The Torticol des Boscenos went back to Brian the Good, and under the Draconides had held the highest offices in the kingdom.

In 1179, Philip Torticol, High Admiral of Penguinia, a brave, faithful, and generous, but vindictive man, delivered over the port of La Crique and the Penguin fleet to the enemies of the kingdom, because he suspected that Queen Crucha, whose lover he was, had been unfaithful to him and loved a stable-boy.

It was that great queen who gave to the Boscenos the silver warming-pan which they bear in their arms.

As for their motto, it only goes back to the sixteenth century.

The story of its origin is as follows: One gala night, as he mingled with the crowd of courtiers who were watching the fire-works in the king's garden, Duke John des Boscenos approached the Duchess of Skull and put his hand under the petticoat of that lady, who made no complaint at the gesture.