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Vaz

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Écartelé : aux 1 et 4 équipolé d'argent et d'azur ; aux 2 et 3 de gueules plain.

Original entry: checky of 9; plain; =; = {AB, G} · Suisse · 1483

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
Fatz
Identified as
Fhr. Vaz, Fhr. von Vaz, Gf.Vaz

In medieval armorials

  • Haus zum Loch (1306) no. 11
  • Haus zum Loch (1306) no. 157
  • Erstfelden (1309) no. 14 “<die von vatz fryen>” · crest: 2 swan's heads
  • Zürich (1345) no. 137 “vatz” · crest: 2 swan's heads
  • Burggraf (Hans) (1450) no. 301 “graff von fatz” · crest: 2 swan's heads
  • Grünenberg (1483) no. 824 “grauff von facz” · crest: 2 swan's heads
  • Öhem (1496) no. 112 “fäcz”
  • Rugen (Jörg) (1499) no. 967, fol. 68r1 “ein graff zo fatzs” · crest: 2 swan's heads

Tinctures

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

Charges

Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "partition": "équipolé",
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ],
        "sub_tinctures": [
          {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          {
            "name": "azur",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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