Cheyney

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Blazon

Échiqueté d'or et d'azur, à la fasce de gueules frettée d'hermine brochant sur le tout.

Original entry: checky & fess fretty · X GE OB · Cheshire · 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 Cheyney, kt, MP

In medieval armorials

Willement (1395) no. 454 “monsr john / cheynu”

Tinctures

azur (field)

gueules (ordinary)

hermine (charge)

or (field)

Charges

fasce (ordinary)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "échiqueté",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "azur",
          "category": "colour"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "fasce",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "frettée",
        "brochant",
        "brochant sur le tout"
      ],
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "frettée",
          "tincture": {
            "name": "hermine",
            "category": "fur"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}