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Forest-Bocard

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

De gueules à l'orle de merlettes d'argent.

Original entry: orle of martlets · G A · Picardie · 1374

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
Forest

In medieval armorials

  • Navarre (1375) no. 125 “m jehan de forest, de gueules a une orlle de merletes d'argent”
  • Sicile (1425) no. 30, fol. 5r1 “le sieur de forest, de geulle a l ourlet de merles d argent”
  • Prinsault (1470) no. 27 “le seigneur de forest, de gheulles a le bordure de merlettes dargent.”

Tinctures

argent (ordinary)
gueules (field)

Charges

merlette (meuble)
orle (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "orle",
      "count": 1,
      "detail": "merlette",
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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