June XXIV (1990)

FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE APPROVED:

KINGDOM OF ATLANTIA

Kendrick del Grenewode. Name only (see PENDING for device).

As Brigantia has pointed out, the name was inadvertently transposed from the acceptances to the returns in the process of pending his device when the May, 1990, letter was issued.

KINGDOM OF CAID

Aleksandr Bogoliubskii. Name and device. Gyronny vert and Or, a ferret statant bendwise sinister to sinister argent.

Astra Christiana Benedict. Change of device. Per fess azure, mulletty Or, and purpure, crusilly Or. Under the old rules this would have been in conflict with Percivall ("Purpure, crusilly Or."). Under the new rules, since half the field and half the charges are changed, there are two visual differences. There was a considerable feeling in the College that this was marginal style at best, the more so since the strewn charges are all Or and the backgrounds are of relatively low contrast. We would feel more comfortable had anyone been able to show a clear period example of such a "split- field semy".However, both types of charge are standard for strewn charges and, in intent, this is not all that different from the common (in the Society) per fess or per chevron design with different types of charge on either side of the line of division.

Cassandra Nicole Loustaunau. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Christine ni Chonchobair. Change of name from Christine Conner.

The name was submitted as Christine ni Conchobhair. While Silver Trumpet is correct in saying that MacLysaght shows "Conchobhair" as the correct genitive form, that form follows the masculine patronymic "mac".The feminine "ni" requires aspiration of the following noun.

Colin MacLear. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

The patronymic has been documented as an Anglicized form of the Irish surname "Mac Giolla Uidhir" and so is acceptable, although it may suggest the Irish god of the sea to some ("Lir" or "Lear").

Conall of the Heavy Heart. Badge. A heart Or, goutty-de-larmes.

Craig of the Glyn. Device. Argent, a tree couped and on a chief dovetailed azure, three keys fesswise argent.

Dafydd Baird. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

The name was submitted as Dafydd Baird of Gwynedd. Although this passed virtually without comment in the College, it is precisely analogous to one of the examples used for presumption in the rules: "John the Bard of Armagh". This being the case, we have dropped the locative to register the name.

After a comparison of the two blazons, the consensus was that this was sufficiently clear of Drake ("Azure, a wyvern with wings displayed Or.", as cited in Papworth, p. 984). There is one difference for the field and another for the position of the monster, although we felt that sea-dragon versus wyvern was a distinction rather than a difference. Please ask the submittor to draw fewer barrulets so that the field is depicted in a period manner. [For those who are wondering, thanks to the fame of Sir Francis Drake the various permutations of the Drake family arms are fairly frequently represented in heraldic texts.]

Fenwood Knoll, College of. Device. Vert, an annulet Or surmounted by a crane statant in its vigilance to sinister argent, in chief two laurel wreaths Or.

George of Clan O'Caine. Change of name from George O'Caine.

Gottfrid Liljebjörn. Change of name from Gottfrid Litebjörn.

Guillaume MacMaelMicheil. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

The name was submitted as Guillaume MacMael-Micheil. While the submittor's own documentation would suggest that the form required would be something like "mac Mhaoile Micheil", Aegis and Mistress Keridwen have been able to document from Black one "Dougall Macmaelmichaell" from 1436 (under the name MacMichael). This being the case, we have to accept an Anglicized form compounded into one word without the appropriate case modification and aspiration one would have expected in the Gaelic.

Joseph Moonchaser. Name and device. Chequy azure and argent, in pale a sword palewise and a chevron inverted throughout Or.

Llewellyn Flinthaven. Name only.

Madelyn Alcott. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Manus le Dragonier. Badge. Azure, a sea-elephant, erect and sinister facing, argent, armed Or.

It was the consensus of the meeting that they did not want to know the persona story. . .

Murchad Alexine Raineau. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and argent, in bend a cross crosslet sable and a garden rose purpure, slipped and leaved sable.

Peter Hertz. Name for the Brotherhood of Saint Valentine.

The name was submitted as the Brotherhood of St. Valentine. We do not register scribal shortenings.

Ragnar Torbjörn. Badge. An annulet fretted with a Bowen knot gules.

Robyn Ruadh Mág Aonghusa. Name only.

Rosemary Willowwood of Ste. Anne. Badge. On a wool-sack sable, a pair of shears bendwise Or. Note that her name was registered in 1984 (hence the use of the abbreviated spelling of "Sainte").

His former device ("Argent, two stag's heads cabossed in bend gules within a double tressure azure.") becomes a badge.

Sarah Minet. Name and device. Per fess gules, and vair, in pale a pegasus courant to sinister argent, crined and winged Or, and a natural fountain Or, watered azure.

Siegfried der Starke. Name and device. Gules, a bear rampant argent, in chief two double-bitted axes in saltire Or.

Sorcha O'Seaghda. Name and device. Purpure, a moon in her plenitude argent and a dexter gore argent, goutty-de-larmes.

Stephen de Huyn. Change of badge for Company of Saint Jude. Per pale azure and argent, a club sable.

Sven Gunther Alcan. Name and device. Purpure, a rose slipped argent, overall two double-bitted axes in saltire Or.

Tamar bat Ephraim. Name only (see RETURNS for device and badge).

The name was submitted as Tamar bat Ephraim v'Yocheved. Two problems arose with this. In the first place, no evidence was presented for the usage of the combined patronymic and metronomic in period Jewish names. The exemplars we could find were all in the form of either a patronymic or (less frequently) a metronomic. One or the other. Even if the formation in principle had been documented, the transliteration appears to be faulty, based on the submittor's documentation. The Hebrew- English dictionary pages which accompany the submission appear to render "and" as either aleph phe sophith, as a vocalized mem sophith or as a vocalized vau. None of these would appear to transliterate as a simple "v'".Moreover, the submittor notes that her transliteration renders "v" for bheth and bheth does not appear to be associated at all with the conjunction. All this being the case, we have dropped the metronomic portion in order to register the name.

The name was submitted as Timoteo Hilario da Fragua e Vega with the note that the submittor wished the Portuguese form for "Timothy Hillary of the Forge of the Meadow". We have corrected the spelling of the Portuguese word for "forge".Since "e" is "and" not "of" and "vega" is Spanish for "meadow" and may not be mixed with the Portuguese "Frágua" in the same phrase, we have modified the byname to make the name completely Portuguese with the proper meaning.

Aegis errs when he states that the Latin name lacks a praenomen: Titus is one of the common classical praenomina, usually represented in inscriptions and histories as "T.".Kraken also errs in stating that the name still lacks a cognomen: adoptive names such as "Aurelianus" were merely a specialized form of cognomen. In this case, Flavius is the nomen proper (i.e., the clan name), the cognomen specifies the relationship to the clan as a whole and the praenomen further specifies the individual. It is precisely the sort of name that would have been found under the late Republic or the Empire. It is directly parallel to the name of Publius Scipio Aemilianus, adopted son of one the sons of Scipio Africanus and gained fame as brother-in-law to the Gracchi. Indeed, under the old rules, this name would have been perilously close to that of Titus Flavius Vespasianus (i.e., the emperor Vespasian). Under the new rules, the two names are clear, even though they combine the praenomen and nomen of one Roman emperor with the cognomen of another.

Wintermist, Shire of. Name for Guild of the Golden Mask (see PENDING for badge).

Wolfram von Dietzenbach. Device. Lozengy argent and sable, a pall inverted between two ravens rising respectant, wings elevated and addorsed, and a wolf's head, erased and sinister facing, all Or.

Wulfhere Slående Falk. Device. Azure, three falcons striking to sinister argent within a bordure Or.

KINGDOM OF CALONTIR

Adrian Conquest. Name and device. Per saltire erminois and sable, in fess two dragon's heads couped and aspectant Or.

Adriana O'Cleary. Name only.

André Miguel de la Croix. Name only.

Calista von Froschewald. Name and device. Azure, a winged frog tergiant displayed, on a chief Or, three crescents azure.

Connor O'Cleary. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Damiano della Greccia. Name and device. Quarterly sable and argent, four single-headed chess knights counterchanged.

Draigen MacConn. Name and device. Sable, on a pile inverted throughout between two swords in chevron argent, a wolf sejant ululant sable.

Elizabeth Creamer. Vert, a pitcher bendwise distilling a goutte, all within a bordure argent.

Joia van Aken. Name and device. Argent, an iris purpure, slipped and leaved vert, on a chief wavy purpure, a thimble argent.

Leonardo il Calamaro. Name only.

Lina von Wissen. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Milada von Felsenhoff. Name and device. Per fess embattled argent and azure, two irises, slipped and leaved, and a butterfly displayed, all counterchanged.

It was the sense of the meeting that this was in fact clear of Seamus MacHale ("Per fess embattled argent and azure, two thistles slipped and leaved azure and a grouse's leg erased argent.") since all of the charges on the field are significantly different. (Period heraldry certainly does distinguish between an iris or fleur-de-lys and a thistle!)

Hund errs when he claims that O Corrain and Maguire (Gaelic Personal Names, p. 152) state that the form "Padraig" is out of period. Indeed, they note that the earlier form (as with the name of Mary and the names of several other particularly revered saints) was to use a periphrastic form such as "Servant of Patrick". However, the quote from Donovan which appears that the name was not used in Irish before c. 1700 ignores O Corrain and Maguire's clear statement that the name was used among the Anglo-Norman colonists prior to its common use by the native Irish.The name appears to have occurred, in Catholic circles at least, before the end of the sixteenth century. At any rate, one Patrick O'Healy was one of the priests executed in Ireland under Elizabeth.

Tatiana Nikonovna Besprozvannyja. Device. Ermine, on a pile inverted wavy per pale gules and azure, a Bengal tiger passant reguardant argent, marked sable.

The name appeared on letter of intent as Tatiana Nikonovna Besprovannyja with a note that this was registered. The actual registered form is used.

Abu Mohammed Hassan. Change of name from Jean Honnete le Bouqiniste.

The name was submitted as Hassan Abu Mohammed. Master Da'ud's research could find only one modern instance and no period instances where the given name preceded the honorific "abu" phrase.Though the submittor forbade us to drop phrases, he allowed grammatical corrections so we have rearranged the name to correct the problem.

Arwen Evaine ferch Rhys of Gwynedd. Badge for the League of Freebooters. In bend sinister three boots palewise argent.

Barak Elandris Bear the Wallsbane. Badge. Sable, a bear's paw couped appaumy Or.

Ceridwen ferch Cynddelw ap Tanno Gwynedd. Name only.

Charles the Black. Device. Sable, a breastplate affronty between three flanged maces palewise, all within a bordure engrailed Or.

Cynric Beyond the Mountain. Name and device. Quarterly argent and sable, in bend sinister two griffins segreant argent.

Daffyd of Emmet. Blazon Correction. A mullet of six points gyronny of twelve Or and gules.

The gentle indicated through Brigantia that the badge which was registered in August, 1979 was inaccurately tinctured. He indicates that he submitted the form above but that it appears in the Armorial as "Or and sable". The request for reblazon was pended from the November, 1989, meeting due to our inability to locate in the Laurel files a copy of the forms which clearly indicated what was accepted. (One piece of paper had the blazon as Or and gules, another, apparently taken from the database generated for Heraldicon, had it Or and sable.) Fortunately, further information on the kingdom through which the submittor had originally registered the badge and other details provided by Brigantia allowed us (after a fair amount of searching) to locate the actual coloured forms, apparently long since misfiled with another submittor's paperwork. The mullet is indeed Or and gules, not Or and sable.

Erich von dem Schwarzwald. Name only.

François Lombard de la Lorraine. Name only.

Under the old rules, this might have been considered a conflict with FranÇois de Lorraine le Balafre who was the Duke de Guise in the mid-sixteenth century and was cited by Hund. Under the new rules the two are clear.

Genella of Leeshire. Device. Azure, a chevron invected Or between three lilies argent.

This is very close to Brown ("Azure, a chevron invected between three fleurs-de-lys Or.", as cited in Papworth, p. 420) and Gardell ("Azure, a chevron Or between three fleurs-de-lys argent.", ibid.) However, Pale has shown there was apparently a difference noted by heralds in period between the stylized fleur- de-lys and the natural lily flower since the arms of Eton College contain both used in a cadency context. Under the new rules this is enough to determine that a difference of type may be granted, assuming no real possibility of confusion: "Types of charges considered to be separate in period, for example a lion and an heraldic tyger, will be considered different."

The hide is a defined Society charge used in the device of Vuong Manh.

When the device was registered in March, 1990, the tincture of the tertiary charges was omitted.

Justin du Coeur. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Laura Hawkwood. Change of device. Ermine, on a pile Or, a phoenix gules.

Note that this change of device was actually registered by Master Wilhelm in May, 1981. As her forms clearly indicated, this armory, submitted with a change of name, was intended to be a change of device. The letter of acceptance and return apparently omitted the details of the accepting action and it was assumed that the acceptance was that of a badge at some point before the next armorial and ordinary appeared. However, the lady's file in the Laurel Office contains a note dated May 10, 1981, in Master Wilhelm's hand that reads "Name change O.K. Change of device O.K.".

The new device is listed currently in the Armorial as the submittor's badge.

Magdalena da Zara. Name only.

Mohammed ibn Hassan. Name only.

Morgann ap Francwr Morgannwg. Name only.

Morganna of Griffin's Tower. Name and device. Per pale purpure and argent, a griffin segreant within a bordure embattled, both counterchanged Or and gules.

The complete change of tinctures between the two halves of the device give an uncomfortable reminiscence of marshalling, but this is legal.

The name was submitted as Olaf uf Trollheimsfjord. We could not document the preposition from any period Scandinavian language. The place name is derived from the Anglicized place name form "Trollheim" and so we have dropped the intrusive interior "s".

Richard of Concordia of the Snows. Badge. A crane displayed inverted, in base between its wings a triangle argent.

Richard the Poor of Ely. Change of name from Richard of Shire An Dubhaigeainn.

The given name with each of the epithets separately was previously returned, once for conflict with Poor Richard and again for conflict with Richard of Ely. Under the new rules, since there are three or fewer phrases in both names, this is technically clear.

The name is very reminiscent, although technically clear of, that of Ulysses Paxton, second in fame only to John Carter in the annals of Barsoom.

When the name was registered in March, 1990, the preposition was incorrectly converted to the German form "von".

Ulrich von Adlerberg. Badge for Haus der Kameraden. Or, a cross formy sable surmounted by a rose gules, barbed and seeded vert, all within a bordure gules.

Vincenzo di Palermo. Name and device. Per pale Or and gules, a sword bendwise sinister surmounted by a roundel, both per pale gules and Or.

KINGDOM OF MERIDIES

Axemoor, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Axe of Axemoor. Sable, in bend sinister an axe bendwise sinister, inverted and reversed, and an axe bendwise sinister, both Or, between two scarpes argent, overall an axe bendwise Or.

The name has been afforded protection for some years in the form of the Order of the Axe of Axemoor. (See the section on protected order names and heraldic titles in the cover letter.) While the badge is somewhat complex in conception and requires a fairly lengthy blazon, it falls this side of acceptability. It should be noted that Silver Trumpet appears to err in stating that the armigerous status of this order is against Corpora. The latest Corpora indicates that the Crown may not delegate the "decision-making powers" on distribution of awards save to other royalty in their province. Each armigerous Baronial award is specifically written into Meridian law and, as we recall, those laws, like those of the other Atenveldt daughter kingdoms which allow armigerous Baronial awards, specifically state that the awards may not be given without the prior approval of the Crown (i.e., that the Baron recommends the candidate to the Crown and the Crown graciously accepts or denies the recommendation). While in most instances the local nobles' recommendation is accepted, this is not always the case (Mistress Alisoun can remember several such cases from her tenure in Meridies over a decade ago). Therefore, the Corpora requirements are met at least in theory.

Although the name was presented for registration, the Laurel files show it as having been registered in August, 1984, even though it does not appear in either the Order lists or the current Armorial and Ordinary for some reason.

The name was submitted as Ciard MacRuadan O'Seachnasaigh. The only documentation for the given name was one of Katherine Kurtz' Deryni novels and, as Mistress Keridwen has noted, this is dicey since the that author often blurs the distinction between actual given names and false back formations from apparent patronymic forms (as in the use of "Caulay" as a given name despite the fact that the initial "c" is from the use of the actual given name in a patronymic "MacAulay"). In this case, it seems to be a back formation from "O Ciardha" (MacLysaght, Surnames of Ireland, p. 171) which is in fact the genitive form of the feminine name "Ciar".As the submittor is female, the form Ciar is indeed appropriate. With this the most appropriate patronymic would be "nic Rúadáin" (the patronymic must be in the genitive).

Francesca da Trani. Device. Pean, on a lozenge Or, a pomegranate gules, slipped and leaved vert. Note that the pomegranate is not proper since the fruit is entirely gules (i.e., the seeds are not Or). This does not have the appearance of an inescutcheon of pretense of the arms of Granada since those arms have a field argent.

The name was submitted as Fynbella nic David. Although Yonge gives the spelling of the given name shown, associating it with period sources, the actual spelling in the sources is quite different (i.e., as is quite common in Yonge, a modern back formation is used in lieu of the actual name form). Thurneysen (Grammar of Old Irish, p. 18) notes that "y" appears only rarely in Irish and then exclusively in loan words and then usually only from words having their origin in Latin or Greek. Moreover, the switch of values in the second syllable of the name is typical of a modern "Latinizing" effect on Irish names.The name that actually appears in the sources cited by the submittor's documentation is "Finnguala", a very common period feminine name. Likewise, "v" does not generally appear in period Irish, its place being taken in loan words from the Latin by "u" or "f" depending on the context.In this case, "Dauid" is a documented period borrowed form. As with Latin, Irish often used names from the Hebrew without declining them with normal noun endings so that forming the patronymic with the nominative "Dauid" for the indeclinable form of "David" is permissible.

After much discussion, we decided that there is difference for type of primary charge and another for position of primary charge here from the mundane arms of Bowland ("Sable, an eagle displayed between two flaunches Or, each charged with an eagle displayed of the first.", as cited in Papworth, p. 845). While posture is not generally counted between dissimilar items (e.g., a flower and a deer) in this case, the fish could be (at least in Society heraldry!) in a posture directly analogous to that of the eagle displayed, if it were affronty. Since it is not, an additional difference for posture may be derived. (This is analogous to counting one difference for a charge being a horse, not a bird, and another for its being to dexter rather than to sinister, which we have fairly frequently done in the past.)

The submission was made under the name Hywyn o Gwynedd.

Although it may make the genealogists amongst us very nervous about presumption, under the new rules this name is technically clear of both Richard Beauchamp and John Beauchamp, since none of the names have more than three elements.

The name was submitted as Indulf V'Clymont. While Black does show this form and the submittor's work copied it, it is clearly a misreading of M'Clymont.(The shape of "U" and "M" in the scribal hand of that period were awkwardly close and many nineteenth-century scholars tended to mistranscribe names beginning with one form or another.

Kira Asgrimsdottir. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Owl's Nest, College of. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

While House Owl's Nest has a fair amount of fame amongst the Drachenwald diaspora and the Pennsic kingdoms, the erstwhile Schwarzdrachen Herald does not appear to have registered it with the College. . .

Robert Greenheart. Name and device. Vert, on a pile Or, a heart vert, all within a bordure Or. Please ask the submittor to draw the pile a bit more boldly.

This is clear of the badge of the Shire of Smoking Rocks ("on a mullet of seven points pommetty sable, a sperm whale naiant argent.").That badge is (surprise!) depicted precisely like a sheriff's badge with a standard mullet of seven points with the tips of the points surmounted by pellets. This is quite different from this modified compass star shape.

The name was submitted as Sine nic Donnchaidh. As noted on the letter of intent, aspiration is required. As it still had not been added and the submittor now allows changes, we have added it.

The submission was made under the name Sion Dafydd Llywelyn.

Tess of the Crossings. Device. Or, on a pale bretassy between two roses, slipped and leaved, proper, a thunderbolt palewise Or.

When this was registered in January, 1990, the tincture of the pale was omitted from the blazon.

Aeruin as Sruth Waleis. Name and device. Quarterly vert and azure, a seawolf, tailed as a fish, erect and sinister facing argent.

The name was submitted as Aeruin o'Buinne Waleis with the request that the byname be made as close as possible to Irish for "of Wallace Creek".

Alaine de Rue Vert of Dragon Vale. Change of blazon. Sable, goutty d'eau, a mermaid erect affronty proper, tailed Or, crined gules, holding in her dexter hand a goblet and in her sinister hand a candelabra Or, its candles argent, enflamed gules.

When this device was registered in December, 1987, the mermaid was blazoned as "Caucasian", following a precedent of long-standing in the Society for centaurs and other humanoid beasties. The submittor appears to find this distasteful and has petitioned for the removal on the grounds that "if we are recreating medieval heraldry", a mermaid should be Caucasian by default. While this assertion is debatable, given the conventions of medieval art, we see no reason to refuse the submittor's request since a majority of mermaids in the Society files are in fact distinctly Caucasian.

Alisaundre of Kilmaron. Name only.

Antara of Leeds. Change of name from Antara al-Aqrab.

Anton de Stoc. Name and device. Gules, a seawolf erect, tailed as a fish, and a chief argent.

Arenvald von Hagenburg. Device. Per chevron chequy Or and azure and sable, in base a dragon segreant Or.

This device was returned in June, 1989, for conflict with Brian the Inquisitive ("Per fess rayonny argent ermined gules and gules, in chief a dragon rampant Or.") Since the type of positional change involved here under the old rules was limited to a minor point of difference at most, this was a valid conflict under the old rules, despite Vesper's side comment to the contrary.However, under the new rules there is one visual difference for the field and another for the difference in position so this is clear not only of Brian's device, but also of the mundane conflicts cited by Silver Trumpet and others. Please note that the ermining in Brian's device is not addition of a strewn charge under the new rules (or the old for that matter) and does not add to the difference already derived from the difference in field, as stated in the letter of intent.

Bran Emrys o Garnhedryn. Device. Argent, three bendlets enhanced gules, overall a reremouse displayed within an orle azure.

This would be drastically improved by removal of the bendlets.

Chandra of the West Kingdom. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per pale Or and purpure, two bulls rampant respectant, in base a crescent, all counterchanged, and a chief embattled sable.

The submission was made under the name Chandra Simera.

Cieran mac Cumaill. Name and device. Vert, a stag springing to sinister and on a chief argent, three drinking horns sable.

The name was submitted as Cieran mac Cumal with the comment that it was a made-up name. This is not the case, since Cumal or Comhal was the name of the father of Finn Mac Cool.There was some debate as to whether this was a unique name or one which necessarily implied non-human status (in some versions of the Finn stories, Comhal is a giant). After a considerable study of the consonant modifications outlined in Thurneysen's Grammar of Old Irish, our ultimate conclusion was that this was probably not the case, but that the name was probably an early period form of the relatively common name "Comgall" or "Comhghall" (pronounced "kowal") that became fossilized in this spelling. Since the name element is placed in the patronymic position, it needs to be a genitive form to fulfill the syntactic requirements of Irish.

Cynon Yscolan ap Myrddin. Name and device. Vert, three ermine spots in pall, tails outwards, Or.

Darras Oakenshield. Name only.

The submittor has documented the given name as that of a knight in Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Given Society precedent, this is adequate documentation. However, the submittor might wish to know that many of the names of this form (i.e., "Sir Darras") were literal translations of French references where the name was actually "Sieur d'Arras" (i.e., "the Master of Arras").

Einhard of the White Winds. Name and device. Azure, a fox rampant reguardant within an orle of snowflakes, on a chief argent a flamberge fesswise azure.

Elenor of the Grieving Heart. Device. Sable, a hart's head, erased and sinister facing, argent within an orle of suns in splendour Or.

Eric Ravn. Name only.

The name was submitted on the letter of intent as Eric Hrafn with the note that the submittor wished the epithet to be Danish. While the submitted epithet is perfectly acceptable Old Norse, the particularly Danish form would be "Ravn" and so we have registered that form.

Since "Fiachra" is a masculine name, the patronymic would look strange to a period Irishman, but it is acceptable.

Geoffrey Thomas. Change of name from Geoffrey of Caer Garth. (see RETURNS for device).

Note that this name does not conflict with Geoffrey Thomas du Chateau Versoix under the new rules since "du Chateau Versoix" is considered to be a single phrase for the purposes of determining whether there are three or more phrases in each name. Since there is also the addition of this phrase, the two are clear. (The fact that Geoffrey Thomas du Chateau Versoix may regularly be called merely "Geoffrey Thomas" is irrelevant under the new rules.)

Francis of Hexham. Name and device. Per bend sinister argent and sable, a sexfoil counterchanged.

Gabriella della Santa Croce. Name and device. Per pale sable and azure, a Maltese cross throughout between in base two lions rampant addorsed, each queue-forchy and maintaining a rose, argent.

Gareth Deufreuddwyd ap Rhys. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Guimora Peverel of Scopasheall. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Since the submittor wishes the locative to mean "Singers hall", this is a proper compounded form according to the evidence presented by Pale.

The name was submitted as Ine na Coille Ghlusa. However, the appropriate feminine genitive singular adjective form for "glas" after the noun here appears to be "glaise". (Note that in this context the adjective is not aspirated.)

Jennet of Amberley. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, a crescent counterchanged and a chief vert.

Joab Cohen. Device. Argent, a pall inverted vert, in sinister chief a panther rampant guardant sable, incensed gules.

Judith Jehana di Ettore. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, a fox rampant to sinister argent.

Julia of Candleshoe. Device. Vert, a hawthorne blossom argent within an annulet Or.

Katerina Jezerná. Name and device. Per pale sable and gules, two serpents erect and entwined respectant and in chief three acorns, all Or.

The name was submitted as Katerina Vyzva Jezerní with the only documentation being the submittor's assertion that "Vyzva" meant "challenge" in Czech and "Jezerní" meant "of the lake" in the same language. After much research we have been able to document "jezerní" as a properly formed adjective from the noun "jezero" and "jezerná" as its appropriate feminine form. We have also been able to document the use of locative adjectives of this sort as surnames, at least in the modern Czech world, although such surnames are more commonly formed from specific place names. However, we have not been able to find any evidence for the simple use of the nominative of a word like "challenge" as an epithet or surname in period or modern Czech. Therefore, we have dropped that element of the name in order to register the whole.

Khanada de Châtealin. Name and device. Ermine, two cobras erect respectant and on a chief wavy sable, three crosses bottony argent.

While the given name created some discomfort, it is her given name outside the Society and is neither a title nor a place name in and of itself, although it may look like one ("khan") and sound like another ("Canada").

Kurona Kuro the Unbeliever. Change of name from Turgar Deerherder.

Kylson Skyfire. Badge. A fess couped, engrailed to chief, invected to base, in chief a cubit arm palewise maintaining a bottle, all argent.

Learbhean ni Sheighin. Name and device. Argent, a peregrine falcon volant to sinister proper between three cinquefoils pierced azure, all within a bordure embattled sable.

The name was submitted as Learbhean ni Séigíne. Based on the evidence of MacLysaght (Surnames of Ireland, p. 271), the proper aspirated form for the patronymic is as registered above. Note that the bird in the position in which it is placed shows entirely dark brown which has adequate contrast against the field.

Under the new rules this does not conflict with the previously registered name of Madelaine FitzRobert de la Forêt, since neither name has more than three phrases.

Michael Vladimir Gerewolf. Name and device. Per pale ermine and counterermine, a three-headed cheetah sejant affronty, outer heads addorsed, Or.

Miriam d'Aurigny. Name and device. Per pale Or and vert, on a trefoil slipped three stars of David, one and two, all counterchanged.

Morgan Kelvin of Llangollen. Name only.

Morgana yr Oerfa. Change of name from Morgana of the Icy Wastes.

Note that it is common Welsh usage to make the article an actual part of the place name (e.g. "Y Foel", "Yr Wyddfa"), particularly when this is a mountain or a descriptive of a place. (Williams, A Welsh Grammar, p. 7). Therefore, the place is actually "Yr Oerfa" ("the Cold Place"). This place name is then used appropriately in apposition to the given name to indicate origin, not to indicate that the lady is the cold place. The name would be just as appropriate were she not in fact the local baroness.

Niell MacCormican. Name only.

Ninianne æt Séolesigge. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and gules, a dragon sejant erect, in dexter chief two axes sable, hafted gules.

Note that Saint Ninian was not associated with Selsey (the modern name for the location) but primarily with the area that is now southern Scotland. While the hafts of the axes were blazoned as Or on the letter of intent, they are in fact gules and are so blazoned and emblazoned on the forms. Since this does not materially affect the possibility of conflict, we do not feel the misblazon requires pending the device.

Parvus Portus, Canton of. Name and device. Ermine, a tower sable within a laurel wreath gules, all within a bordure embattled grady sable.

Note that even in classical Latin an adjective, particularly an adjective of size, might be placed before the noun it modified for emphasis.

Pietro del Toro Rosso. Name and device. Or, a bull statant to sinister within a bordure embattled gules.

Rannulf of Arrow's Keep. Name and device. Azure, vetu, a sheaf of three arrows inverted argent. The usage "a sheaf" for "two arrows in saltire, surmounted by a third palewise" is a space-saving Society convention: it does not necessarily mean that the arrows must be counted for difference as a single unit any more than a sword and a quill in saltire would be considered a single item.

Seisyll LeStrange of Strangeholt. Name and device. Lozengy argent and pean, a bat-winged horse, tusked as a boar, rampant to sinister, wings elevated and addorsed, gules.

Thelic of Darktide. Change of device. Quarterly Or and argent, a panther's head erased sable, incensed gules.

Conflict with the badge of for the Queen's Escort of An Tir ("Quarterly Or and argent, a lion's head erased sable, crowned, environed of a wreath of hearts, points to center, alternating with roses gules, barbed and seeded proper.").

The paperwork asks for the name with two "r"'s, the letter of intent had only one "r". As both are legitimate, we have registered the submittors' preferred spelling.

June 1990

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE RETURNED:

KINGDOM OF CAID

Cassandra Nicole Loustaunau. Device. Argent, a winged lioness passant reguardant counter-ermine within an orle azure, a chief counter-ermine.

Our sources agreed with those of Silver Trumpet: the only charge which appears to have been regularly surmounted by a chief was the bordure (and even then the practice was decidedly variable). Such period examples of orles or tressures in conjunction with a chief that we have been able to locate have the full orle placed below the chief, as in the arms of the Worshipful Company of Musicians cited by Silver Trumpet.

The symbolism of the seahorse and trident are excessive taken in context with the patronymic since they suggest a claim that the submittor is the son of the Irish god of the sea ("Lir" or "Lear").

Dafydd Baird. Device. Or, on a pale between two roses gules, slipped and leaved vert, a clarion Or. Conflict with Moyes ("Ermine, on a pale between two roses gules, a cross calvary Or.", as cited in Papworth, p. 1010). It does not conflict with Tess of the Crossings ("Or, on a pale bretassy sable between two roses slipped and leaved proper a thunderbolt palewise Or."), cited by Palmer and Silver Trumpet: since the pale is sable, there is a difference of tincture and type of primary charge. (See the reblazon for Tess under the Kingdom of the Outlands.)

While there is perhaps a precedent for the peculiarly fragmented partial sea-serpent in Caid in the armoury of the Barony of Calafia, this is an old one. The serpent emerging from thin air does not seem to be a period charge and the effect here is to have three charges in fess in chief with another three non-identical fragments in base.

After comparing the position of these spears with the normal position for a sheaf of spears on the field, we had to agree with Silver Trumpet that this is a conflict with Jelita ("Gules, three tilting spears Or, armed argent, two in saltire, the third reversed in pale.", as cited in Woodward, p. 347). The usage in base in the blazon only serves to indicate that the spears do not overlie the chevronelly part of the field, which begins rather more to chief than is the norm. In point of fact, the spears are not totally abased from the normal position for such charges and so no difference can be derived from the change in position.

Conflict with William O'Neill, cited by Silver Trumpet. While the new rules allow diminutives, they are specifically considered as not significantly different from their parent name: "Diminutives are not significantly different from the given names from which they derive." This name bears the same relation to William that "Will" does to the same name or that "Dick" does to "Richard", examples specifically cited in the rules.

Commentary noted several anomalies that contributed to a feeling that this was not an acceptable fieldless badge.First of all, the rounding of the bramble branches in a semi-annulate form does suggest the required group laurel wreath as it is (badly) depicted by many groups. Secondly, the wings on the honeybee are argent and so would disappear into the metallic field on which the brambles could logically be placed. While the Or and sable body of the bee is "neutral" enough to be placed in conjunction with the brambles, the wings define the position of the bee and are not negligible.Finally, the manner in which the bee is placed between the two other charges does not really form a coherent self-contained design in the period manner as specified in the rules: the charges are not conjoined nor are they logically lined in a typical group arrangement. The combination of these anomalies just makes this non-period style, at least as far as the style for fieldless badges has previously been defined in the Society.

Conflict with Robear du Bois ("Per bend sinister azure and argent, a bear's head erased argent and in bend sinister three fir trees palewise vert."), cited on the letter of intent.

The name was submitted with supporting documentation based on a feminization of the Irish Morann, but Irish does not form its feminine given names in this manner. As Crescent indicates that the lady's intent may have actually been to submit a different name, we feel that the personal name should be returned pending a future submission. The household name does conflict with the TSR copyright game cited by Brachet. Given the popularity of D & D in the Society, we feel that we really must protect these entities.

However you blazon it, what you have here is not a standard compass star, nor a mullet of four points charged with a lozenge. It is really an origami sculpture in which two cuts in cross have been made in a sable mullet of four points and the resulting "flaps" have been turned out to show the field beneath and create the "surmounting" effect. This does not appear to be period style either for western or for Japanese heraldry and certainly violates the ban on depth of field as a design element.

Silver Trumpet is correct in calling conflict with Richard Blackmore, the novelist who wrote Lorna Doone: there is only a minor difference in spelling and none in sound.

As noted by a couple of submittors, the blazon implies that the argent chief lies entirely across an argent portion of the field. It in fact does.While Crescent indicates that the submittor would accept a blazon of a chief indented, this is problematical. First, the College has not checked that version for conflict. Secondly, the design the submittor desires appears to depend on the indents of the chief aligning exactly with the lozenges of the field and there is no way to guarantee that depiction. Indeed, there is some precedent against such a depiction. Additionally, the conjunction of charges on the chief is somewhat unidentifiable. Granted, that the roses are easily identified, the nature of the central charge between them is difficult to determine and again, it is difficult to see how the precise depiction that the submittor desires can be consistently maintained.

Silver Trumpet is correct in calling conflict with Alyanora of Vinca ("Argent, a periwinkle proper."). The difficulty with the periwinkle is that the periwinkle is in fact half-way between the typical Society azure and the typical Society purpure. It is a very definite color and thus may be proper, but that colour lies on the border between tinctures as we use them. (This problem is related to the fact that we do not use tinctures as they were used in period. In fact, manuscripts, cloth remnants, descriptions and receipts for dyes make it clear that what we consider purpure was often thought of as azure in period and vice versa. That is leaving aside the fact that colour shifts in dyes often turned purpure to azure or possibly to gules, depending on the dye used. That is a very concrete reason why purpure was so seldom used in heraldry. . .)

The submittor indicates that she wishes the by name to mean "of the Land of Desert" in German. Unfortunately, even given her documentation from Middle German sources, the name is improperly formed. Indeed, by her own documentation the "wüeste" portion of the name should precede "lant" (for the later "Land") since it is the adjectival usage. Thus you would get something like "Wüestlant". As this is a generic descriptive, not a place name you would also expect an article (in this case "dem"). As the submittor forbade any changes to her name or the formation of a holding name, the submission as a whole must be returned. It should be noted, however, that Brachet is correct in noting that there is little contrast between the lower portion of the demi- sun (the part that makes it "demi") and the argent field. The current state of heraldic research casts serious doubt on the period style of the sun issuant from the line of division of the chief, no matter how frequently this occurred in Victorian (or early Society) heraldry.

It was the sense of the meeting that, old rules or new, the voiding/fimbriation of the mullet unacceptably diminished its identifiability and, taken with its peripheral position, the lack of unity in the design where three different types of charges were placed in an "in cross" arrangement, etc., the whole was just not period style.

Lina von Wissen. Device. Vert, a pile issuant from dexter argent, overall a bull statant to sinister gules.

Although the letter of intent blazoned this as "Per chevron couched vert and argent. . .", this is more accurately described as encompassing a pile issuant from dexter. This being the case the beastie should reside entirely on the pile, not overlapping the field only a little bit: it is neither truly on the pile nor truly overall.

The letter of intent indicated that a bordure had been added to the device to clear the conflict with Eirianedd o Randir Mawr ("Argent, a hawk rising, wings addorsed and inverted, sable, issuant from sinister three wolves' teeth gules."). However, the forms sent to the Laurel Office do not appear to have a bordure.

The name conflicts with the registered name of Sean MacDuncan: "MacDuinnchinn" appears to be virtually identical to "MacDuncan" in both meaning and sound. The device is technically in conflict with Hampton ("Gules, on a fess argent a mullet sable.", as cited in Papworth, p. 794.

Note that the name was stated on the letter of intent to have been registered as Seumas Geal-Sionnach in October, 1989. It was in fact registered in the form used above in August, 1989. At that time, an identical device with a bordure counterchanged was returned because the bordure was colour on colour. As this was two months before the Board approved in principle the main portions of the rules, no mention was made of possible problems with the two colour gyronny, although the old rules conflict with Fandrel Silverfox (Sable, a fox's mask argent.") was mentioned. Several heralds suggested that this might be a good candidate for leniency under the new stricter rules for contrast between portions of a gyronny field on the grounds that this was an extremely timely submission resubmitted under the old rules. In the case of the contrast rules, this has somewhat less force than with some of the more controversial aspects of the rules: there has been substantial agreement on this issue for a couple of years now and any time in the last year or so, the fact that this rule was in the offing was known to the senior heralds who advise submittors of returns from Laurel and the means of rectifying the problems which caused those returns. In point of fact, the letter on which the original submission was returned was issued in mid-September, 1989, prior to Hurricane Hugo. A submission sent back to Laurel at any time prior to the end of January this year would have fallen in the grace period. The whole issue of the applicability of any grace period to this submission is, however, moot since this submission conflicts with the device of Wulfstan Darroldson ("Purpure, a wolf's head cabossed within a bordure argent."). In this context no difference can be derived from the minor outline distinctions between a wolf's head cabossed and a fox's head cabossed so that the field is the only palpable difference.

Donnan of Whispering Wude. Name and device. Azure, vetu, a mullet of four points throughout Or. As Silver Trumpet has pointed out, even if one considered a field vetu as visually different from a field charged with a lozenge throughout, this would conflict with the badge listed in the armorial for Alaine the Novatrix ("A mullet of four points distilling a goutte."; note that she recently changed her name). As long-standing Society tradition considers the two to be interchangeably depicted, this is also in conflict with the badge of Stuart of Lindley ("Or, on a lozenge azure, four more in cross argent.").

Justin du Coeur. Device. Sable, on a pile bendwise throughout Or, in dexter chief a heart gules. Conflict with Russel Old Mountain ("Sable, on a pile bendwise argent, a bear's pawprint palewise gules.")

Conflict with Glenn of Caerleon ("Argent, issuant from base a phoenix purpure and on a chief triangular azure, a mullet of seven points argent."): contrary to Brigantia's statement the flames are a notable part of both designs and Glenn's phoenix is not significantly abased from that on this submission.The visual resemblance is very striking despite the tincture changes to the primary charge.

Hywyn o Gwynedd. Name only.

Welsh would almost demand either "Hywyn Gwynedd" or "Hywyn o Wynedd". However, we were compelled to agree with Mistress Keridwen that there is an undeniable possibility of confusion with "Owain Gwynedd" who is to many the great ruler of Wales. Although the spelling of the given names differs materially, the pronunciation is almost identical.

John Richard Beauchamp. Device. Or, chaussé counter-ermine, a Scopsowl proper (Otus scops). Silver Trumpet is correct in noting that this is not a pile but a chaussé field. As such, this conflicts with the badge of Annette of Faire Monte ("A screech owl proper."). While there is a field difference, there seems no difference in the positions of the birds and any difference in colour is extremely speculative. (The depiction of the badge in the files is a very small rubbing of a seal impression: this was a very old acceptance. . .).

As there is no difference between an ordinary and its diminutive, blazoning the cross as a fillet cross does not take this clear of the national flag of Sweden ("Azure, a cross Or."): there is one point for the addition of the single group of secondaries.

Conflict with Cerridwen niMorna ("Argent,two unicorns combattant and on a point pointed sable, a harp Or.").

The counterchanging across the base is not period style. When taken with the use of four tinctures and four types of charges, this is clearly excessive.

The rules allow good contrast between an element equally divided of a colour and metal and another element "as long as identifiability is maintained". It is not maintained here: so much of the unusual lozenge in vert overlies the low contrast azure field or intersects the azure gouttes that its identity is severely compromised. Additionally, as submitted, the woman's argent garments flop off of the lozenge and onto the field, which is also not period style.

Dafydd ap Llewelyn was a thirteenth-century Prince of Gwynedd and, according to many sources, the first person to call himself Prince of Wales. Given the conventions of Welsh naming practice, this could be interpreted as a claim to be the son of that prince. This is directly analogous to the usage "Edwin fitzWilliam Marshall" used in the rules when discussing claims to a specific relationship with famous individuals.

Chandra Simera. Name only.

The name was submitted with the statement that the submittor indicated that "Simera" was Arabic for "dancing woman". No supporting documentation was provided and no commentor was able to find this form in Arabic or any other language. Master Da'ud indicates that the proper form for Chandra the Dancing Woman would be something like "Chandra al-Raqqasa". As the submittor indicated that the sound was as important to her as the meaning, we did not feel justified in making that radical a change to the name.

The full blazon of the arms of Dragomanni make it clear that they should be blazoned in Society terms as "Or, a wyvern gules."). Thus, this device conflicts with Dragomanni.

Geoffrey Thomas. Device. Argent, two gussets gules.

Regrettably, this is in conflict with Deichsler ("Gules, a pall argent.", as cited in Woodward). The removal of the inverted triangular portion of the field from the top of the device does not create enough visual difference to carry the two devices truly clear.

Conflict with Benningworth ("Gules, a cross of five lozenges Or.", as cited in Papworth, p. 613).

The placement of the bulk of the distinguishing feature of this tree trunk, the roots eradicated, upon the sable portion of the field unacceptably diminish the identifiability of this charge. (Note that the neutrality of the divided field is only permitted where it does not diminish the identifiability of charges laid upon it: "An element equally divided of a color and a metal, and any other element as long as identifiability is maintained".

The submission is not clear of Cassat ("Azure, a castle Or.", as cited in Papworth, p. 364). The analysis on the letter of intent assumes a difference between the bridge and the castle. However, when a submission for the same order was returned in February, 1988, "the strong resemblance of the conjoint charge to a standard depiction of a castle" was noted. (It is essentially two towers conjoined by an embattled wall with arches to base.) There is no clear difference visually between a castle and the bridge on this submission.

The sun issuant from the line of division of the chief is essentially an anomaly: the entirety of bottom of the sun gules lies upon the field vert.

As Master Da'ud has noted, pre-existing precedents are not rescinded by issuance of the new rules unless they are specifically contravened by the new rules. The ban on registry of a single symbol in such a way as to reserve use of that symbol to an individual dates back to 1981, pre-dating its appearance in the rule cited by Master Thorfinn and the members of the College. It is not necessarily voided by the portion of the rules revision that allows symbols in devices. It should also be noted that there is no evidence for the use of runes in period armoury (unlike alphabetic symbols which are known). Finally, Ottar Eriksson has a point in his analysis of the period use of this particular rune by itself: it apparently was used to bind spirits to a particular object and would be taken to have been used in this sense by a significant subset of the Society populace which would immediately identify it. Thus, use of this particular rune in any armorial context may fall afoul of section IX.2 of the new rules: "Magical or religious symbolism that is excessive or mocks the beliefs of others will not be registered."

KINGDOM OF CAID

Wintermist, Shire of. Badge for Guild of the Golden Mask. Azure, a mask of comedy between in fess two cubit arms Or, issuant palewise from a cloud argent.

The badge was misblazoned on the letter of intent so that most commentors assumed that all charges were argent. It is therefore pended to the October meeting to allow proper conflict checking. Note that there was considerable feeling in the College that this was not really appropriate armoury for Society use, although it does not actually go beyond the boundaries on offensiveness. (Intrusive modernity, on the other hand. . .). It might be worth reminding the submittors that the registration of the guild name and badge only allows them two more names and two more pieces of armoury for the group as a whole.

Connor O'Cleary. Device. Argent, on a bend sinister cotised vert, three oak leaves Or.

On the letter of intent the cotises were misblazoned as Or. The submission is therefore pended to the October meeting to allow proper conflict checking.

Kevin Devin O'Quine. Device. Per bend vert and sable, on a bend between two domestic cats rampant guardant argent, a strung bow, string to base, sable.

The tincture of the bow was omitted from the letter of intent. The submission is therefore pended to the October meeting to allow proper conflict checking.

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