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Beauchamp

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

De vair à l'écusson d'argent chargé d'un chef de gueules.

Original entry: escutch {Ar chief Gu} · Z + · Cumberland · 1350

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
Beauchamp of Hache

In medieval armorials

  • Styward (1370) no. 56 “sr wm beauchamp frater”

Tinctures

argent (ordinary)
gueules (ordinary)
vair (field)

Charges

chef (ordinary)
écusson (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "vair",
      "category": "fur"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "écusson",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "chef"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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