Chester (earldom)

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

Blazon

De gueules à trois léopards d'or, à la bordure d'azur.

Original entry: 3 lions passt guard & border · G OB · Cheshire · 1300

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: ENGLAND
Identified as: Earldom of Chester

In medieval armorials

Ashmolean (1334) no. 27 “le conte de cestre”
Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 192 “lez armes du contee de chestre sont lez armes d'engletere a la bordure d'azure”
Ballard (1490) no. 1065 “john d of exeter”

Tinctures

azur (ordinary)

gueules (field)

or (charge)

Charges

bordure (ordinary)

3× léopard (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "léopard",
      "count": 3,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "or",
        "category": "metal"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "bordure",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "azur",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    }
  ]
}