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Schwyz (canton)

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

De gueules plain.

Original entry: plain · G · unfinished painting · Suisse · 1459

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
Schwyz
Identified as
Schwyz

In medieval armorials

  • Richental Chronik (1420) no. 1199 “schweytz”
  • Ingeram (1459) no. 280 “schwyz”
  • Berlin (1460) no. 200, fol. 36v1 “schwytz”
  • St. Gallen Haggenberg (1488) no. 295 “schwiss”
  • Rugen (Jörg) (1499) no. 2841 “schweiczs”

Tinctures

gueules (field)

Charges

Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  }
}

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