CELEBRATE NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY DAY AND FLY THE FLAG!! - 5th AUGUST 2015
The Northumberland Flag is a banner of the arms for Northumberland County Council. The 7th century King and Saint, Oswald, founded the kingdom of Northumbria by merging his domain of Bernicia with its southern neighbour Deira. The Venerable Bede, England’s first historian, writing in his “Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum” describes Oswald’s tomb where “…they hung up over the monument his banner made of gold and purple;” It is probable that this description caused the medieval heralds to assign arms of eight alternate stripes of red and gold (yellow) to Bernicia.
The current arms were granted to the County Council in 1951 and adopted as the flag of the modern day county of Northumberland in 1995. When flying, the top corner, nearest the flagpole, should be gold.
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