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besant

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Malestroit

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

De gueules semé de besants d'or.

Original entry: roundelly · G O · Bretagne · 1280

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
Payen de Malestroit

In medieval armorials

  • Wijnberghen (1270) no. 970
  • Compiegne 1278 (1278) no. 100 “paiens de malestroit”
  • Vermandois (1295) no. 584 “payen de malestrait”
  • Navarre (1375) no. 741 “le sire de malestroit, de gueles besantés d'or”
  • Le Blancq (1380) no. 742 “le seigneur de malestroit”
  • Urfé (1380) no. 621 “le sire de malestart, de gueles a tourtiaux d or”
  • Guerande (1381) no. 88, fol. 15r1 “alain de malestroit”
  • Gelre (1386) no. 801 “mons de malestroit” · crest: 2 talbot's heads affronted

Tinctures

gueules (field)
or (charge)

Charges

besant (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "besant",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "semé"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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