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lion

Fully parsed

Percy

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

D'or au lion d'azur, à la bordure engrêlée de gueules.

Original entry: lion & border engrailed · O BG · Northumberland · 1340

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
Percy (new)
Identified as
Gilbert Percy

In medieval armorials

  • Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 97 “monsire william de percy”
  • Cooke's Ordinary (1340) no. 70 “percy”
  • Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 105 “mons gilberd de percy”
  • Domville (1470) no. 2550, fol. 64v “percy”

Tinctures

azur (charge)
gueules (ordinary)
or (field)

Charges

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

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