Essen / Aux / Esselen

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Blazon

Échiqueté d'or et de gueules.

Original entry: checky · O G · Cleves · 1435

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: Essen
Identified as: Johan von Essen

In medieval armorials

Paix d'Arras (1435) no. 222, fol. 100v14 “jeh de essen”

Tinctures

gueules (field)

or (field)

Charges

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "échiqueté",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}