la Tournelle

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Blazon

D'or à cinq tours d'azur.

Original entry: 5 towers · O B · Beauvais · 1290

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: Tournelle

In medieval armorials

Vermandois (1295) no. 175 “jehan de tournelle”
Le Breton (1300) no. 258 “jehan de le tournelle”
Le Breton (Baluze) (1300) no. 81 “jehan de la tournelle”
Navarre (1375) no. 941, fol. 94n1 “le sire de la tourelle, d'or a vi tourelles d'azur”
Bergshammar (1450) no. 3000 “m de le tournelle”
Berry (1458) no. 283 “le sr de tournelle”
Prinsault (1470) no. 1137 “le seigneur des tournelles, dor a cincq tournelles de sable”

Tinctures

azur (charge)

or (field)

Charges

5× tour (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "tour",
      "count": 5,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "azur",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    }
  ]
}