Longespee

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

Blazon

De gueules à trois épées d'argent posées en fasce rangées en pal.

Original entry: 3 swords in pale · G A · attributed arms · Wiltshire · 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: Plantagenet E.Salisbury
Identified as: Maud Longespée

In medieval armorials

Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 1459, fol. 118n1 “maulde longespé fille a william longespé duc de normandie & compaigne a monsr hugh mortymer qui vient ove le conquereur port de goules & trois espeyes d'argent”

Tinctures

argent (charge)

gueules (field)

Charges

3× épée (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "épée",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "posées",
        "en fasce",
        "rangées",
        "en pal"
      ]
    }
  ]
}