Clifford

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

Blazon

Échiqueté d'or et d'azur, à la bande de gueules chargée de trois lions d'argent brochant sur le tout.

Original entry: checky & bend ch. 3 lions · X GA OB · unusual · Gloucestershire · 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: Clifford of Llandovery

In medieval armorials

St. George (1285) no. 235 “john clifford”

Tinctures

argent (charge)

azur (field)

gueules (ordinary)

or (field)

Charges

bande (ordinary)

3× lion (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "échiqueté",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "bande",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargée",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "brochant",
            "brochant sur le tout"
          ],
          "charge_name": "lion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}