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Drawn from the blazon

griffon

Fully parsed

Rostock

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

D'argent au griffon d'or.

Original entry: griffin segreant · A O · unfinished painting · Mecklenburg · 1440

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
Hz.Rostock

In medieval armorials

  • Bergshammar (1450) no. 91
  • Lyncenich (1450) no. 356 “htoghe van rostic”

Tinctures

argent (field)
or (charge)

Charges

griffon (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "griffon",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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