Beckham

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Blazon

Échiqueté d'or et de sable, à la fasce d'hermine brochant sur le tout.

Original entry: checky & fess · X E OS · Norfolk · 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: Roger Beckham, Roger de Buckham

In medieval armorials

Antiquaries (1360) no. 148 “roger bokeham”
Willement (1395) no. 502 “monsr roger / de beckhm”
Norfolk & Suffolk (1400) no. 62 “rog becham”
Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 1172 “roger de bokham port eschekeré d'or & de sable a une fees d'ermyne”
Portington (1450) no. 79 “botham”
Domville (1470) no. 2241, fol. 57r “bockham”

Tinctures

hermine (ordinary)

or (field)

sable (field)

Charges

fasce (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "échiqueté",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "sable",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "hermine",
        "category": "fur"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "brochant sur le tout"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}