Kirby

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

Blazon

D'argent à deux fasces de gueules, au canton de gueules chargé d'une croix ancrée d'argent.

Original entry: 2 bars & canton ch. cross moline · A GGA · Lancashire · 1436

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: Kirkby
Identified as: Kirby, Richard Kirkby, Kt

In medieval armorials

Powell (1350) no. 489 “s' jon kyrkeby”
Basynge (1395) no. 129 “richard kirkeby”
Willement (1395) no. 227 “monsr richard / de kyrkeby”
Picquigny (armorial - 5256) (1400) no. 138 “m. ricard de kirkeby”
Ruelle (1400) no. 3626 “le sr de zyrkeby”
Furness (1412) no. 46 “alexander de kirkby”
Furness (1412) no. 47 “alan de kirkby”
Paix d'Arras (1435) no. 353 “zyrkiby”

Tinctures

argent (field)

argent (ordinary)

gueules (ordinary)

Charges

canton (ordinary)

croix (ordinary)

2× fasce (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 2,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "canton",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "ancrée"
          ],
          "charge_name": "croix"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}