sotuers as aspa
Is the remembrance of the winners or navy soldiers in the Baeza war on yhe Saint Andrews day on 1227
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En heráldica, se llama Sotuer, sautor, aspa, cruz aspada o Cruz de San Andrés...
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Trying to figure out what that has to do with this:
The Saltires of Baeza (1227)
Aside from the cross of Burgundy, there´s a parallel & former source of saltires in the Castilian heraldic tradition: the battle of Baeza (Andalusia) against the Moorish in 1227. Either legend or fact, the lineages & territorial levies that took part in the storming of Baeza on Saint Andrew's Day were granted the right to bear saltires on coats of arms & banners. Some people claim that the the Burgundian saltire on king Juan Carlos I's Royal Standard is in fact an homage to the saltire of Baeza. I think they're wrong, but anyway their point of view, however debatable, is to a certain extent rather popular.
In English, it is called a saltire.
