Royal Standard 1806-1835 (Bavaria, Germany)

Königsstandarte

Last modified: 2002-08-02 by santiago dotor
Keywords: bavaria | bayern | kingdom of bavaria | koenigreich bayern | king | banner of arms | canton: lozengy | quartered: lozengy | lion: rampant (yellow) | escutcheon (sword and sceptre) |
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by Theo van der Zalm modified by Santiago Dotor
Flag adopted 1806, abolished 1835

• Description

See also:

• Royal Standards 1806-1918 (Bavaria / Bayern, Germany)
• Kingdom of Bavaria 1806-1918 (Königreich Bayern)
• Germany

Other sites:

• Bayerische Staatswappen 1623-heute (Bavarian State Coats-of-Arms 1623-nowadays, German text only) by Tobias Ries

Znamierowski 1999 illustrates a very similar banner to the Standard of the Elector 1623-1805, the only differences being proportions (c. 2:3) and the escutcheon, which is red with a sceptre and sword crossed in saltire. It is labelled "[royal flag of] Bavaria 1806-1835".

Santiago Dotor, 14 September 2000

The lozenges are for Bavaria proper, the lion for the (upper) Palatinate (region between Nuremberg and Regensburg, note that the lion is crowned red). The escutcheon comes in fact from the royal arms of 1806. After 1835 it was officially no longer part of the royal arms. It is however used in the new (!) royal arms of 1835 in Wappen Almanach der Souverainen Regenten Europas (Almanach of Arms of Ruling European Sovereigns), Rostock, 1842. Source: Steenbergen 1862.

Theo van der Zalm, 16 June 2001