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merlette

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Delft

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

D'argent à la fasce de gueules accompagnée en chef de deux merlettes de sable.

Original entry: fess acc. 2 martlets in chf · A GS · Flandern · 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

In medieval armorials

  • Le Blancq (1380) no. 1960 “le seigneur de delft”
  • Gaillard Flandre (1440) no. 649 “le seigneur de bertene .. surnome van der delft”
  • Coninck (1450) no. 1135 “h jan van luu”

Tinctures

argent (field)
gueules (ordinary)
sable (charge)

Charges

fasce (ordinary)
2× merlette (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagnée",
          "count": 2,
          "position": "en chef",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "en chef"
          ],
          "charge_name": "merlette"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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