Gent-Vilain

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

Blazon

De sable au chef d'argent chargé de trois merlettes de gueules.

Original entry: chief ch. 3 martlets · S AG · 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

Other names

Also called: Gent, Vilain, Castellan van Ghent

In medieval armorials

Coninck (1450) no. 1268 “h peerceval van ghent”

Tinctures

argent (ordinary)

gueules (charge)

sable (field)

Charges

chef (ordinary)

3× merlette (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "sable",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "merlette"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}