Being a uniform and flag design service to wargamers and to the imaginary crowned heads of 17th and 18th Century Europe, especially of the Seven Years War period - now By Appointment to the Court of Saxe-Bearstein! (But please note that the uniforms and flags presented here are not fictional - they are genuine 17th and 18th Century uniforms and flags that are as authentic as I can make them from my sources.)
Here is another Spanish cavalry standard depicted in the Triomphes Louis XIV, of an unknown unit and captured 1693 in Flanders. This one has more obvious Spanish symbolism with the Burgundian cross and the fleece from the Order of the Golden Fleece (but not the collar of the Order which is also usually depicted on flags).
I was asked to do some generic pre-1706 Colonels' infantry flags to go with the colourful and complex company flags I have already posted. The famous Anna Beek sheet of flags captured by the Dutch depicts similar flags and I have already posted one or two of those with the very stylised Burgundian cross (e.g. here: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2026/08/two-spanish-flags-captured-by-french.html ). These two have the more detailed and naturalistic cross.
The original of this standard in the Triomphes Louis XIV seems to be a very faded pinky-red. Hall's depiction in THE SPANISH ARMIES IN THE WAR OF THE LEAGUE OF AUGSBURG (NINE YEARS WAR 1688-1697) is a stronger reddish-pink and I have also shown the colour much deeper. Inevitably any recreation of these standards is to some extent a reimagining.
Again this is of a unknown regiment and it was captured by the French in 1693, possibly at Neerwinden.
Like the previous infantry flags this standard, captured by the French 1693, is of an unknown unit. I have had to "reimagine" some details as the Triomphes image is rather basic in, for example, the detail of the gold decoration round the edge of the standard. This is a common problem with the depiction of cavalry standards in the Triomphes MS. Where actual examples still exist (e.g. in Vienna and Paris) the embroidery is often of immense detail and complexity compared with the relative absence of detail on depictions in the Triomphes.
