Gorges

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Blazon

Losangé d'or et d'azur.

Original entry: lozengy · O B · Somerset · 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: Ralph Gorges

In medieval armorials

Segar (1282) no. 135 “ralph gorges”
Caerlaverock (1300) no. 96 “ralph gorges”
Smallpece (1300) no. 123 “gorges”
Stirling (1304) no. 60 “ralph gorges”
Dunstable 1st (1308) no. 70 “ralph gorges”
Parliamentary (1312) no. 76 “sr ralph gorges”
Ashmolean (1334) no. 88 “le sr de gorges”
Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 492 “monsire de gorges”

Tinctures

azur (field)

or (field)

Charges

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "losangé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}