Daventry

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Blazon

D'hermine à la fasce échiquetée d'or et d'azur.

Original entry: fess checky · E X OB · _England · 1400

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: John Daventree al Daventry

In medieval armorials

Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 270 “monsire john damerere”
Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 454 “monsr john daventree port d'ermyn un fees chekeree d'or & d'azure”
Creswick (1450) no. 2052 “daventre”
Domville (1470) no. 1719, fol. 43v “dauntre”

Tinctures

azur (charge)

hermine (field)

or (charge)

Charges

fasce (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "hermine",
      "category": "fur"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "échiquetée",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "or",
            "category": "metal"
          }
        },
        {
          "verb": "échiquetée",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "azur",
            "category": "colour"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}