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lion

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Limoges (Dreux)

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

D'or au lion de gueules, à la bordure de sinople.

Original entry: lion & border · O GV · confounded with other arms · Limousin · 1480

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
Limoges

In medieval armorials

  • Le Blancq (1380) no. 585 “le viconte de limage”
  • Prinsault (1470) no. 655 “le visconte de limoges, dor au lyon de geulles, a le bordure de sinople, et crye sainct lienart”

Tinctures

gueules (charge)
or (field)
sinople (ordinary)

Charges

bordure (ordinary)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "bordure",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sinople",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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