Flower Names for Women, part 2

Heralds frequently are asked to document given names for women based on flowers.  This post is the second in a series;  it focuses on flower names in French (and its related dialects).

All entries are formatted so that they can be cut and pasted into OSCAR.

Angelique (referring to the flower angelica) is found in "Something Rich and Strange: “Undocumentable” Names From The IGI Parish Records" by Alys Mackyntoich (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/SomethingRichandStrange.html) s.n. Angelique dated from 1579 onwards.

Eglantina (meaning "wild rose") is an Occitan name found in "Names from Fourteenth Century Foix" by Cateline de la Mor (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/cateline/foix.html).

Fleur de Lys is found in "Late Period French Feminine Names" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael  (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/latefrench.html) dated to 1478, 1537, 1575.

Fleurance (meaning "blooming, flowery") is found in "Late Period French Feminine Names" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael  (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/latefrench.html)  dated to 1507.

Laurencia (meaning "lavender") is found in the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources s.n. Laurencia (http://dmnes.org/name/Laurencia), dated to 1273, 1300.  The French vernacular forms Lorence and Laurence are found in the same entry.

Marguerite (meaning "daisy") in "Late Period French Feminine Names" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael  (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/latefrench.html) dated from 1395 onwards.

Olive (meaning "olive tree") is found in several forms in French in the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources s.n. Olive (http://dmnes.org/name/Olive).  Forms include the Latinized Oliva (c. 823, 1311) and the vernacular Olive  (1565-1568) and Olyve (1567).

Rose is found in "Late Period French Feminine Names" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael  (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/latefrench.html) dated to 1569.

Yolent (meaning "flower") is found in the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources s.n. Yolanda (http://dmnes.org/name/Yolanda) dated to 1292 and 1302.  The alternate French spelling Hyolent is found in the same entry, dated to 1292.

Middle English Writ for a Pelican

I was greatly honored to be asked to write the words for +Molly Eskridge 's Writ for the Order of the Pelican.  I'll be doing her scroll text as well, but that's somewhat in the future.

Being for Dreda, it HAD to be in Middle English.


By þe Kyng.  By þe Quene: Vnto Aildreda de Tamwurthe, ryght trusty and welbeloued.  By a supplicacion putte vnto vs yn name of þe Ordre of þe Pellicane, We woll and charge you expressely þat ye appere in owre presence vpon 27 Mai in þe Shere of Panthervale, þe seid day to answare wheþer ye accepte stallacion vnto þe Ordre afore-written.  We neyþer may ne wol haue your commynge vnto Vs excused in eny manere.  Yeuen vpoun 1 Aprill in þe fyfty-fryst yere of the Societee.