Jack (Spain)

Torrotito, Bandera de Tajamar o Bauprés

Last modified: 2004-04-29 by santiago dotor
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by Luis Miguel Arias
Flag adopted 21st January 1977

• Description

See also:

• Ensigns, Jack and Commissioning Pennant (Spain)
• Coat-of-Arms (Spain)
• Spain

The Spanish jack is a banner of the Spanish arms (quarterly Castile, Leon, Aragon and Navarre), without either Granada on the point nor the Anjou inescutcheon. The Spanish term for jack is torrotito or more properly bandera de tajamar. Source: Calvo and Grávalos 1983.

Santiago Dotor, 28 December 1998

First adopted in the Reglamento de Banderas, Insignias y Distintivos (Flags, Rank and Distinguishing Flags Regulation) of 11th October 1945.

Santiago Dotor, 27 February 2001

Please note that the Spanish jack is not simply a square banner-of-arms derived from the current model of arms. It is described and illustrated in both the 1945 regulation and the 1977 decree. The image in Pedersen 1971 follows closely the 1945 Decree. The very similar description of the jack in the 1977 decree has never been thereafter abolished.

There is an —apparently recent— picture of the jack in actual use in