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léopardléopardlion

Approximate rendering

blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)

Witt I

family·lenient_en·Burke (General Armory)

Blazon

Gules two lions passant guardant or. Much controversy has arisen regarding leopards or lions, but the latter would appear the more correct. John, the Monk of Harmonstier, in Tourain, a > contemporary writer, relates, that when Henry I. selected Geoffrey G@ Plantagenet to be his son-in-law, "Clypeus Leonculos aureos imaginarios habens collo ejus suspenditur."

Tinctures

gueules (field)
or (charge)

Charges

léopard (meuble)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "léopard",
      "count": 2,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "léopard",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble"
    }
  ]
}

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