Identification of heraldic device.....what is this?

[johnlandon1]

I apologist for the bad pictures,this is a printed device  some four feet wide It appears to have been torn out of a much wider "banner"[?] I hope that it is posted in the correct forum [if not guidance would be appreciated]

 

Any idea of what it is? age etc would be very interesting

 

Geoff

 

[QSAMIKE]

Good Afternoon Geoff.....

I do not think that this is British by the two styles of crown.....

Mike

 

[dante]

Geoff, no idea on age, but I would look at Spain and someone with religious leanings, bishop maybe, family coat of arms??

[peter monahan]

The red and gold suggest Spain to me as well, though the stripes more typically run vertically in the arms of Aragon.  The bishop's mitre could be any Catholic nation, but fairly old, as later arms used an elaborate system of tassels to identify priest, monseigneurs, bishops, cardinals and so on.  Likewise, the cross and lion are very common in medieval heraldry, so hard to pin down to one place.  Any information at all as to where the banner or fragment came from - recently, I mean?