Re: Geoffrey Plantagenet's name (contempory evidence for the name Plantevelu)
- From: Stewart Baldwin <sbaldw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:49:00 GMT
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:46:16 +0000 (UTC), j.s.plant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(John Plant) wrote:
[snip]
I have published a summary of the methodology giving rise to the
following sense to the Plantegenest name in John S Plant (2005) Nomina,
28, pps. 115-133.
[snip]
Another article which discusses the origin of the Plantagenet name and
has some early references to it is the following one by Jim Bradbury:
"Fulk le Réchin and the Origin of the Plantagenets", in "Studies in
Medieval History presented to R. Allen Brown" (Boydell Press, 1989),
27-41. This is not a genealogical study of the ancestry of the family
(as the title might lead one to suspect), and the only statement
regarding the male-line origin of the family is the remark that
different sources give Geoffrey or Alberic as the name of Fulk's
father, with the weight of early evidence favoring the former.
Most of the article is concerned with presenting Fulk's rule in a more
positive (or perhaps less negative) light than has usually been the
case, but there is a short "speculative excursion" (as the author
calls it) at the end about the origin of the name "Plantagenet" (hence
the title of the article). The author states that the name "is
commonly found in chronicles and charters of the twelfth and later
centuries, and was applied to several members of the same family; to
Geoffrey le Bel, to Henry II, to Henry II's son Geoffrey." The
following is footnote 42 from page 40 of the article:
42 Chartrou, 93; Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum, ed. F. Madden, 2
vols., RS 1866, 239; Matthew Paris, Flores Historiarum, ed. H. R.
Luard, RS 1890, ii, 52, 55; Ralph Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum, RS
1875, 9; Diceto, Historical Works i, 243, 245, 246, 269, 291, 293; Le
Roman de Rou de Wace, ed. A. J. Holden, 3 vols., Paris, 1971, ii, 266,
l. 10271; Chronicon Angliae Petriburgense, ed. J. A. Giles, 1845, 83;
Marchegay and Salmon, 336, 361; and Geoffrey de Vigeois, not Guillaume
as in Chartrou, in M. Bouquet, RHF xii, Paris 1877, 438.
Note 41 mentions a survey of the possibilities for the surname in J.
Chartrou, "L'Anjou de 1109 à 1151", Paris 1928, 83-5.
The author then goes on to suggest that the origin of the name might
come from the event related in the Fragment of Angevin history said to
have been written by Fulk of Anjou:
"Urban was led from the church of St. Maurice to the church of St.
Martin. Then he gave me a golden flower, which he carried in his
hand. I decided, in commemorarion and from love of him, that from then
on I and my successors would always carry it on Palm Sunday."
[Bradbury, 40-41, citing Halphen and Poupardin, 238: ab ecclesia
sancti Mauricii ad ecclesiam beati Martini deductus; ubi mihi florem
auream quem in manu gerebat donavit, quem ego etiam ab memoriam et
amorem illius in Osanna semper mihi meisque successoribus defenderum
constitui.]
Stewart Baldwin
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