LoAR

of the College of Arms
of the
Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.

November 1996



THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN REGISTERED:

AN TIR Alexander Stuart of Dunvegan. Name and device. Per bend sinister purpure and vert, a stag's head caboshed and a sheaf of arrows argent.

Deborah Unsiker. Name and device. Argent, a bee within a bordure nebuly vert.

Deborah Unsiker. Badge. [Fieldless] A bee vert.

Eleanor del Yete. Device. Per bend sinister gules and azure, two gateways within an orle argent.
After some thought we have decided to register this submission, but not register this charge again after the April 1997 Laurel meeting. Please inform her that there are period alternatives that are close to what she submitted. The arms of Russia as given in 1581 by de Bara areDe sable, àvn portal ouuert ayant deux portes & deux degrez d'or (and some say vn porche ouuert de deux pieces), i.e., Sable, an open portal with two leaves and two steps Or. The emblazon shows a rectangular gateway with a crenelated top; the doorway itself has a semicircular top edge, and the two valves or leaves of the door are fully open, one on each side. The whole structure sits atop two steps. A very similar charge appears in the Züich Roll, which shows the arms of Portugal as Azure, an open portal gules ensigned with a ball Or (Popoff, 11,67). In this emblazon the top of the structure follows the curve of the doorway instead of being squared off and then crenelated, and a cute little gold pompon has been set down on the apex of the semicircle. The structure extends a bit below the doorway, so that one would have to step up in order to pass through the doorway, but there are no actual steps. Finally, there is less detail; in particular, the hinges of the valves of the door aren t shown. Nevertheless, these are clearly the same charge, and it is therefore certainly period.

Giovanni dell'Arco. Name and device. Argent, a bow reversed vert.
Vs. Brice Armbruster: Argent a crossbow vert, given the enormous difference in shape between the two objects, we are willing to allow substantial difference of charge, making these two submissions clear.

James the Dragonseeker. Badge. [Fieldless] Issuant from a tower sable masoned Or a dragon's head gules.

Rand Hawkyns. Device. Per fess azure and checky sable and Or, in chief a chess rook argent.

Robert Bloodaxe. Device. Quarterly sable and vert, a mullet of eight points argent charged with two axes in saltire sable each distilling a goutte gules.

Shiack NicGeoch. Name.
Submitted from kingdom as Shiack MacGeoch, we have changed it to a form closer to what was originally submitted.

Siward Kestle. Device. Or, a castle and in chief three mullets purpure.

Vladimir Dragonovich. Name and device. Purpure, a compass star Or on a chief dovetailed argent, a roundel between an increscent and a decrescent sable.

ATLANTIA

Áengus Ó Fearghail. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Alaric of Lochmere. Name and device. Sable, a stag rampant argent between three acorns Or.

Brenno Motteggiatore Guarnieri. Device. Argent, on a jester's hood purpure between four Roman numerals two, three and one sable, a death's head argent.

Dun Carraig, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Sea Hawk. [Fieldless] Three sinister wings conjoined in pall inverted argent.

Giovanna Donnina. Device change. Counter-ermine, a sun Or and on a chief argent three roses proper.
Her previous device, Gules, a winged artist's brush and on a chief argent, three ermine spots sable., is hereby released.

Kieran Wynn. Name

Muirghein níFhearghail. Name and device. Argent, a thistle proper, a bordure indented sable.
Submitted as Muirghein UíFhearghail we have it into the proper form for a woman.

Niall Duncan MacFarlane. Device change. Azure, a saltire and in base a natural dolphin naiant Or.
His previous device, Argent, a three peaked mountain sable, on a chief azure a saltire Or., is hereby released.

Philip Bell. Device. Quarterly sable and argent, four bells counterchanged.

Robin of Devonshire. Name and device. Vert, a Jerusalem cross between three crescents argent.
Please instruct the submitter to draw the small crosses larger.

CAID

Allistair MacMitchell. Name change from Alexander Drake and device change. Per bend Or and gules, a Celtic cross gules and an ash tree argent.
His previous name, Alexander Drake and previous device, Per chevron inverted gules and argent, a sword sable within a wreath of flames proper., are hereby released.

Allistair MacMitchell. Household name Clan MacMitchell.

Angelique Brigitte de Beauvais. Name.
Submitted as Angelique Brigette de Beauvais, we were presented with no evidence that Brigette is a period spelling. Therefore, we have changed it to the documented Brigitte.

Cálfind ben UíChonfraíh. Name.
Submitted as Cálfind ben UíChonfraoich, we have put in into the proper Gaelic spelling.

Derdriu ingen Raghnaill Grág na Manach. Name and device. Vert, a chevron Or between two crescents and a tree argent.
Submitted as Derdriu nic Raghnaill na Grág na Manach we have put it into the proper Gaelic form.

Dirmyg ap Selyf. Name and device. Per chevron throughout ployégules and argent, two Celtic crosses argent and a portcullis sable.

Drew Lawson of Mistwood. Name.
Submitted in kingdom as Drew Lawson of Mistwood, "of Mistwood" was removed in kingdom for lack of documentation. Fause Losenge was able to construct Mistwood as a possible late-period form, so we have restored it.

Eóan Ua Confraíh. Name.
Submitted as Eoghan ÓConfraoich, we have changed the form to match that of his wife.

Háfdan Haraldsson. Name change from holding name Charles of Calafia.
There are two Charles of Calafia in the armorial; this is the Charles of Calafia whose armory is Per pale azure and argent, a dragon's head jessant-de-lys between three compass stars, all counterchanged.

Kara the Twin of Kelton. Name and device. Or, two domestic cats sejant erect respectant, in base a heart and on a chief sable three hearts Or.
Please instruct the submitter to draw the cats so they are not touching.

Lassarina Nik Meachan. Name.
Submitted as Lassarina nic Meechan, it combined fully Gaelic and Anglicized Gaelic together. We have made the name entirely Anglicized.

Máre nic Siobhá. Device. Sable three piles inverted in point throughout between in chief two mullets of eight points argent.

Morgan O'Daire. Household badge for House Wolfestead. (Fieldless) Three piles couped inverted in point within and conjoined to an annulet argent.

Seosaidh MacFaoilchére. Household name of Clann Fhaoilchére.

Thurstan de Barri. Badge. (Fieldless) A lion-dragon statant contourny Or winged as an eagle argent.

CALONTIR

Catlin Anne Burke. Name and device. Argent, on a bend between six trefoils vert a comet argent
Submitted as Kathleen Anne Burke, the name Kathleen is a modern English attempt to spell the Irish Caitilí phonetically. We have substituted a period form.

Evangelia de Martin. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Frederic Martel. Name and device. Sable, two horses combatant and on a chief argent three roses proper.

Jean Michel Guicard. Name and device. Purpure, a drinking jack between two barley stalks stems crossed in base, and on a chief embattled Or, three daggers inverted sable.

Leifr of the Crescent Moon. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Leif of Crescent Moon, since no documentation was provided for the form Leif, we have substituted the closest documented form. The registered group name is "The Crescent Moon".

Llewellyn Cadwallader. Name and device. Argent, a double-head lion rampant between three mullets, on a chief rayonny purpure issuant from chief a demi-sun Or.
Please instruct the submitter to draw the chief with fewer rayonnys.

Mathieu Chartrain. Device. Per pale gules and azure, two bars enarched between four annulets, three and one Or.

Mellitus of Rouncivale. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Odinkar of Westumbria. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per bend vert and azure, a bend dovetailed between an axe blade to sinister, and an anchor Or.

Osric atte Bek. Name and device. Argent, a cross bretessed vert between in bend two crosses sable
Submitted as Osrik von Beck, which combined an undocumented spelling of Old English forename with a modern German byname. We have corrected the spelling of the forename and changed the byname to a Middle English form similar to what was submitted. Please instruct the submitter to draw the bretesses bigger and bolder.

DRACHENWALD

Bertrade Deslapins. Name and device. Or, a coney's head erased contourny sable and on a base embattled vert a saltire raguly couped Or.
Submitted as Bertrada des Lapins we have changed it to a more likely spelling.

Jean le Confus. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Katharina Woinovic. Name.
Submitted as Katharina von Woinovic, there was, unfortunately no documentation that Woinovic was an actual place. Since Woinowic is identical to the Slavic patronymic Voinovich deducible from the forename Voin in Shield's Dictionary of Period Russian Names, we have dropped the von in order to register the name.

Livia von Rabenstein. Name.

Markus von Brixlegg. Name and device. Argent, two cross-peen hammers in saltire sable and a mountain of three peaks vert.

Merigold the Mirthful. Name and device. Checky azure and Or, a bend cotised gules.
The name decision was a quite difficult one to make, and I would like to thank Harpy and Fause Losenge for their insightful commentary. After due consideration, we have decided to give the submitter the benefit of the doubt, and register the name as a possible, albeit unlikely, form.

Rose Morgan. Name and device. Sable, a lion dormant and on a chief argent three roses purpure.
This name was submitted in kingdom as Lavender Rose Morgan. Lavender was dropped in kingdom. Please instruct the submitter that while we have no documentation for Lavender as a given name, the form Rose Morgan the Lavendere, should be registerable since Reaney & Wilson, under the heading. Lavender, have la Lavendere 1268. The byname is from Old French lavandiere "one who washes, washerwoman, laundress".

Torleif Sverkerssen Hvide. Device. Gules, three Jews' harps inverted argent.

Wlfric of Derneford. Device. Quarterly gules crusily Latin argent, and vert, a chalice Or.

Wolfhardt von Achterturm. Device. Azure, two owls and a tower and on a chief embattled Or a mullet of eight points azure.

EAST

Avelina Keyes. Name and device. Per pale Or and sable, in pale three keys fesswise counterchanged. Nice cant.

Brianna of Bywater. Name and device. Argent, a pair of shears sable, a bordure vert.

Connor MacGregor. Name and device. Vert, in pale a wolf passant, and seven thistles in chevron argent.

Dwane Shinnock. Name.

Fenice d'Aix. Device. Gules, on a pile ployébetween two wolf's heads erased addorsed argent a rabbit's head cabossed sable.

Giceline de Molay. Alternate persona name of Quintius Clavus.

Ivar Volosatoi. Device. Per fess gules and checky sable and argent, in chief two arrows inverted in saltire surmounted by a goat's head cabossed argent.

Marcus Isenax. Device. Sable, a two-headed tyger rampant, heads addorsed, within a bordure Or.

Miles of Whitewood Hall. Name and device. Quarterly sable and argent, two trees blasted argent.
This would be better with the spelling of Whitewood as Whitewude, Whit(e)wode.

Morag MacFael. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and Or, an oak leaf fructed Or and a wolf's head couped gules.
Submitted as Moragh MacFael we have dropped the undocumented final h.

Pippin Redbeard. Name.

Rowena Longstrider. Device. Purpure, a cooking pot between a mascle of four bakers' paddles, heads to chief argent.

Seá O Móán. Device. Vert, on a fess sable fimbriated between an Irish Wolfhound couchant and a Celtic cross, three mullets of six points irradiated Or.

William Blackwing. Change of device. Per pale vert and sable, a pair of bull's horns surmounted by a sword Or, a bordure argent.
This previous device, Purpure, bull's horns with a sword surmounted Or, a bordure argent., is hereby released.

MERIDIES

Bjön gullhár. Name and Device. Per pale gules and azure, on a pale embattled counter-embattled argent between two bears combattant Or, a sword inverted sable.
Submitted as Bjorn Gullhar, we have changed this to the proper form.

Blackwood, Shire of. Device. Per chevron inverted raguly argent and gules, a tree sable and a laurel wreath argent.

Conor MacPherson. Device. Per pale argent and purpure, a winged great helm affronty, wings inverted and a bordure counterchanged.

Gabrielle de Gunton. Name.

Garrott O Rowarke. Name and device. Azure, a lizard tergiant bendwise sinister a bordure Or.
Submitted as Garrett O'Rourke, we have changed the spelling to a documented form.

Giovanni Francisco de Valencia. Name and device. Per bend vert and azure a seawolf naiant contourny bendwise sinister Or.
Please instruct the submitter that the Spanish for John is Juan. Giovanni is Italian, not Spanish.

Gwalchmai ap Cynhaearn. Name and device. Vert, a winged greyhound salient to sinister, wings elevated and addorsed a chief indented Or.

Istvá Lázló Name and device. Sable, a sword between in chief two skulls argent vested of jester's caps belled Or.

Jessimond of Emerickeskepe. Name change from Holding Name Patricia of Meridies.
Submitted as Jessimond of Emericeskepe, we have changed this to a documentable form.

Karika Cigani. Name and device. Per bend azure and vert, a sun argent eclipsed sable and a lion rampant contourny Or.
This was also a difficult decision to make. This name combines a given name used, to the best of our knowledge, only within the Gypsy community, with a word used outside the Gypsy community for Gypsies. The combination seems unlikely, but we have decided to give the submitter the benefit of the doubt.

Khalid Abd al-Rashid ibn Nasr ibn al-Husayn. Name and device. Sable, a wyvern passant between six roses in annulo, and on a chief argent a crescent between two bunches of grapes sable.

Malak bint Aqil al-Husayn. Name and device. Per saltire sable and gules, in pale two roses argent barbed and seeded in fess two covered cups Or.

Malcolm MacLachlan. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Manfred von Rothenburg. Name Change from Manfred von dem Schwarzwald.
His previous name is hereby released.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Order of the Cygnets Nest. [Fieldless] A swan argent sitting in a nest proper within and issuant from an annulet argent.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Name for Order of the Rising Swan.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Name for Order of Saint Jerome.
Submitted as St. Jerome we have spelled out the abbreviation for Saint. The issue of whether or not we should do this was raised in last month's cover letter.

Mylisant de la Croix. Name and device. Purpure, two natural seahorses addorsed on a point pointed argent a crescent inverted sable and on a chief triangular argent a crescent sable. Please instruct the submitter to draw the chief a little smaller.

Patricia Galway. Name.

Renaud d'Arzillieres. Name.
Submitted as Renaud d'Arzilliées, we have dropped the out of period accent.

Seric of Marston. Name.
Tobias of Emerickeskepe. Name Change from Holding Name Troy of Seleone.
Submitted as Tobias of Emericeskepe, we have changed this to a documentable form.

Tobias of Emerickeskepe. Household name for Emerickeskepe (see RETURNS for household badge).

MIDDLE

Aelfgar Tawel ap Llewelyn. Device. Lozengy argent and azure, three grenades Or.
Alderford, March of. Name and device. Argent, an alder slip fesswise reversed sable, fructed gules, a ford proper, and on a chief azure two laurel wreaths argent.
Lovely name!

Alderford, March of. Badge. [Fieldless] An alder slip fesswise reversed sable, fructed gules.

Antonia da Troina. Device change. Argent, on a fess vert between three dolphins naiant purpure a horse couchant argent.
Her previous device, Vert a horse couchant argent, on a chief argent three caltrops purpure., is hereby released.

Arinwald Rotstein. Device. Vair, a tower and on a chief dovetailed gules three eagles displayed Or.

Bodvarr skipasmidr. Name.
Submitted as Bodvarr Askasmidr we have put this into the proper form.

Bohemir of Esclavonia. Device. Gyronny argent and purpure, eight fleurs-de-lys in annulo counterchanged.

Bohemir of Esclavonia. Badge. (Fieldless) A fleur- de-lys per pale argent and purpure.

Brianna Leigh of Hill. Name and device. Purpure, a turtle rampant within an orle of lilies argent.
Submitted as Brianna Leigh Hill, we have added the of to make this a possible name.

Brictiva de Chantal. Name.

Dmitrii Nikolaevich Gudoshinikov. Name and device. Per pale sable and gules, a musical bow and a viol in saltire argent.
Submitted as Dmitrii Nikolæich Gudoshinikov, we have replaced the æwith the proper a e.

Geraint Graeme de Menteith. Device. Or, a chevron inverted gules, overall a sheaf of four arrows sable.

Geraint Graeme de Menteith. Badge. Or, semy of arrows sable, on a chevron inverted gules a pheon Or.

Godfrey Greybear. Name.

Katharine Elen NicKay. Name.
Submitted as Katharine Elen nic æha, which combined English and Gaelic orthography in a single name. We have Anglicized the entire name.

Katya Zhdana Volkova Kievskaya. Name.

Kenneth die Katze. Device. Argent ermined gules, a cat rampant maintaining a sword between two gores sable.
The question was raised about the use of two gores. Since two gussets were used, we see no reason not to allow two gores.

Magdalen Fairchilde of Corbie Glen. Device. Per pale ermine and gules, a corbie close sable beaked and membered Or and in chief two roses counterchanged gules and argent.

Melger O'Morchoe. Name and device. Argent, a tree blasted and eradicated sable between in cross four gouttes de sang.

Northshield, Principality of. Badge. (Fieldless) A griffin passant Or.

Northshield, Principality of. Badge. Or, a griffin passant within a bordure sable.

Northshield, Principality of. Badge. Sable, a compass rose argent, a bordure embattled Or.

Northshield, Principality of. Badge. Sable, a griffin passant Or maintaining a compass rose argent, a bordure embattled Or.

Octavian Athanasiou of Constantinople. Name and device. Ermine, on a cross quarterly purpure and azure a winged lion rampant, tail nowed, maintaining a flamberge Or.
Submitted as Octavian Athanacaiou of Constantinople, no documentation was provided for Athanaciou. Therefore, we have substituted the documented Athanasiou

Peregrine Armar. Name and device. Per pale Or and sable, a catamount passant counterchanged.
Please ask the submitter to draw the catamount more level.

Synnöe Nilsdottir. Name and device. Argent, a decrescent azure within a bordure rayonny vert.

Thomas the Green. Device. Per pale vert and argent, a loop of rope, ends crossed in base, sable.

Thorstein of Drakensberg. Name.

Torbjorn Sjurdson. Device. Per pale sable and Or, two dragon's heads addorsed and conjoined at the shoulder, a bordure counterchanged.

Undewyn de Maccuswell. Name.

Wyn Caradoc of Anglesey. Device. Gules, on a cross nowy quadrate cotised Or a dragon passant and in chief a mullet gules.

WEST

Alexius Antonius Chalcedonius. Name.

Annie Mac Cuhal the Leill. Name.
Submitted Annie Mac Cuhal the Leal, we have change the spelling of Leal to a more likely period spelling.

Cassandra of Sumava. Name and device. Azure, a natural tiger's face argent marked sable, on a chief Or three suns purpure.

Gwalchmai ap Llywelyn Llanfyllin. Name.

Guernen Cimarguid. Name and device. Azure, a dance enhanced between in chief three mullets of seven points and in base an owl contourny argent.
Uerne is a more likely 6th century form.

Gwyn Chwith ap Llyr. Name and device. Per chevron argent and vert, three owls contourny counterchanged.

Gwyneth Nyghtyngall. Name.

Hrothgar Breaksword. Name and device. Per pale sable and azure, a dexter cubit arm fist clenched bendwise sinister between the pieces of a sword fracted in bend Or.

Innilgard, Barony of. Order name for Order of the Silver Fret.

Isabeau of Golden Rivers. Holding name and device. Sable, on a pale invected argent a cross fleury sable between two roses gules.

Jenovefa z Jablonné v Podjestedí. Name and device. Per bend azure and vert, on a bend argent three apples palewise gules.
Based on submitter's documentation, we are registering what is probably the modern form.

Khevron Oktavii Tikhikovich Vorotnikov. Name and device. Per pale vert and sable, a talbot passant within a bordure invected argent.
Submitted as Khevron Oktavii Zevin Tikhikovich Vorotnikov, we have dropped one of the middle names in order to register the device. We do not allow triple given names in Russian. Please see the cover letter for a call for commentary on double given names in Russian.

Líadain ní Sheanachán. Name and device. Vert, a goblet argent a bordure argent, semy of shamrocks vert.

Magnus de Rising. Name.

Michael of Ramsgate. Name and device. Per chevron purpure and ermine, two castles Or, and a ram's head couped contourny sable.

Morberie of Tor Denly. Badge. Per chevron inverted azure estoilly Or and argent, a pile inverted sable.

Piers of Malmesbury. Device. Per pale gules and azure, in pale two leonine sagittaries passant argent.
Nice armory!

Rohesia de Wauretreu. Name and device. Argent masoned sable, three roses azure slipped and leaved vert, a base sable.

Rutger van Dieveren. Name.

Tangwystl ferch Iestyn Goch. Name.

Walraven van Nijmegen. Change from Holding name Brian of the West.
Submitted as Walraven van Nijmege we have added the final n which the submitter allows.

William of Lydford. Name.

Wystan of Wallesende. Name.
Submitted as Wystan of Wallsend, we have changed it to the documented spelling.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK:

AN TIR

Giuliana Audaci. Device. Pily bendy wavy sable and argent.
This was previously returned in November 1995 for visual conflict with Conrad Hebenstorm: Azure, issuant from sinister base four piles wavy in point argent. The submitter appealed this return for a variety of reasons. The text of the return read as follows:

While there is clearly a CD for the tincture change from azure to sable, the overall orientation of the argent "piles" in both leads to a very strong visual similarity. While we believe it would pass Stealth Herald's "Big Lug"(tm) test on the basis of the tincture change, the two really are too close visually.
The submitter's herald raised the following points:

1) The herald thought (a) the device failed the "big lug test" and (b) that it was unfair for Laurel to have a designated "big lug."

2) The herald thought that "There are no rules that specifically restrict two visually similar but clearly differenced (CD'd) devices from being registered."

3) The herald argues that since this device was previously returned for mundane conflict (as it was internally, for conflict with de la Warde: Barry wavy sable and argent, and Plater Bendy wavy of six sable and argent under the pre-Modest Proposal rules then pertaining), then Conrad Hebenstorm's device should have been returned for similar conflicts with blue and white field only armory therefore she should be given the benefit of the doubt and allowed to conflict with him.

The first point results from a misunderstanding of the return: there is no "big lug". The second is also an misunderstanding of the rules; Rule X.5 allows this. The third point is also not relevant; the CoA has never been bound by its past mistakes, except in the case of grandfathered items.
The problem here is that the blazon for Conrad's device is not very accurate. They really don't issue from sinister base, but rather from most of the sinister side. Reading the commentary on Conrad's submission, it is clear that there was a lot of discussion on the proper way to blazon the submission, and there was no clear consensus in the college.
In any case, it was the consensus of everyone who attended the Laurel meeting, none of whom attended the original meeting where this was returned, that these two items were in conflict with each other, with only one effective difference, for the tincture of the field.

ATLANTIA

engus óFearghail. Device. Argent, a saltire sable between four thistles proper.
This is in conflict with Duncan Bog Cameron (SCA) Argent, between four piles conjoined in saltire azure, as many thistles proper. As the piles, as drawn, formed a saltire thar was only barely formy. Thus there was no difference given between the piles and the saltire, making the only difference between the two submissions the tincture of the saltire.

Marinus, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Water Lily. Per pale vert and azure, a lotus blossom in profile within a bordure argent.
This is in conflict with Arabella Cleophea Winterhalter (SCA), Purpure, ermined Or, a lotus blossom in profile and a bordure argent. There is only one CD, for the difference in the two fields.

Stanislav von Neuland. Device. Per fess pean and erminois, a boar statant Or and a base rayonny gules.
This is being returned for a redraw. The base is not a true rayonny but the long time forbidden wavy crested. Please instruct the submitter when he resubmits not to draw so many ermine spots.

CAID

Celeste Cathan. Alternate name of Judwiga Czarny Yagello ze Smokza Jamy.
There are several problems with the name as submitted. Yagello ze Smokza Jamy is not what was registered on the 2/96 LoAR; the penultimate word should be Smocza. (The difference is extremely significant to the pronunciation.) But this is also fairly minor; the real problems come with the main part of the name.

The LoI says that Judwiga is a variant of Jadwiga but offers no evidence for it. That Czarny "black" can be a surname is no surprise; what it is in Czarny Niemierza is completely unclear. Taszyckiego shows that Niemierza is a man's forename, so Czarny Niemierza may just be "Black Niemierza". This hypothesis is strengthened by information in Taszyckiego's articles on several names containing Czarna or Czarny. S.n. Czarna Matysowa there are citations for both Czarna Matissowa 1442 and Sworcz Mathissowey (gen.) 1450; in the latter, Sworcz is a variant spelling of German schwarz "black". S.n. Czarna Hanuszkowa there are citations (in oblique cases) for Anne Czarna Hanuszkowa 1485 and Anne, relicte olim Czarni Hanussek 'Anna, relict of the former Czarny Hanuschek 1486; s.n. Czarny Hanuszek we find the name in the nominative case: Anna, relicta olim Czarny Hanussek 1489. S.n. Czarny Stanislaw we find Katherina, uxor Stanislai dicti Czarni Stanislaw "Katherina, wife of Stanislaw called Black Stanislaw" 1454-56. S.n. Czarny, Petrus Czarni 1483 is also in record as Petr[us] Nigro "Black Peter". S.n. Czarna Janowa we find Generosa Heduigis olim Czarna Janowa "Noble Hedwig then Czarna Janowa" 1492. In all of these cases it appears that the woman has been given a byname combining her husband's forename and his epithet czarny "black". There is one person noted (s.nn. Czarna, Czarna Jordanowa) who seems to be known only as Czarna 1483 or as Czarna Iordanowa 1483; here the original byname may possibly be functioning as a forename, but we still have no evidence for the double forename.

There seem to be two possibilities for incorporating Czarna in this name, but both require that the name be modified a bit. We do now have evidence for the use of masculine Czarny as a proposed epithet, so it would be just one relatively small step beyond the evidence to allow Czarna Jadwiga "Black Hedwig". (I believe that when the name was first submitted, the lady was willing to consider this possibility.) Alternatively, one might try to modify Czarna Yagello to follow the documented pattern of such feminine bynames as Czarna Hanuszkowa and Czarna Matissowa. This would require showing that Yagello can be interpreted as a masculine forename, and it would further require making out of it a feminine adjectival byname, probably in -owa. We have not found Jage{l/}{l/}owa (to give the name its standard modern spelling). Moreover, Jagie{l/}{l/}o is best known as a family name and is not native Polish to begin with; nevertheless Taszyckiego shows quite a few different surnames derived from it and seems to indicate that it was a forename, so Yagellowa may well be a possible form. If so, Czarna Yagellowa would appear to be a possible byname for the wife or widow of "Black Yagello".
While the submitter did permit changes, given that there were several options open to the submitter, we felt that it would be better to return the name and let her choose what she wanted.

Drachenfeld, Canton of. Name.
Two possible conflicts were considered, Drachenwald and Drachenfels. In the case of Drachenwald, Schwartzdrachen took the time and trouble to talk to his Crown and get permission to conflict. We wish to formally thank him for doing so. In the case of Drachenfels, it was felt that there was an aural conflict between the two names. Since Drachenfels is listed in Encyclopedia Britannica, this is a conflict.

James Wyvern. Name.
No documentation was presented that Wyvern was a period surname. Since the earliest dated citation for it as a word is 1610, and not spelt in this fashion, we do not feel that this is a reasonable name.

CALONTIR

Ana Briganza la Viajera. Name and device. Azure, a selander argent and on a base triangulated ermine four lotus blossoms in profile in cross purpure.
The Portuguese Braganç would have been a fine locative byname, and there is some reason to think that Braganza might be an acceptable and quite possibly period variant. Briganza according to The New Enclclopaedia Britannica, is from Brigantia, the Latin form of the name of a Celtic city. This is evidently closely related to Brigantium, the old Latin name of Bregenz in Austria (WGD) and of Briançn in France (Dauzat & Rostaing, Dictionnaire éymologique des Noms de Lieux de la France), like which it is undoubtedly derived from a Gaulish word related to Old Irish brig `power, force, strength, authority'. Williams, From Latin to Portuguese: Histroical Phonology and Morphology of the Portuguese Language says that the normal Portuguese development of Brigantia (Brigantium) would have been Breganç (Breganç); the first a in the actual form is probably the result of assimilation to the tonic (stressed) vowel, i.e., the second a; the phenomenon is not uncommon. We have no comparable source for the historical development of Spanish, so we can't say whether Briganza is a plausible Spanish reflex of Brigantia, though it might be. If so, Briganza is a reasonable hypothetical Spanish place-name and hence also surname. However, without such a source, since the client will not accept any changes to Briganza, we are forced to return the name.
The device is being returned for a redraw. As drawn it is not on a per chevron field, nor is the charge in base a point pointed. Furthermore, the Lotus's are not arranged in cross, but somewhere between in cross and scattered. Please instruct the submitter not to color in pencil charges that are supposed to be argent.

Banbha O'Cearbhail. Name.
This is being returned for lack of a given name. SCA given names must be documented to having been used as the name of a human being in period. According to óCorrán & Maguire, the name Banba (now Banbha) was originally applied to the plain of Meath and later became another name for Ireland. They note that it was also used as a feminine name in mythology, Banba having been the wife of one of the gods of the Tuatha DéDanann. The surname given by Woulfe is óCearbhaill, not O'Cearbhail, and this is its masculine form, which is inappropriate with the feminine forename. The name, if combined with an appropriate given name would be ní Chearbhaill.

Evangelia de Martin. Device. Azure, a chevron throughout wavy in base three mullets and a crescent in cross argent.
This is being returned for a redraw. The wavy must be drawn bigger and bolder. The mullets and the crescent need to be drawn the same size.

Leifr of the Crescent Moon. Name and device. Gules, on a bend sinister sable wavy, a maple leaf and a decrescent Or, a scarpe sable.
While blazoned as Or, the tincture used was really orange, which is not used in this manner in the SCA.

Mellitus of Rouncivale. Device. Azure, on a chevron Or five torteaux between three flames proper five torteaux.
These flames are not proper, but are gules, fimbriated Or. Flames proper should ideally be alternating tongues of gules and Or, and at the very least half gules and half Or.

Odinkar the Distress Bringer. Name.
The byname "Distress Bringer" does not follow any period exemplars in either Old Norse or English. The armory was registered under the holding name Odinkar of Westumbria.

DRACHENWALD

Jean le Confus. Device. Purpure, a duck close contourny a bordure engrailed Or.
This is being returned for conflict with John Aquila of Eaglesdown (SCA), Purpure, an eagle close to sinister Or. There is only one CD, for the bordure. There is nothing for type of primary charges.

In particular I note that in the LoAR of 9/92 Laurel wrote, in the context of comparing an eagle close vs. a dove close, "Prior Laurel precedent has granted no difference for bird type, when the birds are in identical postures. In this case, when the eagle isn't displayed, it loses most of the traits that let it be identified as an eagle."

EAST

None!

MERIDIES

Kiera nic an Bhaird. Badge. [Fieldless] A borage flower azure, barbed vert, seeded argent.
This is being returned for conflict with Alys of the Midnight Rose (SCA), Or, a rose slipped and leaved azure. There is no heraldic difference between a borage flower and a rose, leaving just one CD for the field.

Lochland Vale, Shire of. Name and device. Per fess purpure and sable two wingless seawyverns erect Or maintaining between them a laurel wreath argent.
This is being returned for a number of reasons. First, and most importantly, there was no petition. The name of an official SCA group and it's arms, must have documented support for the submission.
The name itself has a serious problem. The combination of elements is problematic. Smith says that Middle English vale (from Old French val(s)) is most common in place-names of French origin, though he also gives examples in which it is combined with an OE element. Combining it with a Gaelic element (Lochlann) and then further assuming the operation of folk etymology on the latter to produce Lochland is going well beyond any available evidence. In fact, the name is an attempt to combine three different topographical elements from three different linguistic traditions; there are a few examples combining that many elements, but they are quite different from this submission. Typically one element translates another that is no longer well understood into the current language.
Loughland Vale may be within the bounds of registrability, but it's not very plausible, and we would like the group to consider some other alternatives with approximately the desired meaning are readily available. A Gaelic "valley of the lakes" would be Gleann nan Loch, which could reasonably be Anglicized Glenanloch. An English construction with essentially the same meaning would be Meredene, and an Anglo-Scandinavian version would be Tarndale.

Malcolm MacLachlan. Device. Sable, on a pile wavy inverted bendwise Or, a wyvern rampant vert.
This is being returned for a redraw. Please instruct the submitter when he resubmits to draw the pile smaller, and to draw the waves bigger and bolder.

Tobias of Emerickeskepe. Badge. [Fieldless] On a compass star elongated to base per pale sable and argent, a castle counterchanged.
This is being returned for two reasons. First, it is in conflict with Robert of Holliston (SCA) Per pale argent and sable, a mullet of eight points pierced counterchanged. The piercing considered equivalent to a tertiary roundel.
Additionally, as draw, this violates our rules on overall charges. The castle is not on the compass star, but overall. However, overall charges are only permitted in fieldless badges when at least one of the charges is long and skinny, such that the area of over lap is small and the identifiability of the charges is not lost.

MIDDLE

Alexis the Dragonslayer. Name.
This is being returned for non-period construction; no one could demonstration the formation --slayer. Reaney (Origin, 280) has 11th c. English citations for Stichehert "kill hart", Stikestac "kill stag", and Stikehare "kill hare". On p. 283 he adds Prykkelove "prick, kill wolf" 1296 and Hachewolf "hack wolf" 1297. And on p. 288 he has Prikehurt "prick, kill hart" 1208 and Quelhoxe "kill ox" 1288 (from ME quelle "kill"). A late OE Stikewyrm or a 13th c. Prykkeworm, Hacheworm, or Quelworm would follow period models.

Azure Mere, Shire of. Name.
This is being returned for non-period construction. Places were named using common, everyday words, which azure certainly was not. (The OED doesn't even have a citation for this meaning until the late 15th c.) Moreover, we can find no evidence for French azur in period English place-names, and OE mere "pool" would in any case normally be combined with an OE descriptive element. The closest that anyone could come is Blamere; this would be from ON blá "blue, dark" + marr "marsh, fen", the second element later being replaced - as was not uncommon (Smith, s.v. marr1) - by the native mere.

Kenneth die Katz. Badge. (Fieldless) Within a Celtic cross gules, a rose sable.
This is being returned for violating our ban of color on color. The rose is not within the cross, it is on the cross. A charge on a charge must contrast with the charge it lies upon. Please warn the submitter when redesigning his badge to be aware of Kay Gwenhwyfar of Locksley (SCA), Or, centered upon a Celtic cross patty gules a rose barbed and seeded argent.

Northshield, Principality of. Name for The Order of the Stellar Constabulary of Northshield
This name does not follow any period exemplars of order names, and is being returned for violating RfS III.2.b.ii. Names of Orders and Awards. Names of orders and awards must follow the patterns of the names of period orders and awards. These are often the names of saints; others are similar to sign names (see RfS III.2.a.iii). Some examples are: the Order of Saint Michael, the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus, the Brethren of the Sword, the Order of the Garter, La Toison d'Or (the Order of the Golden Fleece), the Order of the Golden Rose, the Order of the Star, the Order of the Swan, La Orden de la Jara (the Knights of the Tankard), the Order of Lilies. While it was not the reason for the return, please advice them that to the best of our knowledge, period order names did not include a placename, and will be considered one weirdness.

Northshield, Principality of. Name for The Order of the Griffin Sheriffs of Northshield.
This name does not follow any period exemplars of order names, and is being returned for violating RfS III.2.b.ii. Names of Orders and Awards. Names of orders and awards must follow the patterns of the names of period orders and awards. These are often the names of saints; others are similar to sign names (see RfS III.2.a.iii). Some examples are: the Order of Saint Michael, the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus, the Brethren of the Sword, the Order of the Garter, La Toison d'Or (the Order of the Golden Fleece), the Order of the Golden Rose, the Order of the Star, the Order of the Swan, La Orden de la Jara (the Knights of the Tankard), the Order of Lilies. While it was not the reason for the return, please advice them that to the best of our knowledge, period order names did not include a placename and will be considered one weirdness.

RuaidhríMacCormac. Name.
This name needs to have the patronym put into the genitive case as RuaidhríMac Cormaic. Since the submitter did not permit changes, we are forced to return it.

WEST

Aneala, Barony of. Order name. Order of the Valiant Swans of Aneala.
This is being returned for non-period style. The name has two problems. First, the use of swans versus swan; no one could come up with a period order-name in the plural. Second, the addition of a place name to the order name, which again no could some up with a period example. If one or both of these problems were corrected, the name should be registerable.

Isabeau d'Anjou. Name.
This is being returned for conflict with Isabelle d'Anjou, who was Queen of Jerusalem and noted in the Encyclopedia Britannica. The device was registered under the holding name of Isabeau of Golden Rivers.

Muirne níChathán. Device. Per chevron sable and vert, two increscents and an eagle displayed grasping in its talons a sword fesswise reversed Or.
This is being returned for "slot machine", with three different charges in a standard arrangement. Please ask the submitter when he resubmits to draw the crescents larger and the eagle with internal details.

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