Lord Peter Wimsey
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Lord Peter Wimsey's (fictional) ancestry begins with the 12th-century knight Gerald de Wimsey, who went with King Richard The Lion Heart on the Third Crusade and took part in the Siege of Acre. This makes the Wimseys an unusually ancient family, since "Very few English noble families go that far in the first creation; rebellions and monarchic head choppings had seen to that" (as reviewer Janet Hitchman noted in the introduction to Striding Folly). The family coat of arms is blazoned as "Sable, 3 mice courant, argent; crest, a domestic cat couched as to spring, proper". The family motto, displayed under its coat of arms, is "As my Whimsy takes me."
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- Related: Eric Whelpton
| Lord Peter Wimsey chronology Lord Peter Wimsey chronology www.leftfield.org/~rawdon/books/mystery/sayers.html - Web |
| Lord Peter Wimsey portrait at Balliol, Oxford Lord Peter Wimsey portrait at Balliol, Oxford archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk/images/Portraits/168.jpg - Web |
| Extensive review of the Wimsey books in "Second Gl... Extensive review of the Wimsey books in "Second Glance: Dorothy Sayers and the Last Golden Age" by Joanna Scutts www.openlettersmonthly.com/second-glancedorothy-sayers/ - Web |
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