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Drawn from the blazon

besantlion

Fully parsed

Franche-Comté

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

D'azur semé de besants d'argent, au lion d'or.

Original entry: lion, roundely · B OA · Franche-Comté · 1425

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

In medieval armorials

  • Charolais (1425) no. 40 “conté de bourgoigne lanchienne”
  • Charolais (1425) no. 41 “conté de bourgoigne”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
azur (field)
or (charge)

Charges

besant (meuble)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "azur",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "besant",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "semé"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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