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lion

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Thoresby

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

D'argent au chevron de sable accompagné de trois lions de sable.

Original entry: chevron betw 3 lions · A SS · Yorkshire · 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

In medieval armorials

  • Grimaldi (1350) no. 141 “hugh de thoresby”
  • Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 122 “monsr piers de thoresby d'argent a un chevron & trois leonceux de sable”
  • Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 716 “hugh de thoresby port d'argent chevron de sable a trois leonceaux de sable”
  • Cottonian (1490) no. 408 “thoresby”

Tinctures

argent (field)
sable (charge)
sable (ordinary)

Charges

chevron (ordinary)
3× lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chevron",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagné",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "lion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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