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coticecotice

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Scharfenstein

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

D'argent à la fasce de sable accostée de deux cotices de sable.

Original entry: fess cotised · A SS · schwarze · Jülich · 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
Scharfenstein

In medieval armorials

  • Wijnberghen (1270) no. 733 “nicolas de scarpenstein”
  • Ingeram (1459) no. 917 “dye von/ scharffensteyn” · crest: 2 wings ch. arms
  • Rugen (Jörg) (1499) no. 2206 “scharffenstein” · crest: 2 wings ch. arms

Tinctures

argent (field)
sable (ordinary)

Charges

2× cotice (ordinary)
fasce (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accostée",
          "count": 2,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "cotice"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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