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Besilles

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

De gueules au chevron d'argent.

Original entry: chevron · G A · unfinished painting · Wiltshire · 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

Other names

Also called
Besille
Identified as
Robert Besiles

In medieval armorials

  • Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 1357, fol. 44r1 “mons rob besils”

Tinctures

argent (ordinary)
gueules (field)

Charges

chevron (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chevron",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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