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lion

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

De gueules au lion couronné d'or à la queue fourchée.

Original entry: lion q.f. cr. · G O · variant · Trier · 1380

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

  • Urfé (1380) no. 2314 “le conte de sarne, de gueles a j lion d or a le queuhe fourquie croisie et corone d or”

Tinctures

gueules (field)
or (charge)

Charges

lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "couronné",
        "fourchée"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "part": true,
          "verb": "",
          "attitudes": [
            "fourchée"
          ],
          "charge_name": "queue"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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