Massy

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

Blazon

Bandé d'argent et de gueules, au chef d'or chargé d'un lion de sable à dextre.

Original entry: bendy & chief ch. lion dx · A GOS · Ile-de-France · 1380

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: Macy
Identified as: de Massy

In medieval armorials

Urfé (1380) no. 66, fol. 6n1 “celui de masy, bende d argent et de gueles a j chief d or a lyon de sable sur le premier quartier”
Prinsault (1470) no. 79 “le seigneur de masy, bende de geulles et dargent au chef dor au lyon passant sur le premier quartier.”

Tinctures

argent (field)

gueules (field)

or (ordinary)

sable (charge)

Charges

chef (ordinary)

lion (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "bandé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "position": "à dextre",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "à dextre"
          ],
          "charge_name": "lion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}