The Aragonese Royal Standard (and County of Barcelona, the four red stripes on a yellow field) used alongside the banner of the city worn by Barcelonan soldiers and later joining them in a quartering first depicted on the heraldic sign and later on the banner. Thus the cross seem to have been used as a distinguishing and official of Barcelonan citizens, or perhaps slightly earlier.
The Neighborly host ordinances of 1395 ordered: « Than for the city councillors, the present be made a long side banner which has the sign of Saint George, containing a red cross on a white field, that is badge of the city». The Saint George's Cross is shown on a 13th-century mural of the Tinell Hall, depicting by Barcelonan or Catalan soldiers. The first instance of a cross is found in a seal of 1288.
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