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Gent

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

D'argent à la fasce de gueules frettée d'or.

Original entry: fess fretty · A GO · Geldern · 1386

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
Gauthier de Ghent

In medieval armorials

  • Le Blancq (1380) no. 2756 “ghent”
  • Bellenville (1386) no. 346
  • Bellenville (1386) no. 1107 “ghent ghent”
  • Gelre (1386) no. 1190 “h' willem vn ghent” · crest: greyhound stat
  • Paix d'Arras (1435) no. 9130, fol. 28r4 “gauthier de ghent”

Tinctures

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

Charges

fasce (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "frettée"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "frettée",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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