  A generalization of the effective meson Lagrangian possessing the heavy quark
symmetry to finite meson masses is employed to study the meson mass dependence
of the spectrum of S-- and P wave baryons containing one heavy quark or
anti-quark. These baryons are described as respectively heavy mesons or
anti-mesons bound in the background of a soliton, which is constructed from
light mesons. No further approximation is made to solve the bound state
equation. For special cases it is shown that the boundary conditions, which
have to be satisfied by the bound state wave--functions and stem from the
interaction with the light mesons, may impose additional constraints on the
existence of bound states when finite masses are assumed. Two types of models
supporting soliton solutions for the light mesons are considered: the Skyrme
model of pseudoscalars only as well as an extension containing also light
vector mesons. It is shown that only the Skyrme model with vector mesons
provides a reasonable description of both light and heavy baryons. Kinematical
corrections to the bound state equations are included in the discussion.
