Tempest

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Blazon

D'argent au chevron de sable accompagné de trois merlettes de sable.

Original entry: chevron betw 3 martlets · A SS · Yorkshire · 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

Identified as: J. Tempest

In medieval armorials

Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 1331 “j tempest”
Creswick (1450) no. 2059
Domville (1470) no. 2214, fol. 56r “tempaste”

Tinctures

argent (field)

sable (charge)

sable (ordinary)

Charges

chevron (ordinary)

3× merlette (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chevron",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagné",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "merlette"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}