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besant

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Tamworth

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

D'argent au sautoir engrêlé de sable chargé de cinq besants d'argent.

Original entry: saltire engrailed ch. 5 roundels · A SA · Lincolnshire · 1380

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
Nicholas Tamworth

In medieval armorials

  • Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 652 “n tamworth”

Tinctures

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

Charges

5× besant (meuble)
sautoir (ordinary)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "sautoir",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "engrêlé"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargé",
          "count": 5,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "besant"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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