Maunch

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Illustrations

Period

A period example, c. 1300: Sire Roger de Flaunvile bore "Argent, a maunch gules bezanty." A Roll of Arms of the Reign of Edward II, p. 70. Available on Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?id=HHcUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=roger&f=false

Modern

Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition):

• Maunch

Vector Graphics:

• Book of Traceable Heraldic Art
• Viking Answer Lady - http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/Stars/Heraldry_SVG_Images/index.htm

Annotated Pennsic Traceable Art Project

Maunche

Parker's Heraldry:

Maunch, (fr. manche): an ancient sleeve for as a frequent device in the earliest rolls of arms.

R.

Sometimes in French arms it is called manche mal taillée, to distinguish it from an ordinary sleeve. Generally but one maunche is borne. No doubt the three little manches [manchelles] are allusive to the name of MANSEL.

• Reinauld de MOUN, de goules ov ung manche d’argent–Roll, temp. HEN. III.
• Sire Robert THONY, de argent a une maunch de goules–Roll, temp. ED. II.
• Monsire de HASTINGS port d’or a une manche de gules–Roll, temp. ED. III.
• Monsire de MOUN, gules a une manche d’ermin–Ibid.
• Gules, a maunch ermine, with a hand proper, holding a fleur-de-lis or–MOHUN, Earl of Somerset.
• Or, a maunch gules–HASTINGS, Oxfordshire.
• Argent, a maunch sable–HASTINGS, Leicester.
• Argent, three sleeves erect sable–BLAKE.
• Sable, a hand proper holding a fleur-de-lis and vested in a maunch issuing from the dexter side of the shield or–CREKE.
• Argent, an anchor azure surmounted by a maunch sable charged with three crosses patty of the field–COLPOYS.
• Argent, three maunches sable; [another Argent, a chevron between three maunches sable]–MANSEL.
• D’or, à une manche mal taillée de gueules–DASTING, Normandie.
• D’or, à trois manches mal taillées de gueules–CONDé DE COEMY, Champagne.

http://karlwilcox.com/parker/?e=maunch

Sources:

• Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Heraldry Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/
• Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi
• Laurel Armory Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/armory_articles.html

• New Heraldic Primer (Heraldry for Non-Heralds) - http://heraldry.sca.org/armory/newprimer/
• Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry (PicDic), 3rd Edition - http://mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry
• Period Armorials

• Riestap's Armorial Général - http://www.euraldic.com/lasu/bl/bl_a_aa.html

Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Definition:

(includes defaults, proper tinctures, blazoning)

May 1992 - too complex to be counterchanged over an ordinary

"The opinion of the commenting heralds was unanimous that a maunch is too complex a charge to be counterchanged over an ordinary." (LoAR 5/92 p.27). [[1]]

March 1986

Caid, Kingdom of. Badge for the Company of Clothiers of Caid (transfer from Angelina Nicollette). Azure, semy of thimbles argent, issuant from a maunch Or a hand proper grasping a needle threaded argent. *http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/1986/03/lar.html

June 1976 - maunches usually don't have arms

Blazon the charge "an arm vested of a maunch"; the sleeve is more commonly empty. (KFW, 16 Jun 76 16], p. 10)

• http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents/karina/atof.html

The Ordinary :

• Maunch