Enlisted Regiments' Colours

Armies

Battles and Sieges

Colours and Standards

Örjan Martinsson


Seulenburg's battalion's company colour from 1707	Hamilton's Regiment's company colour from 1742	Sprengtporten's Regiment's company colour from 1789	M/1819 battalion colour

The colours on this page are presented in the same numerical order as in Rudolf Cederström's book. When the book was published in 1900, however, the regimental affiliation was unknown for most of these colours, which means that the sorting is often illogical. To make it easier to find the flags of the enlisted regiments that existed during the Great Northern War, I therefore have the following quick links.

Enlisted Regiments during the Great Northern War
Riksänkedrottningen	Svenska livregementet	Ingermanland	von Mengden
Pomeranian	Tyska livregementet	De la Gardie	von Schwengeln
Stralsund Garrison Reg.	Malmö Garrison Reg.	Stackelberg	von Bechern
Wismar Governor's Reg.	Rigas Governor's Reg..	von Liewen	Reval Staff Major
Wismar Garrison Reg.	Rigas Garrison Reg.	Zöge	von Straelborn
Bremen	Skytte	Nieroth	Seulenburg
Elbing	Narva Garrison Reg.	Mellin	Stöhr
National Militia
Wiek	Jerwen	Harrien	Wierland
Bremen	Livonian Land Battalions ( = 7, = 7)

The national militia is also listed here even though they were not enlisted but conscripted. But the regimental affiliation was unknown for their colours when Cederström made his list and possibly colours on this page that are still unknown may have belonged to them.

Tyska livregementet

Set from 1672

835:1 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
835:2 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)

Colours that were either issued to Tyska livregementet (1699) or the Malmö garrison regiment (1706)

836:1 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
836:2 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
836:3 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)
------ Company colour 4 (Copenhagen)
------ Company colour 5 (Copenhagen)

Änkedrottningen's livregemente

Baltzar Friedrich's set from 1675

837 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
838 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)

Set from 1680 or earlier

839 Company colour (AM.068025)

Drottningen's livregemente

Set from 1802

840 Guard duty colour (AM.067866)

Riksfältherren's livregemente

Set from 1673

841:1 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
841:2 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
841:3 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)
842 Company colour 4 (Copenhagen)

Unknown Infantry Unit

Set from 1655

843 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
844 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)

Johan Schmitt's Reg.

Set which was lost 1659

845 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
846 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
847 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)
848 Company colour 4 (Copenhagen)
849 Company colour 5 (Copenhagen)

Johan of Waldeck's Reg.

Peter Blom's set from 1658

850 Colonel's colour (Copenhagen)

Unknown Infantry Unit

Peter Blom's set from 1658

851 Colonel's colour (AM.067877)
852 2nd Company's colour (AM.010422)
853 3rd Company's colour (AM.068075)
854 4th Company's colour (AM.068006)

Unknown Infantry Unit

Set from 1659

855 Company colour (AM.068216)

Unknown Infantry Unit
Green colours from Karl X Gustav's reign.

856 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
857 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
858 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)

Unknown Infantry Unit
Yellow colour from Karl X Gustav's reign.

859 Company colour (Copenhagen)

Unknown Infantry Unit
Blue-yellow striped colours from Karl X Gustav's reign.

860 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
861 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)

Unknown Infantry Unit
Red colour from Karl X Gustav's reign.

862 Company colour (Copenhagen)

Unknown Infantry Unit
Light red colour from Karl X Gustav's reign.

863 Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Unknown Infantry Unit
White colours from Karl X Gustav's reign.

864 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
865 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
866 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
867 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)

Unknown Infantry Unit
Red colours from Karl X Gustav's reign.

868 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
869 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
870 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
871 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)
872 Company colour 5 (S:t Petersburg)

Unknown Infantry Unit
Blue colours from Karl X Gustav's reign.

873 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
874 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
875 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
876 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)

Unknown Infantry Unit
From Karl XI's reign

877 Colonel's colour (Armémuseum)
878 Light blue Company colour (AM.067864)
879 White Company colour (Armémuseum)
880 White Company colour (AM.067858)
881 Green Company colour (Copenhagen)

883 Blue Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Duke of Sachsen-
Halle's First Reg.

Set from 1674 which was lost 1678

882 Company colour (Copenhagen)

Peter Creimer's Reg.

Set from 1674 which was lost 1678

884 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
885 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
886 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)
887 Company colour 4 (Copenhagen)

Jämtland Dragoons

Baltzar Friedrich's set from 1674

888:1 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
888:2 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
889 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)

Ture Oxenstierna's Reg.

Set from 1675 which was lost 1678

890 Company colour (Copenhagen)

Unknown Infantry Unit
White colour from Karl XI's reign which was lost 1678.

891 Company colour (Copenhagen)

Unknown Infantry Unit
Green colours which were lost 1677 before they were issued.

892 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
893 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
894 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)

Wismar Governor's Reg.

895 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
896 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
897 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)
898 Company colour 4 (Copenhagen)
899 Company colour 5 (Copenhagen)
900 Company colour 6 (Copenhagen)
901 Company colour 7 (Copenhagen)

Colours made in the "Dutch style"

von Liewen's, Mellin's and von Schwengeln's regiments

902 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
903 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
904 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
905 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)
906 Company colour 5 (S:t Petersburg)
907 Company colour 6 (S:t Petersburg)
908 Company colour 7 (S:t Petersburg)
909 Company colour 8 (S:t Petersburg)
910 Company colour 9 (S:t Petersburg)
911 Company colour 10 (S:t Petersburg)
912 Company colour 11 (S:t Petersburg)
913 Company colour 12 (S:t Petersburg)
914 Company colour 13 (S:t Petersburg)
915 Company colour 14 (S:t Petersburg)
916 Company colour 15 (S:t Petersburg)

Gustav Carlsson's Reg.
(Danish prisoners of war)

Originally a Danish colour to which Karl XI's royal cipher had been added. It was lost 1678

917 Company colour (Copenhagen)

Bechern's Regiment

Set from 1706

---- Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Colonel's colour kept in Russia that belonged to either Riga Governor's Regiment or Riga Garrison Regiment.

Svenska livregementet

Set from 1708

918 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
919 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
920 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)
921 Company colour 4 ? (S:t Petersburg)

Company colour kept in Denmark

Riga Governor's Reg.

Set from 1689?

922 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
923 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
924 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
925 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)

Same regiment but from a later set?

926 Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Rigas Garrison Reg.

Sets from before 1700 and after 1702

927 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
928 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
929 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
930 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)
931 Company colour 5 (S:t Petersburg)
932 Company colour 6 (S:t Petersburg)
933 Company colour 7 (S:t Petersburg)
934 Company colour 8 (S:t Petersburg)
935 Company colour 9 (S:t Petersburg)
936 Company colour 10 (S:t Petersburg)
937 Company colour 11 (S:t Petersburg)

De la Gardies reg.

Set from 1700

938 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
939 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
940 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
941 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)

Same regiment but from a different set?

942 Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Company colours from two different sets

Unknown Infantry Unit

Set from Fredrik I's reign

943 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
944 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)

J. W. Sprengtportens Reg.

Set from 1789

945 Company colour 1 (Armémuseum)
946 Company colour 2 (AM.010426)

Skytte's Regiment

Sets from 1700 and 1706

947 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
948 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
949 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
950 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)
951 Company colour 5 (S:t Petersburg)
952 Company colour 6 (S:t Petersburg)
953 Company colour 7 (S:t Petersburg)
954 Company colour 8 (S:t Petersburg)
955 Company colour 9 (S:t Petersburg)
956 Company colour 10 (S:t Petersburg)
957 Company colour 11 (S:t Petersburg)
958 Company colour 12 (S:t Petersburg)
959 Company colour 13 (S:t Petersburg)
960 Company colour 14 (S:t Petersburg)

Company colours from two different sets. The original colour was aurora (= orange).

Stackelberg's Regiment

Set from 1700

---- Colonel's colour (S:t Petersburg)
---- Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Colonel's and company colour taken by the Russians in the battle of Erastfer in 1701

Bremen

Unknown set

961 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
962 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
963 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)
964 Company colour 4 (Copenhagen)
965 Company colour 5 (Copenhagen)
966 Company colour 6 (Copenhagen)
967 Company colour 7 (Copenhagen)
968 Company colour 8 (Copenhagen)
969 Company colour 9 (S:t Petersburg)
970 Company colour 10 (S:t Petersburg)

Company colour kept in Denmark

Company colour kept in Russia that belonged to an unknown unit. However, the appearance is identical to the colours that were issued to Stackelberg's regiment in 1704.

Bremen Land Reg.

The regiment existed 1710-1712

971:1 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
971:2 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
971:3 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)
971:4 Company colour 4 (Copenhagen)
971:5 Company colour 5 (Copenhagen)
971:6 Company colour 6 (Copenhagen)
971:7 Company colour 7 (Copenhagen)

A faded company colour that was originally orange

von Mengden's Reg.

Set from 1703

---- Colonel's colour (S:t Petersburg)
972 Company colour (S:t Petersburg)
973 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
974 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
975 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
976 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)
977 Company colour 5 (S:t Petersburg)

Both sides of the company colour

Colonel's colour

Zöges bataljon

The battalion existed 1700-1704

---- Colonel's colour (S:t Petersburg
978 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
979 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)

Colonel's and company colour with Estonia's coat of arms in the corner

Jerwen or Wiek Land Regiment

---- Colonel's colour (S:t Petersburg)
---- Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
---- Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
---- Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
---- Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)
---- Company colour 5 (S:t Petersburg)

Colonel's and company colour

Harrien Land Reg.
(the eight company colour has never existed and made the list by mistake)

Set from 1707

980 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
981 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
982 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
983 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)
984 Company colour 5 (S:t Petersburg)
985 Company colour 6 (S:t Petersburg)
986 Company colour 7 (S:t Petersburg)
987 Company colour 8 (S:t Petersburg)

Wierland Land Reg.

---- Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Livonian Land Battalions
(various types of colours kept in Russian to which it is not possible to determine which battalion they belonged to)

Bergsregementet

Baltzar Friedrich's set from 1674

988 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
989 Värmland Company colour (Copenhagen)

Set from 1745

990 Company colour 1 (AM.001658)
991 Company colour 2 (AM.001657)

Marine Regiment

Baltzar Friedrich's set from 1676

992 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
993 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)

994 Unidentified levy colour from 1677

Rikskanslern's livregemente

Set which was lost 1677

995 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
996 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
997 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen

998 Levy colour from Kålland härad

Unknown Infantry Unit
Blue-yellow chequered colour which may not be Swedish

999 Company colour (Armémuseum)

Riksänkedrottningen's livregemente

Set from 1701

1000 Company colour (Copenhagen)

Sveaborg Garrison Reg.

Set from 1725

1001:1 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
1001:2 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)

Company colour from 1725 that was lost to the Russians at an unknown place and time.

Set from 1739

---- Livfana (S:t Petersburg)
---- Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Colonel's and company colour from 1739 that were taken by the Russians in the battle of Villmanstrand.

Set from 1800-1801

---- Livfana (S:t Petersburg)
---- Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Colonel's and company colours that were taken by the Russians at the surrender of Sveaborg.

1002 Hälsinge 3-männing Battalion

Unknown Infantry Unit

Set from Karl XII's reign (green colours)

1003 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
1004 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
1005 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)

von Straelborn's Battalion
(Saxon prisoners of war)

The battalion existed 1707-1710

1006 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
1007 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
1008 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)

1062 Quarter colour 1 (AM.068065)
1063 Quarter colour 2 (AM.068076)
1064 Quarter colour 3 (AM.010542)

Colonel's and company colour

Scanian Garrison Reg.
(Prins Gustav's Regiment)

Set from 1748

---- Livfana (AM.010600)

This was the former Småland 3- and 5-männing Regiment. In 1771 it became "Konungens eget värvade regemente".

Nieroth regemente eller Reval Staff Major's battalion

The regiment existed 1700-1710 and the battalion existed 1704-1710

1009 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
1010 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
1011 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)

Ingermanland?

Regiment existed 1700-1710

1012 Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Stralsund Garrison Reg.

Set from Karl XII's reign

810 Colonel's colour (Copenhagen)
1013 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
1014 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
1015 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)

Colonel's and company colours kept in Denmark

Unknown Infantry Units

From Karl XII's reign

1016 Green Company colour (S:t Petersburg)
1017 Red Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

1024 Yellow company colour 1 (S:t Petersb.)
1025 Yellow company colour 2 (S:t Petersb.)

---- Fanfragment (AM.068304)
---- Fanfragment (Karl XI:s tid?) (AM.091598)

---- Company colour, picture above (S:t Petersburg)

Unknown Infantry Unit

Set from Karl XII's reign

1018 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
1019 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
1020 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
1021 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)
1022 Company colour 5 (S:t Petersburg)
1023 Company colour 6 (S:t Petersburg)

Narvas Garrison Reg.

Olof Hoffman's set from 1695
(Only 11 colours can belong to this regiment therefore 5 belonged to another. Narva's colours were originally blue-red but have faded to blue-yellow. The second regiment's flags may have been blue-yellow from the beginning.)

1026 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
1027 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
1028 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
1029 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)
1030 Company colour 5 (S:t Petersburg)
1031 Company colour 6 (S:t Petersburg)
1032 Company colour 7 (S:t Petersburg)
1033 Company colour 8 (S:t Petersburg)
1034 Company colour 9 (S:t Petersburg)
1035 Company colour 10 (S:t Petersburg)
1036 Company colour 11 (S:t Petersburg)
1037 Company colour 12 (S:t Petersburg)
1038 Company colour 13 (S:t Petersburg)
1039 Company colour 14 (S:t Petersburg)
1040 Company colour 15 (S:t Petersburg)
1041 Company colour 16 (S:t Petersburg)

Pomeranian regiment

Set from Karl XII's reign

1042 Livfana (Copenhagen)
1043 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
1044 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
1045 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
1046 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)
1047 Company colour 5 (S:t Petersburg)
1048 Company colour 6 (S:t Petersburg)

Colonel's and company colours kept in Denmark

Cederström notes in his page with corrections that there are additional six yellow colours in Copenhagen which certainly belongs to No 1042. It is I and not him who has brought together the numbers1043-1048 with 1042 and identified them with the Pomeranian regiment.

Wismar Garrison Reg.

Set from Karl XII's reign

1049 Company colour (Copenhagen)

Elbing Garrison Reg.

Existed 1703-1715.

1050 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
1051 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
1052 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
1053 Company colour 4 (S:t Petersburg)
1054 Company colour 5 (S:t Petersburg)

Company colours kept in Denmark and Russia respectively. The drawing of the Russian colour is a reconstruction of a teared colour and is missing details that can be found on the Danish colour.

Seulenburg's and Stöhr's Battalions
(Saxon prisoners of war)

The battalions existed 1707-1709 and 1710-1712 respectively

1055 Company colour 1 (AM.068099)
1056 Company colour 2 (AM.010414)
1057 Company colour 3 (AM.068225)

Unknown Infantry Unit

Set from Karl XII's reign

1058 Light green colour decorated with fish (S:t Petersburg)

1059 Arensburg burgher militia (Ösel)
1060 Levy colours from Östra Göinge härad
1061 Mariestad borgher militia colour
1062-1064 Quarter colours (Straelborn's battalion)

Unknown Infantry Unit

From the 17th century

1065 Red colour (AM.068070)
1066 Blue colour (AM.068054)

Unknown Infantry Unit

Unknown age

1067 Company colour 1 (AM.068193)
1068 Company colour 2 (AM.010423)
1069 Company colour 3 (Armémuseum)
1070 Company colour 4 (Armémuseum)

Unknown Infantry Unit

Set from Fredrik I's reign

1071 Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Hamilton's Regiment

Christoffer Sergel's set from 1742

813 Colonel's colour (AM.068103)
1072 Company colour 1 (AM.068100)
1073 Company colour 2 (AM.068007)
1074 Company colour 3 (AM.010416)

Gothenburg Garrison Reg.

Tobias Leij the elder's set from 1731

1075 Company colour 1 (AM.010538)
1076 Company colour 2 (AM.068078)

Tobias Leij the younger's set from 1755

1077 Company colour 1 (AM.067937)
1078 Company colour 2 (AM.010719)
1079 Company colour 3 (AM.067995)

Red m/1686-colour
(Upplands, Åbo, Östgöta,
Tavastehus, Viborgs, Nylands
or Närke-Värmlands Reg.)

From Fredrik I's or Adolf Fredriks reign

1080 Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

S:t Barthelemy Garrison

Abigaël Ulrika Rahm's set from 1820

1081 Battalion colour (AM.067892)

Set from 1819?

1082 Battalion colour (Armémuseum)

M/1819 Colours

1083 Battalion colour (Skaraborg?) (AM.010616)
1084 Battalion colour (AM.010615)
1085 Battalion colour (AM.010617)
1086 Battalion colour (Skaraborg?) (AM.010618)
1087 Battalion colour (AM.010619)
1088 Battalion colour (AM.010620)
1089 Battalion colour (Hälsinge?) (AM.010621)
1090 Battalion colour (AM.010622)
1091 Battalion colour (AM.010623)
1092 Battalion colour (AM.010624)
1093 Battalion colour (AM.010625)
1094 Battalion colour (AM.010626)

1095 Battalion colour (AM.010636)
1096 Battalion colour (AM.010627)
1097 Battalion colour (AM.010628)
1098 Battalion colour (AM.010629)
1099 Battalion colour (AM.010631)
1100 Battalion colour (AM.010630)
1101 Battalion colour (AM.010632)
1102 Battalion colour (Jönköping?) (AM.010633)
1103 Battalion colour (AM.010634)
1104 Battalion colour (AM.010635)
1105 Battalion colour (AM.010637)
1106 Battalion colour (AM.010638)

Continue to the page with the männing units' colours.

References

Cederström, Rudolf. Svenska kungliga hufvudbanér. Stockholm (1900)
Törnquist, Leif. Fanor och standar vid de tillfälliga regementena [...] 1700-1721 (SVSS-NS XXXV). Stockholm (2020)
Törnquist, Leif. Fanor och standar vid värvade förband 1686-1815 (artikel i SVSS-NS XXXVII). Stockholm (2022)
Törnquist, Leif. med flera. In hoc signo vinces – Stockholm 2011 & 2013. Stockholm (2016)