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taureau

Fully parsed

Plessen

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

D'or au taureau arrêté de sable.

Original entry: bull statant · O S · Mecklenburg · 1386

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

Identified as
von Plessen

In medieval armorials

  • Bellenville (1386) no. 520 “die plesse”
  • Gelre (1386) no. 1421 “h' helmych van plesse”
  • Bergshammar (1450) no. 2895 “van ulesse”
  • Grünenberg (1483) no. 2022 “von ples” · crest: wheel segment garnished with tufts of cock feathers

Tinctures

or (field)
sable (charge)

Charges

taureau (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "taureau",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "arrêté"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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