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merlette

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

D'argent à deux fasces d'azur accompagnées en abîme d'une merlette de gueules.

Original entry: 2 bars acc. martlet in fess pt · A BG · Durham · 1450

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

In medieval armorials

  • Red Book (1450) no. 355 “hylton”
  • Domville (1470) no. 2154, fol. 54v “hylton”

Tinctures

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

Charges

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

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