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besant

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Hewick

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

De sinople à six besants d'or posées 3, 2 et 1.

Original entry: 6 roundels (3:2:1) · V O · _England · 1400

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
Nicholas Hewick

In medieval armorials

  • Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 1196 “nichol hewyk port de verre & sys besantz”

Tinctures

or (charge)
sinople (field)

Charges

6× besant (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "sinople",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "besant",
      "count": 6,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "arrangement": [
        3,
        2,
        1
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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