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merlette

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Harcla-Carlisle

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

D'argent à la croix de gueules accompagnée d'une merlette de sable au canton dextre du chef.

Original entry: cross acc. martlet in chf dx · A GS · Cumberland · 1300

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
Harclay
Identified as
Andrew Harclay

In medieval armorials

  • Nativity (1308) no. 61 “andrew harcla”
  • Parliamentary (1312) no. 1012 “sr andrew hartelane”
  • Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 875 “monsr andree harcla port lez armes seint george a un merlot de sable en le quarter devant”

Tinctures

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

Charges

canton (ordinary)
chef (meuble)
croix (ordinary)
merlette (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "croix",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagnée",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "merlette"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "canton",
      "count": 1,
      "detail": "chef",
      "category": "ordinary",
      "attitudes": [
        "dextre"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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