In a legend,

Saint George Saint George ( Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin: Georgius, Arabic: القديس جرجس; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldie ...

a soldier venerated in

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defeats a dragon. The story goes that the dragon originally extorted tribute from villagers. When they ran out of livestock and trinkets for the dragon, they started giving up a human tribute once a year. This was acceptable to the villagers until a princess was chosen as the next offering. The saint thereupon rescues the princess chosen as the next offering. The narrative was first set in

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in the earliest sources of the 11th and 12th centuries, but transferred to

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in the 13th-century '' Golden Legend''.St. George and the Dragon: Introduction
in: E. Gordon Whatley, Anne B. Thompson, Robert K. Upchurch (eds.), ''Saints' Lives in Middle Spanish Collections'' (2004). The narrative has pre-Christian origins ( Jason and Medea, Perseus and Andromeda,

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, etc.), and is recorded in various saints' lives prior to its attribution to St. George specifically. It was particularly attributed to Saint Theodore Tiro in the 9th and 10th centuries, and was first transferred to Saint George in the 11th century. The oldest known record of Saint George slaying a dragon is found in a Georgian text of the 11th century. The legend and iconography spread rapidly through the Byzantine cultural sphere in the 12th century. It reached Western Christian tradition still in the 12th century, via the

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. The knights of the

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believed that St. George, along with his fellow soldier-saints Demetrius, Maurice,

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and Mercurius had fought alongside them at Antioch and Jerusalem. The legend was popularised in Western tradition in the 13th century based on its Latin versions in the '' Speculum Historiale'' and the '' Golden Legend''. At first limited to the courtly setting of

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, the legend was popularised in the 13th century and became a favourite literary and pictorial subject in the

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and

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, and it has become an integral part of the Christian traditions relating to Saint George in both Eastern and Western tradition.

Origins

Pre-Christian predecessors

The iconography of military saints

, George and Demetrius as horsemen is a direct continuation of the Roman-era " Thracian horseman" type iconography. The iconography of the dragon appears to grow out of the

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entwining the "tree of life" on one hand, and with the ''draco'' standard used by late Roman cavalry on the other. Horsemen spearing serpents and boars are widely represented in Roman-era stelae commemorating cavalry soldiers. A carving from Krupac, Serbia, depicts

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and

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as Thracian horsemen, shown besides the serpent entwined around the tree. Another stele shows the Dioscuri as Thracian horsemen on either side of the serpent-entwined tree, killing a boar with their spears.Paul Stephenson, ''The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography'', Oxford University Press (2016),
179–182
The development of the hagiographical narrative of the dragon-fight parallels the development of iconography. It draws from pre-Christian dragon myths. The Coptic version of the Saint George legend, edited by E. A. Wallis Budge in 1888, and estimated by Budge to be based on a source of the 5th or 6th century, names "governor Dadianus", the persecutor of Saint George as "the dragon of the abyss". a greek myth with similar elements of the legend is the battle between

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and the Chimera. Budge makes explicit the parallel to pre-Christian myth,

I doubt much of the whole story of Saint George is anything more than one of the many versions of the old-world story of the conflict between Light and Darkness, or Ra and Apepi, and
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and Tiamat, woven upon a few slender threads of historical fact. Tiamat, the scaly, winged, foul dragon, and Apepi the powerful enemy of the glorious Sungod, were both destroyed and made to perish in the fire which he sent against them and their fiends: and Dadianus, also called the 'dragon', with his friends the sixty-nine governors, was also destroyed by fire called down from heaven by the prayer of Saint George. In anticipation of the Saint George iconography, first noted in the 1870s, a Coptic stone fenestrella shows a mounted hawk-headed figure fighting a crocodile, interpreted by the Louvre as
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killing a metamorphosed Setekh.

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Grosvenor Museum,

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File:Horus horseman-E 4850-IMG 4871-gradient.jpg, Fenestrella interpreted by the

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on horseback spearing

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in the shape of a crocodile (4th century).

Christianised iconography

Depictions of "Christ militant" trampling a serpent is found in Christian art of the late 5th century. Iconography of the horseman with spear overcoming evil becomes current in the early medieval period. Iconographic representations of St Theodore as dragon-slayer are dated to as early as the 7th century, certainly by the early 10th century (the oldest certain depiction of Theodore killing a dragon is at Aghtamar, dated c. 920). Theodore is reported as having destroyed a dragon near Euchaita in a legend not younger than the late 9th century. Early depictions of a horseman killing a dragon are unlikely to represent St. George, who in the 10th century was depicted as killing a human figure, not a dragon. Vinica Christopher George

The earliest image of St Theodore as a horseman (named in Latin) is from Vinica, North Macedonia and, if genuine, dates to the 6th or 7th century. Here, Theodore is not slaying a dragon, but holding a ''draco'' standard. One of the Vinica icons also has the oldest representation of Saint George with a dragon: George stands besides a cynocephalous St. Christopher, both saints treading on snakes with human heads, and aiming at their heads with spears. Maguire (1996) has connected the shift from unnamed equestrian heroes used in household magic to the more regulated iconography of named saints to the closer regulation of sacred imagery following the

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of the 730s. In the West, a Carolingian-era depiction of a Roman horseman trampling and piercing a dragon between two soldier saints with lances and shields was put on the foot of a ''crux gemmata'', formerly in the Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius in Maastricht (lost since the 18th c.). The representation survives in a 17th-century drawing, now in the

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in Paris.

The "Christianisation" of the Thracian horseman iconography can be traced to the Cappadocian cave churches of Göreme, where frescoes of the 10th century show military saints on horseback confronting serpents with one, two or three heads. One of the earliest examples is from the church known as Mavrucan 3 (), generally dated to the 10th century, which portrays two "sacred riders" confronting two serpents twined around a tree, in a striking parallel to the Dioskuroi stela, except that the riders are now attacking the snake in the "tree of life" instead of a boar. In this example, at least, there appear to be two snakes with separate heads, but other examples of 10th-century Cappadocia show polycephalous snakes. A poorly preserved wall-painting at the ("Snake Church") that depicts the two saints Theodore and George attacking a dragon has been tentatively dated to the 10th century, or alternatively even to the mid-9th. A similar example, but showing three equestrian saints, Demetrius, Theodore and George, is from the "Zoodochos Pigi" chapel in central Macedonia in Greece, in the prefecture of Kilkis, near the modern village of Kolchida, dated to the 9th or 10th century. A 12th-century depiction of the mounted dragon-slayer, presumably depicting Theodore, not George, is found in four

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panels in the nave of the Cappella Palatina in

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. Jeremy Johns, "Muslim Artists, Christian Patrons and the Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina (Palermo, Sicily, circa 1143 CE)"
Hadiith ad-Dar 40
(2016), p. 15.

Transfer to Saint George

St Theodor & George Sinai 9-10th century

The

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motif was transferred to the George legend from that of his fellow soldier saint, Saint Theodore Tiro. The transfer of the dragon iconography from Theodore, or Theodore and George as "Dioskuroi" to George on his own, first becomes tangible in the early 11th century. The oldest certain images of St. George combatting the serpent are still found in

Golden Legend

In the well-known version from Jacobus de Voragine's ''

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'' (''The Golden Legend'', 1260s), the narrative episode of Saint George and the Dragon took place somewhere he called "Silene", in

. Silene in Libya was plagued by a venom-spewing

dwelling in a nearby pond, poisoning the countryside. To prevent it from affecting the city itself, the people offered it two sheep daily, then a man and a sheep, and finally their children and youths, chosen by lottery. One time the lot fell on the king's daughter. The king offered all his gold and silver to have his daughter spared, but the people refused. The daughter was sent out to the lake, dressed as a bride, to be fed to the dragon.

by chance arrived at the spot. The princess tried to send him away, but he vowed to remain. The dragon emerged from the pond while they were conversing. Saint George made the Sign of the Cross and charged it on horseback, seriously wounding it with his lance. He then called to the princess to throw him her girdle (), and he put it around the dragon's neck. When she did so, the dragon followed the girl like a "meek beast" on a leash. The princess and Saint George led the dragon back to the city of Silene, where it terrified the populace. Saint George offered to kill the dragon if they consented to become Christians and be baptized. Fifteen thousand men including the king of Silene converted to Christianity. George then killed the dragon, beheading it with his sword, and the body was carted out of the city on four ox-carts. The king built a church to the

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and Saint George on the site where the dragon died and a spring flowed from its altar with water that cured all disease. Only the Latin version involves the saint striking the dragon with the spear, before killing it with the sword., note 96 The ''Golden Legend'' narrative is the main source of the story of Saint George and the Dragon as received in Western Europe, and is therefore relevant for Saint George as patron saint of England. The princess remains unnamed in the ''Golden Legend'' version, and the name "Sabra" is supplied by Elizabethan era writer Richard Johnson in his '' Seven Champions of Christendom'' (1596). In the work, she is recast as a princess of Egypt. This work takes great liberties with the material, and makes St. George marry Sabra and have English children, one of whom becomes Guy of Warwick. Alternative names given to the princess in Italian sources still of the 13th century are ''Cleolinda'' and ''Aia''. Johnson also supplied the Saint George's sword name " Ascalon".

Iconography

Medieval iconography

Eastern

The saint is depicted in the style of a Roman cavalryman in the tradition of the "

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." There are two main iconographic types, the "concise" form showing only George and the dragon, and the "detailed" form also including the princess and the city walls or towers of Lacia (Lasia) with spectators witnessing the miracle. The "concise" type originates in Cappadocia, in the 10th to 11th century (transferred from the same iconography associated with Saint Theodore of Tiro in the 9th to 10th century). The earliest certain example of the "detailed" form may be a fresco from Pavnisi (dated c. 1160), although the examples from Adishi, Bochorma and Ikvi may be slightly earlier. ;Ethiopian File:Alwan Codex 27 Ethiopian Biblical Manuscript.jpg, Alwan Codex 27 Ethiopian Biblical Icon - St. George File:Äthiopien Grosses Triptychon Museum Rietberg EFA 15 img05.jpg, Great Triptych, Ethiopia, c. 1700, tempera on fabric on wood; Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland ;Georgian St George of Parakheti.jpg, St George of Parakheti, Georgia, late 10th century Icon of St. George from Labechina, Racha region of Georgia, XI century.png, St George of Labechina,

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icon ;Greek Byzantine - St George and the Dragon - Walters 41205.jpg, Byzantine bas-relief of Saint George and the Dragon ( steatite), 12th century St George Icon Sinai 13th century.jpg, Monumental ''vita'' icon at Sinai, first half of the 13th century, likely by a Greek artist. The dragon episode is shown in one of twenty panels depicting the saint's life. Saint George icon in Pyrgos, Santorini.jpg, Greek icon of St George with the youth of Mytilene, 15th century, Pyrgos, Santorini. File:Chanter Angelos Akotandos - St George on Horseback, Slaying the Dragon - Google Art Project.jpg, Icon by Angelos Akotandos, Crete (first half of the 15th century) St George - Google Art Project.jpg, "Pedestrian" St George, Crete, second half of the 15th century Damaskenos Saint-George-and-Saint-Demetrius.jpg,

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(16th century), Saint George killing the dragon, alongside Saint Mercurius killing Julian. ;Russian The oldest example in Russia found on walls of the church of St George in Staraya Ladoga, dated c. 1167. In Russian tradition, the icon is known as ; i.e., "the miracle of George and the dragon." The saint is mostly shown on a white horse, facing right, but sometimes also on a black horse, or facing left. The princess is usually not included. Another motif shows George on horseback with the youth of Mytilene sitting behind him. Georgeladoga.jpg, The Staraya Ladoga fresco, c. 1167 S.George (Novgorod, mid. 14 c, GTG).jpg, 14th-century icon from Novgorod Black.George.14.cent.Museum.of.Russian.icon.png, 14th-century icon from Rostov File:S.George (Novgorod, 14th c., Russian museum).jpg, Novgorod ''vita'' icon, 14th century; the "detailed" dragon iconography takes the central panel. File:S.George (Moscow, 15th c., Korin's house-museum).jpg, Russian icon of the "detailed" type, Moscow, early 15th century File:StGeorge-RussianMuseum.jpg, Novgorod icon, late 15th century File:S.George (Russian North, end 15-early 16th c., GTG).jpg, Northern Russian icon of the "detailed" type, the saint is exceptionally slaying the dragon with his sword (c. 1500). File:Святий Юрій Змієборець.jpg, Chełm school, 16th century

Western

The motif of Saint George as a knight on horseback slaying the dragon first appears in western art in the second half of the 13th century. The tradition of the saint's arms being shown as the red-on-white

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develops in the 14th century. File:20030708570DR Ankershagen Dorfkirche Fresken.jpg, 13th-century fresco in Ankershagen,

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File:St George and the Dragon Verona ms 1853 26r.jpg, Miniature from a ''Passio Sancti Georgii'' manuscript (Verona, second half of 13th century) File:St George BNF Fr 241 101v.jpg, Miniature from a manuscript of ''

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'', Paris, 1348. File:Saint George et le dragon, enluminure.jpg, Book of Hours (c. 1380?). File:St George Royal19BXVII 109.jpg, Miniature from a manuscript of ''Legenda Aurea'', Paris, 1382. File:De Grey Hours f.31.v St. George and the dragon.png, De Grey Hours (c. 1400) File:Anga kyrka-Mural painting02.jpg, Fresco of the full legend,

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, Sweden (mid 15th century) File:Heures Ch d'Angoulême Saint Georges XVe.jpg, Miniature from Heures de Charles d'Angoulême, Cognac, France, f.53v (1475–1500) File:Saint George and the Dragon alabaster sculpture.jpg, ''Saint George and the Dragon'', tinted alabaster, English, c. 1375–1420 ( National Gallery of Art, Washington) File:St Georgsgruppe, um 1500.jpg, Wooden sculpture, c. 1500, Gottorf Castle

Renaissance

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Saint George
c. 1417.

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, Florence, Italy. * Paolo Uccello, '' Saint George and the Dragon'', c. 1470. National Gallery, London. *

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, ''Saint George Fighting the Dragon'', c. 1471. Pesaro altarpiece. * Lieven van Lathem, '' Saint George and the Dragon'' (c. 1471) * Bernt Notke, '' Saint George and the Dragon'', Storkyrkan in Stockholm, ca. 1484–1489. * Andrea della Robbia,

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, c. 1490 *

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(Raffaello Santi), ''St. George'', 1504. Oil on wood.

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, France. * Raphael (Raffaello Santi), ''St. George and the Dragon'', 1504–1506. Oil on wood. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States. * Albrecht Altdorfer, Forest Landscape with St. George Fighting the Dragon, 1510 *

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(Jacopo Robusti), '' Saint George and the Dragon'', 1555. File:Bernat Martorell - Saint George Killing the Dragon - Google Art Project.jpg, Bernat Martorell – ''Saint George Killing the Dragon'' (1435). File:Stockholm-Storkyrkan (St.Georg).jpg, '' Saint George and the Dragon'', wood carving by Bernt Notke in

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's Storkyrkan (1470s). File:1512 Meister des Döbelner Hochaltars Hl. Georg zu Pferde anagoria.JPG, St. George on Horseback, Meister des Döbelner Hochaltars, 1511/13, Hamburger Kunsthalle File:St GeorgeEnglish.JPG, Woodcut frontispiece of Alexander Barclay, ''Lyfe of Seynt George'' (Westminster, 1515). File:Gillis Coignet - St George the Great.jpg, Gillis Coignet – ''St George the Great'' (1581).

Early modern and modern art

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, '' Saint George and the Dragon'', 1620. * Salvator Rosa, '' San Giorgio e il Drago'' * Mattia Preti, ''St George triumphant over the dragon'', 1678, at

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in Victoria,

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. * Edward Burne-Jones, ''St. George and the Dragon'', 1866. *

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, ''St. George and the Dragon'', c. 1870. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery, London. *

Briton Rivière Briton Rivière (14 August 1840 in London20 April 1920 in London) was a British artist of Huguenot descent. He exhibited a variety of paintings at the Royal Academy, but devoted much of his life to animal paintings. Biography Briton's fa ...

, ''St. George and the Dragon'', c. 1914. * Uroš Predić, ''St George Killing the Dragon'', 1930. *

Giorgio de Chirico Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( , ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the '' scuola metafisica'' art movement, which profoundly infl ...

, ''St. George Killing the Dragon'', 1940. Sculptures * The sculptures which form part of the clock of Liberty's store in Regent Street, London (19th century). * Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, ''Saint George and the Dragon'', bronze, State Library of Victoria, 1889 *

Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarr ...

, ''Saint George and the Dragon'', Open Air Museum in Cosenza, 1947 *

Edward Seago Edward Brian Seago, RBA, ARWS, RWS (31 March 1910 – 19 January 1974) was an English artist who painted in both oils and watercolours. Early life The son of a coal merchant, Seago was born in Norwich and attended Norwich School. He was a se ...

, ''Saint George and the Dragon'', silver, automobile mascot used for the British monarch's cars, 1952. * Zurab Tsereteli, sculpture in front of the at , Moscow, 1995 * Zurab Tsereteli, '' St. George Statue'', Tbilisi, 2005 * Marcus Canning and

Christian de Vietri Christian de Vietri (born 1981, Kalgoorlie) is an Australian artist. Education Christian de Vietri attended a boys' secondary school, Hale School located in Australia's northern suburbs of Perth. In 2001, De Vietri completed a Bachelor of Fi ...

, ''Ascalon'', abstract sculpture in front of St George's Cathedral,

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, 2011 Mosaic *

Edward Poynter Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet (20 March 183626 July 1919) was an English painter, designer, and draughtsman, who served as President of the Royal Academy. Life Poynter was the son of architect Ambrose Poynter. He was born in Paris, ...

, ''Saint George for England'', 1869. Central Lobby in the Palace of Westminster. *

Sergey Chekhonin Sergey Vasil'evich Tchehonine (Chekhonin) (born in Valdayka, Novgorod province Lykoshino, Tver Oblast">Lykoshino (settlement), Bologovsky District, Tver Oblast">Lykoshino, Tver Oblast], 2 February 1878; died on the way from Germany to Paris, 23 ...

, Sergey Vasilyevich Gerasimov, Central maiolica panel about the battle of St. George the Victorious with the Serpent 1911–1913, Moscow, Russia. * Anatoly Alexandrovich Ostrogradsky, A small image of St. George, with the plot of the fresco of the Church of St. George in Staraya Ladoga in a stylized icon case on the façade, above the main porches, the maiolica was made in 1911–1913, Moscow, Russia. Engravings *

Benedetto Pistrucci Benedetto Pistrucci (29 May 1783 – 16 September 1855) was an Italian gem-engraver, medallist and coin engraver, probably best known for his Saint George and the Dragon design for the British sovereign coin. Pistrucci was commissioned by ...

, engraving for coin dies, 1817. * On kopecks issued by the Central Bank of Russia. Prints * On banknotes issued by the

Bank of England The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker, and still one of the bankers for the Government o ...

: ** £1 note, 1917 until 1933, on obverse, with portrait of

George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother ...

; 1928 until 1960, on reverse, duplicated. ** £5 note, 1957 until 1967, on obverse, with portrait of

Britannia Britannia () is the national personification of Britain as a helmeted female warrior holding a trident and shield. An image first used in classical antiquity, the Latin ''Britannia'' was the name variously applied to the British Isles, Grea ...

. ** £20 note, 1970 until 1993, on obverse, with portrait of

Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states durin ...

. File:Châtenois StGeorges25.JPG, 17th-century statue in Église Saint-Georges de Châtenois, France File:Châtenois StGeorges30.JPG, 18th-century statue in Église Saint-Georges de Châtenois, France File:Mattia Preti - St. George Victorious over the Dragon - WGA18398.jpg, ''Saint George and the Dragon'', by Mattia Preti (1678), in

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

. File:St. George the Victorious - Google Art Project.jpg, Unknown painter from

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...

, 18th century. File:Pendant with Saint George.jpg, Pendant with Saint George by Lluís Masriera i Rosés (1902), Barcelona. File:St. George and the Dragon - Briton Riviere.jpg, ''St. George and the Dragon'' by Briton Reviere (c. 1914). File:1914 Sydney Half Sovereign - St. George.jpg, 1914 sovereign with

's engraving. File:Britain Needs You at Once - WWI recruitment poster - Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No. 108.jpg, WWI British recruitment poster. File:2002 Bentley State Limousine ornament.jpg,

's ''St. George and the Dragon'' automobile mascot used by the British monarch (1952) File:MBF20160630.jpg, Central maiolica panel about the battle of St. George the Victorious with the Serpent 1911–1913, artists

, Sergey Vasilyevich Gerasimov File:Wiki tile murals bolshaya pirogovskaya 9 moscow.jpg, A small image of St. George, with the plot of the fresco of the Church of St. George in Staraya Ladoga in a stylized icon case on the facade, above the main porches, the maiolica was made in 1911–1913 by Anatoly Alexandrovich Ostrogradsky. File:Манежная площадь - panoramio (1).jpg, Zurab Tsereteli's ''St. George and the Dragon'' on the top of the shopping center (1997) in Moscow, Russia

Literary adaptations

Edmund Spenser expands on the Saint George and the Dragon story in Book I of the '' Fairy Queen'', initially referring to the hero as the ''Redcross Knight''.

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

refers to Saint George and the Dragon in '' Richard III'' ( ''Advance our standards, set upon our foes Our ancient world of courage fair St. George Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons'' act V, sc. 3), ''

Henry V Henry V may refer to: People * Henry V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1026) * Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1081/86–1125) * Henry V, Duke of Carinthia (died 1161) * Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (c. 1173–1227) * Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (121 ...

'' ( ''The game's afoot: follow your spirit, and upon this charge cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George! act III, sc. 1), and also in ''

King Lear ''King Lear'' is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane a ...

'' (act I). A 17th-century broadside

ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or '' ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...

paid homage to the feat of George's dragon slaying. Titled "St. George and the Dragon", the ballad considers the importance of Saint George in relation to other heroes of epic and Romance, ultimately concluding that all other heroes and figures of epic or romance pale in comparison to the feats of George. ''The Banner of St George'' by

Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...

is a ballad for chorus and orchestra, words by Shapcott Wensley (1879). The 1898 ''Dream Days'' by

Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame ( ; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for '' The Wind in the Willows'' (1908), a classic of children's literature, as well as '' The Reluctant Dragon''. Both books ...

includes a chapter entitled " The Reluctant Dragon", in which an elderly Saint George and a benign dragon stage a mock battle to satisfy the townsfolk and get the dragon introduced into society. Later made into a

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmospher ...

by Walt Disney Productions, and set to music by John Rutter as a children's operetta. In 1935 Stanley Holloway recorded a humorous retelling of the tale as ''St. George and the Dragon'' written by Weston and Lee. In the 1950s,

Stan Freberg Stan Freberg (born Stanley Friberg; August 7, 1926 – April 7, 2015) was an American actor, author, comedian, musician, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director. His best-known works include "St. George and the Dragonet" ...

and Daws Butler wrote and performed '' St. George and the Dragon-Net'' (a spoof of the tale and of '' Dragnet'') for Freberg's radio show. The story's recording became the first comedy album to sell over a million copies.

Margaret Hodges Sarah Margaret Hodges née Moore (July 26, 1911 – December 13, 2005) was an American writer of children's books, librarian, and storyteller. Sarah Margaret Moore was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle Moore and Annie Marie Moo ...

retold the legend in a 1984 children's book ('' Saint George and the Dragon'') with Caldecott Medal-winning illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman.

Samantha Shannon Samantha Shannon (born 8 November 1991) is a British author of dystopian and fantasy fiction. Her debut novel, ''The Bone Season'', was published in 2013 and is the first of a seven-book series. Life and career Shannon was born in Hammersmith, ...

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Heraldry and vexillology

Coats of arms

Reggio Calabria used Saint George and the dragon in its

coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement, which in its ...

since at least 1757, derived from earlier (15th-century) iconography used on the city seal. Saint George and the dragon has been depicted in the coat of arms of Moscow since the late 18th century, and in the coat of arms of Georgia since 1991 (based on a coat of arms introduced in 1801 for Georgia within the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War ...

). File:S. Giorgio di Cappadocia e lo stemma della città di Reggio - Stemma di Reggio Calabria.png, Coat of arms of Reggio Calabria (1896) File:Moscow COA 1781.png, Coat of arms of Moscow (1781) File:Coat of Arms of Moscow.svg, Coat of arms of Moscow (1993 design) File:Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation.svg,

Coat of arms of Russia The coat of arms of Russia derives from the earlier coat of arms of the Russian Empire which was abolished with the Russian Revolution in 1917. Though modified more than once since the reign of Ivan III (1462–1505), the current coat of arms ...

(1993) File:COA of Kyiv Oblast m.svg, Coat of arms of

Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, ...

(1999) File:Lesser coat of arms of Georgia.svg, Coat of arms of Georgia (2004) Aragonese Royal Arms with the Crest of the Chivalry of Saint George

;Provincial coats of arms *

, Ukraine (1999) *

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally " under Moscow"), is a federal subject of R ...

, Russia ( 2005) ;Municipal coats of arms * Australia:

Hurstville Hurstville is a suburb in Southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is 16 kilometres south of the Sydney CBD and is part of the St George area. Hurstville is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Georges Ri ...

* Austria: Pitten,

Sankt Georgen an der Gusen Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (also ''St. Georgen an der Gusen'' and ''St. Georgen/Gusen''; lit.: "Saint George's town on the Gusen River") is a small market town in Upper Austria, Austria, between the municipalities of Luftenberg and Langenstein. ...

, Sankt Georgen an der Leys, Sankt Georgen an der Stiefing,

Sankt Georgen im Attergau Sankt Georgen im Attergau (Central Bavarian: ''Sont Tiareng im Attogau'') is a municipality in the district of Vöcklabruck in the Austrian state of Upper Austria Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine ...

, Sankt Georgen ob Murau. * Croatia: Kaštel Sućurac. * Czech Republic: Brušperk. * Denmark: Holstebro. * France: Aydoilles, Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, Ligsdorf, Maulan,

Mussidan Mussidan (; oc, Moissida) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Mussidan station has rail connections to Bordeaux, Périgueux, Brive-la-Gaillarde and Limoges. Population Roundup of 16 January 1 ...

, Saint-Georges (Moselle), Saint-Georges-Armont, Saint-Georges-d'Espéranche,

Saint-Georges-d'Oléron Saint-Georges-d'Oléron (, literally ''Saint-Georges of Oléron'') is a commune on Oléron Island in the Charente-Maritime department, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Population See also * Boyardville * Fort Boyard *C ...

, Saint-Georges-d'Orques,

Saint-Georges-de-Reintembault Saint-Georges-de-Reintembault (; br, Sant-Jord-Restembaod) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France. Population Inhabitants of Saint-Georges-de-Reintembault are called ''reintembaultois'' in French. ...

, Saint-Georges-du-Bois, Saint-Georges-du-Vièvre,

Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. It is twinned with the affluent English village of Little Aston. See also *Communes of the Yonne department The following ...

Saint-Georges-sur-Loire Saint-Georges-sur-Loire (, literally ''Saint-Georges on Loire'') is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. See also *Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 177 communes of the Maine-et- ...

, Saint-Jurs,

Saorge Saorge (; Royasc: ''Sauèrge''; Brigasc: ''Savurgë''; it, Saorgio, oc, Saorj, lij, Savurgiu) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. Highway E74 which runs north from Menton, passes through Saorge on its way ...

Sospel Sospel (; Mentonasc: Sospèl, Italian Sospello) is a commune (municipality) and former schismatic episcopal seat (1381-1418) in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France near the Italian border and not far from Monte Carlo. Hist ...

, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. * Germany:

Bürgel Bürgel is a town in the Saale-Holzland district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 12 km east of Jena. It contains the Benedictine monastery of Bürgel Abbey. History Within the German Empire (1871-1918), Bürgel was part of the Grand ...

, Hattingen, Mansfeld, Rittersbach, St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, Schwarzenberg. * Hungary: Bácsszentgyörgy,

Balatonszentgyörgy Balatonszentgyörgy is a village in Somogy county, Hungary. It is near to the village of Balatonberény. The village is next to Lake Balaton. Etymology The village got its name after Saint George ( hu, Szent György), the patron of its church. ...

, Borsodszentgyörgy,

Dunaszentgyörgy Dunaszentgyörgy is a village in Tolna County Tolna ( hu, Tolna megye, ; german: Komitat Tolnau) is an administrative county (comitatus or megye) in present Hungary as it was of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It lies in central Hungary, on the ...

, Homokszentgyörgy, Pécsvárad,

Szentgyörgyvár Szentgyörgyvár is a village in Zala County, Hungary. History The village was first mentioned in 1461. The castle stood along the river Zala at this time, the village bearing the same name was below it. Its defensive role grew during 16th cent ...

, Szentgyörgyvölgy,

Tatárszentgyörgy Tatárszentgyörgy is a village in Pest county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Rom ...

. * Italy: Reggio Calabria * Lithuania: Marijampolė, Prienai, Varniai. * Netherlands: Ridderkerk,

Terborg Terborg is a small city in the Dutch province of Gelderland, in the Achterhoek region in the east of the Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek. The city lies about 7 km southeast of Doetinchem. The population is ...

. * Poland: Brzeg Dolny, Dzierżoniów, Milicz, Ostróda. * Romania: Suceava,

Sfântu Gheorghe Sfântu Gheorghe (; hu, Sepsiszentgyörgy or ''Szentgyörgy'' ; yi, סנט דזשארדזש; English lit.: ''Saint George'') is the capital city of Covasna County, Romania. Located in the central part of the country and in the historical regio ...

. * Russia:

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

* Serbia:

Srpski Krstur Srpski Krstur () is a village located in Serbia, in the Novi Kneževac municipality of the North Banat District, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (69.81%) with a present Romani (13.58%) and Hungari ...

. * Slovakia: Svätý Jur. * Slovenia:

Šentjur Šentjur ( or ; german: Sankt Georgen) is a town in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat, and largest settlement, of the Municipality of Šentjur. The town lies on the Voglajna River east southeast of Celje. The settlement, and the entire municipali ...

* Spain:

Alcalá de los Gazules Alcalá de los Gazules is a city and municipality located in the province of Cádiz, Spain. According to the 2006 census, the town has a population of 5,633 inhabitants. Alcalá de los Gazules is situated in the Sierra de Cádiz. Although not o ...

, Golosalvo, Puentedura. * Switzerland: Castiel,

Kaltbrunn Kaltbrunn is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. History Kaltbrunn is first mentioned in 940 as ''Chaldebrunna''. Geography Kaltbrunn has an area, , of . Of this area, 5 ...

, Ruschein, Saint-George,

Schlans Schlans is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The municipality of Schlans merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Trun.Stein am Rhein,

Waltensburg/Vuorz Waltensburg/Vuorz is a former municipality in the Surselva Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of Andiast and Waltensburg/Vuorz merged into the municipality of Breil/Brigels. History ...

. * Ukraine: Holoby, Liuboml, Nizhyn, Taikury, Volodymyr,

Vyshneve Vyshneve ( uk, Вишне́ве) is a city south of Kyiv in Ukraine. It is in Bucha Raion of Kyiv Oblast. Vyshneve hosts the administration of Vyshneve urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It has a population of History In 1886, a ...

, Zbarazh.

Flags

Military insignia

* Regimental flags of the

Hellenic Army The Hellenic Army ( el, Ελληνικός Στρατός, Ellinikós Stratós, sometimes abbreviated as ΕΣ), formed in 1828, is the land force of Greece. The term ''Hellenic'' is the endogenous synonym for ''Greek''. The Hellenic Army is th ...

(1864) * Badge of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (1968) * Flag of the

Russian Orthodox Army The Russian Orthodox Army, ROA (russian: Русская православная армия, ''Russkaya pravoslavnaya armiya'') was a Russian separatist paramilitary group in Ukraine that has been fighting Ukrainian forces in the Donbas War. ...

(2014)

Explanatory notes

References

;Citations ;Sources * * * ;Bibliography * * * Loomis, C. Grant, 1949. ''White Magic, An Introduction to the Folklore of Christian Legend'' (Cambridge: Medieval Society of America) * Online version
(transliterates Greek text, etc.)--> * Walter, C., "The Origins of the Cult of St. George," ''Revue des études byzantines'', 53 (1995), 295–326. * Whatley, E. Gordon, editor, with Anne B. Thompson and Robert K. Upchurch, 2004. ''St. George and the Dragon in the South English Legendary (East Midland Revision, c. 1400)'' Originally published in ''Saints' Lives in Middle English Collections''

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