Her previously registered device, Or, a goblet azure within a bordure azure semy of decrescents argent, is retained as a badge.
This is clear of William of Grey Niche: Sable, a decrescent argent within an orle of chain Or. There is one CD for changes to the field, and another CD for type between an orle of chain and a plain orle.
Submitted under the name Arik Woulfe.
Submitted under the name Arik Woulfe.
This name mixes Dutch and English; this is one step from period practice.
Submitted as Étaín ingen Ruaidrí, the submitter requested authenticity for 13th C Irish. A normalized Early Modern Irish (post 1200) form of this name is Éadaoin inghean Ruaidhrí. However, the 13th C is a time when Irish Gaelic is in transition between Middle Irish and Early Modern Irish. Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, "Index of Names in Irish Annals" shows the spelling Etain interspersed with Eadaoin and Etaoin throughout the 13th C. The same article also shows ingen and Ruaidri in the 13th C and early 14th C. Therefore, we are dropping the accents and registering this name as Etain ingen Ruaidri to fulfill her request for authenticity.
The submitter requested authenticity for Irish language/culture. The given name is an authentic pre-1200 Irish name. However, no documentation was provided and none found that the SCA group name Thescorre is a reasonable Irish name. Barring such evidence, we are unable to make this name authentic. We note that the most common name construction in Irish Gaelic is given+patronymic.
This name combines an English given name with an Anglicized Irish patronymic; this is one step from period practice.
Nice name!
His old name, Tigernach Mag Samhradháin, is released.
This is clear of Anézka z Rozmitála: Gules, in dexter chief a fret couped argent. There is one CD for adding the orle, and a second for changing the position of the fret. The presence of the orle does not force the primary charge to the center of the field; it is still possible to draw in dexter chief an X, an orle.
Submitted as Hakim al-Dar el-Beïda, the submitter indicated he was most interested in a name meaning "Hakim from Casa Blanca." As submitted, the byname has several problems. First, al-Dar el-Beida does not mean man from Casablanca, it means the white house. The College was unable to suggest an appropriate form for this byname. Second, the name uses two different transcription systems; al and el represent the same word. Also, and more important, no documentation was provided that Dar el Beida (or a variant thereof) was the name of this place in period. Although the place known today as Casablanca existed in period, its name in Arabic until the 16th C was Anfa. The town was razed, rebuilt, and renamed Casa Branca by the Portuguese in the 16th C, but did not acquire its present Spanish and Arabic name until the late 18th C. Barring evidence that this is a period name for this place or that it follows period Arabic placename patterns, locative bynames based on Dar el-Beida cannot be registered. We have substituted the 16th C Portuguese placename, giving Hakim de Casa Branca. This name combines Arabic and Portuguese in the same name, which is one step from period practice.
Her old name, Ríoghnach de Fae, is released.
Nice name!
Submitted under the name Robert of Burnhouse.
There was some question whether Argyll was a unique surname of the Campbells based on the statement from Black, "Sir Duncan Campbell...created Lord Campbell in 1445, was the first of the family who took the designation of Argyll..." However, the full quote makes it clear that Argyll is adopted as a locative, "Sir Duncan Cambell or Cambelle of Lochow,...was the first of the family who took the designation of Argyll in addition to, and sometimes in place of Lochow." There is a well attested pattern of inherited surnames in Scotland that are formed from placenames; although Argyll is not documented as a surname, it is documented as a placename. There was also some question whether the placename Clyde was found in period.
The name Cerridwen is SCA compatible.
The submitter requested authenticity for France, circa 1300-1500. The locative is a modern header spelling; the only example of this placename we have near her desired period is in Latin, Sancta Maria Baionensis in 1105, found in Dauzat and Rostaing, Dictionnaire Etymologique des Noms de Lieux de la France. However, both that, and the dated spellings of the similar Bayon, Baion, 1351, suggest that the submitted spelling is not inconsistent with period forms.
The submitter requested a name authentic for 15th/16th C Northern Italy. Both Francesca and Maria are found in the article "Fourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names", by Arval Benicoeur and Talan Gwynek. These names are also found in "Feminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427" by Arval Benicoeur. The artcle "Legati Pontifici" (Papal Legates), web.tiscali.it/urbaniaweb/legati%20pontifici.htm, lists an Ottaviano Volpelli di S. Angelo , papal legate to Urbino in 1541. However, it is unclear whether the names on this list have been normalized. We believe this is an authentic 15th/16th C Italian name, but we cannot guarantee it.
Her previously registered device, Per saltire vert and ermine, on a lozenge Or a rose barbed and seeded proper, is retained as a badge.
Submitted as Jehanne de Nîmes, the submitter requested authenticity for 13th C France. The submitted documentation shows the spelling of the locative as Nimes in 1357. We have changed the byname to that spelling to partially comply with her request for authenticity.
This name mixes Welsh and French in a single name; this is one step from period practice.
Please advise the submitter to draw the chevron more steeply.
The previously registered device Argent, a bear's jambe erased, in chief three blackberries sable hulled vert is retained as a badge.
Submitted as Nadezhda Volynskaia, the documentation shows the name of the town from which the locative was formed as Volyn'. We have changed the name to Nadezhda Volyn'skaia to match the documentation.
This name mixes an Irish given name with an English surname; this is one step beyond period practice.
Submitted as Þorlákr bjarki Eiriksson, the submitted documentation shows the name from which the patronymic was formed as Eiríkr. Precedent holds that accents must either be used uniformly or dropped uniformly in Old Norse names. Therefore, we have added the accent back into the patronymic, giving Þorlákr bjarki Eiríksson
Submitted as Tir Righ, Principality of, the registered name of the principality has an acute accent over the 'i' in Rígh.
Submitted as Tir Righ, Principality of, the registered name of the principality has an acute accent over the 'i' in Rígh.
This badge does not conflict with Esteban Diaz de la Mancha, Azure, a chess-rook between two compass stars in fess argent. Both columns and chess-rooks are period charges. Parker, p. 105, says that chess-rooks appear in the arms of Walsingham (temp. Edward II) and FitzSymon (temp. Edward I). Woodward, pp. 363-4, notes that columns appear in the arms of a number of families in various countries, including the well-known Roman family Colonna. Since there is no evidence that these two charges were used as a cadency step in period armory, it is appropriate that they be considered substantially different under RfS X.2.
Submitted under the name Tir Righ, Principality of, the registered name of the principality is Tir Rígh; there is an acute accent over the 'i' in Rígh. Groups, if your registered branch name includes an accent, please be sure to include it in the branch name when you submit items for registration. While the Laurel staff is exemplery in their proofreading, even the best of staffs don't always catch every typo. A typo such as this could cause a the submitted item to be listed incorrectly in the Armorial.
Submitted as Dearan Wylde, Dearan was proposed as a given name based on the patronymic Ó Dearáin, which Woulfe, Irish Names and Surnames, glosses as "descendant of Dearan." However, Woulfe defines "Dearan" as "great". No independent evidence was found that Dearan is a period given name rather than a descriptive name. Precedent, most recently confirmed in February 2003, says:
No documentation was found that Siridean was used as a given name in period.
Siridean was submitted based on the Gaelic surname form Ó Sirideáin found in MacLysaght's The Surnames of Ireland (s.n. (O) Sheridan). However, not all Mac and Ó surnames derive from given names. Some derive from descriptive bynames. For example, the surname Ó Balbháin (Woulfe, p. 433 s.n. Ó Balbháin) means 'descendant of the stammerer'. Metron Ariston describes the uncertainty regarding the origin of this name:
There has been a great deal of controversy over the etymology of Sheridan and its Irish antecedent over the years. Some people state that the putative Ó Sirideáin meant "son of the Searcher", i.e., is an attributive patronymic rather than a patronymic formed from a given name. Others insist it must have been derived from a rare given name (based largely on its use as a patronymic as far as I can tell). The Clan Sheridan web site itself (www.longfordtourism.com/genealogy/sheridan.html) notes "O' Shiridean literally translates as decendants of Sheridan the meaning of which is uncertain." I was not able to find a clear instance of its use as a given name (as opposed to a portion of a patronymic) in period [...].
Lacking evidence that Siridean is plausible as a given name in Gaelic in period, it is not registerable as a given name.
The same situation applies to the name Dearan.
Metron Ariston found the given name Deran in The Dictionary of the Irish Language: based mainly on Old and Middle Irish materials. We have changed the name to Deran Wylde in order to register it. No dates were included with the dictionary citation for Deran, but the spelling is consistent with Middle Irish Gaelic. Therefore, we will give the submitter the benefit of the doubt that it dates within 300 years of the 13th C citation for the byname. The name combines Gaelic and English, which is one step from period practice.
Her old name, Eibhlín MacEogan, is released.
The given name, Isolda, is grandfathered to her.
Her old name, Isolda von Rügen, is released.
His previously device, Azure, masoned argent, on a bend sinister, Or three gloves palewise sable is released.
Nice name!
This device does not conflict with Kristen de Kennett, Azure, an annulet engrailed Or surmounted by a sewing needle bendwise argent. There are CDs for changing the number of charges and the tincture of half the primary group.
Please advise the submitter to draw the cross more recognizably fleury.
A very typical Old Norse name!
There was some discussion about whether double surnames were registerable in English. The practice is rare, but is found on occasion. Pelican wrote in February 2002:
There hasn't yet been much research done regarding double surnames in 16th C England. But from the evidence that has been found, we can say that in cases where both names were inherited, the two surnames indicate the surnames of the child's parents. In fact, Withycombe (p. xliii) dates Robert Browne Lilly to 1593, noting that his father was John Lilly and his mother's maiden name was Browne. In a number of the instances of double surnames in the Dymock parish registers, this construction was an indication of illegitimacy. But considering the small amount of data we have at this time, it would be premature to presume that this is always the case. Indeed, the notation in Withycombe of Browne being "his mother's maiden name" would indicate that some of the time both parent's surnames were given to children born to married parents. [Benedict Saint-Jean Eldridge, 02/2004 LoAR, A-Atenveldt]
Therefore, this name is registerable as submitted.
The submitter is a duchess and entitled to the ducal coronet. Her previously registered device, Per chevron inverted indented purpure and argent, in pale two fleurs-de-lys counterchanged, is released.
This is clear of the submitter's legal name, David Scott by the edition of the article le. Administrative Handbook III.A.9 states "A small change in the name is sufficient for registration, such as the addition of a syllable ...", and an example states that Alan Miller does not conflict with Alan the Miller. It further states "However, a change to spelling without a change in pronunciation is not sufficient. For example, Alan Miller could not register the name Alan Miller or Allan Miller but he could register the name Alan the Miller."
This item was withdrawn by Kingdom and is not eligble for free resubmission at Kingdom.
FIXME: waiting confirmation on payment problems on this submission to confirm final wording.
The name Aelfric is grandfathered to her; it is the registered given name of her father, Aelfric Bernson of Westbrook. The grandfather clause says that once a name is registered to someone, it remains registered to them even if a rules change makes the name unregisterable. It further says that they and their close relatives may continue to register the name, so long as no different rules violations are introduced. In this case, Aelfric is currently unregisterable to those to whom it is not grandfathered. The spelling Aelfric is unattested; Old English names spelled with Æ are usually found in Middle English using A, Ai, E, Ei, or sometimes Æ. No examples have been found of an Æ --> Ae transition. Without such documentation, names that substitute Ae for Æ are not registerable.
The device is clear of Gwendwyn the Silent: Azure, a bend sinister between a winged unicorn countersalient and a batwinged manticore couchant argent. There is a CD for changing the type of the secondary charges, and a second CD for changing the posture of half the secondary charge group (i.e. the critter in base) from couchant to passant. A visual inspection of Gwendwyn's armory shows her manticore to be clearly couchant, with the legs tucked securely underneath.
The submitter requested a name authentic for 13th C England. The given name is an excellent choice for this period. However, no documentation was submitted and none found that the SCA group name Loch Salaan is authentic for the British Isles in the 13th C. Even if it is an authentic 13th C Scottish placename, it is unlikely as an English placename. Therefore, we are unable to comply with the submitter's request for authenticity.
Nice name!
Originally submitted as Marie Peregrine, the name was changed to Marie Pelerin at kingdom to comply with the submitter's request for authenticity. The submitter wanted a name authentic for France, 1420. Dauzat, Dubois, and Mitterand, Nouveau Dictionnaire Étymologique, s.n. Pérégrination date the spelling Peregrin to 1361. Because both Pelerin and Peregrin are words meaning pilgrim, either should be reasonable forms for late 14th/early 15th C. Therefore, we have changed the name to Marie Peregrin, which is an authentic form closer to her originally submitted form.
Please advise the submitter to draw the scythe more like actual scythes.
The device is clear of Adrian de Bretigny du Cabochon: Per chevron Or and gules, in chief three crescents, one and two, gules and in base a sun eclipsed Or. There is one CD for changing the field, and a second CD for removing the tertiary roundel from the sun. Eclipsing the sun has long been considered the equivalent of adding a tertiary charge, so there is a CD for dropping it, even from one charge of a group of four.
All elements of this name are grandfathered to her. Her old name, Dalla Rowden of the Misty Forest, is released.
Submitted as Aelina inn ákafr, the submitter requested authenticity for Old Norse. Aelina is a proposed variant of the Swedish name Ælina; however, there is no evidence that Æ and Ae are interchangable spellings in Swedish. The spelling Ælina is not found until the 14th C, well after the Old Norse period. Geirr Bassi, The Old Norse Name, lists Eilina, a name with a similar look and feel. We have changed the given name to this spelling to comply with her request for authenticity. In Old Norse, adjectival bynames must agree in gender with the given name; the correct feminine version of the submitted byname is in ákafa. We have made this change to correct the grammar of the byname.
The byname, of Kerry is grandfathered to him; his father is Michael Arthur of Kerry.
Submitted as Faílenn ingen Baldwin, as submitted, the name has several problems. First, the patronymic phrase combines Gaelic and English in violation of RfS III.1.a. Linguistic consistency. We have dropped the patronymic marker to make this name phrase registerable. Second, there is a more than 500 year gap between the date for the given name and that of the patronymic. Ó Corrain and Maguire, Irish Names, s.n. Faíleen, lists Faoileann as the later form of this name. We have changed the name to Faoileann Baldwin in order to register it. This name mixes Gaelic and English in the same name, which is one step from period practice.
If the submitter is interested in a fully Gaelic name with a similar sound, we suggest Faoileann ingen Bhaildrin. The name Baildrin is found in the "Annála Connacht" at the CELT web site (www.ucc.ie.celt).
Nice name!
Please instruct the submitter to draw a more aquiline eagle's head.
Submitted as Senach mac Feideilmid na Droichead Átha, the submitter requested authenticity for Irish language/culture. The given name and patronymic are both in Old or Middle Irish, while the earliest example of the placename is Early Modern Irish Gaelic (dated to the late 16th C). Mixing Old or Middle Irish Gaelic with Early Modern Irish Gaelic is a step from period practice; by the late 16th C, names would have been rendered in all Early Modern Irish Gaelic. Ó Corrain and Maguire give Seanach as the Early Modern Irish Gaelic form of the given name, however, we have no dated examples of this name in use between 1200 and 1600. Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, "Index to Names in Irish Annals" gives Feidhlimidh 17 times between 1259 and 1556. Finally, the same article shows the period citation for the locative byname as Droichit Atha, without the preposition na. Therefore, we have changed the name to Seanach mac Feidhlimidh Droichit Atha to comply with the submitter's request for authenticity.
Her previously registered device, Or, a domestic cat sejant affronty, head turned to dexter gules on a chief rayonny azure three spools of thread Or. is released.
Her old name, Gyßel Spatz, is released.
This is not a conflict with John Spencer, the first Earl Spencer. Only one member of the College noted the potential conflict, John Spencer is not contemporary with the SCA period, and he does not have his own article in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Therefore, he is not important enough to protect.
Please instruct the submitter to draw the line of division either higher or steeper.
This was registered in April 1981 as a device and changed to a badge in January 1982. It was originally blazoned as Quarterly purpure and gules, an eagle displayed, head to sinister, Or between four of the same sable, fimbriated Or. A possible conflict was called against this device. Visual inspection revealed that these birds are in fact a single group of five birds arranged in saltire, so we have changed the blazon to reflect that.
His previous device, Per bend sinister ermine and counter-ermine a rose per bend sinister sable and argent, barbed and seeded proper, within a bordure gules, crusily patty argent is retained as a badge.
Please advise the submitter to draw the erasings more boldly.
Submitted as Fáelán MacMillan, the submitter requested authenticity for 10th C Scottish. As submitted, the name is two steps from period practice. First, it combines Gaelic and English in the same name, and second, it combines a given name dated to the 9th C with a form of the byname dated to the 15th C. The Annals of Ulster entry for 1051 lists Laidhgnen m. Maelain, ri Gaileng; the given name is found as Maelán elsewhere in the same document. In Gaelic, the accents must either be used or omitted consistently. In addition, in the 10th-11th C, most patronymic bynames are taken literally. This is indicated in most texts by rendering the patronymic particle in all lowercase and separating it by a space from the patronymic. Therefore, we have changed the name to Fáelán mac Maeláin in order to register it and make it a consistent 10th/11th C Gaelic form of this name. Because the College was unable to find evidence that the names were used in Scotland in the 10th C, we are unable to fully comply with his request for authenticity.
Submitted as Faolan MacAodh, the patronymic particle was typically separated from the patronymic in period Gaelic names and written in lowercase. Therefore, we have changed the name to Faolan mac Aodh.
Submitted as Laurana de Landas, the submitter requested authenticity for 13th-14th C France and noted that she cared most about the sound of the name. The name Lorete [une] pucèle is found in Colm Dubh, "Index to the Given Names in the Paris Census of 1292..." Dauzat et Roistang, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France s.n. LaLande, dates Landes to 1128 and Landa in 1255. We have changed the name to Laurana de Landa to partially comply with her request for authenticity. We note that Lorete de Landa would be a fully 13th C French form of this name. However, since there is a significant difference in the sound of the given names, we have not made this change.
The given name Laurana was documented on the LoI to 1655. This is outside our gray-area (1600-1650), and without an earlier citation, the name would be unregisterable. Bronwen noted, "This name appears in a work by Emanuel Forde with the title Parismus, the Renovmed Prince of Bohemia. His most famous, delectable, and pleasant Historie. Conteining His Noble Battailes fought against the Persians. His loue to Laurana, the Kings Daughter of Thessaly. And his straunge Aduentures in the Desolate Iland. With the miseries and miserable imprisonment, Laurana endured in the Iland of Rockes. And a description of the Chiualrie of the Phrygian Knight, Pollipus: and his constant loue to Uioletta which was published at London in 1598." This dates Laurana before 1600, making it registerable as an English literary name.
Please advise the submitter to draw the sun larger, reducing the size of the bordure if feasible. Drawing fewer and larger panels of the vair field would also improve the overall identifiability.
This was registered in January 1990 under the blazon Quarterly vert and gules, on a mullet of eight points Or, another quarterly vert and gules, all within a bordure Or. While that blazon is technically correct, the unmistakable visual impression is that of a mullet voided, and we have chosen to change the blazon to make that clear. (This item came up as a conflict for an item in submission returned on this LoAR.)
Submitted as Svein Sutari Svithanda, the name contains two descriptive bynames, a practice that is very rare in Old Norse names. However, Golden Pillar notes the following precedent:
This name contains two non-patronymic bynames in Norse, which has previously been cause for return. Gunnvör silfrahárr (formerly Gunnora Hallakarva) found examples of people who were referred to using two non-patronymic bynames simultaneously. She provided the following examples and translations so each name may be viewed in context:
(1) Þórsteinn surts inn spaka (Thórsteinn Black the Wise) - Laxdæla saga (c. 1245), ch. 6. Ósk hét hin fjórða dóttir Þórsteins rauðs. Hún var móðir Þorsteins surts hins spaka er fann sumarauka. [Ósk was the name of the fourth daughter of Þórsteinn rauðr. She was the mother of Þórsteinn surts inn spaka, who found the "Summer eke".]
(2) Ari prests hins fróði (Ari the priest the wise) - Landnámabók ch. 83. Þórsteinn Hallsson var faðir Gyðríðar, móður Jóreiðar, móður Ara prests hins fróða. [Þórsteinn Hallsson was the father of Gyðríðr, who was the mother of Jóreiðr, who was the mother of Ari prests hins fróða.]
(3) Þórolfr Mostrarskeggr - Eyrbyggja saga ch. 3 (prepended and appended by-names) Hrólfr var höfðingi mikill og hinn mesti rausnarmaður. Hann varðveitti þar í eyjunni Þórshof og var mikill vinur Þórs og af því var hann Þórólfr kallaður. Hann var mikill maður og sterkur, fríður sýnum og hafði skegg mikið. Því var hann kallaður Mostrarskegg. [Hrólfr was a mighty chief, and a man of the greatest largesse. He had the ward of Thór's temple there in the island, and was a great friend of Thór, and therefore he was called Þórolfr. He was a big man and a strong, fair to look on, and had a great beard; therefore was he called Mostrarskeggr, and he was the noblest man in the island.
Given these examples, a name using two non-patronymic bynames in Old Norse is registerable so long as the bynames could reasonably be used to simultaneously describe the same person. In the case of the submitted name, the two bynames mean 'shrieking' and 'woman from the Orkney Islands'. These bynames have different meanings and could both have described the same person at the same point in her life. Therefore, this name is registerable. [Þórdís gjallandi eyverska, 05/02, A-Outlands]
Precedent requires that descriptive bynames in Old Norse be transcribed in all lowercase. Therefore, we have changed the name to Svein sutari svithanda; the name means "Svein the tanner, earthscorcher."
Please advise the submitter to draw the roses larger.
Submitted as West Dragonshire, Shire of, this is an appeal of the return of this name in July, 2003. The name was returned for these reasons:
The theme -shire is a designator, and therefore, invisible to the consideration of the name. Removing it leaves West Dragon, and the element Dragon is not registerable without the addition of a toponomyic theme such as -ton or -ham as a second element.
English shire names were not formed by adding a compass direction to the shire name.
The appeal provided the name of several English shires that contain compass direction words in the name, and argues that the group wishes to use -shire as the toponymic theme in its name rather than as the designator. If West Dragonshire is not registerable, the shire indicated they would accept West Dragoningshire/Shire of West Dragoning.
Several examples of shire names containing compass directions were given, including Northamptonshire, Essexshire, Suffolkshire. This clearly shows that compass directions appears in names of English shires; therefore, shire names containing compass directions are, certainly, registerable. However, the main issue of the previous return, supported by further research, is that in English placenames neither compass direction elements nor the theme shire are found modifying name elements that are not themselves already valid placenames. Because Dragon is not in itself a valid placename, West Dragon, Dragonshire, and West Dragonshire are also not valid placenames.
The alternative form suggested by the shire, West Dragoningshire does seem to follow English placenaming patterns. The element Dragoning using the theme -ing which is found in English placenames derived from personal names, from action words, and from some toponymic elements. Therefore, its use with Dragon should be acceptable, if unlikely. We have, therefore, registered this form. Because this name uses the SCA-compatible theme dragon, it is one step from period practice.
Submitted as Aelric Blackthorn, the submitter requested authenticity for 12th C England and accepted all changes. The name Aelric is a misrepresentation of the Old English Ælric; Ae is not a valid spelling for Æ; when such names are translated to Middle English, the Æ typically appears as either A, Ai, or E. The submitter's documentation shows Ælric as the closest 12th C form of the given name. It also shows de Blaketorn from 1190. Therefore, we have changed the name to Ælric de Blaketorn to make the given name registerable and to comply with the submitter's request for authenticity.
His previous device, Per pale gules and vert, a griffin segreant argent within a bordure argent semy of suns gules is retained as a badge.
The submitter requested authenticity for 16th C Cornwall. This is a lovely 16th C Cornish name!
The device does not conflict with the badge of Rinaldo of Blackhaven, registered in February of 1987 (via the Middle), Or, a pegasus salient sable ridden by a man in armour guardant vert, maintaining a sword sable. There's one CD for adding the bordure, and the addition of the rider is enough for the second CD.
There is a more than 300 year gap between the documented date of the given name, Auriana, in 678 and the late 11th C date for the byname. This is one step from period practice.
Nice name!
The submitter requested authenticity for 11th-12th C Norman France. However, the only documentation for the byname de Frisselle is undated. We are unable to find this name, or a reasonably close form, in any of the standard French placename sources. Given that Reaney and Wilson give the origin of this surname as an occupational byname rather than locative, it is possible that this form is found in Scots, but unlikely that it is found in France. Therefore, we are unable to comply with the submitter's request for authenticity.
Nice device!
Submitted as Durka Vadas, the spelling Durka is appropriate for a byname. The submitted documentation shows Durko as a given name in 1568. We have changed the given name to this form.
Submitted as Gleann nam Feorag Dubh, Canton of, the submitted documentation for names contructed with the pattern "toponym+particle+animal+color" had the color in the genitive case. We have changed the name to Gleann nam Feoragh Dhuibhe to correct the grammar.
This name is intended to mean "valley of the black squirrel" in Gaelic. There was some question whether black squirrels existed in the British Isles in period. Squirrel biology suggests that this is possible. While the red squirrel is the only species native to the British Isles, the "Friends of the Red Squirrel" web site, http://www.lakesnw.co.uk/environment/redsquirrels.htm, states "Red squirrels can vary between orange-red and nearly black." Therefore, this should be a reasonable name for a valley with a concentration of black-colored red squirrels.
Please advise the submitter that a unicorn should have a goatee. While lacking a beard is a fatal flaw for a supposed unicorn's head that is just the head, on a full unicorn there are other identifying features as well, which are present here.
The submitter requested authenticity for Italian language/culture. The given name, Iride, was documented as a header form in De Felice, Dizionario dei nomi italiani, and was undated. We typically register header forms from this work as long as there is no indication they are modern forms. However, without a dated example of the given name, we cannot guarantee that this is an authentic Italian name.
Submitted as El{zo}bieta Piekarska, the LoI notes that {zo} is Da'ud notation for a z with a ring above the letter. This is a misinterpretation of the z-kropka character, which is a z with a dot over it (kropka being the Polish word for "dot"). The z-kropka is the last letter in the Polish alphabet and is pronounced like the "zh" sound in "pleasure." There is no officially defined notation for the z-kropka, so we are going to define one. The practice of the Da'ud notation and of the extensions to it made by the Laurel office is to make the additional notation mark as similar to the accent or modification to the base Roman letter as possible. Therefore, we are proclaiming {z.} is the Dau'd style notation that the Laurel office will use for the z-kropka character. Concerning the given name, Nebuly notes, "...the standard modern spelling El{z.}bieta does appear as early as 1393 (Malec, p.358)." We have, therefore, changed the name to El{z.}bieta Piekarska to properly represent the Polish spelling.
Submitted under the name Keaiji no Nyûdô Nyôdai.
Nice name!
Nice name!
Nice armory!
Submitted as Liadan an Shionnach, the documentation showed no examples of this byname that included the article. Therefore, we have changed the name to Liadan Shionnach to match the documentation.
Originally submitted as Mairi Muir, the name was changed at kingdom to Maíre Muir, Maire being cited as the Early Modern Irish spelling for the Modern Irish Mairi. The submitter indicated that she cared most about the sound of the name. Mari neyn Bryan notes "the submitter's originally desired form of <Mairi> is dated to 1419 in my annals article [ed note "Index of Names in Irish Annals"] under <Ma/ire> in reference to an Anglo-Norman woman...the example is from Connacht: 1419.33 Mairi a Burc." Therefore, we are changing her name back to the originally submitted form.
Submitted as The Crimson Scorpion, this household name did not include a designator. RfS 2.b. Non-Personal Names says, "Branch names, names of orders and awards, heraldic titles, and household names must consist of a designator that identifies the type of entity and at least one descriptive element." We have added a designator to this name and registered it as House of the Crimson Scorpion.
Submitted as Seamus mac Duibhne, it is customary in Scottish Gaelic for patronymics beginning with D to lenite. We have changed the spelling to Seamus mac Dhuibhne to correct the grammar.
Nice name!
Nice name!
Originally submitted as Ulfarr inn frækni, it was changed in kingdom to Úlfarr inn fr{oe}kni to match the submitted documentation. However, Orle and Argent Snail both provided examples of the byname spelled frækna including "valiant, stouthearted." In addition, accents in Old Norse names are optional as long as they are used or dropped consistently. Therefore, we have change the name back to the originally submitted form.
The summarization of the form said "The submitter had doch' appended on the original submission, and wished to drop the last element if necessary." Several commenters asked whether this meant she would prefer the name without doch, or whether doch should only be dropped if necessary for registration. In this case, the form says "She would prefer to drop the 'doch' if it is not necessary." We note that both Vasilisa Federova and Vasilisa Fedorova doch' each fine forms of the same names.
This name was returned under older rules for conflict with William Forster, who was sponsor of the Education Act in England in 1870, and who has his own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica. However, under the rules now in place, he is no longer important enough to protect.
FIXME: Z comment: clarify blazon....
Registered in February of 1987 (via the Middle) as Or, a pegasus salient sable ridden by a man in armour guardant vert, maintaining a sword sable this is being reblazoned to better indicate the visual weight of the rider.
Please instruct the submitter to draw the trefoil larger.
His previously registered device, Per pale sable and argent, a pale counter-compony sable and argent fimbriated, in sinister chief a bull's head cabossed gules, is released.
Administrative Handbook I.B states: "Individuals and other Society branches may register no more than four names and four pieces of armory." It could be argued that the registration of this device would require the release of one piece of registered armory because the submitter has three items and an augmentation currently registered. This raises the question of whether an augmentation counts toward the number of armory items that a person may have registered. We currently list both the un-augmented and the augmented version of armory as registered items which could, with the registration of this augmentation, require the release of one registered item. Since the augmentation is a mark of honor given by the Crown and is added to the registered armory, we will not count the registered augmentation toward the registration limit. The un-augmented item will continue to count toward the registration limit and must remain registered for the augmentation to be exempt from the count.
The submitter had requested that, if the augmentation was registered, that one of her badges be released because of the registration limit. Since the augmentation will not count toward the limit for peices of armory she has registered, we are not releasing the badge at this time. If the submitter still wishes to release the badge, we will release the badge on a future letter.
As she is a duchess she is allowed a ducal coronet on her armory. Her previously registered device, Per bend sinister wavy sable and gules, in dexter chief three passion nails inverted bendwise in bend sinister gules enflamed Or, is retained as a badge.
Administrative Handbook I.B states: "Individuals and other Society branches may register no more than four names and four pieces of armory." It could be argued that the registration of this device would require the release of one piece of registered armory because the submitter has three items and an augmentation currently registered. This raises the question of whether an augmentation counts toward the number of armory items that a person may have registered. We currently list both the un-augmented and the augmented version of armory as registered items which could, with the registration of this augmentation, require the release of one registered item. Since the augmentation is a mark of honor given by the Crown and is added to the registered armory, we will not count the registered augmentation toward the registration limit. The un-augmented item will continue to count toward the registration limit and must remain registered for the augmentation to be exempt from the count.
As she is a duchess she is allowed a ducal coronet on her armory.
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Conflict with the registered name Eric Wolfson. The given names are identical in sound. According to both Reaney and Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, and Morlet, Dictionnaire Étymologique des Noms de Famille, the byname Woulfe is originally a sobriquet, but according to Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, it is an unmarked patronymic formed from the given name Wolf or Ulf. Wolfson, according to Bardsley, s.n. Wolfson, is also a patronymic meaning son of Wolf or Ulf. Because the bynames are both patronymics meaning "son of Wolf", they conflict.
His armory has been registered under the holding name Arik of Delftwood.
This is a resubmission of a name that was submitted in February, 1991 as Robert of Burns House. The reason for return still applies:
Conflict with Robert Burns, born Robert Burness, a variant of Burnhouse. Mind you, the fact that nearly every commenter immediately thought of Robert Burns may have been enough to have returned this anyway.
His armory is registered under the holding name Robert of the Debatable Lands.
This name implies that the submitter is the head of the real-world Clan Hunter, and so violates RfS VI.1, "Names Claiming Rank", which states, "Names containing titles, territorial claims, or allusions to rank are considered presumptuous." (Designators, such as Keep and Clan, are transparent for conflict and presumption purposes.)
Conflict with Katherin verch Rhys, registered October 2003. Katherin and Catlin are variants of the same name, and when pronounced properly differ by only a single sound in the middle of the name.
The device conflicts with Richard Longstride: Per pale azure and argent, a mullet counterchanged. There would need to be substantial difference for these to be clear (via X.2), and two extensive precedent hunts yielded up decisions giving significant, but NOT substantial, difference. So X.2 does not apply. While there is a CD between the mullet and the caltrop, that is the only CD available.
This is being returned for a redraw. The line of division of the chief is halfway between rayonny and indented. It needs to be drawn to be recognizably one or the other.
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The device conflicts with the Elena de Maisnilwarin: Per bend sinister vert and purpure, a bend sinister between a unicorn's head erased and a rose, slipped and leaved bendwise sinister argent. There is only one CD for changing the type of the secondary charges.
No documentation was submitted and none found showing the spelling Synnöve in period. Barring such documentation, this form is not registerable. There are several period variants of this name; we would change the given name to one of these forms, but the submitter will not accept changes. If the submitter is interested in an Old Norse name, Geirr Bassi, The Old Norse Name, shows Sunnifa as an Old Norse form of this name.
The submitter will not allow the creation of a holding name, so this device must be returned.
Withdrawn by submitter.
Withdrawn by the submitter.
The device conflicts with Mairghread Maire Draigdaimhalachd: Per saltire azure and vert, a dragonfly tergiant displayed argent, orbed Or. The only CD is for changes to the field.
None.
The device violates RfS VIII.3 by having a low-contrast complex line of division between azure and sable per precedent:
[Returning Per chevron wavy sable and azure, a decrescent, an increscent, and a sea-griffin argent] The contrast between the two halves of the field is so low that the line of division is not distinguishable. Past Laurels have returned extremely low-contrast lines of division even when there is not an overall charge (for an example, see the return of Isabel d'Avignon's device, June 1997 LoAR). [Oct 1999, Ret-Meridies, Anastasiia Novgorodskaia]
This submission's contrast is also so low as to render the line of division indistinguishable.
The device also violates VIII.3 by having a low-contrast complex line of division obscured by an overlying nonskinny charge: "[A] complex line of partition could be difficult to recognize between two parts of the field that do not have good contrast if most of the line is also covered by charges." The horse's head obscures too much of the line of division.
This is returned for a redraw. RfS VII.7.a requires that "Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance." As drawn, this was not identifiable. This would be the defining example of a leather bottell in SCA armory, and the submitter provided excellent documentation for this period artifact and its use as a charge in (possibly post-period) heraldry. However, the examples from the documentation have considerably more detail and are slightly in trian aspect to ensure the charge's identifiability as a bottle. The submitter should keep that in mind if using a leather bottell as a charge in a resubmission.
The Administrative Handbook section III.A.9 says "No name or device will be registered to a submitter if it is identical to a name or device used by the submitter for purposes of identification outside of a Society context."; In the case of branch names, this means a branch cannot use a name is a mundane location within its territory is known currently by that name. Unfortunately, Metron Ariston notes that Beit Aryeh "exists as a current geographical name in Israel and for an area that is more than a little controversial at that. To quote the online version of Haaretz' digital version for 22 September, 2004 noted on 21 September, 2004 at www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=357202&contrassID=2& subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y (yes, the date is right given the time difference!): "The American experts who examined the planned route of the separation fence near the settlement of Beit Aryeh were not convinced by Israel's claim that this route is necessary to protect flights landing at Ben-Gurion Airport from an assault by a shoulder-launched missile."; Since the territory of this shire is the whole of Israel, we are forced to return this name.
Because the branch name is being returned the armory must also be returned.
Irresponsible is too implausible to register as a byname. In the return of Aurelius the Arronious of Bikeleswade, Laurel said:
Period nicknames tend to be straightforward and to use common words: Thynnewyt `thin [of] wit, stupid', le Wis `the wise', Badinteheved `bad in the head', le Wilfulle, le Proude `the proud', le Hardy `the courageous', le Sour, le Cursede, le Deuyle `the devil', Blaksoule `black-soul'. The learned erroneous simply doesn't belong in this company. Although the adjective in question is not a past participle, we do not consider this case to be significantly different from those of Adam the Unexpected (East, returned 2/96) and Deirdre the Distracted (Ansteorra, returned 4/94), whose bynames were returned partly for being too abstract. Similarly, erroneous is too far from the common tongue to be at all believable as a period byname." [Jaelle of Armida, LoAR October 1996]
Irresponsible is first found in 1648 in a prose defense of the execution of Charles I. The word is not used as a descriptive human trait, but rather as a description of an action.
The submitter attempted to justify the byname as a Norse byname under lingua anglica. However the Lingua Anglica allowance requires that the byname be a translation of an attested byname in the original language. The cover letter that accompanied the January 1993 LoAR included a clarification of the Lingua Anglica allowance, including:
Less codified, but of long practice, has been the translation of epithets into our lingua franca. Again, this follows a common historian's usage: Harald I of Norway, for instance, is far better known as Harald Fairhair than by the untranslated Harald Haarfagr. Eric the Red, Philip the Good, Charles the Fat, all are translations of the period names, not the period names themselves. SCA names are permitted a similar translation: a simple epithet, documented as a period form, may be translated into English. (We prefer to register the untranslated form, but I concede that such rigor doesn't always serve our clients' best interests.) [Cover Letter for LoAR January 1993]
As no documentation of a Norse byname meaning 'the Irresponsible' was presented, the Lingua Anglica allowance does not apply here.
Finally, Aelfwyn is not a reasonable variant of the Old English name Ælfwyn. There is no evidence that the character Æ was interchangable with AE in either Old English or Middle English. If the submitter is interested in an Old English version of the submitted name, we suggest Ælfwyn unwis. Reaney and Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, s.n. Unready, cite John Unwyse to 1317, and the OED dates the spelling unwis to 825.
The device conflicts with Süleyman Khayám: Gules, a peacock statant close Or, eyed gules, collared and tethered argent in sinister chief to a mullet within the horns of an increscent Or. There is one CD for adding the bordure. There is no CD for type of primary charge:
The simurgh is not visually distinct enough from a peacock to be worth difference. Since the simurgh is not a charge found in period heraldry, difference is determined on visual grounds only under RfS X.4.e. [May 2002, Ret-Outlands, Tavia of Persia]
The "leashed" charges are effectively maintained and not worth difference, leaving this only one CD away.
The badge conflicts with Isabella de Medici: Sable, a mullet of 8 interlocking mascles, a bordure Or. There is one CD for the field. There is no CD for type of charge. The difference between seven and eight points is not significant for mullets. Moreover, both charges are really mullets voided and interlaced, just with different styles of interlacing. The fact that this badge's interlacing has interior corners in it (rather than going straight from vertex to vertex) only serves to highlight the similarity.
This also conflicts with Abaigeal Fairchild, Per chevron vert and gules, a mullet of eight points voided within a bordure Or, and with Regula Alicia la Placida, Quarterly vert and gules, a mullet of eight points voided, a bordure Or. (The latter is reblazoned elsewhere on this LoAR.) In each case there is only one CD for the field.
This conflicts with Cathal MacLean: Azure, a tower argent within a bordure Or crusilly plain sable. The only CD is for cumulative changes to the charges on the bordure.
Please advise the submitter that if roses are going to be used on a resubmission, they should be drawn more clearly.
The device conflicts with Symonne de Monte Acuto: Per fess rayonny argent and sable, in chief a vol gules. There is one CD for changes to the field, but no difference for the "maintained" crescent and none for location on the field against a fieldless badge. The crescent is not large enough to be co-primary with the vol here and as such must be treated as equivalent to a maintained charge.
This is returned for a redraw:
[Per chevron argent and azure, in chief a rose slipped and leaved fesswise and in base six gouttes three two and one, counterchanged] The device does not clearly use a per chevron line of division, nor does it use a point pointed. Because of this ambiguity this must be returned under RfS VII.7.a ... the per chevron line is drawn somewhat low on the field - it appears to have been drawn by using the form's guidelines for a per saltire division and drawing the bottom section of that field. [Duvessa of Movilla, 03/03, R-Middle]
This armory has the same problem: the "per chevron" field division is really the bottom quarter of a per-saltire field division, which has not been registerable for quite some time. A per chevron should come close to bisecting the area of the field (dividing it into two equal pieces), and this does not come nearly close enough.
This name is presumptous of Mugai Nyodai. Mugai Nyodai is the first female Zen master in Japan and is considered one of the great Matriarchs of Zen Buddhism. She is also the founder of the Keiji convent. While the names do not conflict, combining part of the homei, or Buddhist religious name, of this important woman and the name of the convent she founded creates too strong a reference to the historical person.
In addition, no documentation was submitted showing that Nyodai would be reasonable by itself as a nanori or yobina. The submitter included personal correpondance with a Japanese speaker speculating that the element Nyodai was a reasonable law name (a Buddist name aquired unpon becoming a nun or monk, or upon dying). However, it is long standing precedent that communication with a modern speaker is not adequate documentation for a period name. If the submitter wishes to resubmit this name element, she must address this issue.
Her armory was registered under the holding name Jennifer of the East.
The device conflicts with Arianwen of Urquart: Vert, a horned pegasus salient argent, armed and unguled purpure. There is one CD for changes to the field. There is no CD for simply deleting the horn, nor for change of the tincture of only the hooves.
This is clear of Margherita di San Gimignano, whose device was reblazoned in December 2003 as Per bend gules and ermine, a winged unicorn rampant wings displayed argent, armed, crined, unglued, and chased Or. There is one CD for the significant change of the wing position, plus the CD for the field. (Some commentors still had her old blazon, erroneously blazoning the wings as addorsed, which would not have provided the CD for wing position.)
The device is in technical conflict with Brian Drittar an Con: Sable, on a cross argent, a sinister hand couped at the wrist apaumy sable. The current submission can be blazoned Sable, on a cross quarter-pierced argent four crows migrant sable. Under this interpretation there is only one CD for cumulative changes on the cross, since the quarter-piercing is treated as a tertiary charge accompanying the four crows.
If instead we regard this submission as a field (checky of nine) and a group of primary charges (crows), it conflicts with a badge of Egill von Stahl: Quarterly purpure and gules, in saltire an eagle displayed contourny Or between four eagles displayed contourny sable fimbriated Or. There is a CD for the field. Egill's birds are in fact a single group of five birds in saltire. There is no CD for number between four and five, nor is there a CD for tincture for changing only one out of five charges. There is also no CD for arrangement, since Richard's birds are forced into their position by the field, and there is no CD for type or posture between Egill's eagles displayed and Richard's crows migrant as they are drawn.
Aural conflict with James O'Neill, registered in December 1980. Although different in appearance, the names James and Seamus are nearly identical in sound.
This name is two steps from period practice. First, it uses a double-given name in a Scots name; double-given names are unattested in Scots or Scottish Gaelic. Second, it uses the submitter's legal given name Stuart; this name is unattested as a given name in period. Names which were not used in period, but are registerable via the Legal Name Allowance, were ruled to be a a step beyond period practice (wierdness) in January 1996:
[W]e see no reason to distinguish between "SCA-compatible" names and other non-period names permitted under the provisions of RfS II.4 (Legal Names): both are allowed as concessions to modern sensibilities despite their inauthentic nature.
Beginning with the 5/96 meeting, therefore, use of two individually permissible non-period elements in a single name will be considered two weirdnesses and will be grounds for return. Such elements include non-period names allowed under the Legal Name Allowance as well as those names, apparently not used by human beings in period, that have been declared "SCA-compatible"... (Talan Gwynek, Cover Letter to the January 1996 LoAR, pp. 3-4)
We would drop one of the given names in order to register this name, but the submitter will not accept changes.
The device is returned for a redraw. As drawn, the bonnet has a modern shape. The documentation provided does not support the bonnet as drawn: the pictures show significantly taller and rounder edges as well as being more rounded on the top.
This is returned for a redraw. As drawn, the bonnet has a modern shape. The documentation provided does not support the bonnet as drawn: the pictures show significantly taller and rounder edges as well as being more rounded on the top.
Conflict with Sir William Johnson, who was probably the most important English player in the relations between the British and the Six Nations during and after the Anglo-French Wars in colonial America. Various scholarly articles about him note his importance to American history. Statements like "Not only did Johnson come to know and to lead the Iroquois of his day, he was a leading source of information for scientists and writers of his time when they wrote on America." (Sir William Johnson: Interpreter of the Iroquois, by Milton W. Hamilton; William Johnson Ethnohistory © 1963 The American Society for Ethnohistory ) and "Students of the period have come to recognize that Johnson's influence on the destinies of the English speaking peoples in North America, in the middle of the eighteenth century, was greater than that of any other person." Johnson of the Mohawks: A Biography of Sir William Johnson, Irish Immigrant, Mohawk War Chief, American Soldier, Empire Builder, Review author[s]: C. E. Carter The American Historical Review © 1931 are also persuasive. Although the name is a common name, and does not have a high recognizablity factor among the general population, William Johnson was a key figure in American history and worthy of protection.
FIXME: Laurel wonders that just a common name, used by a man outside of period and not royalty would be protected.....Pelican wondered that as well, but the statements above convinced me that he meets the "influence was truly that strong" criteria -- although the information is not included here, I did a little research on William Johnson, and he is acknowledged as one of the true shapers of 18th C america by both today's scholars and by his contemporaries -- the man's fingers were in absolutely everything, from trade and war negotions with the 6 nations to territorial disputes between the Colony's themselves.
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This conflicts with the flag of Norway: Gules, on a cross argent another azure. There is one CD for adding the secondary charges, but none for the fimbriated cross when it is considered as on a cross argent another sable. Voiding and fimbriation have long since been considered equivalent to charging a charge with another of the same type, though a recent precedent perhaps explains it best:
... the three following very dissimilar-sounding blazons can all be drawn identically, and thus should be considered heraldically equivalent: A lozenge Or charged with a lozenge gules, A lozenge Or voided gules, and A lozenge gules fimbriated Or. This heraldic equivalence will apply for any charge "simple enough to void" by the criteria stated in the Cover Letter for the November 1992 LoAR. When checking for conflict with armory using fimbriation or voiding, all these interpretations should be considered when checking for conflict, and if one of the interpretations conflicts, the two pieces of armory conflict. This does not seem overly restrictive when one considers the rarity of armory in period featuring voided or fimbriated charges, or arms with the design of A "charge" charged with "the same type of charge". These are very uncommon designs in period. Period viewers probably had the same sorts of problems that we have when interpreting such designs. [Cecily of Whitehaven, 06/02, R-Æthelmearc]
Thus this submission can and must also be considered as Gules, a cross argent charged with another sable, all between in bend two needles bendwise sinister Or threaded and in bend sinister two hands appaumy argent for conflict checking purposes. Against the Norwegian flag (which we have also reblazoned here to better illustrate why this is a conflict) Gules, a cross argent charged with another azure, there is one CD for adding the secondaries, but the only other difference is for tincture only of the tertiary cross under this interpretation, which by itself does not qualify for a CD.
The device must be returned for a redraw of the gore and a visual conflict.
The following precedent applies to the redraw: "Gores issue from the dexter chief corner and the base corner of the shield. As drawn, the gore issued from the side of the shield. This method of drawing a gore is reason for return in itself." [Mar 2004, Ret-Meridies, Gelis of Iron Mountain]
The conflict is with Elizabeth Amy Godwin: Or, a compass star gules and a gore sinister sable. The only difference that can exist must come from the primary charges. There is one CD for tincture, but none for type. Quoth Metron Ariston: "By precedent a compass star and a mullet of four points have no difference and this strikingly resembles a mullet of four points visually. While there is a clear difference in tincture of the lozengy cross/mullet, if the sizes and positions are not very different then this may be a problem." Upon visual comparison of the emblazons, everyone at the meeting agreed that this is a conflict. RfS X.4.e. states, "A charge not used in period armory will be considered different in type if its shape in normal depiction is significantly different". Compass stars are not used in period armory. Therefore, difference can only be derived on visual grounds, and the visual difference between these two charges is significantly different.
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This does appear to be a supporter according to this precedent: [(Fieldless) A dog passant Or collared gules sustaining in its mouth a flagstaff flying a banner of the Cross of St. George] This fieldless badge appears to be a supporter maintaining a flag with arms on it. As we do not register supporters, we cannot register this. Moreover, we could not register Argent, a cross gules to the submitter because he does not have the right to display the Cross of Saint George as his own armory. [Luther Anshelm, 11/99, R-Caid]
However, Argent Snail argues that we should overturn this precedent based on supporters being almost always rampant and provided research directly to Wreath. For this reason we are pending this item to allow the college to discuss the question of does the posture of the creature effect its status as a supporter or an integral charge.
We expect that Argent Snail will provide the College of Arms with her research as part of this discussion.
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