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It is time to prepare also colours for the Weimar Wilhelm's Leibregiment. I have immediatly to say that while for the Hesse Kassel Leibregiment there were some info, mostly about the uniforms and the Army, for the Weimar Leiberegiment there is none. This does not mean I will stop thinking, elaborating, drawing templates.
As a first step, I tried to understand who was this Wilhelm of Weimar. First it must be pointed our we are speaking of the Leibregiment of the Margraviate of Sachsen Weimar, a little State in the center of Germany, devoted (at least the regnant family, one branch of the Wettin Family) to the Protestant cause. In fact, at the epoch of the Battle of Lutzen in 1632 ruled the Markgraviate Wilhelm IV, brother of Johan, one of the first to rebel to the Imperial Family, fighting at the Battle of the White Mountain in 1618 and that died in 1626. Besides the aforementioned Wilhelm IV, there is another important figure in this branch of the Wettin Familiy, i.e. Bernhard von Sachsen Weimar that will take over the command of all the Swedish Army at the Battle of Lutzen just after the death of the King Gustavus Adolphus.
This regiment fought at the Battle of Lutzen with a strength of 276 Musketeers, 78 pikemen and 142 Officers, NCO, drummers, corporals. for a total of 496 men supposedly on 10 coys.
As far as possible to understand, I took as reference the Saxon Army of that period. The Saxon Leibregiment has red and white uniforms. So, remebering we are speaking of the same family, I kept the same colour for the Leibregiment of Sachsen Weimer, with some changing in colours of the trousers; The red uniform of - at least the Leibregiment - is given by this portrait of the young Duke, with a uniform (usually they wore that of the Leibregiment)
Another problem was the colour identifying these troops.
I went to some painting in colours of the Markgrave Wilhelm IV and I found some portrait with a red/orange sash (1) and the rest with yellow/golden sash (more adapt to distinguish from Imperial, usually using red colours or signs)
First I found these portraits in black and grey, where the sash could be in orange or dark yellow (gold).
Finally I found a picture in colours:
and details:
I found also an orange sash (very very light, almost rose) for his brother, the famous General Bernhard von Weimar (1604 - 1639), but this refers to his first years of life (he seems quite young in this portrait, probably here no more than 1624)
In a later portrait of him (here bottom), so at the very end of his life, around 1630-1635 we can have another portrait with the yellow sash, confirmg the change of colour from orange to yellow.
Also in the following portrait it seems - even though it is in black and white - with no doubt that the sash had light colours, i.e. yellow:
From this, there is no doubt that the Markgraf is wearing a yellow sash, that I hence reproduced on the soldiers - as a distinguishing colour - of his Leibregiment.
I started with the colours of this regiment, thinking it had 12 companies as the usual Leibregiment of other countries. To do so, I had to understand which coat of arm to use, considering the total mess of info on Internet about the coat of arms of Sachsen Weimar.
I started from a portrait of Bernard of Weimar, brother as said of the Margrave, in black and white, or a nuance of it, to grab info.
In this portrait above at the bottom left it is possible to see the coat of arms of the Weimare Family at the epoch of the TYW.
Here the detail:
From this, it was needed to clearly understand the single coat of arms used, so to use in the single flags of the single companies.
I found a template in colour (here bottom)
where the correspondance were perfect and that allowed me to fully interpretate with colours the coat of arms in the portrait of Bernard of Weimar and to have a full idea of the sigle coat of arms,
I found then a good explanation of the single coat of arms:
Moreover, from the portrait above it was possible to extract the details of the coat of arms that confirm the speculation I just did:
Once I understood all this, I followed the patterns of the Hessen Kassel Leibregiment, that at its turn followed the Swedish patterns (this is historically sure) of the Swedish Army.
I started with the Colonelle Fahne so the main colour of the regiment with the coat of arms of the Weimar Family (semplified)
to pass to some variations:
(here above I kept the azure of the Family of Wettin and the green of Saxony)
here above I used the green as one of the colours of SachsenIn the colour hier above the motto "GLORIA" is taken from the drawing in white and black up Now some infantry: as said I kept the red colour of uniforms. The Saxon Leibregiment has Red - at least the superior part of the uniform. Now I think for the trousers, considering that this was a Leibregiment, and hence of property of the Markgrave Wilhelm directly, it is quite evident that they were dressed in an uniformed way, also because it was a new regiment. So I kept also for trousers the red or brownish tones (like the last standardbearer here above).
This pike above chose to use the green sock as homage to Saxony
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