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lion

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Louvain-Gaesbeck

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

De sable au lion couronné d'argent.

Original entry: lion cr. · S A · Brabant · 1250

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
Louvain
Identified as
Henri de Louvain

In medieval armorials

  • Bigot (1254) no. 73 “godefrois de louvain”
  • Hozier-Cénalis (1260) no. 293 “henry de louang”
  • Wijnberghen (1270) no. 1190 “gaesbecq”
  • Compiegne 1278 (1278) no. 119 “henris de lovain”
  • Camden (1280) no. 51 “louvaine”
  • Charles (1285) no. 540 “henry loveyn”
  • Le Blancq (1380) no. 2131, fol. 260v1 “le seigneur de gaesbeque”
  • Urfé (1380) no. 2119 “les armes de gasebecke, de sable a j lion d argent corone d or, et crie louvaing”

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": [
        "couronné"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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