Updated July 1, 2006
[Intro] [Part I] [Part II] [Roll Pic]
[Bibliography]
A Caerlaverock Roll of Arms
by Maister Iago ab Adam
(Michael Case, yagowe{AT}shaw.ca)
copyright 2001, all rights reserved
If you have any comments or observations on my work so far, please e-mail
me (address above).
Introduction
In July of the year 1300 King Edward I led a siege on the castle of
Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire. Soon after, an epic poem was written, in Old French
or Anglo-Norman, recording the events and, more importantly for my purposes, the
arms of 106 of the knights and lords present[1]. Since the
poem does contain some inaccuracies and omits some details of blazon[2],
I have chosen not to create a Roll of Arms simply based on the Poem, but to
approach it as though I was a herald present at the siege, creating a roll
independent of the poet. Therefore, I have used the Poem as my primary, but not
only, source of information as to what those present actually bore.
To simplify things I have broken the documentation into two parts. The
first part documents the overall project; for the
second, I have treated each individual piece of armory
as a mini research project, documenting my interpretation of what was
actually borne at the siege by the person in question.
[Intro] [Part I] [Part II] [Roll Pic]
[Bibliography]
Notes:
[1] Eight 13th C. Rolls of Arms, pp. 11-12
[2] See Part II