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besantbesant

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Bandas (caliphate)

family·strict·Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials)

De gueules à trois besants d'argent accompagnées en abîme d'une besant d'or.

Original entry: 3 roundels acc. roundel in centre · G AO · attributed · 1380

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
Bandas

In medieval armorials

  • Vermandois (1295) no. 885 “le roy de bandas”
  • Urfé (1380) no. 2717 “le roy de bandas, de gueles a iij tourtiaux d argent, en la moyenne un besant d or”
  • Charolais (1425) no. 802 “le roi de bandas. le voiage d'outremer parle du sultan de bandas”
  • Faucket (1497) no. 383 “le roy de baudas”

Tinctures

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

Charges

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

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