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merlettemerlette

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Greil

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

Écartelé : aux 1 et 4 de gueules au chevron d'or chargé de cinq tourteaux de sable ; aux 2 et 3 fascé d'argent et de sable, à trois merlettes de sable en chef.

Original entry: chevron ch. 5 roundels; barry acc. 3 martlets in chf; =; = {GOS, ASS} · Auvergne · 1456

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

In medieval armorials

  • Revel (1456) no. 447, fol. 334n1 “loys du grelh crie la vopiliere”

Tinctures

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

Charges

chevron (ordinary)
3× merlette (meuble)
5× tourteau (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "chevron",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "or",
              "category": "metal"
            },
            "modifiers": [
              {
                "verb": "chargé",
                "count": 5,
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "sable",
                  "category": "colour"
                },
                "charge_name": "tourteau"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "merlette",
            "count": 3,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "sable",
              "category": "colour"
            },
            "attitudes": [
              "en chef"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "partition": "fascé",
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ],
        "sub_tinctures": [
          {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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