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Guines

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

Vairé d'or et d'azur, à la bordure de gueules.

Original entry: vairy & border · O BG · Boulogne · 1300

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
Jean de Guines

In medieval armorials

  • Compiegne 1278 (1278) no. 238 “jehan de guinnes”
  • Camden (1280) no. 75 “ernaud guines”

Tinctures

azur (field)
gueules (ordinary)
or (field)

Charges

bordure (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "vairé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "bordure",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}

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