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Drawn from the blazon

lion

Fully parsed

Niffer

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

De sinople au lion d'argent.

Original entry: lion rampant · V A · Alsace · 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

Identified as
von Niffer

In medieval armorials

  • Zürich (1345) no. 475 · crest: plume of feathers

Tinctures

argent (charge)
sinople (field)

Charges

lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "sinople",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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