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fer de lance

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Reich von Reichenstein

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

D'or au fer de lance de sable en bande rangé en barre.

Original entry: spearhead in bend · O S · Suisse · 1459

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
Reich

In medieval armorials

  • Ingeram (1459) no. 985, fol. 257n1 “dye rychen” · crest: lion's head cr.
  • Berlin (1460) no. 554 “rich vô richenstain” · crest: lion's head cr.
  • Styria (1460) no. 579 “rich von richenstain villeicht reichenstain” · crest: lion's head cr.
  • Grünenberg (1483) no. 1272 “rich von richenstein” · crest: lion's head cr.
  • St. Gallen Haggenberg (1488) no. 593 “reichenstein” · crest: lion's head cr.
  • Miltenberg (1490) no. 701 “die richen von richenstain” · crest: lion's head cr.
  • Rugen (Jörg) (1499) no. 1627, fol. 178r1 “die reichen von reichenstein” · crest: lion's head cr.
  • Rugen (Jörg) (1499) no. 2192 “rich von richen..” · crest: lion's head cr.

Tinctures

or (field)
sable (charge)

Charges

fer de lance (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fer de lance",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "en bande",
        "rangé",
        "en barre"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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