Name
Gawdy
4 coats of arms in 2 sources
Attestations: what are they?
Some arms carry an “Attested: in Renesse’s dictionary…” or “in … Ordinary” note. It points to a reference work, separate from the armorial that gives the blazon, where this name appears with these arms. It is independent corroboration: two books that agree are worth more than one.
Papworth, Ordinary of British Armorials (1874) and Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms (Scotland, 1893): sort arms by their design and name who bears them.
Only sure matches are counted (same name in Renesse, a confirmed entry in Papworth). Each coat’s page lists every citation, with a link to the scanned printed page.
The parser reads these blazons the same way. Each source keeps its own text, shown here: a word the parser does not keep can tell them apart.
Read identically in 2 sources (2 coats of arms)
- Gawdy Burke (General Armory) · co. Norfolk — Attested : in Papworth’s Ordinary (2)
- Gawdy de Crow's-Hall Rietstap
- Burke (General Armory) Vert a tortoise passant argent
- Rietstap De sinople à une tortue passant d'argent