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The two adjectival uses in gowerMirour seem to retain some of the verbal quality of the Latin past participle regens, thus using a grammatical construction that is not normally found in Anglo-Norman.
(
c.1378; MS: s.xivex
)
ore est le temps Que nous faillont les bons regens
GOWERMirour 24116
(
c.1378; MS: s.xivex
)
Au temps Cesar le fort regent
GOWERMirour 22174
♦statusregent, one who governs under or instead of a king:
(
1330
)
come chescun conestable de Burdeux deive estre entendant as seneschals et a regentz de Gascoigne
Rot Parl2 197.22
(
1360
)
Charles, ainsné filz au Roy de France, regent le royaume, duc de Normandie
Foedera1 iii 485
(
1406
)
Henry de Lancastre, a present regent d'Angleterre (=during the minority of Edward III)Rot Parl1 iii 605
(
1420
)
qe nostre dit seigneur le roy serra nome heir et regent du roialme de Fraunce
Rot Parl1 iv 124
♦statusacad.regent, master who actively teaches at university:
(
1402
)
doctours en l'un ley ou en l'autre, ou regentz deinz les universitees
Rot Parl1 iii 506.76
(
1406
)
forspris auxi maistres de divinitee, doctours de l'un loy et l'autre, ou regentz deinz les universitees et maistres de fisyk
Rot Parl1 iii 593.110
regent (1330)