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croissant

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Malson

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

Parti d'azur et de gueules, à trois croissants d'argent brochant sur le tout.

Original entry: per pale & 3 crescent · X A BG · _England · 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
Mallesour
Identified as
Malson

In medieval armorials

  • Powell (1350) no. 450 “sr thm malesseur”
  • Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 753 “[..]”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
azur (field)
gueules (field)

Charges

3× croissant (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "azur",
      "category": "colour"
    },
    "partition": "parti",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "croissant",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "brochant sur le tout"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}

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