D'Arcy Boulton (heraldist)



D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton (born 1946) is a Canadian medieval historian, and heraldic author and artist.

Education and career
Having obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Trinity College (1969) and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Boulton completed a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, studying at St. John's College, in 1976 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. He taught at Davidson College and Harvard University before becoming a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana where he retired as Emeritus Professor of History and Medieval Studies in 2015.

Boulton is a member of the Académie Internationale d'Héraldique. In 1993, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada, and he served as the registrar (1998–2022) and vice-dean (2004–22) of the society's College of Fellows. Since 2008, he has edited Alta Studia Heraldica: The Scholarly Journal of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada. Boulton has produced armorial achievements for individual divisions of both Harvard and Notre Dame.

Publications

 * The Knights in the Crown: The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Late Medieval Europe, 1326–1520 (Boydell and Brewer, 1987); second edition, revised and expanded (2000), ISBN 0-85115-417-4.
 * Co-editor, The Ideology of Burgundy: Fashioning a 'National' Identity in the Literary, Political and Historical Vernacular (Brill, 2006), ISBN 978-90-04-15359-2.
 * "The Middle French Statutes of the Monarchical Order of the Ship (Naples, 1381): A Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes", Mediaeval Studies 47 (1985), pp. 168-271.
 * "Belts, Brooches, Collars, and Crosses: The Development of the Insignia of the Monarchical Orders of Knighthood, 1325-1693", in Heraldry in Canada, 21.5 (December 1987), pp. 9-39.
 * "Insignia of Power: The Use of Heraldic and Para-Heraldic Devices by Italian Princes, c. 1350-1500", in Art and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy, 1250-1500, ed. Charles M. Rosenberg, (Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990), pp. 103-127.
 * "Contesse, Duchesse, Marchise, Viscontesse: The Appearance of Feminine Forms of Titles of Dignity in France, 850-1200", in Romance Languages Annual, 5 (1993), pp. 5-13.
 * "Dynasties, Domains, and Dominions: The Use and Non-use of Territorial Arms by French Princes, c. 1200-c.1500", in Académie Internationale d’Héraldique, VIII Colloquium, Canterbury, 29th August-4th September 1993, Proceedings, Cecil R. Humphery-Smith, ed., Canterbury, 1995, pp. 39-74.
 * "Classic Knighthood as Nobiliary Dignity: The Knighting of Counts and Kings' Sons in England 1066-1272", in Medieval Knighthood V: Papers from the fifth Strawberry Hill Conference 1994, ed. S. Church, (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press 1995), pp. 40-100.
 * "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Poem for Henry of Grosmont?" (with W. G. Cooke), Medium Aevum 68 (1999), pp. 32-44.
 * "The Monarchical (and Curial) Orders of Knighthood before the Reformation: A Reassessment in the Light of Recent Research", in Les Ordres de Chevalerie, ed. André Damien, Membre de l’Institut (Paris: Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1999), pp. 85-136.
 * "The Treatise on Armory in Christine de Pizan's Livre des Fais d’Armes et de Chevalerie and its place in the Tradition of Heraldic Didacticism", in Contexts and Continuities: Proceedings of the IVth International Colloquium on Christine de Pizan (Glasgow, 21-27 July 2000), published in honour of Lilane Dulac, ed. Angus J. Kennedy et. al. (Glasgow, Univ. of Glasgow Press, 2002), Vol. I, pp. 87-98.
 * "A Fair Field Full of Folk (But Only Beyond the Sea): The Study of the Nobilities of Latin Europe", in Historically Speaking 4.2 (November, 2002), pp. 5-7.
 * "Knighthood and Nobility in the Lay Orders and Nobiliary Societies of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries", in As Ordens militares e de Cavalaria na Construção do Moundo Ocidental — Actas do IV Encontro sobre Ordens Militares, (Lisbon, Portugal: Edições Colibri/ Câmara Municipal de Palmela, Portugal, 2005), pp. 561-583.
 * "Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1547", in Princes and Princely Culture 1450-1650, Vol. II, ed. Martin Gosman et. al., Instituut voor Cultuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Groningen ( Leiden: Brill, 2005), II, pp.129-190.
 * "Headgear of Nobiliary Rank in Germany, Italy, France, and England: The First Phases in the History of the National Systems", in Streekwapens en Regional Heraldiek – L’Héraldique Régionale – Regional Heraldry – Regionalheraldik: Congreverslag van het XIIe internationaal Heraldisch Colloquium … Report XII. International Colloquium on Heraldry, Groningen 3-7 september 2001, ed. Hans de Boo, et. al. (Bedum, NL, 2006), pp. 60-79.
 * "The Curial Orders of Knighthood of the Confraternal Type: Their Changing Forms, Functions, and Values in the Eyes of their Contemporaries, 1325-2006", in World Orders of Knighthood and Merit, ed. Guy Stair Sainty and Rafal Heydel-Mankoo (Buckingham, UK, and Wilmington, DE: Burke's Peerage & Gentry, Ltd., 2006), pp. 205-239
 * "The Origins of a Damnosa Haereditas: The Degeneration of Heraldic Emblematics in the future and current United States and the Origins of the Sigilloid Display-emblem, 1608-1798", in Genealogica &Heraldica: Proceedings of the XXVI International Congress for Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, ed. André Vandewalle et al. (Brussels: Vlaamse Overheid, 2006), pp. 121-147.
 * "Le symbolisme attribué aux couleurs héraldiques dans les traités de blason des XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles". Le Langage figuré: Actes du XIIe Colloque international, Université McGill, Montréal, 4-5-6 octobre 2004, pub. par Giuseppe di Stefano et Rose M. Bidler (Montreal, 2007), pp. 63-88.
 * "Arms and Multiple Identities: Changing Patterns in the Representation of Two or More of the identities of a Single Armiger in Different Regions, c. 1140-c. 1520", in Genealogica & Heraldica: Identität in Genealogie und Heraldik. XXIXth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Stuttgart 2010 (Stuttgart, 2012), pp. 116-139.
 * "The Heraldic Emblematics of the Provinces of British North America and their Successors before and after the Partition of 1776/83: A Study in Contrasts", in Genealogica & Heraldica: Grenzen in Genealogie en Heraldik – Frontiers in Genealogy and Heraldry – Frontières dans la généalogie de l’héraldique – Proceedings of the XXXth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, held at Maastricht 24–28 September 2012, ed. Jan T. Anema et al. ( 's-Gravenhage : Stichting De Nederlandse Leeuw, 2014), pp. 39-68
 * "The Display of Arms in their Primary Martial Contexts: Shields, Horse-Trappers, Martial Coats, Crests, Ailettes, Part IIB. The Pre-Classic Period in England, c. 1217 – c. 1327: Flags", in The Coat of Arms, ser. 4, vol. 2, no. 236, (2019), pp. 27-59.