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Curson

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

Échiqueté d'or et de sable, à la fasce d'argent brochant sur le tout.

Original entry: checky & fess · X A OS · Norfolk · 1322

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
Roger Curson

In medieval armorials

  • Newcastle 1319 (Boroughbridge) (1322) no. 176 “sire roger de cursoun”
  • Antiquaries (1360) no. 151 “roger curzon”
  • Norfolk & Suffolk (1400) no. 56 “jo curson”

Tinctures

argent (ordinary)
or (field)
sable (field)

Charges

fasce (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "échiqueté",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "sable",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "brochant sur le tout"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}

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