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tête

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Riste

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

D'or au chef de gueules chargé de deux têtes de cygne d'argent.

Original entry: chief ch. 2 swan's heads · O GA · Lorraine · 1280

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
de Riste, Sr. de Riste

In medieval armorials

  • Wijnberghen (1270) no. 559 “le seng de riste”
  • Uffenbach (1400) no. 82, fol. 12v4 “die herren von rist”
  • Grünenberg (1483) no. 1171 “die heren von tifft in schotten” · crest: 2 swan's heads
  • Miltenberg (1490) no. 1311 “her von rist”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
gueules (ordinary)
or (field)

Charges

chef (ordinary)
2× cygne (meuble)
2× tête (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "count": 2,
          "detail": "cygne",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "tête"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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