Curson

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Blazon

Échiqueté d'or et d'azur, à la fasce d'argent brochant sur le tout, au lambel de gueules.

Original entry: checky & fess & label · X AG OB · Norfolk · 1400

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: John Curson, John de Curzon

In medieval armorials

Ashmolean (1334) no. 353 “monsr curson”
Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 293 “monsire john curson”
Cooke's Ordinary (1340) no. 379 “sr j curson”
Cooke's Ordinary (1340) no. 629 “sr john eurson”
Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 477 “monsr john curson port chekery d'or & d'azure un fees d'argent & label de goules”
Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 1170 “monsr john c[..]on port chekeree [..]ure a une fees d'argent & labelle de goules”

Tinctures

argent (ordinary)

azur (field)

gueules (charge)

or (field)

Charges

fasce (ordinary)

lambel (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "partition": "échiqueté",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "brochant sur le tout"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "lambel",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}