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besant

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Zouche of Haringworth

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

De gueules à neuf besants d'or, au canton d'hermine.

Original entry: 9 roundels & canton · G OE · Northamptonshire · 1436

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

In medieval armorials

  • St. George (1285) no. 336 “john zouche”
  • Collins (1295) no. 141 “john zouche”
  • Collins (1295) no. 461 “sire de zouche”
  • Guillim (1305) no. 69 “eudo zouche”
  • Parliamentary (1312) no. 42 “sr william zouche”
  • Newcastle 1319 (Boroughbridge) (1322) no. 146 “sire rog' la souch”
  • Ashmolean (1334) no. 98 “le sr de la zoche”
  • Cooke's Ordinary (1340) no. 419 “sr de la zouche haringworthe”

Tinctures

gueules (field)
hermine (ordinary)
or (charge)

Charges

9× besant (meuble)
canton (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "besant",
      "count": 9,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "canton",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "hermine",
        "category": "fur"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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