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lion

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Granson

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

Palé d'argent et d'azur, à la bande de gueules chargée de trois lions d'or brochant sur le tout.

Original entry: paly & bend ch. 3 lions · X GO AB · Savoie · 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

Also called
Grandison
Identified as
Thomas de Granson

In medieval armorials

  • Le Blancq (1380) no. 466 “monseigneur thomas de grantson”
  • Urfé (1380) no. 935 “messire thomas de granson, telz armes a iij lions d or”
  • Prinsault (1470) no. 425 “messire thomas de granson, telz armes a trois lyons dor.”

Tinctures

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

Charges

bande (ordinary)
3× lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "palé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "bande",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargée",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "brochant",
            "brochant sur le tout"
          ],
          "charge_name": "lion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}

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