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Cheyney-Lovetoft

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

Écartelé : aux 1 et 4 échiqueté d'or et d'azur, à la fasce de gueules frettée d'or brochant ; aux 2 et 3 d'or au lion coupé de gueules et de sable.

Original entry: checky & fess fretty; lion per fess; =, = {XGO-OB, OX-GS} · Gloucestershire · 1410

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
Cheyney
Identified as
John Cheyney, Kt

In medieval armorials

  • Rouen (1410) no. 49 “mr john cheynye”

Tinctures

azur (field)
gueules (charge)
gueules (ordinary)
or (charge)
or (field)
sable (charge)

Charges

fasce (ordinary)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "fasce",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "gueules",
              "category": "colour"
            },
            "attitudes": [
              "frettée",
              "brochant"
            ],
            "modifiers": [
              {
                "verb": "frettée",
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "or",
                  "category": "metal"
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "partition": "échiqueté",
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ],
        "sub_tinctures": [
          {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          {
            "name": "azur",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "lion",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "modifiers": [
              {
                "verb": "coupé",
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "gueules",
                  "category": "colour"
                }
              },
              {
                "verb": "coupé",
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "sable",
                  "category": "colour"
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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