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lionmerlette

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Barbencon

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

D'argent à trois lions couronnés de gueules accompagnés en abîme d'une merlette de sable.

Original entry: 3 lions cr. acc. martlet in fess point · A GS · Hainaut · 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

Identified as
S.Sarre (Barbencon)

In medieval armorials

  • Urfé (1380) no. 2072 “le sire de sarre, a le merlet de sable”

Tinctures

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

Charges

3× lion (meuble)
merlette (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "couronné"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagné",
          "position": "en abîme",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "en abîme"
          ],
          "charge_name": "merlette"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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