Legh of Legh

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

Blazon

D'or au lion de gueules.

Original entry: lion rampant · O G · Cheshire · 1385

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: Legh
Identified as: John Legh

In medieval armorials

County (1385) no. 86 “john de legh de legh”
Creswick (1450) no. 359 “lygh of lygh”
Cheshire (1450) no. 625 “legh of legh”
Domville (1470) no. 1928, fol. 49v “legh de legh”
Ballard (1490), fol. 5v “lee of lee”
Neve's Book (William le) (1500) no. 850 “john legh of legh”

Tinctures

gueules (charge)

or (field)

Charges

lion (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    }
  ]
}