Maunch

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[Illustration from period source]

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

Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition):

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Illustration/s from Brickbat's Armorial Stash - [[2]]:

Pennsic Traceable Art Project: [[3]]

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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.

Mohun

> 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. [[4]]

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Precedents:

May 1992 LoAR: "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). [[5]]

March 1986 LoAR: 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. [[6]]

June 1976 KFW: Blazon the charge "an arm vested of a maunch"; the sleeve is more commonly empty. (KFW, 16 Jun 76 16], p. 10) [[7]]

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The Ordinary :

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