Mountfort

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

Blazon

D'argent semé de croisettes de gueules, au lion d'azur.

Original entry: lion, crusily · A BG · Yorkshire · 1312

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: Montfort
Identified as: Thomas Montford (Dorset, Somerset), Thomas Mounford, kt

In medieval armorials

Stirling (1304) no. 56 “alexander montford”
Parliamentary (1312) no. 201 “sr sire de mounfort”
Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 102 “monsire alexander de montfort”
Cooke's Ordinary (1340) no. 91 “sr de mountford”
Grimaldi (1350) no. 163 “thomas de mountford”
Powell (1350) no. 570 “sr laurence mounfort”
Willement (1395) no. 177 “monsr thomas / mounford”
Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 102 “monsr thomas mountfort d'argent a un leon rampant d'azure champe croiselee de goules”

Tinctures

argent (field)

azur (charge)

gueules (charge)

Charges

croisette (meuble)

lion (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "croisette",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "semé"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "azur",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    }
  ]
}