Thursday, 4 September 2025

Flag of Dutch French Huguenot Infantry Regiment Lislemarais 1702-?1722

I have other flags whose texts I still need to write but I am intrigued by the Huguenot exile regiments so...

First raised 1702; the Colonel was Henry de Bois Billaud de Montaciel, Chevalier de Lislemarais

One battalion strong

The flag is based on Robert Hall's version of August Kühn's reconstruction (source unknown) which stated that Huguenot flags were black with white crosses and the emblems of the country that raised the regiment.


And by request from several people I have produced an entirely speculative all-white Colonel's flag:

 


 

I may do my own versions of the (unknown) flags of the three Huguenot regiments raised by William III for service against the Jacobites in Ireland.

Service:

1702 Defence of Hulst
1703 Siege of Limberg
1706 Siege of Ostend; 1 killed and 3 wounded
1706 To Spain
1707 Battle of Almansa and made prisoner
1710 Returned to Flanders
1711 Siege of Bouchain

And the uniform in 1703 was like this:




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