Someone has added a small saltire to one of the wreaths, paying tribute to a shared history that was forged in battle.
“One extra saltire among a sea of flags seems like a fair way to celebrate,” he said.
The Chancellor of France bore two maces in saltire behind his shield.
First Master of the Household: Under his arms two batons in saltire.
The Precentor: Argent, on a saltire azure a fleur-de-lis or.
The Treasurer: Gules, a saltire between four leopards' heads or.
He was referring to his having told Lord saltire that he had seen Charles.
The General of the Galleys: Two anchors in saltire behind the arms.
saltire bears billets and a bordure, but not the ordinary so called.
The arms attributed to him, and emblazoned on the banner bearing his name, are azure, a saltire argent.
c.1400, an ordinary that resembles a St. Andrew's Cross on a shield or flag, consisting of a bend dexter and a bend sinister crossing each other, from Middle French saultoir, literally "stirrup," from Medieval Latin saltatorium, properly neuter of Latin saltatorius "pertaining to leaping," from salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). The connection between a stirrup and the diagonal cross is perhaps the two deltoid shapes that comprise the cross.
