April XXIV (1990)

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE APPROVED:

KINGDOM OF ANSTEORRA

Aislinn of Cravenhest. Name and device. Azure, on a fess argent, three crosses crosslet fitchy azure, in chief a hind's head erased argent, ermined azure. The name was appealed from a return by the Ansteorran College on the grounds that the byname was not formed as a proper locative since "hest" was documented as meaning "command". The submittor did not offer new evidence on this point (which means that this was not a valid appeal). However, Silver Trumpet and Ensign have provided documentation from Ekwall (p. 237) of a place in Lancashire called "Hest", deriving it from an Old English form "hæst" which corresponds to an Old High German form "Haist". Thus the place name would mean "Cravenwood" which is an acceptable place name. Under the new rules, this would conflict with Newsom ("Azure, on a fess argent, three crosses crosslet gules.", as cited in Papworth, p. 787) and Gale ("Azure, on a fess argent, three saltires of the field.", ibid., p. 796). Under the old rules this squeaks clear of both of these.

Alisaundre Oliphant. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). An elephant purpure, masoned argent and armed Or.

Amos MacAlpin. Device. Per bend sinister vert and azure, on a covered tankard, handle to sinister, argent, two halberds in saltire sable. Under the old rules, this conflicted with Pia Dragonsaver ("Azure, on a two­handled mug per pale Or and argent, a dragon segreant vert, bearing a sword sable.") and was in fact returned for this conflict in February, 1989. It does not conflict with the badge of Morgan Conner ("Purpure, on a tankard argent, a grenade sable, enflamed gules.") under the new rules: there is one difference for field and another for change in type and number of tertiaries.

Anora of Wolverhampton. Device. Per bend sable and ermine, in sinister chief a wolverine statant to sinister argent.

Connal Albannach. Name and device. Per chevron gules and sable, a chevron rompu between in chief two hounds salient respectant and in base in bend a mask of tragedy and a mask of comedy, all Or. The name was submitted as Connal an Albannach. Before a masculine noun beginning with a vowel, the correct article form in Gaelic is "an t­". As "Albannach" is originally an adjective form and in period names appears without an article, we have dropped the article rather than modify it, feeling this was not only a more period formation but also closer to the sound of the originally submitted name.

Darcy Eveline o Lasgwm. Device. Per pale vert and Or, in fess two paw prints counterchanged Or and sable, a chief counterchanged. Note that the submission appeared on letter of intent as Darcy Eveline of Green Vale, but name was registered in this form in February, 1990.

Eric Greyfox. Name only.

Fiona Anne Cormac. Name only.

Gaius Cassius Camillus. Name only. The submittor might be interested in knowing that the cognomen "Camillus" originally referred to a youth who participated in sacred rites. Such youths had to be of unblemished virtue, purity and (usually) descent.

Liadain Gael. Name only. The name was submitted as Liadain an Gael. "Gael" is the English term for someone of Gaelic blood derived from the Gaelic "Gaidheal" (Old Irish "Góidel"). As such the Irish article is inappropriate. (Note that the Irish spellings without the intermediate "dh" are modern "simplified" spellings.) If she wished to have an Irish name meaning "Liadain the Irishwoman", the appropriate form would be "Liadain Éireannach".

Mor Loft. Name only.

Regina Gunnvor Morningstar. Name for House Longtooth. Under the old rules, the household name could not be registered without a badge. The new administrative rules allow this.

Richeard Foxtwychen. Device. Per bend sable, fretty Or, and sable, in dexter base a swallowtailed cross Or.

Talesya Beaulieu. Name and device. Per pale gules and azure, a fess of four mascles argent.

Thomas Mackinnon. Name only.

KINGDOM OF ATLANTIA

Achbar ibn Ali. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Arthur McLoughlin. Name and device. Per pale vert and sable, two single­bitted axes in saltire argent surmounted by a lion's head caboshed, a chief embattled Or.

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Badge for Master Armourer of the Kingdom of Atlantia. Per pale azure and argent, a double­horned anvil between two unicornate natural seahorses respectant counterchanged.

Barnabas of White Waters. Name and device. Per chevron throughout vert and sable, a chevron rayonny throughout and a harp Or. While it almost looks like cadet arms, this is technically clear of Landschaden ("Sable, a harp Or.") under both the old rules and the new. Please remind the submittor to draw the field division properly.

Basil Rattenbury. Name only. While some questioned the surname since it was documented only from Cottle, who is not always careful on his derivations, it is also the name of a period English village whose name is derived from the Old English "rætten" (meaning "infested with rats") and "burh". Originally, it probably described the location of a deserted Roman camp which had been overrun with rats. (For the derivation see A.H. Smith's English Place­Name Elements, Volume II, p. 79.)

Brigette MacLean. Name and device. Ermine, an hourglass within a bordure sable.

Crannog Mor, Shire of. Name and device. Sable, two bears combattant and on a chief indented argent, three laurel wreaths gules. Under the new rules there is no conflict by translation with the already registered name of Ynys Fawr since the two names sound completely different. (The names essentially mean "big island".

Dagmaer or Nautaloek. Badge. Purpure, a garb within a bordure Or. Please ask the submittor to draw the garb properly.

Dun Carraig, Shire of. Name and device. Per chevron gules, crusilly bottony argent, and argent, in base a cross bottony within a laurel wreath gules.

Eiluned Gruffydd of Anglesey. Name only.

Eleanor Leonard. Change of name from Alaine the Novatrix (see RETURNS for change of device). This was shown as on the letter of intent as a new name in conjunction with a transfer of her tinctureless badge to her new persona. This is incorrect and could have confused armorial badly if Laurel had not identified the mundane name and confirmed the identity from the wording of the attached releases. Such transactions must be labelled as a change. When such a change is made, all armoury attached to the previous name will automatically be transferred to the new name unless specifically accompanied by a request for release or additional change. Therefore, the transfer transaction on the letter of intent was not necessary.

Étienne de Provence. Name only.

Fridrich Eisenhart. Device. Per pale Or and azure, a bicorporate lion between three fleurs­de­lys, all within a bordure counterchanged. The name was registered in December, 1987, not January, 1988, as noted on letter of intent.

Geldemar de Fay. Name only.

Gwion ap Owen. Name and device. Per chevron argent and azure, three hawks stooping, wings elevated and addorsed, within an orle counterchanged.

Hawkwood, Canton of. Device. Counter­ermine, a vol Or within a laurel wreath vert. Note that this is registered specifically under the "grace period". Had it been considered it would have had to be returned for the poor contrast of the laurel wreath with the field.

Highland Foorde, Shire of. Name only.

Ia of Falcon Cree. Holding name and device. Per pale and barry wavy argent and sable, on a chief triangular sable a sealion naiant Or. The submission was made under the name Ia Annayavitch. This design is simple enough to qualify for use of a component tincture of the field under the old rules (AR1.c). As its identifiability is undiminished by its being depicted in one of the field tinctures, there is no problem with this device under either set of rules.

Meghan MacLachlan. Name and device. Sable, a falcon volant to sinister and on a chief nebuly argent, a lion dormant sable.

Meraiah of Land's End. Name and device. Or, a pile inverted pean, on a chief vert, four acorns Or. The name was submitted as Moriya of Land's End. As the letter of intent itself says, "moriya" is a common noun meaning "teacher" in Hebrew. Since the name of Mount Moriah (the locale for the sacrifice of Isaac) was known as the "teaching place", it is also a form of that name. This being the case, it is necessary to show that the name itself was used in period as a given name or that such a name would have been in common usage in period Hebrew for a given name. This has not been done. As the submittor indicated she would accept changes to the name, we have adopted Silver Trumpet's suggestion that she use the Old Testament name "Meraiah".

Raven's Cove, Stronghold of. Name and device. Per saltire Or and sable, in cross three ravens close and a laurel wreath counterchanged.

Robert of Cundiff. Change of device. Azure, a panther rampant guardant within a bordure rayonny Or. This was a badge registered to the submittor. (The old device should now become a badge.) As Badger and Silver Trumpet have noted, the difference between a device and a fielded badge under the new rules is administrative, rather than one of conflict. Therefore, the submittor should be allowed to "swap" the designations for the two, even though this could not have been registered as a device under the old rules.

Rufus Barbarossa. Name and device. Gules, on a pile inverted throughout argent between two mullets of six points Or, a blonde mermaid in her vanity proper, tailed vert. The name was submitted as Jesus Rufus Barbarossa. This name caused a certain amount of controversy since it is by no means clear that "Jesus" was used by ordinary individuals in period and there is some evidence from Dauzat that it may have been "taboo" during the medieval period. In any case, it roused a certain amount of unease and was unnecessary: apparently, the submittor had really wished for the name registered above, but had not been able to document "Rufus" as a given name on a previous submission. As Rufus of Capua was honoured as a martyr in the Sarum calendar and several fifteenth­century monastic calendars, the name would seem to be acceptable as a given name (Oxford Dictionary of Saints, p. 349). Note that the two names are not as tautological as they seem: apart from the separate identity of "Rufus" as a given name, it is generally used to indicate someone more generally as having red hair or a red complexion when used as an epithet. "Barbarossa" specifically refers to someone with a red beard and there are instances in chronicles of its being applied to blondes or dark­haired men with red beards.

Rupert the Persistent. Name and device. Sable, on a cross between in chief a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy argent, in pale two arrows palewise gules.

Sacred Stone, Barony of. Badge (see RETURNS for name of Order of Karl von Nordmark). Vert, a double­headed phoenix displayed argent, between its wings a heart or. Conflict with Anne Cameron Nisbet ("Vert, a phoenix displayed argent, flames proper, within a bordure Or.").

Stierbach, Shire of. Badge. Gules, a bull's head cabossed within a bordure embattled argent. Under the old rules this clears Heseltine ("Gules, a bull's head cabossed argent.", as cited in Papworth, p. 911) by virtue of the fact that a complex line of division is used for the bordure. Under the new rules, it would conflict.

Tryggvi Grabardr Olsen. Name and device. Argent, a hurt within a double­headed serpent in annulo, respectant and looped to base, vert. As Dolphin has noted, under the old rules this would have conflicted with Galleron de la Chenille ("Argent, on a hurt a wyvern volant to sinister argent.").

Tryggvi Grabardr Olsen. Badge. Argent, in pale a serpent's head fesswise reversed and a serpent's head fesswise vert. Under the new rules this does not conflict with the mundane arms of Morgan ("Argent, a dragon's head erased vert, in the mouth a sinister hand proper.", as cited in Papworth, p. 913). There is a difference for the number of charges and another difference for changing the posture of half the charges in the group. The latter change is independent of the addition of the head: the default posture for an added serpent's head would have been facing to dexter. Therefore, it can be counted for difference.

Windmaster's Hill, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Tempest. Gules, a winged domestic cat salient to sinister and maintaining a sword palewise argent.

KINGDOM OF CAID

Alexander de Toulon. Name and device. Azure, a seahorse and on a chief invected argent, a crescent azure.

Caid, Kingdom of. Badge. Badge for the use of the "Make­A­Wish Child". Per fess embattled azure and argent, two mullets of four points and a comet fesswise, head to sinister, counterchanged. In this case, we are not registering the designation "Make­A­ Wish­Child" which is not really period, but are retaining it in the records for clarity. Note that Crescent has indicated that Caid would be willing to make this generally available for other kingdoms which would like to engage in such a project (adoption of a terminally ill child as "prince for a day"). Kingdoms interested in such use should contact Crescent directly.

Cynthia de Wickersham. Name and device. Erminois, on a gore sinister gules, a lion rampant Or.

Frances Gorges. Device. Or, a swan rousant sable, collared, on a chief gules, three roses argent, barbed and seeded proper.

Gallavally, Canton of. Device. Per chevron gules and argent, two martlets respectant and a tower, all within a laurel wreath counterchanged.

George O'Caine. Badge for Household O'Caine. On an equal­armed Celtic cross argent, a sword palewise inverted sable. The name was submitted as Hall O'Caine. Yale was not the only member of the College to recall the painkiller "Halocaine". While the resemblance may have been intentional on the submittor's part, it not only created some doubts about conflict with a mundane trademark but also struck a jarringly modern note. Since the submittor indicated he would allow changes, we have used the alternate group designation he used to define "hall" on his forms.

Joshua ibn Eleazar ha­Shalib. Name only. The submittor has documented the use of the Arabic patronymic "ibn" with Hebraic names in medieval Jewish names from the Arabic world from Elkan Adler's Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages (p. xii, where Abraham ibn Ezra is mentioned).

Kieran de Sainte Claire. Name and device. Argent, on a bend vert, cotised purpure, between two thistles, slipped and leaved, proper, three Latin crosses palewise argent. The name was submitted as Kieran de Saint Claire. Since the submittor clearly wants the feminine saint's name, we have added the terminal "e" to the adjective to make is feminine. (Since we also use "saint" as a noun in English, we tend to forget that it is originally an adjective form meaning "holy" so that a plain English translation of the byname would be "of Holy Claire".)

Ludwig Dichter von Oldenberg. Device. Azure, a chevron inverted and a chevron fretted Or between three mullets of four points argent, all within a bordure Or.

Maldred ap Morien. Name only.

Monique Larrivé. Device. Azure, upon and maintained by a mouse sejant erect Or, a fleur­de­lys azure. Several issues were involved here with regard to "new rules/old rules" conflict problems. While there seemed to be substantial feeling that this should not conflict with By ("Azure, on a bend Or three fleurs­de­lys of the first.", as cited in Papworth, p. 239), these tend to be "gut reactions" and people's rationales for this differ. It is certainly a possibility to consider that the phrase "alone on the field" should be taken literally in the new rules and the significant difference of charge license apply even where the primary charges are themselves charged. In this case, such a policy would create few difficulties for most heralds, but we suspect that this would not be the case where all elements were identical and the difference was really only one of orientation of ordinary. Take, for example, the situation where "Azure, on a bend Or, three fleurs­de­lys azure within a bordure argent, crusilly azure." is compared with "Azure, on a fess Or three fleurs­de­lys azure within a bordure argent, crusilly azure." Such a change of ordinary with all other elements retained was in fact used for cadency in period and would look like cadet arms to many. After much wrestling with this issue, we have come to the conclusion that the letter of the law in this case is also the spirit of the law and thus section X.2 of the new rules can apply to charged primaries. However, it must be stressed that the tertiary charges cannot significantly diminish the identifiability of the primaries in each case (by definition, both must be charged or else the two coats would be clear under the new rules). Also, it is presumed that the "visual conflict" rule may apply in cases such as that cited above where charges of the same type and tincture are modified with no other modifications.

Phelan Bainbridge. Name only.

Steffan the Scrivener. Device. Sable, on a roundel erminois, a cat sejant affronty sable, maintaining in its mouth a quill argent. This was submitted under the name Steafan the Scrivener, but this is the form that was registered in February, 1990. Several policy issues were raised in conjunction with this submission. The first was whether the quill was significant enough to consider that it broke tincture. In this case, we felt it was not. The same degree of difference would have been derived if it had been omitted from the blazon and treated as an artistic option. (We contemplated this, but decided that it should be retained in the blazon since it is so obviously important to the submittor.) The second and more important issue involved potential conflicts with Gwynaeth Math o Ddylluan ("Sable, a bezant charged with a raven on a branch, all sable.") and Shron Ravenhair ("Sable, on a plate a mullet of six points throughout sable, charged with a compass star of twelve points throughout pierced argent."). After viewing the former emblazon it is clear that Gwynaeth's armoury involves two distinct tertiaries, i.e., although they are in a sense "conjoined", they are not a single unit but are identified separately by the viewer. Thus there are two differences of tertiary involved: number and type. In the case of Shron, the situation is made more difficult by the fact that Shron's armoury is rather more complex than we will allow at this time and so decisions have to be made on how to process the cascading tertiaries without direct analogues in the pending submission. After considering Shron's armoury for some time, we concluded that difference is derived from the tertiaries. There is clearly a difference for type of tertiary and another is present visually, whether one blazons it as the addition of another charge (as is done in the current blazon) or considers the argent charge in the same layer as the sable mullet as a change of more than half of the tincture of the tertiary.

Stephanie of Garrow's Loch. Device. Gyronny sable and Or, a natural panther couchant within a bordure argent.

Zenobia Naphtali. Release of name and badge for Anne Lynette de Troyes. Barry wavy argent and azure, a cat sejant erect and sinister facing gules.

KINGDOM OF CALONTIR

Aldred de l'Inconnu. Device. Per pall Or, vert and azure, in fess a garb and a goblet Or.

Calontir, Kingdom of. Badge for Equestrian Guild of Calontir. Purpure, a horse rampant to sinister argent between three crosses of Calatrava Or.

Etain McConnell. Name and device. Argent, in fess a a domestic cat sejant guardant sable and a a cross crosslet fitchy gules, its lower arm entwined by the cat's tail, all within a bordure azure. The blazon has been modified to emphasize the equal weight of the two charges (the cross is not negligible in this design).

William Ravenwing. Name only.

KINGDOM OF THE EAST

Æthelmearc, Principality of. Badge for Order of the Keystone. Or, on a keystone gules, an escarbuncle argent.

Æthelmearc, Principality of. Badge. Gules, an escarbuncle argent within a bordure Or.

Æthelmearc, Principality of. Name for Order of the Golden Alce. Please request all heralds in Æthelmearc to be very careful when read a scroll for this award or this could get very Apuleian!

Æthelmearc, Principality of. Name for Order of the Sycamore. Note that we have not released the title of the Sycamore Herald and it is still registered to the East Kingdom as it was previously. Fridrikr's commentary clearly indicates that the Kingdom still intends to use the title so it should retain title to it. It is our opinion that under the new rules the Kingdom can grant permission to the Principality to "conflict" in its use of the title for a Principality Order and that, in preparing paperwork to release the title for that purpose, the Kingdom has indicated the intent to allow this. There was a considerable feeling, however, that it may be confusing for the populace to use the title for a herald outside the principality.

Aislynn Finesilver. Name and device. Vert, in pale a stag courant to sinister argent and a bezant.

Alison of the Many Isles. Name and device. Per bend argent and azure, a thistle, slipped and leaved, proper and a needle bendwise, threaded and eye to chief, argent.

Alisoun Fortescue of Maplehurst. Name and device. Vert, a compass star of sixteen points and on a chief argent, three mullets of four points vert. While we cannot agree with Brigantia that the mullet of four points should be considered a "form of cross", long tradition in the Society has considered the compass star a charge in its own right separate in many respects from the standard mullet. As such it may have its own variants which we can blazon as here.

Ar n­Eilean­ne, Shire of. Change of name from Shire of Ar n­Oileán­na. The name was originally submitted as being Irish Gaelic with citations entirely from Scots sources. Since the submittors indicated they wished an Irish form, the name was registered in Irish. Since then, they have decided they would like to be Scots after all.

Ateno of Annun Ridge. Name and device. Argent, a bend sinister cotised gules between a domestic cat rampant to sinister and a wolf's head erased sable. The name was submitted as Altenno of Annun Ridge. Significant searches for Italian analogues to justify "Altenno" as an Italian constructed given name failing, we have opted to use the documented Spanish name the submittor indicated he would accept. (It appears to be derived from the Latin name "Athenaeus".)

Averil Boulle. Name and device. Per bend purpure and argent, three mullets of six points fesswise argent and three violets, slipped and leaved, proper. The name was submitted as Avril Boullé. Documentation for the given name was from Dauzat who documents it only as a surname. Reaney, however, at p. 11 documents the similar form used above from 1322 as a derivative of the Christian "Everild". (Note that Reaney indicates "The modern christian name Avril is of recent origin.) As Silver Trumpet noted, the final "é" on the surname changes its meaning drastically to "boiled" with which we suspect the submittor would not be too happy. Please ask the submittor to draw the charges in the usual position for charges on either side of a per bend line of division.

Brion O'Cullen of Glen Cullen. Name and device. Azure, a daisy Or, eyed sable, between three quatrefoils, all within a bordure Or.

Bryan mac Dhugaill an Boghadair. Badge. Vert, a crossbow palewise within a bordure argent.

Cassandra Theodosius. Name and device. Sable, a winged lion salient and a point pointed Or.

Cerdic ó Cuileamhaim. Name only.

Ceridwen ferch Rhys ap Michael. Name and device. Or, a shakefork between three quatrefoils gules. Under the old rules this would have been in conflict with the previously registered name of Ceridwen ferch Rhys. [Note that Laurel shares Silver Trumpet's discomfort with registration of this name, as she has with several other previous names which differed by only one element from famous mundane names or registered Society names. However, feeling was very strong among the more vocal members of the College at the time of the last Symposium that a single addition should be adequate with such simple names and recent commentary does not seem to have retreated significantly from this position. . .]

Chrétien de Mont Blanc. Name only.

Christofer Hoyland the Embarassable. Name and device. Per pale sable and vert, a talbot courant reguardant to sinister and on a chief triangular argent, a rose azure. Note that, while the OED shows the adjective as technically out of period, cognate French adjectives are found in period so the byname may be considered "compatible", if awkward.

Conall MacLachlann. Name and device. Per fess wavy argent and sable, a sealion counterchanged gules and argent.

Corwin of Darkwater. Name and device. Per pale sable and Or, in fess two gouttes, on a base wavy two barrulets wavy, all counterchanged.

Cynuise Caireach ó Ceóinin of Bardsea. Name and device. Argent, a griffin passant to sinister vert within a bordure rayonny sable.

Cynthia du Pré Argent. Name only.

Damiano Vitale della Fonda. Name only. The name was submitted as Damiano Vitale de Fonda. As several commentors noted, the preposition should be Italian to go with the language of the remainder of the name.

Daveth map Myghal Mur. Name and device. Azure, three escallops inverted Or, on a chief argent, two annulets fretted in fess azure. For those who wondered, the name is entirely Cornish. The meeting found it somewhat jarring to have a "Marriage Encounter" bumper sticker as a chief, but since none of the commentors noticed it. . .

Draguin atte Maeldun. Name only. The paperwork referred to attached documentation, but none was attached.

Dyfan ap Iago. Name and device. Per chevron sable, semy of lozenges Or, and Or, in base a stag rampant sable.

East, Kingdom of. Title for Pantheon Herald. Irreverent Classical Joke from meeting: Does he/she have a hole the head? [Editorial Note: this joke brought to you to illustrate what happens to Laurel staff when they approach the hundred and fiftieth submission element from the same kingdom. . .]

Eleazar ha­Levi. Badge for Household of the Eastern Shore. Vert, a tower Or and a ford proper. Technically, this conflicts under the new rules with the device of Christiana Geneviève de Besançon. Vert, a mermaid affronty, maintaining in her dexter hand a scimitar palewise, Or and a ford proper.

Elisabet Mathematika. Name only. The paperwork referred to attached documentation, but none was attached. The name was submitted as Elisavet i Mathematiki and commentary from Aegis indicates that this was an attempt to transliterate a period Greek form. Unfortunately, while this would be a fair phonetic rendition of the name in modern formal Greek, it is as clear that it is appropriate for the mid­to­late Byzantine period that she appears to be aiming for. In the first place, the article was seldom used in epithetic formations such as this (and, if it had been, would have probably been pronounced something like "he" or "ha", depending on the location). While the change from "b" to "v" in pronunciation was common fairly early on, names were very conservative and older spellings were retained throughout the Turkish domination to reappear in nineteenth­century English sources with their proper ancient spellings. (It is apparently only in this century that the Greeks have tried to pander to the tourists on their street signs by spelling Byron's name "Viron" so they sound and appearance match!). In the later middle ages, the bulk of feminine nouns and adjectives had collapsed into a form similar to that of the Latin first declension and ended in "alpha" in the nominative so that a feminine form of "mathematikos" would have been "mathematika". For those interested, an excellent introduction to the post­classical development of the language is contained in Robert Browning's Medieval and Modern Greek [not that Robert Browning, this one is a twentieth­century classical scholar!].

Elissa Potier. Name only.

Ellen du Grandchamp. Name and device. Or, a horse passant sable between in pale two oak leaves palewise gules.

Esmeralda la Sabia. Name and device. Gules, an owl striking to sinister argent within a bordure argent, semy of lozenges vert. The given name is not directly derived from the gem (emerald), but is a Spanish feminine form from the early form "Esmaragdo", referring to the martyr who appears in early martyrologies as Saint Ixmaracdus or Saint Smaragdus.

Etain MacDhomhnuill. Name and device. Gules, a Norse sun cross and on a chief Or, a red fox's mask between two sprigs of holly fructed, all proper. The Norse sun cross was banned some years ago because it resembled an astrological symbol. As symbols may be used on a case by case basis, this ban now seems unnecessary. Brigantia should, however, ask the submittor to draw the cross more traditionally and less like a piece of cheap pseud­Celtic jewelry.

Étienne Morningstar the Mercenary. Name only.

Findabhair ni Chonaill. Device. Argent, a wooden drop spindle bendwise sinister proper, threaded vert, within a bordure vert, fretty argent.

Francisco Savelli. Name and device. Argent, a human skeleton statant to sinister and grasping a rope pendant from a cracked church bell bendwise sinister in chief, all sable.

Fridrikr Tomasson av Knusslig Hamn. Change of device. Gules, bezanty, an escallop Or. Technically, under the new rules this conflicts with Zouch ("Gules, a chevron Or, between ten bezants, four, three, two and one.", as cited in Papworth), p. 465). Under both the old rules and new, a semy of strewn charges counts as charges and prevents a claim for automatic difference by difference of primary charge. The old "point and a half rule" could be considered to apply here and so it squeaks clear under the old rules from mundane armoury.

Gabrielle of Auburn. Name and device. Azure, two angels statant respectant argent, crined Or, on a chief argent, three quatrefoils vert.

George Emerson True. Badge. A lion's jambe palewise erased purpure.

Gregory de Vulpe. Name and device. Sable, a pegasus rampant to sinister and on a chief embattled argent, three increscents sable. The name was submitted as Gregory de Vulpes. As Andreas de Vulpes never registered the name as a household name, the "grandfather" protection could be extended only to his immediate family and no evidence has been provided for this relationship. (For what it is worth the two men have different surnames.) Silver Trumpet is in error in noting that the preposition is French and may not be used with a Latin noun: it is also a Latin preposition, commonly used in Latinized names in the medieval period. However, in pointing this out, Brigantia also erred: the submitted form is not "correct Latin" since the preposition requires an ablative noun. We have modified the noun to the ablative to give a correct form without significantly changing the sound of the name.

Gunnild of Cambion. Name only. For those who asked about Cambion, it is the registered name of her household.

Henry of Longhouse. Badge for Deerhaven. Or, on a heart within a bordure sable, a stag's head couped argent. Elsewhere on this letter the interpretation is made that section X.2 of the rules can apply where the primary charge is itself charged (in the case of Monique Larrivé under Caid above). Therefore, this does not conflict under the new rules with Adam Antoine Gabrial Dante ("Or, on a pale sable a fleur­ delys argent, all within a bordure sable.").

Hrut Smoothcheeks. Name and device. Quarterly sable and vert, a winged ctamount sejant to sinister Or and a chief erminois. The blazon on the letter of intent had a forepaw raised but emblazon does not show this.

Irene Lenoir. Name and device. Per fess indented argent and sable, issuant from the line of division, a demi­dragon gules. The name was submitted as Irene LeNoir. Brigantia may be correct in stating that the form with an internal capital would be an obvious inference, but it is an inference that requires viewing the article and adjectival noun as separate elements. As such, not only would the article tend not to be capitalized, but also the adjective would be modified in spelling and sound to the feminine form: "le Noire". As it is, you have a late period form which has made the transition to a gender independent surname.

Isabeau Charron. Name and device. Argent, on a bend engrailed between two cotises, engrailed on the outer edges, purpure, an alicorne argent, all within a bordure sable.

Isabella Bianca. Device. Argent, in pale a unicorn's head erased and a rose, a chief azure.

Jean­Michel de Taurion. Device. Argent, masoned sable, a bull statant and a chief gules.

Jeannette of Bhakail. Name and device. Per pale embattled argent, semy­de­lys sable, and azure, semy­de­lys argent.

Jehanne du Lac. Name only.

Johan Kronenwache. Name and device. Per pale gules and sable, four roses, two and two, argent.

Jolana Eadgythe Heverington. Name and device. Azure, a triquetra and a chief Or.

Joram Goldspoons. Name and device. Vert, a saltire parted and fretted argent, between four pairs of spoons in saltire, bowls to chief, Or.

Justinian the Sluggard. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Katherine de Shortall. Name and device. Or, a chevron rompu gules between two crosses crosslet and a fleam sable. While those who indicate the documentation does not support the use of "de" with the patronymic form derived from "Soirtéil", the name can also be interpreted as a locative construct from "Shorthall". Given the well­documented practise of using the "de" with locatives in England, this seems acceptable.

Kazdoya Ruslander. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Kellen Oddsdottir. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Kendrick Magnusson. Name only.

Konradin von Merseburg. Name and device. Per chevron argent and sable, in base a mullet of eight points argent, a chief azure. Note that there is some evidence that the given name is a diminutive, but that is permissible under the new rules.

Lupa Woffendale. Name and device. Per pale argent and sable, a wolf courant between three helms affronty, all counterchanged.

Maria Isabella de Córdoba. Name only. Under the old rules this would have conflicted with Isobella de Cordoba, cited on the letter of intent.

Melisande de Palma. Name and device. Per chevron azure and argent, in pale a swan rising argent and a rose gules.

Mikhail Reubenovic Kopaczewski. Badge. A mermaid sinister facing Or.

Morgan Deorcwulf. Name and device. Per pale azure and argent, a phoenix and in chief three mullets of eight points, one and two, all within a bordure counterchanged.

Morgan de Villarquamada. Name and device. Or, semy­de­lys gules, a griffin segreant sable and a chief counterermine.

Nadezhda Ivanovna. Name and device. Argent, on a bend sinister between two owls close sable, three increscents palewise argent.

Myrddin ap Elspeth. Name only.

Myrddin the Just. Name only. We have to admit that this name combination made us twitchy, although "justice" is not the first thing that one thinks of when one thinks of Merlin. On the other hand, Merlin the lawbringer is a period literary motif. . .

Pedro Santiago de Villarquamada. Name and device. Argent, unicorn rampant gules within an orle of gouttes­de­sang, a chief counterermine.

Richard Blayborne. Name and device. Gules, six broadarrows Or. This is clear of the US 32nd Air Defense Command ("Gules, five arrowheads, points to chief, and a bordure Or.", as cited Vuong Mahn's Military Ordinary): there is one difference for the bordure and one for the inversion of the arrowsheads.

Richard de Chalfont. Name and device. Vert, three escallops, in chief a serpent glissant fesswise Or.

Richard de Chalfont. Badge. Sable, three lion's jambes in triskelion Or between three garlic plants, bulbs to center, proper. After consideration, we decided that the bulb, which is clearly white, is the business end of the garlic and the clear identifier so that this does not breack contrast. (It is also more than half the area of the charge.)

Rikard Klasson Glada. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Robyn the Sharpe. Name and device. Or, a crossbow palewise inverted Or.

Rolf Gunnarson. Device. Or, a monkey rampant and in chief two smoking pipes bendwise sinister sable.

Rundaeg von Trier. Device. Argent, a domestic cat passant guardant herissony sable, on a chief gules, a decrescent between two mullets argent. There seemed to be a considerable consensus that cats should not be considered different from lions for our purposes. This being so, this is technically in conflict with Jackson ("Argent, a lion passant and on a chief gules, three poleaxes argent.", cited in Papworth, p. 104) and other mundane conflicts cited on the letter of intent.

Sean Farspach. Name only. The name was submitted as Sean an Farspach. As the noun for seagull is feminine it would aspirate after the article so we have dropped the article. Note that the seagull referred to her is the mucking great ones which traverse the North Sea (the word is the Gaelic rendition of the Old Norse "svartbakr", the dark­backed gull). Interestingly enough, the more usual term for seagull ("faoileag") is the word used as the example for the aspiration of such words in Mackinnon's Gaelic. There was a strong feeling at the meeting that, under the old rules, this should conflict with Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.

Shamus O'Carolan. Name only.

Sveyne Egilsson. Badge for Ulfshird. Per pale argent and gules, in pale a compass star and a wolf's head cabossed sable.

Taevis MacBrighde. Device. Azure, an axe Or entwined by a serpent, head to sinister, within an orle of roundels ermine.

Teamhair nic Uilleam. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and gules, a gyrfalcon striking, wings elevated and addorsed, argent, maintaining in its talons a fireball, all within a bordure engrailed Or.

Tobin Swann. Name and device. Sable, a swan rousant between three fountains.

Tommaltach MacFhiachach. Name only. The name was submitted as Tommaltach MacFiachach. Although Brigantia is correct in stating that "Fiachach" is the genitive form of the name, it also must be aspirated after "mac" and we have thus modified it.

Tona the Black. Name and device. Azure, a crescent inverted between two piles inverted argent, each charged with a crescent inverted azure.

Tyrvar Hornblásari. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Wulfstan the Unshod. Name and device. Per pale gules and vert, two poleaxes in saltire surmounted by a spear palewise argent.

Yvonne Austen. Device. Sable, semy of broadarrows inverted Or, on a chief Or, a strung bow, string to chief, sable, all within a bordure Or.

KINGDOM OF MERIDIES

Agnar Hringson. Name only.

Bjarni Anders. Device. Per pale azure and argent, a horse's head couped and sinister facing within a pair of wings, conjoined and displayed, all counterchanged. This is well clear of the Province of Silver Desert cited on the letter of intent ("Per pale azure and argent, a ram's head cabossed within a laurel wreath, all counterchanged."). When both devices are properly drawn, there are three clear visual differences: one for type of primary, one for posture of primary and one for type of secondary.

Bruce de Coucy. Name and device. Gules, on a pale between two tufts of reeds Or, a serpent glissant palewise sable. The submittors legal given name is Bruce.

Catherine de Marais. Name and device. Azure, in pale a dove volant to sinister, wings elevated and addorsed, argent and a fleur­de­lys Or, all within a bordure engrailed argent.

Elizabeth of White Cross. Name only.

Morgan Garrett. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and argent, a winged demi­stag rampant to sinister, wings inverted and addorsed, counterchanged. Please ask the submittor to make a special effort to draw this charge more identifiably (i.e., less abstractly) than on the submitted emblazon.

Rodrigo Hieronymo Berengario Alvarez. Name only.

Sean Lewis O'Connor. Name and device. Per bend gules and azure, a bend sable, fimbriated, between a sword palewise inverted surmounted by a quill pen bendwise sinister and a unicorn's head erased argent. Under the new rules this is clear of John O'Connor, Cardinal Archbishop of New York.

Sean MacRory. Name only.

KINGDOM OF TRIMARIS

Aedilwulf Cachelove aet Warwic. Name and device. Per chevron argent and chequy gules and argent, two crosses crosslet gules and a wolf rampant reguardant sable. Under the new rules this would conflict with Chartman ("Per chevron argent and gules, three crosses crosslet counterchanged.").

Conradin Starkwindt der Graue. Name only (see RETURNS for device). The name was submitted as Conradin Starkeswindt der Grau. The bynames have been corrected to the correct German forms. Note that there is some evidence that the given name is a diminutive, but that is permissible under the new rules.

Devon of Newcastle. Name only (see RETURNS for device). Devon is the submittor's mundane given name.

John FitzArnulf de Lithia. Change of name from John of Lithia. As Mistress Keridwen has noted, "Arnulfus" is found fairly frequently in French sources so that it is eminently reasonable to use it with the patronymic "fitz". As Lithia is formed in the manner of a Latin place name on the model of "Arabia", "Campania", "Italia", "Graecia", etc., using it in an ablative form with the preposition "de" is also eminently reasonable. (The legitimacy of the name itself is not in question since it it grandfathered.)

Martina de Bury. Name only.

Maximillian Wilhelm aus Weinheim. Name and device. Purpure, in fess two goblets and on a point pointed Or, a bunch of grapes purpure, on a chief Or, a dachshund couchant sable. This device treads the very edge of complexity: only the fact that everything but the tertiary on the chief were in two tinctures, unifying the device, persuaded us that it did not fall over that edge.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE RETURNED:

KINGDOM OF ANSTEORRA

Alisaundre Oliphant. Name for Maison Oliphant. The name is in direct conflict with the Order of the Elephant, a period Danish chivalric order which was founded in 1462 is still in existence today. For those who are interested, Friar's New Dictionary of Heraldry (p. 134) gives its badge as a gold and white elephant with a black mahout, on its side a Greek cross, and on its back a red tower. (In other words, it is clear of the submitted badge for this lady under both rules.)

Da'ud ibn Auda. Change of badge. A dromedary statant distilling from its mouth two gouttes Or. Unfortunately, the Laurel Designate is caught in a "Catch­22" situation here. The bulk of the College agreed that the gouttes were artistic frou­frou and did not create difference. Thus this still conflicts with the arms of Falwitz ("Vert, a camel statant Or.") that caused him to register the badge with a field originally. Under the old rules, there is no difference given for the field when a badge is fieldless so the submission would be heraldically identical to Falwitz. Under the new rules, difference can be derived from its fieldless state but two differences are needed.

Da'ud ibn Auda. Change of badge. An apple gules, slipped and leaved proper. After due consideration, we had to feel that the attributed arms of Eve cited by Trefoil (from the Boke of Saint Albans where they are blazoned as "Argent, an apple proper") do deserve protection. As Trefoil noted, Eve is herself a major figure in period literature/art/iconography and these attributed arms appear in one of the major period heraldic works. (They also appear in the iconography of a number of late period art works.) This being the case, there is a definite conflict under both rules. Under the old rules, there is no difference between the two. Under the new rules, there is only the difference for fieldlessness. (Note that we were unable to confirm the apple in plain red as a trademark of Apple Computers Mac division, as cited in commentary. While Laurel staff recalled seeing advertisements for Macs which lacked the rainbow apple, the machines themselves still appear to preserve the traditional psychelic fruit.)

KINGDOM OF ATLANTIA

Achbar ibn Ali. Device. Gules, a dragon statant erect affronty, head to dexter, wings displayed, Or, pierced through the chest with a sword sable. Under both rules this conflicts visually and technically with Geoffrey Mandragora ("Gules, a wyvern displayed Or charged with a rose sable."). Under the old rules, there would be at most a minor for type of monster. The weight to be attributed to the sword is dicey since its depiction is somewhat non­standard. However, its weight is clearly no more than that of a tertiary. Thus under the old rules it would give no more than a minor for change of type, yielding in toto two minors from Geoffrey's device. Under the new rules, even if one grants a difference for the type of monster, the same conflict exists. Note that the position of the monsters is essentially identical in both devices, although they are blazoned differently.

Dun Carraig, Shire of. Badge. Argent, a sea­dog rampant gules. Under both old and new rules, this conflicts with the device of Walther von Stralsund ("Vair en pointe, a sea­dog rampant gules."), registered in March, 1990.

Eleanor Leonard. Change of device. Vert, upon a mullet of four points argent, distilling from its lower point a goutte d'eau, a mullet of four points vert. There was substantial feeling in the College that this was in conflict under both rules with Yerek the Inert ("Sable, a mullet of four points voided argent."). As the goutte is little more than a piece of artistic frou­frou, the only real difference is that of field.

Elizabeth Katherine of Sterling. Device. Per pall gules, sable and purpure, two arrows within a quiver argent, the quiver charged with a heart gules. Note that the blazon said arrows and quiver are Or, but emblazon sheet shows argent. Per pall of three colours was disallowed for poor contrast under the old rules. This has been explicitly stated in the new rules in section VIII.2. v: "Elements evenly divided in three tinctures must have good contrast between two of their parts."

Ia Annayavitch. Name only. The given name is documented as a Russian feminine form of the classical Greek masculine name "Ion". Unfortunately, there was general agreement that the "patronymic" was not formed in a genuine period manner, since it does not agree in gender with the given name and is not properly formed. In a guest appearance from the West, Tatiana Nikolaevna Tumanova explained it well: The formation is that of a patronymic; specifically, a male patronymic ­­ not a surname. I cannot recognize the root name this patronymic was formed from, which could be either Anna (with a y thrown in as a bridge?) or Annai. If the root name is Anna, then this may be a misguided attempt to form a matronymic. Matronymics . . .were very rare and, in every case mentioned, the matronymic was borne by a man. Surnames derived from women's names are not so rare as matronymics, but a surname formed from the root name of Anna would be Annin/Annina, Anin/Anina, Anuskin/Anushkina, or Anyutin/Anyutina. . . . In any case, Russian names must agree in gender. The feminine first name must have a feminine form of the surname or patronymic to go with it.

Lars Nilsson. Name only. Under both rules this conflicts with Lars Nilson (1840­1899), discoverer of the element scandium which confirmed Mendeleev's Periodic Law of Elements. Silver Trumpet is quite correct in asserting his fame to be the equal in its own circles to that of an Elizabethan playwright: he is not only mentioned in Webster's Biographic Dictionary (p. 1102), but Laurel even remembered his name from her high school chemistry class [which was distinctly a least common denominator effort!].

Reva de Marisco. Name only. The surname of place is documented from Richard de Marisco, Chancellor to King John. However, the source for the given name (Loughead) is very unreliable and the meaning given ("dreamer") suggests that it is derived from the French common noun "rêveur". (Other sources suggest it may be a modern anagrammatic name.) In any case, it is not documented as a period given name.

KINGDOM OF CAID

None.

KINGDOM OF CALONTIR

None

KINGDOM OF THE EAST

Æthelmearc, Consort of. Device. Gules, an escarbuncle argent within a chaplet of roses, in chief a coronet Or. In all the pother over the proposed devices for the Heir and Heiress of the principality, the fact that this device contained a chaplet of roses more or less escaped notice. While Brigantia noted that the blazon had been selected specifically to distinguish it from the wreath of roses reserved to Queens and Ladies of the Rose, this is a distinction rather than a difference. Not only are chaplets regularly listed under "wreath", but several pieces of royal armoury have the wreath blazoned as a chaplet (most notably that of the Queen of the Middle). Moreover, this is depicted in much the same manner as the standard depiction of the wreath of roses on the device of the Queen of the East (albeit a bit thinner in the roses than is usual for the Queen's arms). As a territorial princess is not eligible to become a member of the Order of the Rose on the basis of her service to her principality, she may not use the wreath of roses (however blazoned) on her official or personal armoury.

Catriona Ruadh. Name and device. Or, fretty vert, on an escutcheon sable, a harp Or, all within a bordure sable. After much debate and many exercises in pronunciation we determined that the name does conflict with that of Caitrin nic Ruaidhri, cited on the letter of intent. While the new rules are more lenient on variants and translations of names, they do still require that there be a significant change in the sound of such names. That change is not present here (dropping a patronymic particle that can be added or subtracted at will is not a major change). With regard to the device, we had to agree with the many commentors in the College who found it included an inescutcheon of pretense, the more so since it is an actual coat (Landschaden: "Sable, a harp Or."). The depiction definitely indicates that the submittor did not have a sable field and orle in mind and, as noted by Brigantia, that would make such a difference in depiction that we do not feel justified in making the change without consultation with the submittor. (Not to mention the stylistic problems with an orle fretty!)

Damiano Vitale de Fonda. Device. Gules, a wyvern sejant, wings displayed, within an orle of estoiles Or. Brigantia expressed fine and fiery outrage at the fact that this submission conflicts under the new rules with the device of Susanne of Woodwose Hall ("Gules, a tree eradicated within nine estoiles in annulo Or."). This somewhat obscured the fact that it would also have conflicted with Susanne under the old rules since the change in position of the secondaries is hardly worth a minor and the putative difference in number no difference at all: thus application of the "point and a half rule" would not suffice to carry the two devices clear. (The submission does not meet the requirements for complete difference of charge under either the old rules or the new.) Moreover, under the old rules this would also be in conflict with the device of Geoffrey Mandragora cited in the letter of intent ("Gules, a wyvern displayed Or charged with a rose sable."): there is a major for addition of the secondaries and a minor for removal of the tertiary. At the time Badger and I were working on the rules, we discussed at some length the conditions under which complete difference of charge should be held to apply. Based on commentary, in the end we decided to preserve the status quo ante and not expand the scope of the rule significantly. Brigantia's initial proposal seems to be too broad and the second too vague. We therefore put on the table another discussion for modification of the rules in this area (based on a concept discussed with Badger in the wee hours late last summer) for discussion by the College and action by Master Da'ud. See the cover letter for details.

East, Kingdom of. Title for Silver Buccle Herald. Under both old rules and new, this is a conflict with the Buckler Herald registered to the Middle Kingdom. Given the geographic proximity of the two, it may also be practically unwise (Pennsic Pandemonium?). Perhaps they might be interested in using the unreleased title of Sycamore Herald, historically used for the herald of the territory now encompassed by the Principality?

Juliana Richenda Trevain. Device. Vert, ermined and chappé ployé, a seahorse argent. Conflict with Rowan of Windtree Tower ("Per saltire sable and vert, a seahorse erect argent."): while the field division is very different visually, there is only a single change for field. (This is made clear if one reblazons this as "per chevron ployé throughout argent and vert, ermined argent. . .").

Justinian the Sluggard. Device. Chequy of nine panes gules and argent, a slug passant guardant sable. Under both the old rules and the new, thre is a problem with contrast here. As the letter of intent itself says, this could be blazoned, as "Gules, a cross quarter­pierced argent. . ." Even as blazoned, there is a problem since chequy of nine panes is, by definition, not evenly divided as to tincture: one tincture must be dominant and in this case it is gules. This being the case, this must be treated as if it were a gules dominant field, not an evenly divided (and hence neutral) field. If the slug is considered to be clearly overall, which is dubious since only one "antenna" extends off the area of the cross, there is a contrast problem. If it is considered to be on the cross, then there is a conflict with William the Wanderer ("Gules, on a cross quarter­pierced argent, a goblet Or.") cited by Dolphin.

Kazdoya Ruslander. Device. Purpure, a garb and a chief trefly­counter­trefly Or. Conflict under both rules with the badge registered to Dagmaer or Nautaloek elsewhere on this letter (under Atlantia): "Purpure, a garb within a bordure Or." There is only one difference under either system: type of secondary charge.

Kellen Oddsdottir. Name and device. Argent, a sealion vert within an orle of gouttes de sang, on a chief azure, three roses argent. Note that the gouttes are not in orle since there are none above the lion. While Brigantia stated "this is correct style" for an orle of charges with a chief, no evidence was presented for this practise and it is contrary to traditional Society practise. In any case, this submission with four types of charges and four tinctures is already perilously complex. This anomaly simply adds to the visual complexity of the design.

Rikard Klasson Glada. Device. Gules, a fess lozengy sable and argent between a demi­sun and a kite displayed Or. The College made the obvious assumption and saw the fess as essentially being "on a fess argent, lozenges conjoined in fess throughout sable" and suggested reblazoning the tincture division. In point of fact, the portions of the fess which abut the field are sable and, as such, have insufficient contrast. For a proper "lozengy" fess on this field, it would have to be argent with sable full lozenges.

Rocco d'Argento. Device. Per pale gules and sable, in fess two scorpions tergiant argent. Conflict under both rules with the badge of Sigurjon Haraldson ("Gules, in fess two scorpions argent.").

KINGDOM OF MERIDIES

Berhtrad Athalbrand von Strassburg. Change of device. Quarterly azure and gules, on a bend sinister between an opinicus statant and a crescent argent, a sword sable. Pennon's reference to this being a change of field from his previous device and some blazoning issues appear to have diverted a number of commentors. In point of fact, the device has now been modified from a field quarterly with a single charge in the dexter chief quarter to a field with two different charges in the azure quarters, presenting a strong impression of quartering. Given that the charge overall is a charged bend (sinister) which appears as a device for indicating cadency or pretense with already complex marshalled coats, this really does give the impression of a differenced marshalled coat. We felt this would be true given the spirit of the old rules. It is unambiguously stated in the new rules: "Charged sections must all contain charges of the same type to avoid the appearance of being different from each other."

Branstock, Shire of. Name and device. Gules, on a chevron Or, an oak tree eradicated proper pierced by a sword fesswise sable, overall a laurel wreath counterchanged. By the submittor's own documentation, "Branstock" is the name of a specific mythological item (although it grew in the hall of King Volsungr, not in Odin's hall as the letter of intent stated). It was a great oak in the midst of Volsungr's hall which grew through the roof of the hall and shaded it, thus being a distinctive feature of that distinctive building. Odin pierced it with his sword Gram to the hilt and only Sigmund was able to pull it out. (That is how Sieglinde recognized Sigmund.) The derivation of the name is closely associated with this legend (it means "sword ­tree"). Clearly, this is a variant of the same northern folk myth which gave rise to the sword in the stone of Arthurian legend. If we would not be willing to register the Shire of Excalibur or the Shire of Valhalla, we cannot register this name. As has been previously noted, holding names cannot be given for groups so this device could not be registered, even if it were unexceptional. In this case, the depiction of the "Branstock" on the chevron is inappropriate, even if the name were permissible.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Name for Leathercraft Guild. There was a considerable feeling that this was too generic to register to a single group. With the addition of an appropriate geographic modifier, it might be acceptable as an identifier for a badge (paperwork indicates that it was originally submitted in conjunction with a badge).

KINGDOM OF TRIMARIS

Conradin Starkwindt der Graue. Device. Vert, a chevron argent, overall a winged lion rampant counterchanged Or and vert, a chief embattled argent. The complex counterchanging of the lion renders it virtually unidentifiable.

Devon of Newcastle. Device. Argent, three crosses crosslet fitchy within an orle surmounted at its corners by three fleurs­de­lys in pall, all gules. To guarantee the orle's depiction as drawn by the submittor, it is necessary to blazon them in this manner, but the orle­ fleur combination is clearly a unified orle variant. As such this is in conflict with Adamson ("Argent, three crosses crosslet fitchy gules.", as cited in Papworth, p. 670). The orle is suggestive of the royal tressure of Scotland.

Katsushika Michinaga. Device. Gules, a pile inverted raguly sable, overall a centipede palewise embowed Or. This was originally misblazoned as a field "per pale". On the correction letter this was reblazoned as "per pile", a field division that does not exist. In fact, this places a pile inverted sable on the gules field which is "colour on colour". Even were the field drawn as a proper "per chevron" division, there would be a problem since the overlying charge obscures and seriously diminishes the identifiability of the complex line of division in the low contrast field. Note that the problem is only compounded by the lack of identifiability of the centipede when placed in this position.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE PENDED:

KINGDOM OF ANSTEORRA

Eldred Bloodaxe. Badge. Quarterly Or and sable, two double­bitted axes in saltire within a bordure, all counterchanged. The submission was made under the name Heldred Bloodaxe, but the name was registered in this form in December, 1989. As the emblazon was omitted from the letter of intent, the submission is pended until the August meeting for further consideration. However, it is clear that there is no conflict between this submission and that of Sutan Bloodaxe ("Quarterly argent and gules, two double­bitted axes in saltire within a bordure, all counterchanged."). Under the old rules, there is a major point of difference for the field and another (demoted) for the tincture of the charges. That is all that is needed for a badge and outline conflict did not exist between device and badge under the old rules. For all the concern expressed by certain members of the College and the objection of Sutan Bloodaxe to the device, it is and should be clear under the most conservative view since all tinctures differ between the two pieces of armoury. When the rules were discussed, there was considerable agreement that conflict by outline was not a valid concept based on period practise or modern perception. Unless the College wishes to reconsider that stance, the two must be considered clear.

KINGDOM OF ATLANTIA

Sacred Stone, Barony of. Name for Order of Karl von Nordmark. While it was stated that the name was used with permission of Karl von Nordmark, no paperwork was submitted in support of this permission. Given the unusual nature of this name, it might also have been advisable to present some supporting evidence for the willingness of the group at large to honour a single member in this manner.

KINGDOM OF THE EAST

Æthelmearc, Consort to Heir of. Device. Gules, an escarbuncle argent, in chief three roses Or. As Brigantia mentioned in his letter of intent, knowing that it was Laurel's intent to be at the January Board meeting, he asked that the issue of arms for heirs of principalities be put to the Board. As has been noted by Silver Trumpet and others, the status of heir to a principality has not been specifically been recognized in Corpora, even with a standard title for which translations could be given (see Appendix C of Corpora). After a brief discussion, the consensus of the Board seemed to be that there was no need to emend Corpora to recognize this status, but that there was really no barrier to the informal use of the principality armoury (for Prince and Consort) with an appropriate cadency mark such as a label. This has been common usage in a number of Kingdoms for some years for a Crown Prince and Princess and by long custom the minor children of armigers are allowed informally to bear their parent's arms differenced by a label without registration. As status of the heirs is not recognized by Corpora, we do not feel it appropriate to register arms for the "office". The informal display is strongly recommended to the Principality by the College. However, we are following the request of Brigantia that this armoury be pended so that he may present to the Principality the informal option or the option of registering both pieces of armoury to the Principality as badges which may be used at the discretion of the Prince and Princess.

Æthelmearc, Heir to Coronet of. Device. Gules, an escarbuncle argent, in chief a label Or. See the comments on the preceding submission.

Tyrvar Hornblásari. Device. Per fess gules and sable, in pale a bear couchant and a cross couped surmounted by a saltire couped, all Or. The field tinctures were reversed on the letter of intent. The submission is therefore pended until the August meeting for further conflict checking.

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