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croissant

Fully parsed

Gournay

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

Palé d'or et d'azur, au croissant d'argent au canton dextre du chef.

Original entry: paly acc. crescent in chf dx · O BA · Somerset · 1380

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
Gourney
Identified as
John Gurney

In medieval armorials

  • Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 439 “john de gourney”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
azur (field)
or (field)

Charges

canton (ordinary)
chef (meuble)
croissant (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "partition": "palé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "croissant",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "canton",
      "count": 1,
      "detail": "chef",
      "category": "ordinary",
      "attitudes": [
        "dextre"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}

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