Plantagenet E.Cornwall

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

Blazon

D'argent au lion de gueules, à la bordure de sable semée de besants d'or.

Original entry: lion & border roundely · A GSO · Cornwall · 1300

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: Cornwall
Identified as: arms of the ealdom of Cornwall, John Cornwall, John Cornwall, KG, Richard, comte de Cornouailles (d 1272), ou son fi, Richard of Cornwall, King of Romans

In medieval armorials

Matt.Paris Hist.Angl. (1244) no. 38 “(richard earl of cornwall)”
Glover (1255) no. 3 “earl of cornwall”
Matt.Paris Lib.Add. (1259) no. 3 “comitis ricardi comitis scilicet pictavie”
Matt.Paris Lib.Add. (1259) no. 97
Wijnberghen (1270) no. 1303 “le roy ..”
Walford (1273) no. 124 “earl of cornwall”
Camden (1280) no. 34 “earl of cornwall”
Segar (1282) no. 30 “earl of cornwall”

Tinctures

argent (field)

gueules (charge)

or (charge)

sable (ordinary)

Charges

besant (meuble)

bordure (ordinary)

lion (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "bordure",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "semée",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "besant"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}