Maunch

Maunch

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