Vismes (Cayeux)

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Blazon

Parti d'or et d'azur, à la croix ancrée de gueules chargée de cinq coquilles d'argent brochant sur le tout.

Original entry: per pale & cross moline ch. 5 escallops · X GA OB · Ponthieu · 1290

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: Cayeux, Cayeux-Longvilliers

In medieval armorials

Vermandois (1295) no. 853 “ancel de krayeu”
Le Breton (1300) no. 526 “ansaie de caieu”
Le Breton (Baluze) (1300) no. 167 “ansaue de caieu”
Navarre (1375) no. 1010 “le sire de senarpont, parti d'or et d'azur a un fer de moulin de gueules a cinq coquilles d'argent sur le fer a moulin”
armorial - inconnu (1375) no. 9 “h' iâ / vâ / senra/pôt”
Charolais (1425) no. 246 “jean de cayeu”

Tinctures

argent (charge)

azur (field)

gueules (ordinary)

or (field)

Charges

5× coquille (meuble)

croix (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "parti",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "croix",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "ancrée"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargée",
          "count": 5,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "brochant",
            "brochant sur le tout"
          ],
          "charge_name": "coquille"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}