Montmorency

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

Blazon

D'or à la croix de gueules cantonnée de seize aigles d'azur.

Original entry: cross acc. 16 eagles · O GB · Ile-de-France · 1224

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: Jacques de Montmorency S.Montmorency, Jean II Montmorency S.Montmorency, Mathieu de Montmorency S.Montmorency, Mathieu IV de Montmorency

In medieval armorials

Hozier-Cénalis (1260) no. 45 “le sr de laual”
Cambrai 1269 (1269) no. 11 “.. (matthieu de montmorency)” · crest: talbot's head
Wijnberghen (1270) no. 7 “le seigne de momorenci”
Walford (1273) no. 111 “john montmorency”
Ost-de-Flandre (1297) no. 30 “li sires de monmoranchi d'or a une crois de gheules et a seize egles d'asur es quatre cartiers”
Le Breton (1300) no. 179 “le sire de monmorenci”
Le Breton (Baluze) (1300) no. 27 “le sire de monmorency”
Navarre (1375) no. 20 “le sire de monmorenchy, d'or a une croix de gueules a xvi esgletes d'asur”

Tinctures

azur (charge)

gueules (ordinary)

or (field)

Charges

16× aigle (meuble)

croix (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "croix",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "cantonnée",
          "count": 16,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "azur",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "aigle"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}