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ours

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blazon partially parsed (method lenient)

Appenzell (canton)

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

D'argent à l'ours levé de sable.

Original entry: bear rampant · A S · 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
Appenzell
Identified as
Appenzell

In medieval armorials

  • Richental Chronik (1420) no. 1208, fol. 210r1 “appenzell”
  • Ingeram (1459) no. 287 “awenzell”
  • Berlin (1460) no. 207 “appentzell”
  • St. Gallen Haggenberg (1488) no. 296 “appenzell”

Tinctures

argent (field)
sable (charge)

Charges

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

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