{"id":614,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/pennon\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:25","slug":"pennon","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/glossary\/pennon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A **pennon** is a small, tapering or triangular flag, in medieval heraldry the personal flag of a knight bachelor, fixed to the head of a lance. Pennons bore the knight&#8217;s device and were carried into battle. In modern vexillology the term is sometimes used for small triangular or pointed flags, and survives in military traditions such as cavalry lance pennons.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: A British lancer regiment&#8217;s pennon, red over white, was traditionally fixed below the head of the lance.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [pennant](\/glossary\/pennant\/), [standard](\/glossary\/standard\/), [swallow-tail](\/glossary\/swallow-tail\/), [burgee](\/glossary\/burgee\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-614","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}