Definition of "Amyas"

Amyas

proper noun
1. (literary, rare) A male given name from Latin.
  Quotations
  The morrow next about the wanted howre, / The Dwarfe cald at the doore of Amyas, / To come forthwith unto his Ladies bowre.
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 59
  Because there was fellow-feeling of old in merry England, in county and in town; and these are Devon men, and men of Bideford, whose names are Amyas Leigh of Burrough, John Staveley, Michael Heard, and Jonas Marshall of Bideford, and Thomas Braund of Clovelly: and they, the first of all English mariners, have sailed round the world with Francis Drake, and are come hither to give God thanks.
  1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Macmillan and Co., published 1871, page 17
  She was an admirer of Kingsley. That's why she called her son Amyas. His father scoffed at the name - but he gave in.
  1942, Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs, HarperCollins, published 1994, page 39