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lionlion

Fully parsed

Carmen / Carmain

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

Écartelé : aux 1 et 4 écartelé d'argent et d'azur ; aux 2 et 3 de gueules au lion d'argent, à la bordure d'azur.

Original entry: qtly; lion & border; = ; = {AB, GAB} · Languedoc · 1375

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
Carmen

In medieval armorials

  • Navarre (1375) no. 1325 “le vicomte de carmen, esquartellé le premier quartier d'argent et d'azur, l'autre quartier de gueulles a ung lion rampant a une bordeure de gueules”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
argent (field)
azur (field)
azur (ordinary)
gueules (field)

Charges

bordure (ordinary)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "partition": "écartelé",
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ],
        "sub_tinctures": [
          {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          {
            "name": "azur",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "lion",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "argent",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "bordure",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "azur",
              "category": "colour"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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