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(
MS: s.xii2
)
Pur icel mal pernét turmentine e genest e de la tansesie salvage
Pop Med 64
(
MS: s.xii4/4
)
Plançun de jenest a escoveillon revert
Prov vil 10.222
(
c.1200; MS: c.1220-40
)
Munt Gelboé, ja ren cresse en tei Fors sul genivre e malveise gaunai (var. (B: s.xiii3/4) jaunei) Ne la rusee n'estanche vostre sei
Anc Test (E) 8808
(
MS: s.xv
)
Pernez bure de may e lez floures de genethe, e triblez bien ensemble
Five Med MSS 125.E98
♦decor.depiction of broom (possibly as the emblem of the Plantagenets):
(
1423
)
Item, .j. lite del drap d'or de baudekyn, noier et vert, ovec jenettes [...] Item, .v. tapitz de tapicerie des jenettz, chescun contenant .viij. verges en longure et .iiij. verges de large, en tout .xxxiij. verges quarrez
Rot Parl1 iv 233.775 and 233.776
Plante genest
namenickname for Geoffrey of Anjou, in 1460 used as a surname (by 'Richard Plantaginet') and from the seventeenth century applied to kings from Henry II to Richard III:
(
s.xiii2/3; MS: 1274-75
)
Maut l’emperice […] fu puis donee a Galfre Plantegenest cunte de angeo e puis vint en Engleterre
Reis Brittfoltys (H) 106
(
s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15
)
Henry, le eisne fiz Gefrey Plantagenest e Malt le emperice
Reis Engl1 188
genest (s.xii2)