Köln (town)

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

Blazon

D'argent au chef de gueules chargé de trois couronnes d'or.

Original entry: chief ch. 3 crowns · A GO · Köln · 1459

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: Köln, Stadt Köln
Identified as: Köln

In medieval armorials

Richental Chronik (1420) no. 1145, fol. 234r1 “cöln”
Ingeram (1459) no. 181, fol. 56n1 “köln”
Grünenberg (1483) no. 170, fol. 33n1 “die stat von koln ist ain bur”
St. Gallen Haggenberg (1488) no. 249 “köln”
Miltenberg (1490) no. 81 “colln”
Miltenberg (1490) no. 344 “cöln”
Rugen (Jörg) (1499) no. 286 “die stat collnn”

Tinctures

argent (field)

gueules (ordinary)

or (charge)

Charges

chef (ordinary)

3× couronne (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "couronne"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}