Clare

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

Blazon

D'argent au canton de gueules.

Original entry: canton · A G · _England · 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

Identified as: Lionel de Clare

In medieval armorials

Dunstable 2nd (1334) no. 73 “mons lyonel”
Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 1484 “le seignur de clare port d'argent a un quarter de goules”
Creswick (1450) no. 1501 “clare”
Berry (1458) no. 1670
Neve (Peter le) (1499) no. 1163 “the lord clare”

Tinctures

argent (field)

gueules (ordinary)

Charges

canton (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "canton",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    }
  ]
}