The Family of Septvans.
- Author/Editor
- Tower, Sir Reginald.
- Title
- The Family of Septvans.
- Published
- Tower, Sir Reginald. "The Family of Septvans." Archaeologia Cantiana 40 (1928): 105-30.
- Review
- The name is Norman French, meaning "seven winnowing fans," three of which surmount the family arms (azure, three fans or). The first Septvans documented in England held the manor of Aldington in Kent, in 1180. The article names wives and children (with a detailed family tree between pp. 112-13), and provides dates of births and deaths into the 17th century. There is a very brief mention of the "Septvans case," involving the fleecing of the under-age William de Septvans, and some account of his later life, including his capture, while serving as Sheriff of Kent, by the rebel mob in 1381 (112-13). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 44.1]
- Date
- 1928
- Gower Subjects
- Biography of Gower