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griffon

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Egypt (kingdom)

family·strict·Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials)

Parti d'or et de sable, au griffon passant de gueules brochant sur le tout.

Original entry: per pale & griffin passt · X G OS · attributed · 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
Egypt

In medieval armorials

  • Segar (1282) no. 20 “king of egypt”
  • Sherborne Missal (1405) no. 25, fol. 123n

Tinctures

gueules (charge)
or (field)
sable (field)

Charges

griffon (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "parti",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "sable",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "griffon",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "passant",
        "brochant sur le tout"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}

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