Brugge (town)

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

Blazon

Fascé d'argent et de gueules, au lion d'azur brochant sur le tout.

Original entry: barry & lion · X B AG · variant · Flandern · 1420

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: Brugge
Identified as: Bruges, Brugge

In medieval armorials

Richental Chronik (1420) no. 1146 “brugk in flander”
Rugen (Jörg) (1499) no. 2968 “die stat brugk in flanndernn”

Tinctures

argent (field)

azur (charge)

gueules (field)

Charges

lion (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "fascé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "azur",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "brochant sur le tout"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}