Moerkerke-Praet

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

Blazon

D'or au sautoir de gueules chargé de cinq coquilles d'argent.

Original entry: saltire ch. 5 escallops · O GA · Flandern · 1250

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: Praet, Praet-Moerkerke
Identified as: Louis van Praet S.Moerkerke

In medieval armorials

Wijnberghen (1270) no. 1245
Dupuy (1310) no. 250 “celuy de mierluque”
Navarre (1375) no. 1194 “le sire de preat, d'or a i sauteur de gueules”
Le Blancq (1380) no. 1908 “le seigneur de mourkercke”
Urfé (1380) no. 1836 “celui de marquerque, de praat a v coquilles d argent”
Gelre (1386) no. 996 “he' van moerkirke” · crest: moor's head
armorial - IV.1249 (FR) (1400) no. 10, fol. 1v1 “s' de morkerke”
Toison d'Or & l'Europe (1440) no. 573 “mes de morkerke”

Tinctures

argent (charge)

gueules (ordinary)

or (field)

Charges

5× coquille (meuble)

sautoir (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "sautoir",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "count": 5,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "coquille"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}