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tête

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Mandach

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

De gueules au chef d'argent chargé d'une tête de maure de sable.

Original entry: chief ch. moor's head dx · G AS · Suisse · 1345

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

Identified as
von Mandach

In medieval armorials

  • Zürich (1345) no. 534, fol. s4b1b · crest: moor's head
  • Öhem (1496) no. 274 “mandach”

Tinctures

argent (ordinary)
gueules (field)
sable (charge)

Charges

chef (ordinary)
maure (meuble)
tête (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "detail": "maure",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "tête"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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