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Municipal flag of Lendelede - Image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 25 August 2007
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The municipality of Lendelede (5,411 inhabitants on 1 January 2007; 1,315 ha) is located a few kilometers north of Kortrijk.
According to old chronicles, the municipal territory of Lendelede was
crossed from north to south by a Roman way. Anyway, the oldest mention
of the village, as Lethae, dates back to 1078, on a document from the
St. Salvator Chapter in Harelbeke, kept in the Kortrijk State Archives; a woman named Folkswinde and her sons offerred two hectares of land to
the village of Lethae, which might already have had a chapel or a
church. In 1146, Bishop Anselm of Tournai transferred the altare
liedda (altar of Lendelede) to the the St. Martin abbey in Tournai,
which indicates that there was already a parish church in the village.
The most famous lords of Lendelede belonged to the De Beer family; they
were also lords of Meulebeke, Grammeene and Merkem. Expelled by the
French revolutionaries, the last lord of Lendelede, Baron Valérien-Aimé
de La Grange (1734-1798), died in poverty in the Netherlands.
Lendelede is the birth village of Lodewijk Baekelandt (1774-1803), the
leader of a famous band of rascals during the French Revolution, who
was eventually caught and beheaded with several members of his gang on
the Market Square of Bruges.
Source: Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2007
The municipal flag of Lendelede is horizontally divided
blue-white-yellow-red.
According to Gemeentewapens in België - Vlaanderen en Brussel, the flag was adopted by the Municipal Council on 24 April 1980, confirmed by Royal Decree on 1 December 1980
and published in the Belgian official gazette on 22 January 1981.
The colours of the flag are taken from the municipal arms.
According to the municipal website, the official description of the
flag is Vier even hoge banen van blauw, wit, geel en rood.
The municipal arms are those from the unfortunate last lord of
Lendelede, Valérien-Aimé de La Grange, officially described as:
In lazuur (blauw) een kruis van goud, vergezeld van achttien gelijke
gouden blokjes, vijf in de bovenhoeken 2-1-2 geplaatst en vier in de
benedenbovenhoeken 2-2 gerangschikt; het hartschild in keel (rood)
bezaaid met goudkorrels van zilver; een rechtopstaande beer van goud,
aan de hals geketend met een gebroken ketting van hetzelfde, geklauwd,
getongd en gehalsband van lazuur; het schild getopt met een kroon van
goud met drie fleurons gescheiden door drie paren 1 en 2 geplaatst en
vast gehouden door twee wildemannen in vleeskleur, omgord en gekroond
met bladeren van sinopel (groen). De rechtse steunt op een knots in
natuurlijke kleur, de linkse draagt een gelijkaardige knots op de
linkerschouder.
(Azure a cross or cantonned with 18 billets of the same, five placed 2 +
1 + 2 in the two upper quarters and four placed 2 + 2 in the two lower
quarters; overall an escutcheon gules semé with gold nuggets argent
(sic!), a bear or with a broken chain of the same, armed, langued and
collared azure [...]).
Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 25 August 2007