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The piece is made of crimson damask fabric and reproduces in silks and gold the heraldic iconography of the personal badge, a direct antecedent to that used by the King of Spain today. The mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, presented, this morning, together with the president of the San Clemente Cultural Festive Federation, Luis Torres del Alcázar and the embroiderer from Lorca, Silvia Teruel, an embroidered replica of the royal script of Juan II of Castile awarded to the city in 1442. The mayor of Lorca, who has been able to give one of the last stitches of this embroidery, which is being carried out in the Silvia Teruel embroidery workshop, has highlighted that "this work enhances the rich cultural heritage that the Federation has and which we will be able to enjoy, shortly, in the Ciufront " Diego José Mateos has pointed out that "for me it has been an honor and to have this minimal contribution to this marvel of Lorca embroidery that comes to add to this art that we have unique in Lorca and that we have to continue promoting it, and continue selling it abroad. For his part, the president of the San Clemente Federation, Luis Torres del Alcázar, explained that "this real Script, which is framed in the Vexilia collection, represents a key date in the entire heritage of the San Clemente Federation.

It was granted to Lorca by King Juan II together with the title of Very Noble City on March 5, 1442 for his strenuous defense of the Castilian Frontier against the Nasrid kingdom of Granada.

Likewise, ten years later, the Lorca knights led carried out the greatest war deed of its history of the frontier with the victory over the Muslims in the Battle of the Alporchones on March 17, 1452, which led to the erection of the current Insigne Santa Colegial Church assigned to the invocation of Saint Patrick by order of the Pope Medici Clemente VII whose secretary was of Lorca origin ". The Royal Band of Castile was a civil order of chivalry personally linked to the monarchs of the Crown of Castile.

The royal script is a personal standard for military use, a distinctive that indicated to the troops the presence of the monarch and allowed them to have their position identified in battles.

This ensign was created in 1332 by King Alfonso XI, although its origin would probably go back to one of the primitive symbols of the counts of Castile, which had consisted of a golden band on gules and the influence of the use of the dredge of the handle of the Roman legions that with Scipio reached Hispania.

This banner would be used without significant changes until the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, the date on which they will be enriched in their iconography, as well as in the times of Carlos I of Spain.

From the reign of Felipe II, the Royal Script will undergo different heraldic modifications, maintaining its crimson character most of the time.

Since 2014, coinciding with the Proclamation of Don Felipe VI as king, and with the advice of the Royal Academy of History, the personal script of the Spanish monarch recovered this historical tradition, one of the oldest in the world. The trace has been recovered by the Artistic Director of the Federation, David Torres del Alcázar, at the same time incorporating the trace to the ciuFRONT collection of drawings and presents a gold band flanked by two dredgers of the same metal whose eyes have been made in silks.

Following the custom of creating a link between contemporaneity and the historical piece recovered through reproduction, the eyes have been designed following the model of those corresponding to the dragon Smaug from the well-known Hobbit trilogy. The script is framed with a double gold enhancement topped with a fringe of the same metal and has been embroidered at the Clemente I Pontifical Workshops by the Lorca embroiderer Silvia Teruel, a continuation of innovative techniques that her father began the famous broslador Don Damián Teruel. The Royal Script was the banner of the City between the years 1442 and 1985, the date of the official presentation of the current official flag of Lorca.

It preserves crimson as the color of the field in memory of the royal privilege of its use, a fact reserved for the cities that would have stood out in Services to the Crown of Castile, as was the case with Lorca during frontier times.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca