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Candoire-Coucy / Bethune-Coucy

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

Écartelé : aux 1 et 4 d'argent à la fasce de gueules accompagnée d'un lion léopardé de sable au canton dextre du chef ; aux 2 et 3 fascé de vair et de gueules.

Original entry: fess acc. lion passt in chf dx; barry; =; = {AGS, ZG} · Vermandois · 1440

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
Candoire
Identified as
Bethune / Candoire

In medieval armorials

  • Bergshammar (1450) no. 2818
  • Lyncenich (1450) no. 2302

Tinctures

argent (field)
gueules (field)
gueules (ordinary)
sable (charge)
vair (field)

Charges

canton (ordinary)
chef (meuble)
fasce (ordinary)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "fasce",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "gueules",
              "category": "colour"
            },
            "modifiers": [
              {
                "verb": "accompagnée",
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "sable",
                  "category": "colour"
                },
                "attitudes": [
                  "léopardé"
                ],
                "charge_name": "lion"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "canton",
            "count": 1,
            "detail": "chef",
            "category": "ordinary",
            "attitudes": [
              "dextre"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ]
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "vair",
          "category": "fur"
        },
        "partition": "fascé",
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ],
        "sub_tinctures": [
          {
            "name": "vair",
            "category": "fur"
          },
          {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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