Scherpenstein / Scharfenstein

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Blazon

De sinople au lévrier saillant d'argent.

Original entry: greyhound salient · V A · Schwaben · 1370

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: Scherpenstein

In medieval armorials

Le Blancq (1380) no. 3534 “scarpensteyn”
Bellenville (1386) no. 421 “scarpenstein scarpenstein”
Gelre (1386) no. 261 “scerpensteyn”
Bergshammar (1450) no. 3182 “vâ scerpenstein”

Tinctures

argent (charge)

sinople (field)

Charges

lévrier (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "sinople",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lévrier",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "saillant"
      ]
    }
  ]
}