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Drawn from the blazon

lion

Fully parsed

Villiers-le-Bel

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

D'or au chef d'azur chargé d'un lion d'argent.

Original entry: chief ch. lion · O BA · unfinished painting · Ile-de-France · 1250

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

In medieval armorials

  • Wijnberghen (1270) no. 272 “lienar de vilette”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
azur (ordinary)
or (field)

Charges

chef (ordinary)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "azur",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "lion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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