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Hamon / Hemont

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

D'azur au chef d'or chargé d'un chevron de gueules.

Original entry: chief ch. chevron · B OG · Normandie · 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
Hamon
Identified as
Jean Hamon

In medieval armorials

  • Navarre (1375) no. 580 “m jehan hamon, d'azur a i chief d'or a un quevron de gueules”
  • Le Blancq (1380) no. 1403 “le seigneur de hemont”
  • Urfé (1380) no. 1318 “celui de hemon, d asur au chief d or a j chievron de gueles”
  • Charolais (1425) no. 209, fol. 20r1 “hemon”
  • Sicile (1425) no. 1113 “le sieur de hemont, d azur au chef d or a un chevron de gueulle sur le chef”
  • Prinsault (1470) no. 1459 “le seigneur de hemont, dazur au chief dor au chievron fr geulles”

Tinctures

azur (field)
gueules (ordinary)
or (ordinary)

Charges

chef (ordinary)
chevron (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "azur",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "chevron"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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