Colville

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Blazon

D'or à la fasce de gueules chargée de trois croix recroisetées d'argent.

Original entry: fess ch. 3 crosses crossletss · O GA · Hampshire · 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: Coleville of Bitham a.o.
Identified as: John Coleville, William Coleville, William Colville

In medieval armorials

Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 253 “monsire william colvill”
Cooke's Ordinary (1340) no. 337 “sr willm de colevile”
Powell (1350) no. 378 “sr jon coleuyle”
Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 578 “william colville”
Picquigny (armorial - 5256) (1400) no. 398 “colvile”
Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 433 “monsr william colvile port mesmes lez armes & trois croyseletz botonez d'argent en la fees”
Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 549 “monsr john colvill port d'or une fees de goules & trois croiseletz ficchez d'argent”
Creswick (1450) no. 1659 “<colville>”

Tinctures

argent (charge)

gueules (ordinary)

or (field)

Charges

3× croix recroisetée (meuble)

fasce (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargée",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "croix recroisetée"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Source : Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials)