Flag of Basse-Normandie France?

Question

Anybody know what it symbolizes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Basse-Normandie_flag.svg

Answer 1

The legend is that duke William of Normandy had two lions for Normandy and Maine, and added a third for England when he conquered it in 1066. However as heraldry did not exist in the XIth century, this must be apocryphal. Presumably there was a deliberate resemblence between England's and Normandy's arms to recognise the dynastic connection between the two, though.