Everything about Plus Ultra Motto totally explained
Plus Ultra (
Latin for
further beyond, "further yet,"
more beyond or
yet beyond) is the national motto of
Spain and a number of other institutions including
Jurong Junior College in
Singapore,
Malden Catholic High School in
Massachusetts,
Newstead Girls College, the oldest existing
public school in
Sri Lanka and the
Colombian Navy. It was the personal motto of both
Charles V and
Sir Francis Bacon. In its
Old French equivalent,
Plus Oultre, it's also the motto of the
Belgian municipality of
Binche.
Nec Plus Ultra
Earl Rosenthal, author of
The Palace of Charles V in Granada (1985), has researched the origin of the motto. It is closely associated with the
Pillars of Hercules, which according to
Roman mythology were built by
Hercules, near the
Straits of Gibraltar, marking the edge of the then known world. According to mythology the pillars bore the warning
Nec Plus Ultra (also
Non Plus Ultra, "nothing further beyond"), serving as a warning to sailors and navigators to go no further.
Charles V
It is believed that the young
Charles V adopted
Plus Ultra as his motto at the suggestion of his
doctor and personal advisor
Luigi Marliano. The idea was to encourage him to ignore the ancient warning and encourage him to take risks and go
further beyond.
Charles V was born in
Ghent in
Flanders and as a result the motto is also used in this region.
Spain
The motto became popular in
Spain after
Charles V became king of both
Aragon and
Castile in the early 1500s. It subsequently became the motto of
Habsburg Spain and featured on the
Spanish dollar. The motto was used to encourage Spanish explorers to go beyond the
Pillars of Hercules and on to the
New World. Today the inscription, along with the
Pillars of Hercules, is featured on both the
national flag and emblem of modern
Spain. It was also featured on the shield of the
Second Spanish Republic.
In 1926 a crew of
Spanish aviators, including
Ramón Franco and
Julio Ruiz de Alda Miqueleiz, completed a Trans-Atlantic flight on a hydroplane named the
Plus Ultra. 1930 saw the formation of a
Madrid-based football team
AD Plus Ultra, which eventually developed into
Real Madrid Castilla. In more recent times, the
Plus Ultra Brigade was a brigade of troops from five
Spanish speaking countries including
Spain, the
Dominican Republic,
Nicaragua,
Honduras, and
El Salvador, which served in the
Iraq War.
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