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- Title
Carminows and Their Arms: History, Heraldry and Myth in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cornwall*.
- Authors
Saul, Nigel
- Abstract
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Cornish antiquary William Hals recorded a story etched in the Carminow family's memory which recalled that one of their fourteenth-century forebears had been challenged by Richard, Lord Scrope over his right to the arms Azure, a bend or. The story built on references in the Scrope–Grosvenor hearings in the Court of Chivalry in the 1380s to 'one Carminow', actually Thomas Carminow, who had himself mounted a challenge to Scrope in the course of Edward III's expedition to France in 1359–60. The article examines the justifications that Carminow is reported to have offered for his use of the arms, which he claimed his family had borne since the time of King Arthur, and then considers the reworking of the story in the late sixteenth century, when the changing circumstances of the family required it to be retold in a new form.
- Subjects
CORNWALL (England : County); HERALDRY; DEVICES (Heraldry); NOBILITY (Social class); CHIVALRY
- Publication
English Historical Review, 2021, Vol 136, Issue 583, p1419
- ISSN
0013-8266
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ehr/ceab334