Prester John / Armenia

family·lenient·Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials)

Blazon

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D'argent au lion d'or tenant une croix pattée de gueules.

Original entry: lion holding cross formy · A OG · heroes, fantasy · 1490

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: Prester_John_hero
Identified as: Prester John

In medieval armorials

Richental Chronik (1420) no. 194, fol. 102v
Ortenburg (1466) no. 672
Miltenberg (1490) no. 150 “priester johan” · crest: mitre
Rugen (Jörg) (1499) no. 25 “prester johann”
Rugen (Jörg) (1499) no. 477, fol. 30v1 “johanns gros priester in assya ..” · crest: lion isst holding cross tipped with crown
Rugen (Jörg) (1499) no. 478 “priester johann”

Tinctures

argent (field)

gueules (charge)

or (charge)

Charges

croix pattée (meuble)

lion (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "croix pattée",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    }
  ]
}