Middle English Dictionary Entry
Gien(ne n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Gien(ne n. Also Guyan, Guyon, Gwyon. |
| Etymology | AF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Her. Guienne, the King-of-Arms having jurisdiction over the province of Guienne.
Associated quotations
- (1461) Grant Arms in Hrl.Soc.77 (Add 14295)192 : To all gentilmen & women theise present letters hearing or seeing humble recommendacion by me Guyan King of Armes of which persons foresayd on specyally entendinge to all gentilmen is come to me the foresayd Guyon Kinge of Armes, a discrete and notable man called William Swayne.
- (1461) Grant Arms in Hrl.Soc.77 (Add 14295)192 : The which blason I the foresayd Gwyon Kinge of Armes witnesse.
- a1600(1472) Rec.Bluemantle (Add 6113)284 : M. that when the Kinge had wesshed, and graces were sayde, the Kinge create a Kinge of Armes, baptysed hym Gyen, and sette a Croune on his hed, whiche was called Richemonde..And these herauldes before hym, Mayster Gartier, Principall Kinge of Armes, Clarencieux, Kinge of Armes, Norrey, Kinge of Armes, Marche, Kinge of Armes, Gyenne, Kinge of Armes.