Holsten-Slesvig

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

Blazon

Écartelé : aux 1 et 4 de gueules à l'écrevisse d'argent en bande ; aux 2 et 3 d'or à deux léopards d'azur.

Original entry: crayfish per bend; 2 lions passt guard; =; = {GA, OB} · confounded with other arms · Holsten · 1483

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: Holsten, Schaumburg
Identified as: Adolf, Hz.Schleswig-Holstein, Slesvig

In medieval armorials

Richental Chronik (1420) no. 624, fol. 177v1 “herczog adolff zu schlewit in dem küngrich zu tennmarck”
Grünenberg (1483) no. 450, fol. 98n1 “herczog von schlowik inn dennmark, her zum stormoren” · crest: 2 lobster claws

Tinctures

argent (charge)

azur (charge)

gueules (field)

or (field)

Charges

écrevisse (meuble)

2× léopard (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "écrevisse",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "argent",
              "category": "metal"
            },
            "attitudes": [
              "en bande"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "léopard",
            "count": 2,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "azur",
              "category": "colour"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}