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Merle

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

Échiqueté d'argent et de gueules.

Original entry: checky · A G · Guyenne · 1470

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

  • Urfé (1380) no. 2601 “celui dou merle, eschiquete d argent et de gueles”
  • Ungarland (1466) no. 13

Tinctures

argent (field)
gueules (field)

Charges

Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "échiqueté",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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