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lion

Fully parsed

Gloucester

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

D'argent à trois lions de gueules, à la bordure engrêlée d'azur.

Original entry: 3 lions & border engrailed · A GB · Gloucestershire · 1312

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

In medieval armorials

  • Parliamentary (1312) no. 895 “sr walter gloucester”
  • Newcastle 1319 (Boroughbridge) (1322) no. 94 “sire will de gloucestre”
  • Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 550 “monsire de gloucestre”

Tinctures

argent (field)
azur (ordinary)
gueules (charge)

Charges

bordure (ordinary)
3× lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "bordure",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "azur",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "engrêlée"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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