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besant

Fully parsed

Poitiers-en-Valentinois

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

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

Original entry: 6 roundels (3:2:1) & chief · B OO · variant · Dauphiné · 1483

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
Identified as
Poitiers

In medieval armorials

  • Sicile (1425) no. 1476 “le sieur de poictiers, d azur a six besans d argent au chef d or”
  • Rineck (1473) no. 155 “conte de vallance”
  • Savelli (1473) no. 108 “conte de vallance”
  • Coislin-Séguier (1480) no. 167 “conte de vallance”
  • Nancy (1480) no. 156 “conte de vallance”
  • Grünenberg (1483) no. 732 “grauff von buttiers in frankrich”

Tinctures

azur (field)
or (charge)
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": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "arrangement": [
        3,
        2,
        1
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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