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lion

Fully parsed

la Cauchie

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

D'or au lion léopardé d'azur à la queue fourchée.

Original entry: lion passt q.f. · O B · Artois · 1400

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
Cauchie

In medieval armorials

  • Le Blancq (1380) no. 1756, fol. 201r1 “guillaume seigneur de le cauchie”
  • Prinsault (1470) no. 1911 “guillemme seigneur de la cauchie, dor au lyon dasur passant la queuwe fourchie, croisie et partie en sautoir, dente et lampade de geulle et ongle de sable”

Tinctures

azur (charge)
or (field)

Charges

lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "azur",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "léopardé",
        "fourchée"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "part": true,
          "verb": "",
          "attitudes": [
            "fourchée"
          ],
          "charge_name": "queue"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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