Guillemin

From Middle English gilmin, from Middle French guillemin.^[1]

Guillemin (plural Guillemins)

1. Synonym of Williamite (“member of the Hermits of Saint William”).
   • 1623, Andrew [i.e., André] Favine, translated by A. M. [attributed to Anthony Munday], “A Few Memorable Obseruations, Concerning the Holy and Deuout Life and Death of This Worthy Prince Iohn of Orleance”, in The Theater of Honour and Knight-hood. Or A Compendious Chronicle and Historie of the Whole Christian World. […], London: […] William Iaggard, […], →OCLC, page 453:

     Thither likewiſe came all the Cleargie, of the Pariſhes and Monaſteries in Paris, and in manner of Proceſſion, filled with griefe and lamentations, brought the Body from the Church of the Guillemins, and carried it to the Church of the Celeſtines, the Eſquires of the deceaſed Duke carrying lighted Torches all the way before the Body.

   • 1838, Robert Southey, “Joan of Arc”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Southey. […], volume I, London: […] [Andrew Spottiswoode] for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], →OCLC, notes, page 227:

     The whole of the princes who were at Paris, except the king and his children, […] having assembled with a large body of the clergy and nobles, and a multitude of the citizens of Paris, went in a body to the church of the Guillemins.

   • 1844, Louisa Stuart Costello, “Château de la Fée—King René—The Miniatures—[…]”, in Béarn and the Pyrenees: A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 135:

     His death was attended by so many miracles that it became necessary to canonize him; and orders of hermit monks rose up in every quarter, bearing his name of Guillemins, the chief of which were the Blanc Manteaux of Paris.

   • 1889, George F[rederic] Warner, “Introduction”, in The Buke of John Maundeuill: Being the Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Knight, 1322–1356: A Hitherto Unpublished English Version […], Westminster: […] [F]or the Roxburghe Club [by] Nichols and Sons, […], →OCLC, page xxxi:

     The notice of Sir John Mandeville given by Bishop Bale in his Catalogue of British Writers, first published in 1548, is chiefly based on his own account of himself, but it ends with the matter-of-fact statement that he died at Liége on 17 Nov. 1372, and was buried there in the church of the Guillelmites, or Guillemins.

   • 1965, Robert Branner, “The Court Style”, in St Louis and the Court Style in Gothic Architecture (Studies in Architecture; VII), London: A. Zwemmer Ltd, →OCLC, page 87:

     In this sense his support of the friars – not only of the Dominicans and Franciscans, but also of such groups as the Carmelites, the Guillemins, the Blancs-Manteaux and the canons of Ste Croix – was an expression of policy, a social as well as a spiritual programme.

From guillemin (“a monk or hermit of the Order of Saint William”).

Guillemin ?

1. a surname