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Approximate rendering
blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)
Henry II
family·lenient_en·Burke (General Armory)
Blazon
Gules two lions passant guardant or, previously to the King's marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine, when he adopted a third lion, for Aquitaine. On the Great Seal no Arms appear, the concave side of the shielding only exhibited. Henry II. appears to have been the first monarch who used a badge, he first bore an escarbuncle of gold, an ancient mark of his paternal House of Anjou, and afterwards introduced the sprig of broom piant, or Planta Genista, from which his surname, PLANTAGENET, was derived, and which was a favourite badge with some of his descendants. He is also said to have borne a jennet between two sprigs of broom
Tinctures
Charges
Parsed structure (AST)
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}
},
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{
"name": "léopard",
"count": 2,
"category": "meuble",
"tincture": {
"name": "or",
"category": "metal"
}
},
{
"name": "lion",
"count": 1,
"category": "meuble"
},
{
"name": "borne",
"count": 1,
"category": "meuble"
}
]
}