The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the barony is: Or, a saltire gules, on a chief of the last a martlet of the field.

His martyr's cross of a yellow saltire on a blue background is reflected in the flag and coat of arms of Hertfordshire as the yellow background to the stag or Hart representing the county.

This is blazoned: " two keys in saltire or and argent, interlacing in the rings or, beneath a tiara argent, crowned or ").

The flag most frequently associated with the pope is the yellow and white flag of Vatican City, with the arms of the Holy See ( blazoned: " Gules, two keys in saltire or and argent, interlacing in the rings or, beneath a tiara argent, crowned or ") on the right-hand side ( the " fly ") in the white half of the flag ( the left-hand side — the " hoist "— is yellow ).

* the Garde des sceaux (' keeper of the seals ', still the formal title of the French Republic's Minister of Justice ) places behind the shield, two silver and gilded maces in saltire, and the achievement is surmounted by a mortier ( magistrate's hat )

The under-side of the lintel is inscribed with an unusual saltire or x-shaped cross.

The cross of St. Andrew referred to in the law is a diagonal cross, known in vexillology as a saltire.

It is sometimes believed that the crimson saltire of the current flag of Alabama was designed to resemble the blue saltire of the Confederate Battle Flag.

The flag of Halle was adopted on October 1, 1991 and is quartered as saltire ( argent and azure ).

The earliest reference to the Saint Andrew's Cross as a flag is to be found in the Vienna Book of Hours, circa 1503, where a white saltire is depicted with a red background.

The Scottish heraldic term for an X-shaped cross is a ' saltire ', from the old French word saultoir or salteur ( itself derived from the Latin saltatorium ), a word for both a type of stile constructed from two cross pieces and a type of cross-shaped stirrup-cord.

The ratio of the width of the bars of the saltire in relation to the width of the field is specified in heraldry in relation to shield width rather than flag width.

The white saltire set against a celestial blue background is said to have been adopted as the design of the flag of Scotland on the basis of this legend.

( The reduced version of the North Prospect ..., as shown on the Plan of Edenburgh, Exactly Done, does however display the undivided arm of a saltire and is thereby suggestive of the Scottish variant ).

The U. S. state of Alabama's flag is officially " a crimson cross of St. Andrew on a field of white ", however the reference is used only to describe the shape without using the vexillological term saltire.

A saltire, or Saint Andrew's Cross, is a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross ☓ or letter x. Saint Andrew is said to have been martyred on such a cross.

A warning sign in the shape of a saltire is also used to indicate the point at which a railway line intersects a road at a level crossing.

Like other ordinaries, a single saltire is throughout — extending to the edges of the field — as in the coat of Anderson, Canada ( Or on a saltire engrailed Azure two quill pens in saltire Argent enfiling a Loyalist military coronet Or ); unless it is blazoned as couped ( cut off ), as in the coat of

Though ordinaries are not easily defined, they are generally described as including the cross, the fess, the pale, the bend, the chevron, the saltire, and the pall.

The design can be traced to the Russian Navy ensign, which has a blue cross saltire on a white background.

Furthermore, Alabama's legislation describes its red saltire as St. Andrew's cross.

Thus the saltire cross was taken as a symbol in the arms.

Use of a simplified symbol associated with Saint Andrew which does not depict his image, namely the saltire, or crux decussata, ( from the Latin crux, ' cross ', and decussis, ' having the shape of the Roman numeral X '), has its origins in the late 14th century ; the Parliament of Scotland having decreed in 1385 that Scottish soldiers shall wear a white Saint Andrew's Cross on their person, both in front and behind, for the purpose of identification.

The arms consisted of " Argent, five escutcheons in cross Azure, each charged with as many plates in saltire Argent, all with a bordure Gules charged with seven castles Or ( Portugal )".

: The shield, a blue saltire on a white field, is a simple reversal of the Scottish flag ( a white saltire, Saint Andrew's cross, on a blue field ).

On the distinctive unit insignia, the blue saltire ( cross of St. Andrew ) alludes to New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific where the division was created and first activated on 27 May 1942.

The supporters were: dexter a unicorn of Scotland imperially crowned, supporting a tilting lance flying a banner Azure a saltire Argent ( Cross of Saint Andrew ) and sinister the crowned lion of England supporting a similar lance flying a banner Argent a cross Gules ( Cross of Saint George ).

The cross of St Patrick ( a red saltire on a white background ) was chosen as one of the symbols of the Order.

The unofficial flag of Wallis and Futuna features a red saltire on a white square, which in turn is placed on a red field ( alternatively, a larger white cross pattée is used ).

Arms: Azure a cross engrailed or between four pairs of shaves in saltire argent handled or.

The first quarter was described as a " fimbriated cross " ( actually a saltire ) representing the martyrdom of Pancras.

Nowy and quadrate are usually applied only to the cross, saltire, pale, fess and bend.

Fleming later advocated adding a red saltire, or diagonal cross, to the Florida flag, in order to distinguish it from a flag of surrender ( the flag at that time was a white flag with the Florida seal in the center ).

Most crossings around the world are marked by some form of saltire | St Andrew's Cross to warn road users.

Anne Roes detected the symbol, which often appears with balls in the quadrants formed by the arms of the chi-cross, in standards represented on coins of Persepolis, and she suggested that early Christians endorsed its solar symbolism as appropriate to Christ, and suggested " although it cannot be proved, that in the white saltire of St. Andrew we still have a reminiscence of the old standard of the Persepolitan kingdom.

The PSNI badge features the St. Patrick's saltire, and six symbols representing different and shared traditions:

The St Andrew with the saltire in the badge of the Order of the Thistle

It comprises a gold enamelled depiction of St Andrew, wearing a green gown and purple coat, holding a white saltire.

* The star of the Order consists of a silver St Andrew's saltire, with clusters of rays between the arms thereof.

Arms: Azure three Dolphins naiant embowed in pale argent finned toothed and crowned or between two pairs of Stockfish in saltire argent over the mouth of each Fish a Crown or on a Chief gules three pairs of Keys of St Peter in saltire

* Badge: an enamelled crowned black double-headed eagle bearing a blue St. Andrew's Cross ( saltire ) with St. Andrew crucified upon it ; on the arms of the saltire were the Latin letters ' SAPR ' (' St.

On the silver saltire on blue of St Andrew was placed the rampant red lion from the royal arms of Scotland.

The saltire may have been a variation of the St George's Cross.

It was felt by many in Jersey that the flag was insufficiently distinctive to represent the island, that there was too much confusion with the cross of St. Patrick as an Irish symbol, and that the red saltire had been taken as one of the international maritime signal flags.

The flag of Florida consists of a red saltire, St. Andrew's Cross, on a white background, with the state seal superimposed on the center.

The red saltire of the Cross of Burgundy represents the cross on which St. Andrew was crucified.

The waves at the base represent the River Colne, Aldenham Reservoir and link with the waves in the arms of the Hertfordshire CC and the Greater London Council. The gold saltire on blue is from the arms of the Abbey of St. Albans, the manor of Elstree came into the possession of the Abbey in 1188, and Tyttenhanger in Ridge stands on the site of a former possession of the Abbey, and the whole area lies in the Liberty of St. Albans.