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lion

Fully parsed

Schönberg

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

D'or au lion coupé de gueules et de sinople.

Original entry: lion per fess · O X GV · Meissen · 1459

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
Schönberg, von Schönberg

In medieval armorials

  • Ingeram (1459) no. 448 “dy von schönberg” · crest: lion isst
  • Grünenberg (1483) no. 1090 “hern von schoennberg uff dem land zum missen” · crest: lion isst
  • St. Gallen Haggenberg (1488) no. 388 “schönberg”
  • Rugen (Jörg) (1499) no. 1183, fol. 121r1 “die hernn von schonnbergk” · crest: lion isst guard

Tinctures

gueules (charge)
or (field)
sinople (charge)

Charges

lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "coupé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        },
        {
          "verb": "coupé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sinople",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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