Clifford

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

Blazon

Échiqueté d'or et d'azur, à la fasce de gueules chargée de trois quintefeuilles d'argent brochant sur le tout.

Original entry: checky, fess overall ch. 3 cinquefoils · X GA OB · Herefordshire · 1300

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: Clifford of Llandovery
Identified as: Thomas Clifford

In medieval armorials

Camden (1280) no. 93 “roger clifford”
St. George (1285) no. 147 “roger clifford”
Charles (1285) no. 74 “roger clifford”
Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 1131 “thomas clifford”

Tinctures

argent (charge)

azur (field)

gueules (ordinary)

or (field)

Charges

fasce (ordinary)

3× quintefeuille (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "échiqueté",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargée",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "brochant",
            "brochant sur le tout"
          ],
          "charge_name": "quintefeuille"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}