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besant

Fully parsed

Asch

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

D'argent à quatre chevrons de gueules semés de besants d'azur.

Original entry: 4 chevrons roundely · A GB · variant · Schwaben · 1494

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

In medieval armorials

  • Öhem (1496) no. 77 “hainricus von äsch, decan und bropst zuo s.pelagen (anno 1333)”

Tinctures

argent (field)
azur (charge)
gueules (ordinary)

Charges

besant (meuble)
4× chevron (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chevron",
      "count": 4,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "semé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "azur",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "besant"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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