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besant

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Whalesborough / Valetort

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

Bandé d'argent et de gueules, à la bordure d'or semée de besants de sable.

Original entry: bendy & border roundely · A GOS · Cornwall · 1380

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
Whalesborough
Identified as
John jr Whalesborough

In medieval armorials

  • Le Blancq (1380) no. 3063 “le seigneur de watour”
  • Urfé (1380) no. 283 “item ung de wautour telz armes de vj pieces”
  • Sicile (1425) no. 1780 “le sieur de ubeto, bande d argent et de gueulle de huict a la bordure de sable besante d or”

Tinctures

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

Charges

besant (meuble)
bordure (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "partition": "bandé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "bordure",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "besant",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "semée"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}

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