Sunday, 19 October 2025

Colours of the Huguenot Red And White Regiments 1690s, after the McNally Aughrim Book

As I mentioned in my earlier post on the blue colours of Colonel Cambon's Huguenot Infantry Regiment (here: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2025/10/colours-of-colonel-du-cambons-huguenot.html ), "Interestingly, McNally refers to the three Huguenot infantry regiments as the Red, White and Blue regiments of foot (frustratingly with no mention of source for that statement). On the basis that, in the English Civil War, units so called had flags of the corresponding colours, and that it rarely referred to uniform colours, does that mean that it is possible that the three Huguenot infantry regiments had red, white and blue flags? If Cambon's flags were blue, which of La Melonière's and Belcastel's had white or red?"

So here are my versions of the colours of the Red and White Huguenot Regiments, which you can allocate to the regiments of Melonière and Belcastel as you see fit, in the absence of any definitive evidence about which carried which!

In the White Regiment colours we do have the heraldic solecism of a metal on a metal, with the gold fleurs de lys on white, but this is common on French flags of the 17th and 18th centuries so I see no special problem with that. 


I interpret the flags on the Jan Wyck painting rather differently from McNally and will post my versions soon.