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lion

Fully parsed

Wendelgem (Flanders batârd)

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

De gueules au canton d'or chargé d'un lion de sable.

Original entry: canton {Or lion Sa} · G + · Flandern · 1330

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
Flanders, Flandre

In medieval armorials

  • Coninck (1450) no. 1035 “h ghy die bastard van vlaenderen”

Tinctures

gueules (field)
or (ordinary)
sable (charge)

Charges

canton (ordinary)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "canton",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "sable",
            "category": "colour"
          },
          "charge_name": "lion"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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