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lion

Approximate rendering

blazon partially parsed (method lenient)

Clères

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

D'argent à la fasce diaprée d'azur accompagnée d'un lion de gueules à dextre.

Original entry: fess diapered acc. lion passt in chf dx · A BG · Normandie · 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
Cleres

In medieval armorials

  • Wijnberghen (1270) no. 371 “jeh de clere le ione”
  • Le Breton (1300) no. 226 “jehan de clere”
  • Le Breton (Baluze) (1300) no. 68 “jehan de clere”
  • FitzWilliam = HE no. 564 “john de clare”

Tinctures

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

Charges

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

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