Caignis / Cagis

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Blazon

Vairé d'or et de gueules.

Original entry: vairy · O G · Corbie · 1380

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: Caignis
Identified as: Cagis / Caignis

In medieval armorials

Le Blancq (1380) no. 1228, fol. 149r1 “le seigneur de caigis”
Urfé (1380) no. 1461 “celui de cagis, vairijet contre vairiet d or et de gueles”
Prinsault (1470) no. 1226 “le seigneur de cagis, vairiet contre vairiet dor et de geulles”

Tinctures

gueules (field)

or (field)

Charges

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "vairé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}