This video shows the history of Europe's flags every year from 1200 to 1299. This also shows territory claims. Here is Part 8, Enjoy!
Music: Evil March, by Kevin Macleod, & O Fortuna. Here is the first part 8 on YouTube!
Evil March Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Keep in mind the concept of a "national flag", is rather a modern term. The countries during this time was mostly kingdoms with royal authorities, so I used royal standards to represent them.
The smaller states of the Holy Roman Empire is shown with the imperial standard.
Sources:
Other YouTube history channels
The map used in this video comes from the blank atlas.
Other main sources: Wikipedia, FOTW, and other various websites.
#flags #history #europe
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