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

Écartelé : aux 1 et 4 gironné d'argent et de gueules ; aux 2 et 3 de gueules à la croix ancrée d'argent chargée de cinq coquilles de gueules.

Original entry: gironny; cross moline ch. 5 escallops; = ; = {AG, GAG} · Gloucestershire · 1440

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

In medieval armorials

  • Military (1440) no. 150, fol. 28v1 “actown”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
argent (field)
gueules (charge)
gueules (field)

Charges

5× coquille (meuble)
croix ancrée (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
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  "field": {
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "partition": "gironné",
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ],
        "sub_tinctures": [
          {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "croix ancrée",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "argent",
              "category": "metal"
            },
            "modifiers": [
              {
                "verb": "chargée",
                "count": 5,
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "gueules",
                  "category": "colour"
                },
                "charge_name": "coquille"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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