Gent-Vilain

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Blazon

De sable au chef d'argent chargé d'un lion léopardé de gueules.

Original entry: chief ch. lion passt · S AG · Flandern · 1280

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: Gent, Vilain, Castellan van Ghent
Identified as: Gérard 'le Diable'

In medieval armorials

Camden (1280) no. 224 “gerald giable”
FitzWilliam = HE no. 393 “ernold le diable”

Tinctures

argent (ordinary)

gueules (charge)

sable (field)

Charges

chef (ordinary)

lion (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "sable",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "léopardé"
          ],
          "charge_name": "lion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}