Flag and coat of arms of West-Flanders

Flag of West-Flanders
	Flag of West Flanders
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	1997
Design	coveted in 12 pieces blue and yellow with a heart shield of red in the middle over the whole ; colours: ; Blue; Red; Yellow
	Logo of West-Flanders
	Coat of arms of West-Flanders

The flag of West Flanders is a coveted background in 12 pieces of gold and azure, with a heart shield of gules in the middle over the whole.^[1] The flag of West Flanders^[2] shows a coveted background of blue and yellow in twelve pieces, with a heart shield of red in the middle over the whole. The official flag, as it is now, was approved on 27 May 1997 by the Flemish Minister of Culture.Although there is no historical evidence for this, from the 14th century onwards, various armorials claim that the House of Flanders carried a coveted shield of twelve pieces of azure and gold, with a heart shield of gules, before the Flemish Lion. This was attributed to the legendary Liederik van Buc, first forestier or forest master (title of the Flemish princes before they became counts) of Flanders from 793 to 817. It is possibly derived from a misinterpreted ornamental fitting on the shield of the Flemish count Willem Clito (+ 1128), as it was depicted on his tomb in the Saint-Bertinus Abbey of Saint-Omer. That shield shows a central umbo (ornamental knob) from which several rays radiate to the edges of the shield. In his search for the old coat of arms of Flanders, Abbot Iperius, biographer of the Flemish house of counts, interpreted this as a coveted coat of arms with a heart shield; the colours - which he may have added himself - are possibly those of the French royal house.

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Flag and coat of arms of West-Flanders

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