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Drawn from the blazon

ourssautoirhachecroix pattéelionroseours

Approximate rendering

blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)

Bedford

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Blazon

Quarterly, lst and 4th, per chevron argent and sable four bears' paws erased, three in chief and one in base, within a bordure engrailed all counterchanged, for BEDFoRD; 2nd, per saltire chequy or, and azure and argent ona saltire gules between two battle-axes erect in fesse proper a cross pattée of the first, for Grayson; 3rd, or, three demi-lions couped gules on a chief of the last a rose between two chaplets of the first, for Hau

Tinctures

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

Charges

bordure (ordinary)
chef (ordinary)
croix pattée (meuble)
hache (meuble)
lion (meuble)
ours (meuble)
rose (meuble)
sautoir (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "ours",
            "count": 4,
            "category": "meuble",
            "attitudes": [
              "arraché"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "bordure",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "de l'un en l'autre",
              "category": "",
              "reference": "de l'un en l'autre"
            },
            "attitudes": [
              "engrêlé"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "sautoir",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "gueules",
              "category": "colour"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "hache",
            "count": 2,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "au naturel",
              "category": ""
            },
            "attitudes": [
              "en fasce"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "croix pattée",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "du premier",
              "category": "",
              "reference": "du premier"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "lion",
            "count": 3,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "gueules",
              "category": "colour"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "chef",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "du dernier",
              "category": "",
              "reference": "du dernier"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "rose",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble"
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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