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merlette

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Moerskerke

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

D'argent au sautoir de gueules accompagné d'une fasce d'azur et d'une merlette de sable en chef.

Original entry: saltire acc. fess and martlet in chf · A GBS · Flandern · 1330

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

  • Coninck (1450) no. 1254 “h gheraert van moersekerke”

Tinctures

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

Charges

fasce (ordinary)
merlette (meuble)
sautoir (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "sautoir",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagné",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "azur",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "fasce"
        },
        {
          "verb": "",
          "position": "en chef",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "en chef"
          ],
          "charge_name": "merlette"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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