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orle

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Vaux

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

De gueules à l'écusson d'argent accompagné d'un orle de merlettes d'argent.

Original entry: escutcheon acc. orle of martlets · G AA · Norfolk · 1340

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
Vaux

In medieval armorials

  • Ashmolean (1334) no. 336 “monsr de vaus”
  • Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 1040 “<vaux>”

Tinctures

argent (ordinary)
gueules (field)

Charges

écusson (ordinary)
merlette (meuble)
orle (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "écusson",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagné",
          "detail": "merlette",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "orle"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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