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lion

Fully parsed

Dreux-Beaussart

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

Échiqueté d'or et d'azur, à la bordure d'argent chargée d'un lion léopardé de gueules à dextre.

Original entry: checky & border ch. lion passt dx · X AG OB · Normandie · 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

Also called
Dreux, Dreux (Capet)

In medieval armorials

  • Cour Amoureuse (1420) no. 469, fol. 40v1 “gauvain de dreux”

Tinctures

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

Charges

bordure (ordinary)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "échiqueté",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "bordure",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargée",
          "position": "à dextre",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "léopardé",
            "à dextre"
          ],
          "charge_name": "lion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}

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