The flag of the island of Man , called Ny Tree Casyn in Mannois ( the three feet ), represents a triquètre (a variety of triskèle) in armor, direction Dextre and on bottom of mouth (red).

History

At the 13th century, the king of the island of Man, Magnus {{III}}, from which the possessions extended towards north until the Hébrides (islands in the west of the Scotland), adopts for unknown reasons the trisquètre on red bottom like symbol on its armorial bearings. In 1266, when the island of Man briefly passes under Scottish sovereignty then in a permanent way under the English crown , these armorial bearings are preserved and will be taken again to create a Drapeau.

The flag is then interdict in 1935 and only authorized on the archipelago is that of the lieutenant-governor of Man. Finally, prohibition is raised on July 8th, 1968 and the flag is officially restored the August 27th 1971.

It can be used without restriction, including on the ships registered in the archipelago (formerly it was only one terrestrial and nonmaritime house). There remains however a symbol of peace, civilian or of State, but not a symbol of war since the Island of Man does not ensure itself its external defense (policy-holder by the the United Kingdom which raises the Union Jack ).

Heraldic symbolism of the triquètre

Reasons explaining the adoption of the triquètre as symbol of the royal weapons of the old Kingdom of Man are rather known little about, however it also was used and seen as equivalent with the symbol paganic of the Sun, the seat of the life and the capacity.

This symbol seems also related in the island of Sicily because of its shape with three legs, however the sicilian symbol showed the head of Méduse in its center (one of the three Gorgones in the Greek Mythologie, the only one with being immortal) and its legs were normally naked in the sicilian version. In the triquètre mannois, the three legs are equipped here with an armor and without head.

Others see there a relationship to a symbol popular Héraldique among the people Celtes and Norrois of the North-West of Europe, the Triskell, which would have been modified as the clearer plus sign of power applied to new conquests. That is suggested by the discoveries of old parts struck by the king norrois Anlaf Cuaran at the 10th century, of which the field until covering part of the Ireland until Dublin as well as the island with Man itself extended, these parts showing a simplified version of this symbol. However, that could remain a creation ad hoc intended to amalgamate two symbols of appearance finally rather similar, and this assumption does not exclude either a sicilian origin.

The triquètre (or Triskell), could in the beginning being represented either in the dextral direction of rotation, or in the sinistral direction. However a royal decree in 1968 fixed the dextral direction like the only valid one. The flag of the island of Man is then built in recto back so that the dextral direction of the triquètre is respected on the two faces.

Civil flag

The civil flag was abolished in 1935 but was restored on September 18th, 1971. By adding the Union Jack, the flag becomes a civil sign, but of only maritime use. This sign is not approved as a symbol of State de Man which remains the simple flag of mouth.

On the other hand, the lieutenant-governor, who is the staff representative of the British sovereign, has a flag based on the British Union Jack, where the flag of Man only comes to be added in its center to indicate its mission. This flag is reserved to him and is not used differently than in its presence with Man.

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