Burton

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Blazon

Palé d'or et de gueules, à la bande de sable chargée de trois chantepleures d'argent brochant sur le tout.

Original entry: paly & bend ch. 3 water-bougets · X SA OG · Nottinghamshire · 1392

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: Birton
Identified as: John Birton, John Burton / Birton, kt, MP, Ralph Burton

In medieval armorials

Newcastle 1319 (Boroughbridge) (1322) no. 166 “sire rauf de burton”
Cotgrave's Ordinary (1340) no. 497 “monsire de byrton”
Cooke's Ordinary (1340) no. 499 “sr de birton”
Basynge (1395) no. 272 “john de birton”
Willement (1395) no. 222 “monsr john de / byrton”
Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 350 “john de birton port palee d'or & de goules une bende de sable & iii busses d'argent en la bende”

Tinctures

argent (charge)

gueules (field)

or (field)

sable (ordinary)

Charges

bande (ordinary)

3× chantepleure (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "palé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "bande",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "chargée",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "attitudes": [
            "brochant",
            "brochant sur le tout"
          ],
          "charge_name": "chantepleure"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}