Walton

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Blazon

D'argent au chevron de sable accompagné d'une merlette de gueules au canton dextre du chef.

Original entry: chevron acc. martlet in chf dx · A SG · Essex · 1400

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: John Walton- dbl, Thomas Wanton (Essex)

In medieval armorials

Cooke's Ordinary (1340) no. 144 “sr de wauton”
Powell (1350) no. 405 “sr jon wautone”
Styward (1370) no. 6 “sir william wauton”
Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 1299 “mons j de wautone”
Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 696 “monsr thomas de wauton port d'argent chevron de sable a un merlot de goules en le kantel devant”

Tinctures

argent (field)

gueules (charge)

sable (ordinary)

Charges

canton (ordinary)

chef (meuble)

chevron (ordinary)

merlette (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chevron",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagné",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "merlette"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "canton",
      "count": 1,
      "detail": "chef",
      "category": "ordinary",
      "attitudes": [
        "dextre"
      ]
    }
  ]
}