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lionlion

Fully parsed

Poncyn

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

Écartelé d'azur et d'argent, au lion d'or au canton dextre du chef.

Original entry: qtly acc. lion in chf dx · B AO · reversed · 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

In medieval armorials

  • Stirling (1304) no. 4 “william poncyn”

Tinctures

argent (field)
azur (field)
or (charge)

Charges

canton (ordinary)
chef (meuble)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "lion",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "or",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "canton",
            "count": 1,
            "detail": "chef",
            "category": "ordinary",
            "attitudes": [
              "dextre"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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