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lion

Fully parsed

Geneve-Savoy

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

De sable au lion d'argent à la queue fourchée.

Original entry: lion q.f. · S A · variant · Savoie · 1244

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
Geneve

In medieval armorials

  • Matt.Paris Hist.Angl. (1244) no. 87 “petri de geneve (1st shield)”
  • Matt.Paris Lib.Add. (1259) no. 82 “petrus de genef”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
sable (field)

Charges

lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "sable",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "fourchée"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "part": true,
          "verb": "",
          "attitudes": [
            "fourchée"
          ],
          "charge_name": "queue"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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