Susan Carroll-Clark wrote:
>Eleanor, the Countess of Leicester, sister of Henry III and
>definitely a Plantagenet, wears one on her seal. The seal also has
the
>stylized "planta genet" (a sort of viney thing with a pod on the end),
It's not a vine, it's the broom plant ("genista" in Latin), a shrub
with yellow pea-like flowers.
Kate Bunting
Librarian and 17th century reenactor
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