Shirley

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

Blazon

D'or à trois pals d'azur, au canton d'hermine.

Original entry: 3 pales & canton · O BE · Derbyshire · 1436

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: Hugh Shirley, Kt, Hugh Shirley, kt, MP

In medieval armorials

Carlisle (1334) no. 76 “ralph shirley”
Powell (1350) no. 287 “sr rad'us de schireleye”
Willement (1395) no. 270 “monsr hugh / de shyrlere”
Picquigny (armorial - 5256) (1400) no. 128 “m. hugh shirley”
Ruelle (1400) no. 3592 “le sr de zhylney”
Toison d'Or & l'Europe (1440) no. 824 “zhurluey”
Lutzelbourg (Nicolas de) (1440) no. 228, fol. 25v1 “zhylney”
Bergshammar (1450) no. 2036 “zhurluey”

Tinctures

azur (ordinary)

hermine (ordinary)

or (field)

Charges

canton (ordinary)

3× pal (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "pal",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "azur",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "canton",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "hermine",
        "category": "fur"
      }
    }
  ]
}