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Drawn from the blazon

lion

Fully parsed

Gent (town)

family·FR·strict·Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials)

De gueules au lion d'argent colleté d'or.

Original entry: lion collared · G AO · variant · Flandern · 1446

Blazon written automatically by Enquerre from the coded entry of Steen Clemmensen’s public database, Ordinary of Medieval Armorials (v2.1, 2020), used with the author’s permission. armorial.dk

Other names

Also called
Gent
Identified as
Gent

In medieval armorials

  • Stuttgart (1446) no. 505 “gent”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
gueules (field)
or (charge)

Charges

lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "colleté"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "colleté",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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