and 1919 (Castile-La Mancha, Spain)
Castile and Leon (Spain)
Castile-La Mancha (Spain)

Kingdom of Castile and Leon 1230-1516

image by Sergio Camero

Pascal Vagnat asked, “Was the flag of the Kingdom of Castile [and Leon] in 1493 the same flag as the present day flag of Castile and Leon?”. In essence, yes.

Santiago Dotor, 27 Apr 1999

Please note that this is not ‘the flag of the King of Spain’, even if since 1512 the kings of Castile and Leon were also kings of all the other lands
making nowadays Spain. It is a pity that the flag is apparently referred to
as such in American schools.

Santiago Dotor, 30 Nov 2000

Until shortly after the 16th century, the castle of Castile was represented as an actual castle, i.e. an embattled wall with three towers emerging from it rather than the current tower-like representation.

Santiago Dotor, 17 Jul 2000

Even though the Kingdoms of Castile and Leon had been united from time to time under the same monarch since 1037 (King Ferdinand I) until 1157, it was in 1230 when both kingdoms became definitively united under King Ferdinand III (Saint Ferdinand), at which time the quartered arms were devised – the first such design in heraldry as a way of marshalling arms. This flag became to a certain extent when the accession of the Catholic Kings in 1475 produced the union of the Castilian and Aragonese crowns, and definitively so when King Charles I (Roman Emperor Charles V) became the first King of all Spanish territories (Castile and Leon, Aragon and Navarre) in 1516.

Santiago Dotor, 29 Jan 2001

This was the ensign of the Castilian Navy from 1248 until 1516. It was adopted during the reign of Saint Ferdinand III, who united Castile and Leon. During the Middle Ages, large emblems of the knights on board were used to indicate the origin of the ships. The royal flag or the admiral’s flag was placed on the stern and the top of the mast. It was also usual for merchant vessels to hoist on the mast a long pennant with the colours of the port of origin, bearing a cross, and ocassionally a pennant with the owner’s colours as private signal. Source: Fernández Gaytan 1985.

Sergio Camero, translated by Santiago Dotor, 29 Mar 2002

This flag was not only the flag of the Kingdoms of Castile and Leon but of all Castile, formed (in 1492) by the Kingdoms of Castile, Leon and Murcia, the Basque provinces, the Canary Islands and some cities in the northern coast of Africa. So I think it should be called just flag of the crown of Castile. Even though this flag is nowadays used only by the Castile and Leon region, historically it was also the flag of nowadays’ Castile-La Mancha, Madrid, Cantabria and La Rioja.

Ignacio Munguía, 01 Jul 2002

Castille (

Castilla) in the Book of All Kingdoms, Late 14th Century

As shown in the Book of Kingdoms

image by Eugene Ipavec, 08 Apr 2009

As shown in the frontispice of the Book of Kingdoms

image by Eugene Ipavec, 03 Apr 2010

The next flag mentioned and illustrated in the Book of All Kingdoms [e9s50] is that of Castille; essentially the same flag as the one we show for “Kingdom of Castile and Leon 1230-1516,” down to the pendon shape detail. The lions in [f0f05] are solid black, though.

The text is succint and does not mention the colors:

«por señales un pendón con dos castillos e dos leones fechos en cuarterones, tales como estos que adelante se siguen»

“for sign a pendon with two castles and two lions on quarters, as those here below”

However, the original’s frontispice illuminure shows two shields with the same armourial bearings (Castille and Leon, quartered) and there on the lions are clearly red, in the same shade as the background of the adjacent quarters of Castille. The black lions are therefore a meaningless error.

António Martins-Tuválkin, 06 and 10 Nov 2007

Civil Ensigns of Castilian Ships

In 1200 the king of Castile had inherited the Lordship of Biscay and along the 14th century several cities in Alava and lordships in Guipuzcoa requested the protection of the Castilian crown to defend themselves better (for instance against English ambitions in the area). Basque vessels from these territories would only fly the banner-of-arms of Castile and Leon if they were royal vessels, belonged to the Castilian navy or had been in one way or another commissioned by the king (as was the case, for instance, with Columbus’ ships).

The question could in fact be extended to, “which was/were the Castilian civil ensign(s) or ‘merchant flag(s)’?, which is not easy to answer. As compared with military and other state flags which are quite documented in official records etc., there is little and frequently no evidence of the flags used by merchant vessels.

Calvo and Grávalos 1983 shows in pp. 60-61 two flags as galley flags but in fact describes them as ensigns used by merchant vessels, and says that these used to fly the flags of their home cities. The images shown are both eleven-striped horizontally, one red-yellow and the other white-green (with a quite simple coat of arms on it). The second one is reported to appear on a 1543 painting and according to the book may be of Cantabrian (i. e. from central northern Spain, not necessarily from nowadays Cantabria) origin.

There seem to be indeed many cases in which European civil ships displayed
multistriped ensigns, for instance that of Rotterdam, one flag of Flensburg in 1614 and I also seem to recall a multistriped flag of Oporto.

So the only thing we can say with certainty is that the ensign flown by a civil vessel would not be the Castile and Leon banner (except if on official duty), and that possibly it might have flown a multistriped flag, perhaps in green and/or white and/or red.

Santiago Dotor, 04 Jun 2001

Editor’s note: see also the Blue-White Civil Ensign used in the Spanish Netherlands.

Pre-autonomical Flag of Castile (late 1970s)

image by Antonio Gutiérrez and Ignacio Munguía, 01 Jul 2002

The first flag used in the pre-autonomous period was dark red with a yellow castle.

Jaume Ollé, 16 Dec 1996

Editor’s note: see also Castilian Nationalist Parties: Castile flag with crimson field.

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