Submitted as Isabel Kelsey of Clan Cameron, The available evidence indicates that the way membership in such a clan (no matter what "clan" word was used for the group) was indicated in a personal name was by the use of ó (or older ua) plus the clan eponym in the genitive, not by using a construction equivalent to 'of Clan X'. We have removed the word clan, and changed the name to the closest registerable form to the originally submitted form.

Note: she has received permission to conflict with Andre Lessard (Fieldless) A legless bee displayed barry sable and Or, winged Or. Since there is the technical CD for fieldlessness, and since the bees are not tinctured the same, (although we grant no difference between them), and one is legless and one is not, we are willing to register this.

Note: he has permission to conflict with Æthelfrith se Hluda Sable three plates. and Geoffrey le Bay Sable, an orle of plates.

Note: a purely Russian form of the name would be Kat’ryna Vidova Kolokova (which carries the client’s desired meaning, although Kat’ryna Vidova doch’ Kolokova would have been closer). The Polish version of the name would be Katarzyna Widowa Ko okowa.

Found on the LoI as Loveday Ribald, it was submitted as Loveday the Ribald and changed in kingdom. However, since the OED gives the meaning as "an irregular class of retainers, who performed the lowest offices in a royal or baronial households, especially in France in the 14th and 15th centuries and were employed in warfare as irregular troops", in 1240 Ribaudes, from 1330 Ribeus, Ribaude, 1436 "Ribawdes armyd iyrne and stele", thus the article would be supported. A second meaning is "a woman of loose character; a wanton" dated to 1530 as ribalde. Further, under Ribalder there is a 1360 notation of Robert þe Ribaudour, meaning someone, who is a ribald.

Therefore, we have restored the name to the originally submitted form.

Please show the submitter how to properly draw rayonny.

Note: she has received permission to conflict with Leticia Troischesness (Fieldless) An oak leaf vert.

This was returned on the August LoAR for lack of paperwork. We have received the paperwork subsequent to the meeting; we are willing to register the name now so that the group can become official.

Note: he has permission to conflict with the arms of Snæulf Hrolfsson Vert, on a plate a tree eradicated sable, on a base argent a wolf statant sable.

Please instruct the submitter how to correctly draw a proper ployé.

His former device: Quarterly embattled argent and azure fretty Or, in bend two bows sable. is hereby released.

Her former device Per fess argent and vert, two dolphins naiant fesswise in annulo within an orle counterchanged. is hereby released.

Found on the LoI as Edward ap Gerallt ap Arthur, it was originally submitted as Edward ap Gerald ap Arthur, and changed in kingdom because it was felt that the use of ap needed a Welsh name. However, late period Welsh used ap with English names, so we have restored it to the originally submitted form.

Her former device Purpure, a peacock pavonated to base between two hearts, all within a bordure argent. is hereby released.

Found on the LoI as Myfanwy ferch Gerallt, it was originally submitted as Myfanwy ap Gerald, and changed in kingdom because it was felt that the use of ap or ferch needed a Welsh name. However, late period Welsh used ap and ferch with English names, so we have restored the patronymic to the originally submitted form.

Submitted as Aislinn ingen uí Caiside, the patronymic needs to be lenited. We have done so.

Submitted as Ceara ní Gallchobhair uí Cionaoith, the bynames need to lenite and the proper form of daughter for this type of name needs to be used. We have made the appropriate correction.

Edward Blosseville de Monreale. Name.

Gabbriella Mocenigo. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Gaston Yvain De Dinan. Device. Paly sable and argent, on a bend between two Maltese crosses Or, a wolf's head erased gules.

Godfrey Baldwin Maul. Name and device. Vert, a fess vairy Or and sable between three dragons segreant guardant each maintaining a spear Or.

Griffin Crosthwait. Device. Vert crusilly argent.

Ír mac Lonngargáin. Name.

Jane Godwin. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and vert, a pomegranate Or and a cross bottony argent.

Jane Godwin. Badge. (Fieldless) Three pomegranates stems conjoined in pall Or.

Jane Godwin. Badge. (Fieldless) A griffin sejant with dexter forepaw raised paly vert and Or.

Nice armory!

Found on the LoI as Madog Maelgwn ap Llwelyn, the LoI left out the first y in Llywelyn. We have corrected this.

Her former device Argent, two domestic cats sejant affronty sable and a bordure azure semy of quatrefoils argent., is hereby released.

The armory was submitted under the name Katarzyna Wilk.

Note: she has a letter of permission to conflict with Galene Leonilla of Blackwater Or, three annulets interlaced two and one and a fess wavy abased, a bordure sable.

Submitted as Eleanor Catlyng the only documentation for the submitted spelling was from after our grey area, and no other documentation could be found. We have changed it to the closest documentably period spelling.

The question was raised as to whether the spots on the panther were an additional layer, and if this device violated our rules on layering. Since a proper heraldic panther has spots, we will allow it in this case.

His former device Per bend sinister argent and sable a boar's head cabossed within a bordure counterchanged. is hereby released.

Submitted as Yaakov Avraham ben-Obadiah, no documentation was presented and none could be found by the College of Arms, or in any of Laurel's extensive collection of Judaica, for period Hebrew names which used a hyphen. Therefore, we have removed it.

A question was raised in commentary regarding the use of double given names in period Jewish names. While not the norm, the use was not rare, and therefore we see no reason not to allow it.

Submitted as William FitzHugh de Cambria called Green Shield, the only documentation for the called Green Shield came from a quote from Medieval Ireland, The Enduring Tradition, which cites a Richard FitzGilbert de Clare called Strongbow. One exemplar, which could be a modernized form, is not enough to register the called Green Shield. We have dropped it to register the name and device.

Submitted as Sorcha Ó Meadhra, since Sorcha is a feminine name, the patronymic needs to be feminized and lenited. We have done so.

The armory was submitted under the name Catrina of Cawdor.

Originally blazoned as a bison, we have reblazoned it as a buffalo to match the blazon of his badge, and to use a more period term.

While this depiction of the legs is drawn in a way that blurs the distinction between courant and statant, it is drawn identically to that on his previously registered device, and is therefore grandfathered to him.

This order dates from period, and exists in some form today.

This order dates from period, and exists in some form today.

On the July 1998 LoAR Branwen ferch Emrys' proposed badge (Fieldless) A cross fleury gules., was pended so we could decide if the badge for the Order of Calatrava was important enough to protect. After consulting with the College, we have decided that it is, so we are adding it, as well as some others to our list of protected non-SCA armory. Without exception, all of these orders date from period, and exist in some form or another to this day.

This order dates from period, and exists in some form today.

This order dates from period, and exists in some form today.

This order dates from period, and exists in some form today.

Golden Fleece, Order of. (Imperial Austria, Spain). Badge. (Fieldless) A fleece Or.

This order dates from period, and exists in some form today.

This order dates from period, and exists in some form today.

On the July 1998 LoAR Branwen ferch Emrys' proposed badge (Fieldless) A cross fleury gules., was pended so we could decide if the badge for the Order of Santiago was important enough to protect. After consulting with the College, we have decided that it is, so we are adding it, as well as some other to our list of protected non-SCA armory. Without exception, all of these orders date from period, and exist in some form or another to this day.

Submitted as Caitríona deLacy, that combined Gaelic and English orthography in the same name. According to Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames, the Gaelic form of deLacy is deLéis, and it is pronounced similarly to de Lacy. Since her forms said sound was most important to her, we have made this change in order to register the name.

This is clear of Aerhynne FitzLewis of Glin Per chevron argent and azure, a garden rose and a rosebud both gules, slipped and leaved vert, in base a cup argent., with one CD for the change of tincture of the top part of the group (Aerhynne's roses are half vert) and for change of type of the bottom half of the group.

Found on the LoI as Ceridwen Davidson, it was originally submitted as Ceridwen the Protector, and changed in kingdom since it was felt it was too evocative of the Goddess. However, that is not one of the attributes of the Goddess, and since the word appears, via the OED, to date to the 14th c. (with a cited spelling of "protectour"), where it has the desired meaning ("one who protects, guardian) and derives from the French, we have restored the name to the originally submitted form.

While a cross crescenty is not, to the best of our knowledge, a period cross, it follows the pattern of period crosses, and is, therefore, registerable.

The armory was submitted under the name Gregor Verdammten.

Found on the LoI as Llewellyn jardinier, the LoI failed to capitalize the J in Jardinier, as was found on the forms. We have corrected it.

Submitted as Meadhbha ní Riain, the byname lacked the necessary accent over the first i in Riain. We have corrected this.

Submitted as Morgan Cryn Cadwalader, Cryn was glossed in the LoI to mean small, shivering. Unfortunately, it only has that meaning when used as a prefix. Where it is now, it means moderate, which is not an appropriate Welsh epithet. We have deleted it in order to register the rest of the name.

The armory was submitted under the name Rághnall MacIntyre.

Note: while the printed LoI had a blazon but no emblazon, the blazon was included by error, and no armory was submitted.

Her former device, Azure, on a pile between two fleurs-de-lys argent a rose proper., is hereby retained as a badge.

His former device Or, a créquier gules., is hereby released.

This is being returned for lack of documentation of the byname. The given name is acceptable, but no documentation was presented for the byname or for the combination of the byname and the given name.

This is being returned for unidentifiability. As drawn it is not clear what the animal is; guesses at the Laurel meeting was rat or weasel. No one could tell it was a salamander. If the flames were drawn connected to the salamander, and were a different tincture from the fleur-de-lys, and the salamander was drawn more identifiably, this problem would be taken care.

Note: while emblazoned as above, it was blazoned on the LoI as an Or field.

This is being returned for lack of paperwork.

This is being returned for lack of paperwork.

According to the LoI, the name was Hungarian and was intended to mean "Sandor, the little father (possibly young?), from Györ."

According to Nebuly:

Based on this we have no option but to return the name for incorrect construction and lack of documentation.

The submitter would take no changes. Therefore, we cannot create a holding name, and we are forced to return the armory as well, for not having an SCA name to register it to.

The emblazon shows the fretty drawn halfway between a fret and fretty. A fret is drawn as a lozenge voided which is interlaced with two ribands, one of which passes over the other in the center of the field, fretty is drawn as interlacing ribands over the entire field.

This submission is based on a drawing in Foster's The Dictionary of Heraldry, which shows the arms of Sir John de Hudleston with fretty drawn as this.

However, Foster was a Victorian era herald who drew the emblazons in his book, based on period armory. Therefore, one depiction from Foster's is not sufficient to register this drawing, which blurs the line between a fret and fretty.

This is being returned for a redraw. There are far too many rayons in the rayonny.

This is being returned for violating our rule on voiding/fimbriating. While she does have registered to her (Fieldless) A compass-star of sixteen points argent voided vert., that does not permit her to charge the compass star.

This conflicts with Bartholomew Knowles Vert, a winged coney salient reguardant argent., with the only CD the one for change to the field.

This conflicts with Brión mag Fhloinn Argent, a stag rampant sable., as cited in the LoI. The LoI argued that there should be a CD between a deer and a bagwyn because they were considered different charges in period. However, the bagwyn is visually a deer with an odd tail.

The question then is how distinct was the bagwyn considered in period? Its having a distinct name is prima facie evidence for its being distinct, but otherwise the evidence is not encouraging. It apparently had no existence outside of heraldry, as compared with the antelope which is found in bestiaries. The word is not found in the OED (first edition). As a charge it is a very late invention, with its first attested appearance being from c. 1539. (By way of comparison, the antelope is found in English heraldry from the reign of Henry IV.) Finally, it seems to only occur in the heraldry of one family, albeit a prominent one. Denys points out that the putative bagwyn as the supporter of the 17th century Lords Hunsdon is actually a yale.

Based on this, we feel that the bagwyn is an insignificant variant of a stag which happens to have its own name, and there is no countable difference between it and a deer (or stag).

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn it is not truly nebuly, but closer to nebuly engrailed, which is not a period line of division, and breaks our precedent on using two different lines of division in the same line. Please inform the submitter that this is in conflict with Alexandre Bernadou Sable, on a pile wavy argent three fleurs-de-lys gules., registered this month. We give no difference between wavy and nebuly, so there is only the CD for changing the tertiaries.

This conflicts with Sigenoth the Blissful Per pale sable and vert, a Latin cross bottony argent. There is only a CD for the field.

This conflicts with Michael of York Gules, a sheaf of three arrows bound by a serpent coiled to sinister guardant Or. The serpent is not large or prominent enough to count for difference, leaving only one CD for the change in the field.

This conflicts with Stirling Castle which has its own entry in Britannica, and therefore is important enough to protect.

The name is being returned for lack of documentation for the last name. The only documentation for it was that it is an imaginary port from period fiction. While we have registered place names from period fiction, it must be documented that the place was a place where humans dwelt. No such documentation was provided.

The armory conflicts with Ansetrude Hrodebertsdohtor Gules, on a pile nebuly argent, a sea-dragon, its tail ending in the head of a serpent, azure. There is one CD for the changes to the tertiaries, and nothing for the difference between wavy and nebuly.

Blazoned on the LoI as a dragon's tail, the charge in question is not a dragon's tail, but a fish-hook. The Gelre armorial (van Helmont) has this charge on page 41v in the arms of DIE V. BORNE "d'arg. au croc de hamé on de gu." Argent, a fish-hook gules. While this charge is registerable, barring documentation for making the tip a different color, this must be returned.

Defector in this spelling can only be dated to 1660, past even our grey period. Furthermore, English epithetical names don't generally derive from learned Latinate terms such as this. The combination of these problems makes the epithet unregisterable.

The device conflicts with a badge of Ansteorra (for the Chronicler) (Tinctureless) A mullet of five greater and lesser points distilling gouttes. There is one CD for field, but nothing for position on field" vs. a fieldless badge. There is no type difference between the mullet of five greater and lesser points distilling gouttes and the sun.

No paperwork was received stating that the submitter wished to release these items. Barring such paperwork, this must be returned.

This conflicts with Penelope of the Quill Vert, a chevron between two hawk’s bells and a quill pen Or. There is only the one CD for type of secondary charges.

Flossennburg is a castle in Oberpfalz that once belonged to the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. At the foot of the castle is a town by the name of Flossenbürg. The submitter wanted the der in the name to show that she was from the castle, and not the town.

However, to the best of our knowledge, medieval German did not distinguish in that manner, so barring documentation to that effect, the der must go. Since she forbids dropping the der we have no choice but to return the name.

This conflicts with Edwin atte Bridge, registered July, 1998, Azure, on a bend wavy between two towers argent, three portcullises palewise sable., with one CD for the addition of the tertiaries.

The given name is fine, but the byname is in the masculine form, not the feminine. The S ownik (VI: 105) provides many examples of Wilk as a man’s name but not as a woman’s. Moreover, we have a rather close period name "Katherina dicta Wylkowa" under the feminine patronymic Wilkowa (Ibid, VI: 107) indicating that a woman called ‘Catherine the Wolf" would have used the patronymic Wilkowa. Since Polish requires names to agree in gender with the bearer, and the submitter does not take changes, we must return this name.

The armory was registered under the holding name Katarzyna of Attemark.

The overall construction of this name is fine. However, each element in this name has problems.

The LoI notes that Krelis is documented from the Olive Tree Genealogy Homepage; this is to be found at www.rootsweb.com/~ote/, and the particular page in question is "Dutch Patronymics of the 1600s", located at www.rootsweb.com/~ote/dtchnam.htm. This is a genealogical site, and discusses only post-1600 practice; it cannot be considered reliable. No one in the College was able to find any evidence that Krelis was used in our period. The name Cornelis can easily be documented, however. Winkler (p.8) lists one Cornelis Vriens in the latter 15th century.

If Vrooman can be found in an appropriate sense, the byname should be constructed as Vroomanssoen (note spelling change and absence of aanlopen; see Winkler, p.21 for examples). However, no one has found it used in any names, and Verdam gives vroom as meaning "profit, benefit"; this is at odds with the client's "wise".

The island currently known as Terschelling was apparently known as Wuxalia until at least the early 11th century, and possibly much later (Knzel, p.409). Blaeu's Atlas (pp.64-65) has Der Schelling in 1662; Schilder has this spelling on a 1604 map, as well as der Schellinck in 1606 (vol. IV, p.149). The modern name of the island is thus a later contraction of this phrase. We could find no byname constructed as van der Schelling, though this might be reasonable. The appropriate byname appears to be Schellinger, according to Huizinga.

Taken together, the evidence suggests the best period form for the name is Cornelis Schellinger, though Cornelis van der Schelling might be justifiable. The first byname must be dropped unless additional evidence for it can be found.

This is too much of a change for us to feel comfortable in making it, so we are returning this for the submitter to decide.

This conflicts with Valentine Christian Warner Purpure, a skull argent wearing a fool's cap per pale ermine and Or. registered August 1998. The change of half the cap from Or to ermine is a total change on only 1/4 of the primary group, so there is just the CD for the field.

This conflicts with Edward O Dea, registered October 1998, Azure, on a chevron inverted argent two mullets of six points sable., with only a CD for the changes to the tertiaries. Please inform him that inverted chevrons do not issue from the corners of the shield.

According to the LoI, the motif of the decrescent and increscent entwined comes from a 16th or 17th century German Wappenbuch, as found in Fox-Davies The Art of Heraldry. The plate were it is found is Plate CVII (following p. 312 in my Bloomsbury Books 1986 edition). That plate is labeled "Armorial Paintings of the XVI. and XVII. Centuries". The arms are those of Schaff, from Wappenbuch 2 in the Adelsarchiv in Vienna. The arms in that source are "not annotated, but a date of patent is recorded on the arms of Herkomber" (illustrated on the same plate). The date of that patent is "25/6 1641". Effectively, then the arms of the exemplar are undated, and we can only say that they may - or may not - be period. At this point, we have only A.C. Fox-Davies' word for it that the examples included on that plate are from both the 16th and 17th Centuries. The only real date we have is post-period. That is an awfully weak basis on which to determine whether this motif is a period one. Siebmacher's Wappenbuch von 1605 has the arms of Schaf as Gules, a ram passant contourny argent., clearly an entirely different coat. A careful review of the emblazons throughout the book found no examples of crescents interlaced, though there were several coats of arms consisting of (Field), in fess an increscent and a decrescent [tincture] (Hörlingsberg, Interse, Feirtag, Hander, Zirchau, Fulbach, and Commerer. Additionally, Zily bore Azure, in fess an increscent moon and a decrescent moon Or.). This is not sufficient to register this motif.

This conflicts with Trinidad and Tobago, Gules, a bend sable fimbriated argent. There is a CD for the addition of the secondary bear, but none for changing the tincture of the fimbriation.

This is being returned for lack of paperwork.

This conflicts with Bleddyn of Coldwell Azure, three suns, one and two, argent and a ford proper. Since we give no difference between a sun and a compass star, there is only one CD for number of charges. This also conflicts with the trademark of Maersk trucking company Bleu-celeste, a mullet of seven points argent., with one CD for the addition of the base.

This conflicts with Arabella Cleophea Winterhalter, Purpure, ermined Or, a lotus blossom in profile within a bordure argent. There is one CD for the change in the tincture of the field, but ermine spots are considered part of the color of field, and not considered a semy, so they add no additional difference.

This conflicts with the already registered Catherine of Cawdor. The given names are too close to each other to register them both.

The armory was registered under the holding name Catrina of the Outlands.

This name combines Gaelic and English orthography in the same name, which is against our rules. There is no clear English form of the given, and we cannot make the byname Gaelic, since the submitter allows no changes to the byname, so we have no choice but to return this.

The LoI glossed Verdammten as the damned. The usual way to say the damned singular is Verdammt. die Verdammten translates as the damned(plural) in its Biblical meaning. Since this is not correctly constructed, and the submitter allows no changes, this must be returned.

Even if this had been grammatically correct, barring documentation that such names were used in period, we would have had to return it.

The armory was registered under the holding name Gregor of nan Crioch Tuatha.

This is being returned for two reasons. First, while emblazoned as above, the field was blazoned on the LoI as Vert. We do not do scaly of two tinctures of the same tincture class. That violates the rule of tincture. Second, the birds need to be drawn in a recognizable heraldic position. They are not clearly volant or stooping, but halfway between.

This conflicts with Alienore di Paravano Per saltire gules and sable a winged lion rampant wings elevated and addorsed argent. There's one CD for the field, but nothing between a winged cat and a winged lion, and nothing for salient to rampant. It's also in conflict with William Alexander MacAvoy Per chevron gules and azure a natural winged tiger segreant argent striped sable., for the same reason.

This conflicts with Kerensa of Willowmere Or, springing from a fracted stump, a field daisy stalked and leaved proper., with one CD for fieldlessness.

This conflicts with Gunther der Degentoter Sable, a bend gules fimbriated, overall three swords crossed above the hilts argent.

This combines Gaelic and English orthography in the same name, which we do not allow. Since the submitter does not permit changes this must be returned. An entirely Gaelic form would be Rághnall Mac an t-saoir.

The armory was registered under the holding name Rághnall of nan Crioch Tuatha.

No name form was received so we must returned the name. Since there is no SCA name to register this to, we must return the device as well.

This conflicts with the badge for the Order of Santiago (Fieldless) A cross of Santiago gules., and the badge for the order of Calatrava (Fieldless) A cross of Calatrava gules. In both cases the only difference is the fieldless CD.

No blazon was given on the LoI.

The LoI left out the tincture of the acorns.