Bavant

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Blazon

D'argent au chevron de gueules, à la bordure engrêlée de sable semée de besants d'or.

Original entry: chevron & border engrailed roundely · A GSO · Norfolk · 1322

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: Bavent
Identified as: John Bavent, John de Bavent

In medieval armorials

Povey (1320) no. 32 “sire johan bavent”
Newcastle 1319 (Boroughbridge) (1322) no. 42 “sire john de bavent”
Dunstable 2nd (1334) no. 75 “monsr john bavent”
Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 129 “monsire john de bavent”
Cooke's Ordinary (1340) no. 152 “sr john de bavent”
Powell (1350) no. 553, fol. 24r1 “sr jon bauent”
Norfolk & Suffolk (1400) no. 60 “bavent”
Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 707 “john bavent port d'argent chevron de goules & une bordeure de sable recercelee besantee d'or”

Tinctures

argent (field)

gueules (ordinary)

or (charge)

sable (ordinary)

Charges

besant (meuble)

bordure (ordinary)

chevron (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chevron",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "bordure",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "engrêlée"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "semée",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "besant"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}