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Grey

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

D'argent à la bande vivrée de sinople accostée de deux cotices de gueules.

Original entry: bend cotised dancetty · A VG · Essex · 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

Identified as
Grey

In medieval armorials

  • Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 1471 “..crey..”
  • Creswick (1450) no. 1753 “ralph grey”

Tinctures

argent (field)
gueules (ordinary)
sinople (ordinary)

Charges

bande (ordinary)
2× cotice (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "bande",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sinople",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "vivrée"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accostée",
          "count": 2,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "cotice"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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