Scures

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Blazon

D'azur fretté d'or.

Original entry: fretty · B O · Hampshire · 1300

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: Skewers, Skewes
Identified as: John de Scures (Wiltshire)

In medieval armorials

Galloway (1300) no. 157 “john descuros”
Stirling (1304) no. 29 “john scures”
Dunstable 1st (1308) no. 153 “john stures”
Parliamentary (1312) no. 222 “sr john stures”
Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 176 “monsire john de scures”
Antiquaries (1360) no. 254 “monsire john de skyres”
Styward (1370) no. 111 “sr john de scures”
Picquigny (armorial - 5256) (1400) no. 350 “skyres”

Tinctures

azur (field)

or (field)

Charges

Parsed structure (AST)

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