Auvergne

AUVERGNE (Province)

Official blazon
French	D'or au gonfanon de gueules frangé de sinople.
English	Or, a gonfannon gules outlined with sinople.

Origin/meaning

The gonfanon, emblem of Auvergne, supposedly originated from the banner which Eustace III carried, Count of Boulogne, at the time of the conquest of Jerusalem with his/her brother Godefroy de Bouillon. Auvergne was made a hereditary duchy by the king Jean II the Good in 1360, became joined to the Crown in 1531 and joined with France in 1610.

The arms in the Wapen- en Vlaggenboek van Gerrit Hesman (1708)	The arms in Traversier (1842)
The arms in the Café Sanka album +/- 1932
The arms on a postcard by Kroma	The arms on a Barré Dayez Postcard

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