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lion

Fully parsed

Massmünster

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

De gueules à deux lions léopardé d'argent.

Original entry: 2 lions passt · G A · Alsace · 1490

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 Massmünster

In medieval armorials

  • Raber - Neustift (1450) no. 579, fol. 65n3 “dietrich von massmünster”
  • St. Gallen Haggenberg (1488) no. 1459 “mos mûst'” · crest: lion's head cr. tipped with tuft of cock feathers
  • Miltenberg (1490) no. 1083 “masmunster” · crest: lion isst cr.
  • Herold WK (1570), fol. 318n

Tinctures

argent (charge)
gueules (field)

Charges

2× lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 2,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "léopardé"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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