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Drawn from the blazon

griffon

Fully parsed

Hekin ? / Griffin

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

De sable au griffon d'argent.

Original entry: griffin segreant · S A · _England · 1350

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
Hekin

In medieval armorials

  • Styward (1370) no. 35 “sr richard hekin”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
sable (field)

Charges

griffon (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "sable",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "griffon",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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