Poitiers-en-Valentinois

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

Blazon

D'azur à six besants d'argent posées 3, 2 et 1, au chef d'or.

Original entry: 6 roundels (3:2:1) & chief · B AO · variant · Dauphiné · 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: Poitiers

In medieval armorials

Gelre (1386) no. 343 “grv van peutiers”
Ruelle (1400) no. 2780 “sainct vallier”
Berry (1458) no. 1568, fol. 174v “saint vallier”
Prinsault (1470) no. 328, fol. 84v1 “le seigneur de potiers, dazur a six besans dargent au chef dor.”

Tinctures

argent (charge)

azur (field)

or (ordinary)

Charges

6× besant (meuble)

chef (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "azur",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "besant",
      "count": 6,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "arrangement": [
        3,
        2,
        1
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    }
  ]
}