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merlette

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Beauchamp of Elmely a.o.

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

De gueules à la fasce d'or accompagnée de six merlettes d'or accompagnées en chef d'une fasce vivrée d'argent.

Original entry: fess acc. 6 martlets acc. dance in chf · G OOA · Warwickshire · 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
Beauchamp

In medieval armorials

  • Galloway (1300) no. 47 “sir wauter de beauchamp le filz”
  • Dunstable 2nd (1334) no. 111 “monsr william beauchamp”

Tinctures

argent (ordinary)
gueules (field)
or (charge)
or (ordinary)

Charges

fasce (ordinary)
6× merlette (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagnée",
          "count": 6,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "merlette"
        },
        {
          "verb": "accompagnée",
          "position": "en chef",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "en chef",
            "vivrée"
          ],
          "charge_name": "fasce"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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