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croix

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Ormsby

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

De gueules à la bande d'argent accompagnée de six croix recroisetées d'argent.

Original entry: bend betw 6 cross crosslets · G AA · Lincolnshire · 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
Hornesby
Identified as
John Ormsby

In medieval armorials

  • Ashmolean (1334) no. 440 “mons j de hornesley”
  • Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 348 “monsire d'ormesby”
  • Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 257 “monsr john hornesby port de goules & une bende d'argent croiselee d'argent lez boutz botenez”

Tinctures

argent (ordinary)
gueules (field)

Charges

bande (ordinary)
6× croix (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "bande",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagnée",
          "count": 6,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "recroisetées"
          ],
          "charge_name": "croix"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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