Drawn from the blazon
Approximate rendering
blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)
Rossiter, Rauceter, and Roucester
family·IE·lenient_en·Burke (General Armory)
Blazon
Argent an alligator vert. N.B. The arms of the Norman family of RoucestTeER, or Rossirer, were '' argent on a chevy. gules three pheons or." An old MS. collection of arms of Irish families in Ulster's Office gives the RossiTers, of co. Wexford, the same arms, differenced with a '' lizard or alligator in chief," a device borne by many ancient Milesian families in their arms and crests. The Wexford RossiTErs, having become Hibernicised, appear to have adopted the lizard or alligator, not only as a difference in their shield to distinguish them from the parent stock in England, but also as a mark of their adopted nationality; in course of time the family dropped the charges on their former shield, retaining only their adopted device or mark of difference, and g0 the arms, as they ncw appear in the books of Ulster's Office, are charged with the alligator alone
Tinctures
Charges
Parsed structure (AST)
{
"field": {
"tincture": {
"name": "argent",
"category": "metal"
}
},
"charges": [
{
"name": "chevron",
"count": 1,
"category": "ordinary",
"tincture": {
"name": "gueules",
"category": "colour"
}
},
{
"name": "fers de flèche",
"count": 3,
"category": "meuble",
"tincture": {
"name": "or",
"category": "metal"
}
},
{
"name": "borne",
"count": 1,
"category": "meuble"
},
{
"name": "livre",
"count": 1,
"category": "meuble"
}
]
}