![[Flag of Annapolis]](../images/u/us-md-an-l.gif)
2:3 (usage) image(s) by permission of David B. Martucciimage(s) from American City Flags, Raven 9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright.
Last modified: 2023-09-09 by rick wyatt
Keywords: annapolis | maryland | anne arundel county |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
2:3 (usage) image(s) by permission of David B. Martucci
image(s) from American City Flags,
Raven
9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association,
which retains copyright.
See also:
Text and image(s) from American City Flags, Raven 9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright. Image(s) from American City Flags by permission of David B. Martucci.
The flag of Annapolis is white with the royal badge of Queen
Anne (1665-1714) occupying most of the center of the field. The badge
consists of a purple thistle and red Tudor rose with a white center appearing
to issue from the same stem, the thistle on the hoist side with
two of its distinctive dark green serrated leaves, and the rose on the fly
side, with two dark green rose leaves. Centered above the flowers is a
royal crown in gold with a red bonnet, lined at the bottom in ermine.
The official description of the crown in the ordinance of adoption describes
the jewels on the crown: …a large green stone at the peak, one
large purple stone, two small green stones, two small red stones and twenty-four
small white stones…. The placement of these gems is not specified,
except for the first, but it appears that the colored stones grace the
lower part of the crown, while the white stones (perhaps pearls), encrust
the cross-arch over the bonnet. Below the entire badge is a heraldic
scroll in yellow, with red lining and the Latin motto in black VIXI
LIBER ET MORIAR (“I Have Lived Free and Will Die So”).
John M Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
The city council asked the Peggy Steward Tea
Party Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to design a
flag.
Flag adopted: 11 January 1965 (official)
John M Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
Anna Dorsey Linder.
John M Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
The white background of the flag was the militia flag selected by Sir Francis
Nicholson, the royal governor responsible for Annapolis becoming the capital.
Joe McMillan, 16 August 2000
There are actually a number of variations of the Tudor rose, including that shown on the Annapolis flag (which is really a small white rose centered on a larger red rose) as well as a version that has each of the five petals divided into red and white halves by a line radiating from the center.
Joe McMillan, 7 January 2002
The rose depicted on the arms of Annapolis sometimes appears to be red with a white dot on each petal. The actual Tudor Rose has red and white petals interleaved, representing the Houses of Lancaster (red rose) and York (white rose). These were the two claimants to the English throne, both branches of the Plantagenet family. Henry Tudor, the founder of the dynasty which bears his name and who ruled England as Henry VII (and who was himself Welsh!), was the last claimant of the Lancastrian line. He married Elizabeth of York, the last of that branch of the family, and Henry adopted the Tudor rose with its interleaved petals as the badge of his new dynasty in order to demonstrate the new unity of England. The Lancastrians and the Yorkists had fought a bitter civil war in England during much of the 14th and 15th Centuries, known as the Wars of the Roses because of their respective badges.
Ron Lahav, 6 January 2002
![[Municipal Seal]](../images/u/us-md-an).gif)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 21 August 2019
Source:
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/66898471/roseandthistle_400x400.jpg
Paul Bassinson, 21 August 2019
