The Shropshire banner at Agincourt

[Alberbury]

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NVxiAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=shropshire+a+falcon+banner+at+agincourt&source=bl&ots=Qg3GJ05eWP&sig=LdP_ThFG53zY6_CBFWxpb68sT6I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjw_fCeiszeAhWBTMAKHSZ9BAQQ6AEwBHoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=shropshire%20a%20falcon%20banner%20at%20agincourt&f=false


The Battaile of Agincourt ... The Miseries of Queene Margarite ... Wife of ...
By Michael Drayton


Shropshire m a Falcon towring in the Ayre

Do we have any specialists who could post an image of this flag?

All Counties listed.

[Skoosh]

A Hundred Years on they were waving white flags! 

Skoosh.

[KGarrad]

There is a note applied to that piece of text:
e Expressing the loftinesse of the mountaines in that Shiere, on which many Hawkes were wont to airy.

I would suggest, therefore, that the banner would be a falcon on a blue background?
But banners would normally be flown by Kings, Princes, Dukes, Noblemen and Knights.

[MaecW]

Drayton wrote this as an "epic" poem some two hundred years after the event. He seems to have had a special interest in the topography of England and Wales so he has used "Poetic Licence" to ascribe banners to each of the counties of his time and to treat the Anglo-Welsh army of 1415 as if it were made up of contingents from each shire, which would have been the case with the Militia units of the Tudor period.
In reality of course the army consisted of the various barons and their followers and would have fought under their banners. (see the reference to the Fenwick Roll in the article on Agincourt at "www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/news-grants/news/item/119-the-battle-of-agincourt".

[Alberbury]

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&hs=HS6&channel=fs&biw=1366&bih=616&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=KKcDXJbyAqP1xgPF77jwDw&q=shropshire+coat+of+arms&oq=shropshire+coat+of+arms&gs_l=img.3..0j0i5i30.695673.697029..698825...0.0..0.98.836.9......0....1..gws-wiz-img.SkJA8fYop60

shropshire coat of arms


https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&biw=1366&bih=616&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=76kDXIPvIKnZgAbZxJLIBw&q=falcon+coat+of+arms&oq=falcon+coat+of+arms&gs_l=img.3..0.311378.322081..323277...0.0..0.109.1768.11j7......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i7i30j0i7i5i30j0i67.LfK4DX77kBM

falcon coat of arms

[KGarrad]

The Shropshire coat-of-arms date from 1895 (adopted 1896), and was based on the arms of the Borough of Shrewsbury with the addition of erminois (gold field with black "tail spots").

The flag of Shropshire, based on the coat-of-arms, was adopted in 2012.

[Alberbury]

The Shropshire coat-of-arms date from 1895 (adopted 1896), and was based on the arms of the Borough of Shrewsbury with the addition of erminois (gold field with black "tail spots").

The flag of Shropshire, based on the coat-of-arms, was adopted in 2012.

1415

[MaecW]

Hi Alberbury,
In reply to KGarrad's explanation of the Shropshire flag you make the cryptic observation "1415". Do you mean you disagree with his dates or that you still think the flag described by Drayton existed in 1415 ?
Can you be clearer on what information you want ?

Maec

[Alberbury]

http://www.medievalsoldier.org/about/agincourt-600/the-english-army-in-1415/english-army-table/

English Army Table

Thomas Corbet  Esquire

Arms of the Corbet baronets of Moreton Corbet, based on the arms of the medieval Corbets.[1] The raven was used by most branches of the Corbet family, whose name means "little crow."[2]