D'Arcy Boulton (heraldist)

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D'Arcy Boulton (left), pictured with Christopher Hudson at the Grange Bicentennial Wedding Celebration 2017

D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton, UE FRHSC AIH (born 1946) is a Canadian historian, armorist and heraldic author.[1]

Education and career[]

Having obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Trinity College and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Boulton completed a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, studying at St. John's College, in 1976 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978.[2][3][4] He taught at Davidson College and Harvard University before becoming a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana where he retired as Emeritus Professor of History and Medieval Studies.[5][4]

Boulton is a member of the Académie Internationale d'Héraldique. In 1993, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada,[1] and he has served as the dean of the society's College of Fellows.[6] Boulton has produced armorial achievements for individual divisions of both Harvard and Notre Dame.[4]

Publications[]

  • "The Treatise on Armory in Christine de Pizan's Livre des Fais d'Armes det de Chevalerie and its place in the Tradition of Heraldic Didacticism," in Contexts and Continuities: Proceedings of the IVth International Colloquium on Christine de Pizan, ed. A.J. Kennedy et al., pp. 87–98.
  • The Knights in the Crown: The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Late Medieval Europe, 1326–1520, second edition, revised and expanded (Boydell and Brewer, 2000), ISBN 0-85115-417-4.
  • Co-editor, The Ideology of Burgundy: Fashioning a 'National' Identity in the Literary, Political and Historical Vernacular (Brill, 2002).

Arms[]

Coat of arms of D'Arcy Boulton hide
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Notes
Granted by the College of Arms 18 June 1974[7]
Crest
On the Helm of an Esquire with a collar-band of demi-maple-leaves, a lip-band of demi-roses and a single bar Or, set in a Military Loyalist's Coronet Argent, a tun fesswise transfixed with a bird-bolt palewise Or, thereon a gryphon statant tail extended Azure, langued Gules and armed Argent gorged with a crown pallisado and therefrom a chain reflected over its back also Argent.
Escutcheon
Quarterly, first and fourth Azure, three bird-bolts in pale fesswise heads to the sinister Or (for Boulton) Second Argent, on a chevron Vert between three bugle-horns Sable a crescent of the First for difference (for Forster); Third, Gules two lions passant Argent debruised by a bendlet Ermine for difference (for Strange).
Motto
Above the crest: PERILLEUSE ET PRECIEUSE Base motto: SAGITTAE VIAM MONSTRANT

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "D'Arcy Boulton". Royal Heraldry Society of Canada. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  2. ^ "D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton". University of Notre Dame Department of History. Archived from the original on 24 October 2010. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
  3. ^ "D'Arcy Boulton". Linkedin.com. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Biography: D'Arcy J.D. Boulton, UE, PhD, DPhil, FRHSC, AIH, FSA". The Royal Heraldry Society of Canada. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  5. ^ "D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton". University of Notre Dame. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  6. ^ "College of Fellows". Governing Body. Royal Heraldry Society of Canada. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  7. ^ "BOULTON, Dr D'Arcy J.D., UE, PhD, DPhil, FRHSC, AIH, FSA". Royal Canadian Heraldry Society. Retrieved 25 August 2021.

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