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Line 38: The banner was red or orange-red silk and flown from a gilded lance.<ref>Slater (2002), p.33</ref> According to legend, its colour stems from it being dipped in the blood of the recently beheaded [[Saint Denis of Paris\|St. Denis]]. The surviving descriptions of the Oriflamme are in Guillaume le Breton (thirteenth century), in the "Chronicle of Flanders" (fourteenth century), in the "Registra Delphinalia" (1456) and in the inventory of the [[treasury of ~~St.~~ Saint-Denis]] (1536). They show that the primitive Oriflamme was succeeded in the course of the centuries by newer Oriflammes which bore little resemblance to one another except for their colour.<ref name=CathEncy>{{CathEncy\|wstitle=Oriflamme}}</ref> == Significance on the battlefield ==

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