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merlettemerlette

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Hoville ? / Howell

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

Écartelé d'or et de gueules, à la merlette de gueules au canton dextre du chef.

Original entry: qtly acc. martlet in chf dx · O GG · _England · 1300

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
Hoville

In medieval armorials

  • Dunstable 1st (1308) no. 188 “john hoville”

Tinctures

gueules (charge)
gueules (field)
or (field)

Charges

canton (ordinary)
chef (meuble)
merlette (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "merlette",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "gueules",
              "category": "colour"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "canton",
            "count": 1,
            "detail": "chef",
            "category": "ordinary",
            "attitudes": [
              "dextre"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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