Mark

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Blazon

D'or à la fasce échiquetée d'argent et de gueules.

Original entry: fess checky · O X AG · Mark · 1333

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: Mark, Gf.
Identified as: Adolphe de la Marck, Ev.de Liège, Adolphe II comte de la Marck, Fhr. von Arenberg, Friedrich von Berg Gf.Mark, Gf.Arenberg (Mark), Gf.Mark, Mark

In medieval armorials

Aachen (Otto IV) (1198) no. 19 “frederic conte de la marck et son frere”
Wijnberghen (1270) no. 745 “le conte de marke”
Meilleurs Trois (1361) no. 7 “adolphe eveque de liege”
Meilleurs Trois (1361) no. 8 “adolphe comte de la marck”
Le Blancq (1380) no. 2802, fol. 360r1 “le conte de marcque”
Urfé (1380) no. 2413 “le conte de marque, d or a le faisse eschiquete d argent et de gueles”
Bellenville (1386) no. 1173, fol. 50v1 “marck” · crest: 2 wings
Gelre (1386) no. 1587, fol. 108v1 “grave van der marc” · crest: 2 wings

Tinctures

argent (charge)

gueules (charge)

or (field)

Charges

fasce (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "échiquetée",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          }
        },
        {
          "verb": "échiquetée",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}