Wisham

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Blazon

De sable à la fasce d'argent accompagnée de six merlettes d'argent.

Original entry: fess acc. 6 martlets · S AA · 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

Identified as: John de Wisham (Gloucestershire), John Wisham, William Wisham, kt, Wisham

In medieval armorials

Dunstable 1st (1308) no. 137 “john wisham”
Parliamentary (1312) no. 880 “sr john wisham”
Ashmolean (1334) no. 258 “monsr de wisham”
Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 256 “le sire de wisham”
Cooke's Ordinary (1340) no. 341 “sr de wisham”
Antiquaries (1360) no. 191 “mons john wisham”
Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 971 “john de wisham”
Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 972 “son of wisham”

Tinctures

argent (charge)

argent (ordinary)

sable (field)

Charges

fasce (ordinary)

6× merlette (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "sable",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagnée",
          "count": 6,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "merlette"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}