ANSTEORRA

Aaron Wolfe. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and Or, in bend sinister three spears bendwise counterchanged.

Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Title for Armillary Pursuivant.

Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Title for Equinox Pursuivant.

Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Title for Retiarius Pursuivant.

Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Title for Solstice Pursuivant.

Arianwen ó Báire. Device. Per bend sable and argent, a moon in her plenitude argent, and a shamrock vert.

Submitted as Arianwen O'Baire, the above form was registered in October 1090.

Gest Grimsson. Device. Per pale vert and sable, a narwhale hauriant embowed argent.

Versus Balin the Fairhaired (SCA), Sable a whale hauriant argent, there is a CVD for the field and a CVD for hauriant embowed versus hauriant.

Submitted as Haearwedd Folkelaund, we have modified the name to the documentable form.

Jevan the Fletcher ap Cenydd. Name.

Julianna O'Donavan. Name.

Kieran ó Chonnacht. Name.

Submitted as Kieran na Chonnacht, we have modified the byname to correct the grammar.

Margaret Pearce. Device. Quarterly Or and sable, a quatrefoil counterchanged.

Ragnar Larsson of the Ice Dragon Isles. Badge. [Fieldless] A snowflake per pale Or and argent.

Rodrigo Francisco Isidro Sanchez de Montoya. Name.

ATENVELDT

Alan le Breton. Badge. Argent, two dolphins haurient respectant within a bordure gules.

Aodhnait Máire Siobhán ní Nuanáin. Name and device. Azure, on a bend sinister between a needle threaded and a lute all bedwise sinster argent, three decrescents palewise azure, all within a bordure argent.

Submitted as Aodhnait Máire Siobhán Ni Nuanáin, we have modified the name to correct the grammar.

Submitted as Catrin of Llanbardarn, the above form of the name was registered in December 1987.

We have historically registered "'Name' of 'Kingdom'" so long as the given name was not identical to that of one of the rulers of "Kingdom." The only exception Laurel remembers offhand to this is the name Hohenstaufen which name was only used by the ruling family.

Submitted as Marcus de l'aile, we have modified the name to the form registered in February 1991.

Rudolph Fekter. Name.

ATLANTIA

Adam MacLeod. Name.

Anne of Amesbury. Name.

Bors Boden. Name.

Celynen of Stow-on-the-Wold. Name and device. Per fess urdy erminois and vert, in base two needles in saltire Or.

Constans von Württemberg. Device. Lozengy argent and azure, a stag trippant Or, a chief wavy ermine.

The chief should be more emphatically wavy.

Damon Argent. Name.

Duncan Tiercel MacLeod. Device change. Per bend azure and vert, a falcon striking argent within a bordure counter-compony sable and argent.

His currently registered device, Per bend azure and vert, a falcon striking argent a chief counter-compony sable and argent, is released.

The seawolf needs to be drawn much larger.

Megan na gCloch Liath. Name.

Submitted as Megan Na Gcloch Liath, we have modified the name to correct the grammar.

Ponte Alto, Canton of. Name and device. Per pale sable and Or, in pale a single-arched bridge and a laurel wreath, counterchanged.

Gorgeous armory!

Xenophon Vaughn. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and sable, a bend sinister checky argent and sable, in dexter chief a wyvern, wings displayed azure.

While there was some discussion by several commenters regarding the identifiability of the checky bend sinister which shared a tincture with the field, Laurel believes that an adequate analogy may be found in the precedents permitting countercompony bordures which share a tincture with the field. The key is identifiability: a bend countercompony sharing a tincture with the field would lose its identfiability to an unacceptable degree. A bend checky does not appear to do so.

Anlon MacMatha. Name and device. Per bend Or and vert, a bear rampant and an anchor counterchanged.

Caitlin nic Raighne. Name and device. Per bend Or and azure, a coney couchant and a Wake knot bendwise counterchanged.

Demetrius il Condottiero. Device change. Argent, a triangle voided, isuant to dexter from its apex, a pennon sable.

This is his currently registered badge. His currently registered device, Argent, a pile embattled sable between six pellets, is released.

Submitted as Der Tomman Breathnach. The College has long granted difference between significantly different lines of division (a major point of difference under the old rules and a CVD under the current rules). Thus this is clear of Adrian Buchanon, Argent, a tower within a bordure wavy argent, and Philomeena of Morningscourt, Gules, a tower within a bordure rayonny argent. (Some lines of division such as embattled/raguly/dovetailed, not being significantly different, are granted no difference.)

Jane Fitzgerald. Name.

Magnus O'Carr. Name and device. Argent, on a pale azure between two dragons combattant sable, a sword Or piercing a skull argent.

Micheal of Mandeville. Name.

Miriam bat Yehuda. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Ognyen Fenlander. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Ognyen Fenlander. Name for House of the Lost Fen.

Robert de Spenser of Wessex. Name and device. Purpure, three delfs voided interlaced in bend sinister argent.

Although derived from the French "le Despencer", Reaney in his The Origin of English Surnames, page 158, notes a son of Hugh le Despencer was called Hugh de Spencer (thirteenth century). Thus, this form of the name should be fine.

Simon de Vernun of Wellingborough. Device. Per bend sinister sable and argent, two scarpes enhanced and a falcon contourny counterchanged.

Seamus Blackhall. Name and device. Argent, a double-headed bear displayed purpure.

Thomas d'Orleans. Badge. Azure, upon a Roman vexillum issuant from base Or the letters A E T I sable.

The submitter says that AETI stands for "Audaciter Exire in Terra Incognitus" (to boldly go forth into unknown lands). [The Latin is incorrect, but we are not registering the phrase, only the initial.]. [Irreverent comment from the Laurel meeting: "The initials stand for 'A**h***, Explain The Initials'".]

Versus Boyvill (Papworth, page 291) Gules, four bendlets argent, there is a CVD for the field and another for changing the number of bendlets and addition of the compass star in a different tincture.

Aynia Morgainn of Morgannwg. Device. Gules, on a pile sable fimbriated a cross of Jerusalem Or, overall a hummingbird volant, wings elevated and addorsed, argent.

It has been noted before (e.g., in the LoAR of October 17, 1990) that piles are simple enough that they may be fimbriated. (Though such fimbriation is not encouraged.) There was some commentary that this might be excessively layered. However, as noted by Mistress Alisoun, for the purposes of RfS VIII.c.ii "charges overall are considered to lie directly on the field although not entirely on the field for purposes of style and conflict." (LoAR 21 January 1990, p. 12)

Submitted as Bran mac Colum an t-Eisteteor, we have modified the name to correct the grammar of the patronym.

There appears to be some very strong feelings that birds should not be registered in quadrupeds' positions. As a consequence of this attitude (which Laurel has long shared): PRECEDENT: Henceforth, we will not accept rampant birds.

Jeanne Estelle de Mouthe. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Margaret Rose O'Malley. Name and device. Vert, on an escallop inverted Or, a garden rose gules slipped and leaved vert.

Clear of Barony of Darkwater (SCA), Sable, on an escallop inverted Or, a castle of three towers gules, with one CVD for the field and a second for type and change of half the tincture of the tertiary. (Cf. the decision on the device change of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, LoAr of 29 September 1990, p. 6, for a more detailed discussion of this issue.)

Roheis des Montagnes. Name and device. Purpure, a sun Or eclipsed sable, a base Or.

Versus Theo of Mightrinwood (SCA), Purpure, a sun of eight wavy rays sable, fimbriated Or, there is a CVD for the addition of the base and another for the differences (standard sun vs. one of eight wavy rays, eclipsed vs. "voided".

MIDDLE

Aileen ní Bhrighde. Name.

Alisoun Sinclair. Name.

Aonghas MacLeod O hAonghusa of Stratafon. Name change from Aonghas O hAonghusa of Stratafon.

Christina Landswalker of Penrose. Name.

Conner MacPheargus. Name.

Cowan O'Brien. Name.

Cuthbert of York. Name.

Daniel David Frye. Name.

Eda Gwynedd. Name.

Farinata Hawkwood. Name.

Gailen Alric Ròs. Name.

Gunvor Torstensdottir. Name.

Gwendolen Kay. Name.

Gwenhwyvar Lawen. Name.

Livia Queally of Eire. Name.

Technically the first "E" in Éire should have the fada. However, it is commonly written in English without it so we are registering Eire without change.

Middle Kingdom. Title for Fause Losenge Herald.

Middle Kingdom. Title for Rouge Scarpe Herald.

Mikhail of Lubelska. Name.

Rhiannon Caer Vyrddin. Name.

Rhodri Tredegar. Name.

Schattentor, Shire of. Name.

Stephan of Yorke. Name.

Thorun Geiri. Name.

TRIMARIS

Parlan MacRonan. Device. Sable, a catamount rampant ermine, breathing flames gules, within a bordure argent charged in cross with four crosses couped gules.

This had been pended from the June Symposium Laurel meeting and was registered at the September 1990 Laurel meeting, but was accidentally left off the LoAR. My apologies to the submitter!

Aldric of Wolfden. Name.

Alison Bonaventure. Device. Purpure, on a pale invected argent, three shamrocks vert.

Baldwin the Wanderer. Name.

Bess Haddon of York. Name and device. Gyronny azure and argent, on each gyron a quatrefoil counterchanged.

Clear of Melianne de Avignon (SCA), Gyronny argent and azure, crusilly counterchanged. There is a CVD for the type of charge and a CVD for their arrangement on the field. Melianne's is definitely a seme, with crosses overlying the lines of division and cut off by the edge of the shield. Versus Ragnar Kaupmadr, Gyronny, azure and argent, eight drinking horns in annulo, mouths to center, counterchanged, registered elsewhere in this LoAR, X.2. applies.

Submitted as Brom Ignisfatuus Falstaff, we have dropped the epithet as no support was given for the use of a Latin phrase in English epithets. (The Latin ignis fatuus [two words], means, literally, "foolish fire".) Room, in his Dictionary of Place Names in the British Isles, gives some support for the given.

The potential conflict cited in the LOI from the U.S. Fifth Corps, [Fieldless] A cross paty of various tinctures, there is a CVD for fielded versus fieldless and a second for the tincture of the primary. The military ordinary clearly noted that the badges of the five Divisions of the Fifth Corps were red, white, blue, orange, and green only. Purpure is one CVD from any of those tinctures actually used.

Eirik Hardradi. Name.

Ian of Loch Naver. Badge. [Fieldless] Three ermine spots conjoined in pall gules.

Ileana del Mar. Name.

Juan de la Gard. Name and device. Argent, a chevron rompu purpure between two fleurs-de-lys vert and a stag lodged sable.

Kiyowara Miyuki. Name and device. Argent, a dragonfly within a well-frame set fesswise gules.

Martino del Oceano. Device. Argent, two bars wavy, on a chief wavy sable a moon in her plenitude argent.

This was pended from the February Laurel meeting.

Peter Mihailopoulos. Device. Azure, a wine amphora argent, in chief two bottlenosed dolphins hauriant respectant Or.

Peter Mihailopoulos. Badge. [Fieldless] On a tankard reversed Or a stafford knot inverted sable.

Ragnar Grimson. Name and device. Per fess argent and sable, two legless wyverns volant to sinister wings addorsed counterchanged.

Richard of Greyefalle. Name and device. Or, on a bend purpure between two pawprints gules, three square buckles Or.

Rosalie Ashleigh. Name.

Talbot of Oakdale. Name and device. Azure, four oak leaves conjoined in saltire argent within an orle Or charged in cross with four hurts.

This would have been better with twice as many hurts.

Thorulf Bittenheart. Device. Or, a heart and three wolves teeth issuant from dexter base, sable.

West, Kingdom of the. Badge. [Fieldless] A tun palewise Or charged with a laurel leaf vert.

Wiglaf Wilfriding. Device change. Argent, semy of passion nails vert, an otter statant sable.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN RETURNED:

ANSTEORRA

Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Title for Rapier Herald.

Conflict with the Carolingian Rapier Company.

Conflict with House White Raven.

Conflict with Morganthe of Nordwachte, (SCA), Azure, on a bend sinister between a mask of tragedy and mask of comedy argent, a garden rosebud gules, slipped and leaved vert. There is a CVD for the field, but the change in type of the tertiary is not sufficient for the second.

Conflict with Satake Yoshinobu (Hawley, p. 59) On a fan, a roundel. Since mon are tinctureless there is one CVD for fieldlessness but not a second for the change to type only of the tertiary.

Conflict with Rachel of the Forests (SCA). Addition of the adjective "Black" is insufficient in this case. If the submitter would consider using the German "vom Schwarzwald."

There are serious problems with the identifiability of the charge.

None.

ATLANTIA

None.

CALONTIR

Der Tomman Breathnach. Name.

The patronymic needs the genitive and would be aspirated after "Der" to form "Der Thómmáin." As the submitter's forms allowed no changes we were forced to return the name.

Conflict with Hall (Papworth, p. 182) Per bend vert and Or, with Combwell (Papworth, p. 1001) Per pale Or and vert, and Barneis (Papworth, p. 1035) Quarterly Or and vert. In each case there is only one CVD for the change of the field division.

The chevron is not drawn fracted as blazoned (truly fracted, the "broken" section's lower edge would touch the upper edge of the "unbroken" portions of the chevron). As drawn it is not really blazonable and thus not registerable.

Conflict with Holland (Papworth, page 71) Azure, seme of 5-foils, a lion rampant guardant argent. There is a CVD for the addition of the crown but nothing for the difference between seme of roses and seme of cinquefoils. Versus Alan (Papworth, page 71) Azure, a lion rampant argent, crowned Or, there are CVDs for the addition of the seme and for enlarging the crown and moving it away from the lion so that it becomes an obvious secondary charge.

As drawn on the emblazon sheet the bordure is far too skinny but the real problem is that the annulets are drawn as sable fimbriated Or. Also, conflict with Bracer (Papworth, page 6) Gules, six annulets embraced Or, two, two, and two. There is a CVD for the addition of the bordure but the difference in arrangement derives directly from the difference in number; X.4.g. grants no difference for five versus six charges.

Conflict with Thomas Hickson (SCA) Barry wavy and per pale azure and argent, two wyverns combattant gules. There is only one CVD for the changes to the field.

Alan Lothinlarsson fra Jorvik. Device. Sable, on a pale rayonny argent a double bitted axe sable entwined of two heraldic roses petalled alternately argent and gules, barbed Or, seeded and slipped vert, in base three goutes de sang.

The charges on the pale exceed the complexity limits of VIII.1.a. (Complexity Limit) and VIII.1.c.ii (Layering Limit), with three types of charge on the pale and what is effectively four layers (field, pale, axe, roses). The whole effect is noticeably non-period.

The household name does not appear to be correctly formed in Old Norse. The word "kaudi" is a noun, but we need its form as an adjective here, since it modifies "fluga" ("fly"). The genitive singular of "fluga" as needed here would be "flugu", making the likeliest combination "flugustadr". The badge was returned in December of 1989 for non-period style, lack of contrast, and motley of two colors. While the last two issues have been fixed, the former remains. The citations used by the submitter of flies in armory are all in the default position of "volant en arriere", and none of them are wearing garb of any kind, much less motley. It seems to be the consensus of the College that a fly rampant and clad in motley exceeds the informal "Rule of Two Weirdnesses" and given the College's feelings about birds in a rampant position it is unlikely that a rampant insect would be any more acceptable.

Conflict with Blott (Papworth, p. 702), Azure, a fess argent. There is one CVD for the addition of the secondaries.

Conflict with the flag of Jamaica, Per saltire vert and sable, a saltire Or. There is one CVD for the addition of the secondaries.

None.

WEST

Elzbieta od Siedleczki. Name.

The form of locative submitted is masculine. The name should be either Elzbieta Siedleczka or Elzbieta a Siedlce. Since the submitter allowed no changes, we were forced to return the name.

Disconnected charges on a fieldless badge have been disallowed for some time now. This design fails to meet even the looser standard regarding "self-contained design" set last fall.

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