The Herald and genealogist . r la Brette became Kings of Navarre. The same entirely red banner appeared at the siege of Carla-verock in 1301, borne by a cadet 5f that family named Amaneusde la Brette, as he is styled in records of the time,*—or, by thepoet of the expedition, Eurmenions— Mais Eurmenions de la BretteLa baniere eus toute rougette. By the English chronicler Peter Langtoft he is called SirEmery the Brette. His father had borne the same name (inLatin, Amaneus); as did one who is supposed to have beenhis son ; for, at the siege of Calais in 1346, there was a SirAmayen la Brette, serv
The Herald and genealogist . r la Brette became Kings of Navarre. The same entirely red banner appeared at the siege of Carla-verock in 1301, borne by a cadet 5f that family named Amaneusde la Brette, as he is styled in records of the time,*—or, by thepoet of the expedition, Eurmenions— Mais Eurmenions de la BretteLa baniere eus toute rougette. By the English chronicler Peter Langtoft he is called SirEmery the Brette. His father had borne the same name (inLatin, Amaneus); as did one who is supposed to have beenhis son ; for, at the siege of Calais in 1346, there was a SirAmayen la Brette, serving King Edward the Third ; and hehad then on his red sliield the golden lion of England passantin chief, a distinction evidently derived from the long services Anselme, Hist. Genealogique de France, vol. i. p. 638. 2 Ibid. vii. 759. 3 Galeries Historiques du Palais de Versailles, 8vo. 1840, tome vi. pp. 112, 210,deuxieme partie, p. 9. * Rynier, Fcedera, New Edit. i. 708, 922. THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF COAT ARMOUR. 9. GOURNAY. ^vhicll this family, originally fr(5m Gascoigne, had rendered tothe kings of this country. The barons of Gournay in Normandybore an uncharged sliield of Sable. Thetown of Gournay placed upon this shieLl aknight fully armed, ermine, and in chief afleur-de-lis or; which arms are said tohave been conferred upon the town afterits capture by Philip Augustus, on whichoccasion lie knighted Arthur Duke ofBritany, the virifortunate nephew of ourKing John. There was therefore liisto-rical allusion, botli in the Knight (bearing the ermine of Britany)and in the golden fleur-de-lis of tlie monarch who conferred thisdistinction. The ducal house of Britany bore a shieldof simple Ermine; down to the time ofthe marriage of its heiress in 1499 toLouis XII. On the coats of those mem-bers of this house who were Earls of Rich-mond in England this usually appears as acanton: as in the very interesting bannerof John de Dreux, the Earl in the reignof Edward the First, wh
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