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Genevieve

Saint Genevieve, Abbess of Paris 

born Nanterre 422ad, died Paris 500ad

Patroness of Paris: Rituals of Devotion in Early Modern France.

by Moshe Sluhovsky

Review author[s]: Larissa Juliet Taylor
Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 496-498
doi:10.2307/2544723

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The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints.

Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275. 
First Edition Published 1470. Englished by William Caxton,
First Edition 1483, Edited by F.S. Ellis,
Temple Classics, 1900 (Reprinted 1922, 1931.)

This chapter is from: Volume 1: Prologue

<>http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/GL-vol1-prologue.html
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html 

http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0103.htm#gene

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du Montfleur

<>Montfluer / Montflor, part of the department of the Jura which has
as a prefecture the town of Lons-the-Salt maker, located in the east of France. <> 

The historic Mill of the Bridge of Winds is reported as operating
in Montfleur since the 15th century.

A church, constructed about 1200, destroyed
by a fire in 1479 and rebuilt about 1519.

<>http://www.patrimoine-de-france.org/

(1292-1362); Alix de Bourgogne, Dame de Montfleur
m.1317 to Jean II - Count of Trawl-net-Auxerre

<>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.culture.templar.rosemont/1442

by Nicolas Henri Mazet Copyright November 2002
<>Alix rams of Montfleur. Married 1317: Jean II count d' Auxerre,
died in 1362. cf: Dynasty of Burgundy (county)

http://web.genealogie.free.fr/Les_dynasties/Les_dynasties_celebres/
France/Dynastie_de_Bourgogne_comte.htm

Alix of MOEMPELGARD  (by 1299 - ?) ; 
de BOURGOGNE-COMTE; Dame de MONTFLEUR

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/pedix/peix33.htm

fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BURGUNDY%20Kingdom.htm

Montflor (39320)

Naming Practice:

Etienne de MONTFAUCON  (? - 1397) ; 
aka Stephan of MOEMPELGARD
Henri II de MONTFAUCON  (1366? - 1396) ; 
aka Heinrich II (Count) von MOMPELGARD
(MOMPELGARD-ORBE); Count MONTBELIARD
Henri I de MONTFAUCON  (? - by 1367) ; 
aka Heinrich I of MOEMPELGARD
Henriette de MONTFAUCON  (1387? - 1444?) ; 
von MOEMPELGARD (& Orbe); Countess MONTBELIARD

<>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com

The Fleur-de-lis

As a heraldic charge, it dates from the 12th c. It is first adopted as a semis on a field by the French king Philippe II (1180-1214) with certainty, perhaps already by his father Louis VII (1137-80). At a minimum, the arms "azure, a semis of fleur-de-lis or" are associated with French kings from 1200.

< style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Stained glass window in the shape of a fleur-de-lys, Bourges cathedral, 15th c.  < style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">

The term "fleur de lis" in the heraldic sense is attested in 1225.

The French Arms They were Azure, a semis of fleur-de-lis or since 1200 or perhaps even 1170-80. They were changed to Azure, 3 fleur-de-lis or in 1376, by order of Charles V the Wise. It is sometimes said that the reason was to spite the English King, who bore quarterly France Ancient and England, and differentiate the arms of France from that claimed by England. I am pretty sure the arms of France were shown with 3 fleur-de-lys prior to that, and possibly prior to the Hundred years War, for esthetic reasons.

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/fdl.htm

http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-02/moa-15.html

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9034562/fleur-de-lis

DragonFlies

  <>THE UNICORN TAPESTRIES, the set of seven depicting the hunt of the unicorn. These tapestries and the set at the Cluny were designed and woven about 1500 (~1490-1505) -- a determination based on the materials used and the clothes and fashion depicted.

The Unicorn in Captivity

The butterfly over the carnation in front signifies resurrection and love, but earthly love. Two dragonflies zip around. There's a Madonna lily with a dragonfly at it; these were popular in gardens and quite fragrant, and they also represent the sweetness of love. Madonna lilies are white, for purity, and gold within = Christ.

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Freeman, Margaret B. The Unicorn Tapestries. NY: E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1976.  <>
http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/medieval/unicorn.html

 

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mca0070971

1500 - 1515

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http://libwww.library.phila.gov/medievalman/detail.cfm?imagetoZoom=mca0070971 <>
As with other pages in this Flemish book of hours (on which see Image 275), there is a lavishly detailed border of flowers, butterflies, snails, caterpillars and dragonflies.

Arnould and Massing, 1993, pp.156-7

media:   date: 15th Century episodes: All owner/location: Cambridge University Library/Cambridge catalogue information: CUL.MS.Additional 4100, fols.90v-91r

http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/mi-sampler/flight_noapplet.htm