{"id":639,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/quartered\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:35","slug":"quartered","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/glossary\/quartered\/","title":{"rendered":"Quartered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A **quartered** flag or shield is divided into four equal parts by a vertical and a horizontal line meeting at the centre, each quarter bearing its own charge or tincture. Quartering originated in medieval heraldry as a means of combining the arms of several lineages or claims into a single composition, and it survives in many royal and state flags.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: The Royal Standard of the United Kingdom is quartered, displaying the arms of England, Scotland, Ireland and again England in the four quarters.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [dexter](\/glossary\/dexter\/), [sinister](\/glossary\/sinister\/), [blazoning](\/glossary\/blazoning\/), [field](\/glossary\/field\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-639","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}