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lionhache

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blazon partially parsed (method lenient)

Norge

family·NO·lenient·Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials)

De gueules au lion d'or tenant une hache d'argent, à la bordure d'or.

Original entry: lion holding axe & border · G OAO · confounded with other arms · royal family · 1340

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
Norway

In medieval armorials

  • Ashmolean (1334) no. 18 “le roy de norweye”

Tinctures

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

Charges

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

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