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lion

Fully parsed

Villers-Bocage

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

De gueules à deux jumelles d'argent accompagnées en chef d'un lion léopardé d'argent.

Original entry: 2 bars gemel acc. lion passt in chf · G AA · Normandie · 1201

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
Villiers

In medieval armorials

  • Wijnberghen (1270) no. 435 “robt de vil's le fils nicolais”

Tinctures

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

Charges

2× jumelle (ordinary)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "jumelle",
      "count": 2,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagnée",
          "position": "en chef",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "en chef",
            "léopardé"
          ],
          "charge_name": "lion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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