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lion

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Drinckam (Ghistelle)

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

De gueules au chevron d'hermine, au canton d'or chargé d'un lion de sable.

Original entry: chevron & canton {Or lion Sa} · G E+ · Flandern · 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

Also called
Ghistelle

In medieval armorials

  • Le Blancq (1380) no. 1907 “le seigneur de drinckan porte de ghistelles a pemier cartier de flandres”
  • Sicile (1425) no. 244 “le sieur de drincam, de gueulle au chevron d hermine, au canton de flandres”
  • Prinsault (1470) no. 2056, fol. 389v1 “depuis, de ghistelle au quanton de flandres”

Tinctures

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

Charges

canton (ordinary)
chevron (ordinary)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chevron",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "hermine",
        "category": "fur"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "canton",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "lion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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