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billette

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Monchensy

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

D'argent au chevron de sable accompagné de trois billettes de sable.

Original entry: chevron betw 3 billets · A SS · Bedfordshire · 1300

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
Mouncansey, Munchensy
Identified as
Ralph de Munchensy

In medieval armorials

  • Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 139 “monsire john de mounchesney”
  • Cooke's Ordinary (1340) no. 154 “sir johan de monchensy = sr john de mon..”
  • Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 705 “monsr rauf mounchensy port d'argent chevron de sable & trois billietz de sable”

Tinctures

argent (field)
sable (charge)
sable (ordinary)

Charges

3× billette (meuble)
chevron (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chevron",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagné",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "billette"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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