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couronnerencontregriffon

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Sverige-Mecklenburg

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

Écartelé : au 1 d'azur à trois couronnes d'or ; au 2 d'or au rencontre de taureau couronné de sable ; au 3 coupé de gueules et d'or ; au 4 d'azur au griffon d'or.

Original entry: 3 crowns; bull's face cr.; per fess; griffin {BO, OS, GO, BO} · Sverige · 1370

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
Svea vapen, Sweden

In medieval armorials

  • Bellenville (1386) no. 167 “rex aelbrt”
  • Gelre (1386) no. 721, fol. 65v1 “die conincvan zweden” · crest: 2 bull's horns garnished with banners
  • Ortenburg (1466) no. 746

Tinctures

azur (field)
gueules (field)
or (charge)
or (field)
sable (charge)

Charges

3× couronne (meuble)
griffon (meuble)
rencontre (meuble)
taureau (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "couronne",
            "count": 3,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "or",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "rencontre",
            "count": 1,
            "detail": "taureau",
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "sable",
              "category": "colour"
            },
            "attitudes": [
              "couronné"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2"
        ]
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "partition": "coupé",
        "positions": [
          "3"
        ],
        "sub_tinctures": [
          {
            "name": "gueules",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "griffon",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "or",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "4"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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