Amberg (town)

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

Blazon

Losangé de sable et d'or, au chef d'argent chargé d'un lion couronné issant d'azur.

Original entry: lozengy & chief ch. lion cr. isst · X AB SO · Bayern · 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: Amberg
Identified as: Amberg

In medieval armorials

Grünenberg (1483) no. 181 “amberg”

Tinctures

argent (ordinary)

azur (charge)

or (field)

sable (field)

Charges

chef (ordinary)

lion (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "sable",
      "category": "colour"
    },
    "partition": "losangé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "sable",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "azur",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "couronné",
            "issant"
          ],
          "charge_name": "lion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}