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lion

Fully parsed

Sayn

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

De gueules au lion couronné d'or.

Original entry: lion cr. · G O · variant · Trier · 1490

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

Identified as
Schwarzburg / Sayn /

In medieval armorials

  • Le Blancq (1380) no. 3107 “le conte de schwaerspeck”
  • Berlin (1460) no. 244 “gryff von saÿn” · crest: ibex' horn
  • Miltenberg (1490) no. 536 “graff von sein” · crest: ibex' horn

Tinctures

gueules (field)
or (charge)

Charges

lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "couronné"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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