Cornwall (Traditional province, Brittany, France)

Cornouaille, Kernev, Bro Gernev

Last modified: 2002-11-02 by ivan sache
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by Michel Bolloré

• Presentation of Cornwall
• Description of the flag

See also:

• France
• Brittany: Index of all related pages
• Cornwall (England)

Presentation of Cornwall

Cornwall is located in the south-west of Brittany. It is an ancient Bishopric and County. Its historical capital city is Quimper (Kemper), current prefecture of the department of Finistère.

Michel Bolloré, 29 December 1999

Description of the flag

The canting arms of Cornwall date from 1426. They represent a ram passant. Kernev, the Breton name of the province, comes from the words Kern, horn and Knev, fleece.

Yoran Delacour, designer of this new flag (1996),took as a starting point the the flag of the Swiss cantons of Grishun and Schaffhausen. The ram is thus projecting and has a more combative bearing.

This flag was approved by the Breton Vexillological Society.

Michel Bolloré, 29 December 1999