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clou

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Greiffensee

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

D'argent à trois clous de sable, à la bordure d'or.

Original entry: 3 nails & border · A SO · Suisse · 1433

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
Greifensee
Identified as
von Greiffensee

In medieval armorials

  • Donaueschinger (1460) no. 901 “von griffense” · crest: cap pointed ch. arms tipped with tuft of cock feathers
  • Öhem (1496) no. 429 “griffensew”

Tinctures

argent (field)
or (ordinary)
sable (charge)

Charges

bordure (ordinary)
3× clou (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "clou",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "bordure",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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