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besantbesant

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Malestroit-Kaer

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

Écartelé : aux 1 et 4 de gueules à sept besants d'or ; aux 2 et 3 de gueules à la croix gringolée d'hermine ; sur le tout un écusson bandé d'or et de sable.

Original entry: 7 roundels; cross gringoly; =; = :E: bendy {BO, GE, OS} · Bretagne · 1460

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
Malestroit

In medieval armorials

  • Gorrevod (1460) no. 975 “ph[ilipp]e de malestret”

Tinctures

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

Charges

7× besant (meuble)
croix (ordinary)
écusson (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "besant",
            "count": 7,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "or",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "croix",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "hermine",
              "category": "fur"
            },
            "attitudes": [
              "gringolée"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "écusson",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "attitudes": [
        "sur le tout"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "charge_name": "écusson"
        },
        {
          "verb": "bandé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          }
        },
        {
          "verb": "bandé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}

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