Merbury

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

Blazon

Écartelé : aux 1 et 4 d'argent à la croix de sable accompagnée de quatre fers de lance de sable ; aux 2 et 3 d'or à la fasce d'azur chargée de trois gerbes d'or.

Original entry: cross betw 4 spearheads; fess ch. 3 garbs; =; = {ASS, OBO} · Cheshire · 1420

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 Merbury

In medieval armorials

Richental Chronik (1420) no. 1120 “johannes merbory”

Tinctures

argent (field)

azur (ordinary)

or (charge)

or (field)

sable (charge)

sable (ordinary)

Charges

croix (ordinary)

fasce (ordinary)

4× fers de lance (meuble)

3× gerbe (meuble)

Parsed structure (AST)

{
  "field": {
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "croix",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "sable",
              "category": "colour"
            },
            "modifiers": [
              {
                "verb": "accompagnée",
                "count": 4,
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "sable",
                  "category": "colour"
                },
                "charge_name": "fers de lance"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "fasce",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "azur",
              "category": "colour"
            },
            "modifiers": [
              {
                "verb": "chargée",
                "count": 3,
                "tincture": {
                  "name": "or",
                  "category": "metal"
                },
                "charge_name": "gerbe"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2",
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}