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Drawn from the blazon

tour

Fully parsed

zum Turne

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

D'or à la tour de sable.

Original entry: tower · O S · Suisse · 1345

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
Turn
Identified as
Otto von Turn, zum Turn

In medieval armorials

  • Heidelberger (1300) no. 64, fol. 194r “her otto vom turne .lix.” · crest: cone garnished with roundels
  • Erstfelden (1309) no. 64 “<die von rudentz in unterwalden>” · crest: cone garnished with roundels
  • Zürich (1345) no. 92 “cem turn” · crest: cone garnished with roundels
  • Grünenberg (1483) no. 1937 “zum turn” · crest: cone tipped with roundel

Tinctures

or (field)
sable (charge)

Charges

tour (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "tour",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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