Cross of Avis

Form

A green cross fleury, shown in the cited equal-armed reference form with the gold edge specified for the modern Portuguese insignia.

When it is documented

The sign of the Portuguese Military Order of Avis; see the order’s entry for dates.

Context

Still used for the Portuguese honorific Military Order of Avis. The new drawing follows an equal-armed reference; the former Atlas drawing’s elongated proportions are not treated as a fixed rule.

Links in the Atlas

• Emblem of Order of Avis (Order)

  The cross of the order.

Sources and how they were checked

• Form; modern honorific use.

  Production batch 1 manifest, sym-cross-avis-green (Presidência da República Portuguesa — Ordens honoríficas) · batch-1

• Full flowered reference silhouette with a restrained gold edge. Adapted from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cross_avis.svg by Melian, after Janmad (2006). CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Changes: normalized canvas, matte Atlas colour, fine grain, bevel lighting and virtual-light response. This adaptation is CC BY-SA 3.0. Reference geometry is an artistic exemplar, not proof of an earliest historical date.

  Melian, after Janmad (2006) — visual reference and artwork credit · checked 2026-10-23 (reference artwork inspected; visual form, not proof of earliest historical use)

• Supports the cross form, colour and, for the Portuguese insignia, the gold edge.

  Official heraldic or insignia description · checked 2026-10-23 (official description; not a dated visual facsimile)