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Fenwick

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

Coupé de gueules et d'argent, à six merlettes de l'un en l'autre brochant sur le tout.

Original entry: per fess & 6 martlets cch · G A · Northumberland · 1392

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

In medieval armorials

  • Ashmolean (1334) no. 381 “mons j de ffenewike”
  • Carlisle (1334) no. 163 “mons john de fenwike”
  • Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 526 “monsire de fenwike”
  • Cooke's Ordinary (1340) no. 596 “sr de fenewyke”
  • Powell (1350) no. 522 “s' jon ffenewyk”
  • Basynge (1395) no. 223 “john fenwick”
  • Basynge (1395) no. 387 “mons john fenwyk”
  • Willement (1395) no. 183 “monsr john / ffenwick”

Tinctures

argent (field)
gueules (field)

Charges

6× merlette (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    },
    "partition": "coupé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "merlette",
      "count": 6,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "de l'un en l'autre",
        "category": "",
        "reference": "de l'un en l'autre"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "brochant sur le tout"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}

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