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besantmerlette

Fully parsed

Stafford of Pipe

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

D'or au chevron de gueules chargé de trois besants d'or, accompagné de trois merlettes de gueules.

Original entry: chevron ch. 3 roundels betw 3 martlets · O GOG · Staffordshire · 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
Stafford

In medieval armorials

  • Powell (1350) no. 414

Tinctures

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

Charges

3× besant (meuble)
chevron (ordinary)
3× merlette (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chevron",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "besant"
        },
        {
          "verb": "accompagné",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "merlette"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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