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croissant

Fully parsed

Nowers

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

D'argent à deux fasces de gueules accompagnées en chef de trois croissants de gueules.

Original entry: 2 bars acc. 3 crescents in chf · A GG · Buckinghamshire · 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

In medieval armorials

  • Parliamentary (1312) no. 363 “sr noliwers”
  • Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 761 “monsr robt de wetesham”
  • Military (1440) no. 261 “nowers”

Tinctures

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

Charges

3× croissant (meuble)
2× fasce (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 2,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagnée",
          "count": 3,
          "position": "en chef",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "en chef"
          ],
          "charge_name": "croissant"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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