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merlette

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

D'argent à la bande de sable accostée de deux cotices de sable chargée de trois merlettes d'argent.

Original entry: bend cotised ch. 3 martlets · A SSA · variant · Yorkshire · 1350

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

In medieval armorials

  • Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 366 “monsire de rus dinacid”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
argent (field)
sable (ordinary)

Charges

bande (ordinary)
2× cotice (ordinary)
3× merlette (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "bande",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accostée",
          "count": 2,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "cotice"
        },
        {
          "verb": "chargée",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "merlette"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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