(last updated on May 30, 2001)
MORIN
There are __ entries for the above surname in Rietstap's "Armorial General", Vol. 1, pg. ____;
Translated and transcribed by Leslie A. Schweitzer.
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...PIMBLEY'S
DICTIONARY OF HERALDRY....
...A
GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN HERALDRY by JAMES PARKER (1st pub. in
1894)
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From Rietstap:
1) Morin (Brittany): Or a chevron azure between three moor's heads. (this is of course a 'cant', or visual pun, Moor's heads for Moor-in.)
2) Morin (Burgundy): Argent three mulberries purpure. (This is also a cant: Mure is a mulberry in French and sounds like Moor.)
3) Morin (Burgundy): Or a chevron azure between three moor's heads sable, on a chief azure a mullet argent. (This is probably a relative of family #1, given the similarity of the arms).
4) Morin (Normandy): Azure a chevron Or between three martlets argent.
5) Morin, Marquis d'Auvers (Normandy): 1st and 4th quarters: Or a cross engrailed sable (for Morin), 2nd and 3rd quarters, Argent two bars azure between 6 martlets gules, 3 2 and 1 (for St.-Marie d'Equilly).
6) Morin de Boismorin (Auvergne): Azure a hedgehog Or.
7) Morin de Loudon (Maine, Normandy): Or three bars vert.
8) Morin de Pontmartin (Brittany): Azure a chevron between three cinquefoils argent (borde/e sable?)
Morin Marquis de la Rivie\re: like Morin, marquis d'Auvers.
9) Morin de Tertre (Brittany): Argent a tree issuant from a terrace vert, a boar sable passant in front of it.
10) Morin du Tronchet: like Morin de Loudon.
From Burke:
11) Morin (Car Colston, co. Nottingham): 1st and 4th quarters per pale indented argent and azure, 2nd and 3rd quarters argent a fleur de lys azure.
12) Morin: Argent a chevron sable between three fleurs de lys gules.
13) Morin (Bailly of Jersey, 1467): Argent on the waves of the sea a dolphin embowed all proper.
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