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Gilles Le Bouvier
Gilles Le Bouvier (1386– 1455) was a French herald, diplomat and writer. He served King Charles VII of France and compiled an official history of the king's reign. Gilles Le Bouvier also wrote a geographical work with descriptions of the lands he had visited as a diplomat for the king, including Armenia and Turkey. He was also the author of a lavishly illustrated armorial preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, national library of France (BnF), the . Biography Gilles Le Bouvier was born in Bourges. He came to Paris in 1402 and came into the service of King Charles VII of France. He was made ''Roi d'armes de Berry'' or ''Héraut Berry'' ("Herald of Berry, France, Berry) in 1420, and in 1451 was promoted to ''Roi d'armes des Français'' (Chief Herald of France). From 1438, he travelled extensively throughout Europe on various diplomatic missions for the king. The last five years of his life he dedicated to writing. Works In his role as herald to the king, Gilles Le Bouv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armorial De Gilles Le Bouvier - BNF Fr
A roll of arms (or armorial) is a collection of coat of arms, coats of arms, usually consisting of rows of painted pictures of shields, each shield accompanied by the name of the person bearing the arms. The oldest extant armorials date to the mid-13th century, and armorial manuscripts continued to be produced throughout the early modern period. of 1605 was an early instance of a printed armorial. Medieval armorials usually include a few hundred coats of arms, in the late medieval period sometimes up to some 2,000. In the early modern period, the larger armorials develop into encyclopedic projects, with the ''Armorial général de France'' (1696), commissioned by Louis XIV of France, listing more than 125,000 coats of arms. In the modern period, the tradition develops into projects of heraldic dictionaries edited in multiple volumes, such as the ''Dictionary of British Arms'' in four volumes (1926–2009), or ''J. Siebmacher's großes Wappenbuch'' in seven volumes (1854&nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
