Pelham

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

Blazon

D'azur à trois pélicans d'argent.

Original entry: 3 pelicans · B A · Sussex · 1400

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

Identified as: John Pelham, Kt

In medieval armorials

County (1385) no. 644 “s john de pelleham”
Picquigny (armorial - 5256) (1400) no. 311 “mess john pelham”
Rouen (1410) no. 63 “mr pelham”
Creswick (1450) no. 1039 “sir john pelham”
Portington (1450) no. 752 “pelham”
Domville (1470) no. 586, fol. 15v “pelham”
Neve (Peter le) (1499) no. 271, fol. 15v1 “sir john pellam”

Tinctures

argent (charge)

azur (field)

Charges

3× pélican (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "azur",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "pélican",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    }
  ]
}