Vaux

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Blazon

Échiqueté d'argent et de gueules, au canton d'azur.

Original entry: checky & canton · X B AG · Cumberland · 1400

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: Vaux of Gilsland
Identified as: Fulk Vaux

In medieval armorials

Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 1324 “fouke de vaux port eschequeree d'argent & de goules ovec (le premier) un quarter d'azure”

Tinctures

argent (field)

azur (ordinary)

gueules (field)

Charges

canton (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "échiqueté",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "canton",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "azur",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}