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Ashlin of Limerick.
Name and device. Per chevron azure and vert, a chevron rayonny
on the upper edge Or between two shamrocks and a unicorn's head
couped argent.
Catelin the Patient. Badge. (Fieldless) A fleurdelys argent.
A possible conflict was called against
Joanna de Lisane (SCA) (Fieldless) A fleur-de-lys voided argent.
This is clear with one CD for fieldlessness, and one for the voiding,
which creates what is effectively a tertiary.
Catheline la Confusée.
Device. Azure, a cow statant Or within an orle of daisies argent
seeded Or.
Connor M'Eleam.
Change of holding name from Connor of Sunderoak and badge. (Fieldless)
A millrind argent.
Connor M'Eleam.
Household name for House Sylvanhurst and badge. Vert, a hurst
in chief four acorns argent, a bordure Or.
Eoin Mór MacLochlainn.
Name and device. Quarterly gules and sable, a claymore bendwise
argent, between two lions Or, all within an orle of compass stars
argent.
Eldridht in Skamma. Name.
Submitted as Eldridht In Skamma,
the article does not get capitalized in Old Norse. We have corrected
this.
Elspeth Barraclough.
Name.
Feliciano Grimaldi. Badge. (Fieldless) A skull argent, wearing a fool's hat with three tassels gules, erminois, and azure.
While are aware this fits the description
of insignia used in Robert Asprin's Phule's Company, but
this is not a protected item.
Francesca Angelo. Name.
Submitted as Francesca Angelico,
Italian does not form unmarked patronymics. We have change it
to the closest surname.
Genievre fitz Garanhir. Name and device. Vert, a unicorn's horn bendwise couped argent, a label Or.
Submitted on the LoI as Geneievre
fitz Garanhir, the submitter had originally submitted the
given name Genievere, which was changed in kingdom because
no documentation could be found to match the submitter's original
form. We have changed the given name to Genievre, which
is closer to her original form. This is one CD (for the addition
of the label) from the arms of her mother, Angelica du Boullanger.
Angelica has given her written permission to conflict and designated
Genievre her heraldic heir.
Henry of Longhouse. Household name for The Academye of Legierdemaine (see RETURNS for badge).
The household name was submitted as
The Academye of LegierDemaine, with an upper case "D"
in LegierDemaine. We have corrected this to match the documentation.
Karl von Elfstein der Schmuckmacher.
Badge. (Fieldless) An acorn purpure.
Meurig ap Llewelyn.
Name.
Michael Houlihan. Badge. Vert, a wedge of Emmental cheese reversed Or.
There is a pattern of using foodstuff
in medieval armory. For instance, the arms of the Worshipful Company
of Grocers are Argent a chevron gules between nine cloves sable.,
granted 1532, and their crest is On a wreath argent and gules,
a camel statant Or, bridled sable, on his back two bags or pepper
argent powdered with cloves and corded sable., granted 1562.
Pretzels are found in the arms of the Bakers Guild of Augsburg,
dating from the 16th Century. This is the defining instance of
the use of cheese in SCA armory, and in particular Emmental cheese.
Emmental is the correct name for what is sold as Swiss cheese
in the United States. It is a period cheese, which was sold in
wheels and blocks. While we do not normally show objects in trian
aspect, we see no problem with making the default wedge of cheese
to be in trian aspect since it aids in identifiability, as in
the case of dice or tabors. The default position of a wedge of
cheese is hereby with the cut point to dexter (as if it were a
spear or sword) and the rounded edge to sinister and the whole
being more or less fesswise as if lying upon a table. The standard
shape would be a wedge of about 300. to 600. angle, about twice
as long as thick. This makes the submitted form a wedge of
cheese reversed.
Muireadhach MacBheathain.
Name.
Phillipa Seton.
Name.
Rurik Longsword.
Name and device. Or, three hounds passant contourney sable a
bordure purpure.
Sabina of Kilkenny.
Device. Azure, a bend sinister bretessed argent between a tower
and a escallop Or.
Tearlach na Drochaide.
Badge. (Fieldless) A boar statant vert.
Tearlach na Drochaide.
Badge. (Fieldless) An acorn argent.
Ysabell Graver.
Name and badge. (Fieldless) An open fan azure.
AN TIR
An Tir, Kingdom of. Badge for the Crier. (Fieldless) A hand bell Or.
The previous badge, Sable, fretty
Or, on a pale embattled argent, gouttee de sang, a fish uriant
gules., is hereby released.
Douglas Lachlan MacFarlane.
Device. Gules, three piles inverted and on a chief Or three war
hammers sable.
Girard von Bremen.
Name and device. Sable, on a plate an oak leaf vert a bordure
argent.
Gisla Rodumna.
Device. Purpure, three chevronels inverted braced on a chief doubly
enarched Or three triquetra gules.
Glymm Mere, Barony of. Name for the Order of the Crystal of Glymm Mere.
They have received written permission
to conflict with the Barony of Loch Salann's Order of the Crystal
of the Salt Wastes and Atenveldt's Crystal Pursuivant.
This is registerable since orders in period were frequently named
after a physical object that was a symbol of the order, such as
The Order of the Garter, The Order of the Swan,
The Order of the Thistle, etc., and a crystal is a physical
object.
Glymm Mere, Barony of.
Name for the Order of the Red Hart.
Hannah Hadassah Hamil.
Device. Checky gules and argent, a star of David a bordure purpure.
Ljótr Einarsson.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
Magdalen MacKenzie. Device. Gules, a sun in splendor and on a chief wavy Or three roses leaved gules.
Please instruct the submitter to draw
the waves deeper.
Mary Ellen le Bret.
Name and device. Or, a quatrefoil and on a chief azure a saltire
Or.
Morgaine Essex.
Device. Gules, two needles inverted argent threaded and on a
chief Or a domestic cat couchant sable.
Swan the Red. Change of name from Swan the Red of Stonehall and badge. (Fieldless) A keystone Or.
His former name Swan the Red of Stonehall,
is hereby released.
Thorvald the Gentle.
Device. Argent goutty, a bear's pawprint a bordure sable.
Vasilisa Myshkina. Name.
Submitted as Vasilisa Myshkin,
the byname must be feminized to agree in gender with the given
name. We have done so.
William Dermot MacPherson. Device. Per bend sinister raguly ermine and purpure, a cross potent sable and sealion erect Or.
Please instruct the submitter to draw
the charges larger.
Wyewood, Canton of. Device. Or, on a pall nowy azure between three trees blasted and eradicated sable a laurel wreath Or.
Please instruct the group to draw the
chief most tree larger.
ANSTEORRA
Abu Isma'il Ibrahim ibn 'Abdu'llah
al Gharnatawayyi. Name change
from Abu Isma'il Ibrahim 'Abdu'llah al Gharnatawayyi and device.
Or, in pale a crescent and a harp vert.
Botolph of Saxony. Name and device. Argent, a chevron between three dragonflies, a chief azure.
Please instruct the submitter to draw
the chief a little smaller.
Brigid MacGowan.
Device. Per bend sinister wavy argent and gules, a mullet sable
and a rapier bendwise sinister argent, a bordure sable.
Cassandra de Laci.
Name.
Colin Severne.
Name.
Eiríkr Blódhskegg Bjarnarson.
Device. Or, on a saltire gules between four phoenixes sable, five
roses argent.
Elene Kirchenknopf. Name and device. Azure, on a sun argent, an oak tree eradicated vert, a chief potenty argent.
Please instruct the submitter to draw
the sun larger.
Fiore Pescara.
Badge. Barry wavy azure and argent, three bezants.
Galen Niccoli.
Device. Azure, two dolphins haurient respectant and in base a
sun in splendor argent.
Jennifer of Middleford.
Name and device. Per chevron ployé throughout purpure and
Or, a descrescent moon, an increscent moon Or and a cat sejant
sable.
Madog Cochfarf. Badge. (Fieldless) A boar's head couped close azure.
Nice armory!
Myfanwy ferch Eifion. Name and device. Gules, an iris bendwise slipped and leaved between two Bowen knots argent.
Unlike the standard practice, the submissions herald presented the documentation on this name in the form of an excerpt from a hard boiled detective novel including as characters several members of the College of Arms. Those members who were written in felt obliged to continue the saga. Since Laurel was referred to in several of the chapters, we feel that it is only proper to finish it here. Note: for those who would like to see the entire thing, it will be in the 1998 Known World Heraldic Symposium Proceedings.
[The Slug, sitting in her chair in
her office, sipped at her bottle of Jae juice and grinned evilly
to herself as she read through the report on the Myfanwy case.
She rang the bell and the duty-minion leapt to her side groveling
at her feet. "Here, file this report! It is obvious that
the master plan is working. If the top players in the onomastic
action are kept busy duking it out, they won't have time to bother
me!" As the minion hurried off to do the Slug's bidding,
she grabbed the next file from the stack on her desk and started
reviewing it, a red pen in her hand.]
Narkissa Ekaterina Vladimirovna.
Name.
Nichola Maccoffoc. Name and device. Argent, a bend vert between six lions passant azure.
Nice armory!
Phelim Gervase.
Name.
Sineaid Inse ní Fhlannchadha.
Name.
Siobhán ní Bhreoghain.
Name and device. Vert, a chevron cotised between two suns in
splendor and an open book argent.
ARTEMISIA
Antoinette Clarissa du Bête.
Device. Or, two bears combattant sable within an orle of escallops
inverted purpure.
Aoife nic Gillechomhghain. Device. Purpure, a phoenix argent rising from flames proper a bordure argent semy of thistles proper.
This is clear of Osric the Confused
(SCA) Purpure, a phoenix within a bordure argent., with
a CD for the thistles on Aoife's bordure, and one for changing
the tincture of the flames from argent to proper. Just as we
will give a CD for changing the tincture of the wings on a winged
monster, so do we give one for changing the tincture of the flames
of a phoenix.
Callum Lamond.
Name.
Caterina de Florence. Name.
While registerable this would be better
in all Italian as, Caterina da Firenze, or Caterina
Fiorentina.
Daniel Lee O'Byrne.
Name.
Edward Menteith. Device. Or, a bend sinister invected sable between two dice vert, spotted argent, and a thistle proper.
Note: we do not do wreathed of only
one tincture, therefore we have reblazoned this as invected.
Elyne the Elder.
Name and device. Per bend sinister purpure and Or, a tower Or
and a rose purpure slipped vert a bordure counterchanged.
Ferrante La Volpe. Name and device. Quarterly purpure and vert, an annulet Or fretted with two swords inverted in saltire proper.
Submitted as Ferrante LaVolpe,
the La and the Volpe need to be separated. We have
done this.
Germaine Jambert l'Innocente. Name and device. Sable, a fess argent scaly azure between a chest and a ring of keys argent.
Submitted as Germaine Jambert l'Innocent,
innocent needs to be put into the feminine form. We have
done so. Please inform the submitter that in period the term
l'Innocent would most likely mean 'blameless', and that
one meaning in modern France would be 'simpleton'.
Ian Tanner. Name.
Submitted as Ian MacTanner, the
justification for MacTanner fails to take into account
the fact that tanner is not a Gaelic word. And while such
occupational patronymics do exist in Gaelic, they are formed with
the definite article, e.g., Mac an tSaoir 'son of the carpenter'.
We are unable to find a Gaelic occupational term that isn't a
clumsy paraphrase; the closest we found is essentially 'man who
prepares or dresses leather' and is far too clumsy to have produced
a patronymic. In any case, since Ian is an English form,
Ian Tanner is appropriate. The term was certainly used
in the Scots-speaking parts of Scotland: Black s.n. Tanner
has Thomas le Tannour 1291.
Ileana Vodraska.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
James Newton de Stile. Name.
Submitted as James Newton Stile,
this type of double surname isn't period. Stile is a topographical
byname, while Newton is toponymic. James Newton de
Stile is registerable on the hypothesis that he might have
inherited Newton and be identified as having come from
Stile.
Klaus Weizenbrauer.
Device. Per bend Or and sable, a chalice and a garb counterchanged.
Margaret Menteith.
Device. Argent semy of keys inverted sable, a heart gules a bordure
embattled azure.
Maria de Leon.
Name.
Matthias Gordon.
Name.
Melisande Alys Deschaux. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Melisande Alys Deshaux,
the surname was misspelled on the LoI. The correct spelling is
Deschaux, and we have corrected this.
Moira of Cloonlara.
Name and device. Or, on a cross nowy quadrate vert a horse passant
Or.
Morgan Blaidd Du.
Device. Per chevron argent and sable, two pawprints and a wolf's
head cabossed counterchanged.
One Thousand Eyes, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) A peacock pavonated to base contourney argent.
One Thousand Eyes, Barony of.
Badge for Order of the Peacock's Pride of One Thousand Eyes. (Fieldless)
A peacock in his pride head to sinister Or.
One Thousand Eyes, Barony of.
Order name for Order of the Talon d'Or (see RETURNS for badge).
Otfried der Bergstiger. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Otfried der Bergsteiger,
the LoI stated that the byname was German for mountaineer. We
have corrected this to the period form Bergstiger.
Patricia of Bronzehelm. Holding name and device. Or, a winged ferret statant, wings elevated and addorsed, sable and a bordure gules.
Her submitted name, Freyja the Cunning,
was returned on the May 1997 LoAR.
Renee Dominique Vittorio.
Name and device. Azure, a pegasus passant, wings elevated and
addorsed, a bordure plumetty Or and sable.
Roberto Damiano da Bologna. Name and device. Sable, a gauntlet aversant bendwise inverted Or maintaining a callalily slipped, leaved and seeded argent and on a chief Or an ermine reguardant sable.
Submitted as Roberto Damiano de Bologna,
the correct form of the Italian locative construction is da
Bologna. We have corrected this problem.
Ronan of Hereford.
Name change from Ronan Magnusson.
Stephan MacTir. Name (se RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Steaphan MacTir,
no documentation was presented and none could be produced for
the spelling of the given name. We have substituted the closest
documentable form.
Terah Caernarvon. Name and device. Sable, a bend dovetailed Or between a unicorn rampant and a dragon rampant to sinister argent all within a double tressure Or.
Submitted as Terah Caer Narvon,
Caernarvon is found as a single word. We have corrected
this.
Tristan of Landhelm.
Device. Per pale sable and argent, a hippogriff segreant maintaining
a Latin cross counterchanged.
Vladimir Neupokoev. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and azure, a hawk stooping to sinister argent.
Submitted on the LoI as Vladimir
Neupokev, the correct form of the byname is Neupokoev,
which was what was on the forms. We have corrected this. This
is clear of Johann Klaus Drager (SCA) Per pale sable and vert
an eagle rising to sinister wings elevated and addorsed argent.
There is one CD for the field tincture and one for the posture.
Wendel Weller. Device. Or, a roofless well sable on a chief rayonny gules three badger heads cabossed proper.
Parker shows a roofless well looking
quite similar to the one submitted here. Nice cant.
Wolfgang Heinrich von Weinberg.
Name and device. Purpure, two chevronels braced, on a chief argent
three bunches of grapes purpure leaved vert.
ATENVELDT
Aurore de Flandres. Device. Per bend vert and argent, a domestic cat couchant guardant argent and three wooden drop spindles in bend proper threaded vert.
This was pended on the May 1997 LoAR.
Bengta Rolfsdotter.
Device. Azure, on a mullet of four points within an orle of Wake
knots argent a Viking longship sable.
Caitrin Craig of Killarney. Name and device. Vert, a bend sinister bretessed argent between a Celtic cross Or and a moon in her plenitude argent.
Submitted as Caitrin Craigh of Killarney,
the submitted spelling of Craigh dates to 1688, which is
outside of even our grey zone. We have changed the spelling to
a documentable period one.
Colin Tyndall de ffrayser. Device. Gules, a phoenix within a double tressure Or.
This is clear of Bogdan Borodets (SCA)
Gules, a Russian Firebird displayed Or, crested and its six
tail feathers each charged with a heart, all azure., with
CD's for the tressure and the tertiary hearts.
Eric Stroud.
Device. Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between two crosses
formy and a scorpion inverted sable.
Franziska Grimmel die Dornrose. Name and device. Azure, three piles in point bendwise sinister inverted Or each charged with a cinquefoil azure.
Submitted as Franziska Grummel das
Dornrose, no evidence was presented for Grummel as
a name, let alone a period name, so we have substituted the closest
period form. We have corrected the gender of the article to a
feminine form to match the gender of the descriptive byname.
Ivan Kosinski.
Name and device. Sable, a chief indented argent and a base rayonny
Or.
Jakob von Hohl. Device. Per pale argent and sable, a lozenge between two pallets counterchanged.
Please instruct the submitter to draw
the lozenge larger.
Jakob von Hohl.
Badge. Per pale argent and sable, a Maltese cross between two
pallets counterchanged.
Ja'mala alBadawiyya. Device. Per bend sable and azure, a sword inverted bendwise sinister between three compass stars elongated to base argent.
Pended from May 1997 LoAR.
Kristiana Fraser of Dunestore.
Name.
Michal von Michelstadt.
Name.
Morwenna Llywelyn. Name.
Submitted as Morwenna Llywelyn the
Schey, the term schey, according to the Oxford English
Dictionary was not used for people, but rather for animals
(primarily horses). We have dropped the questionable element in
order to register the name.
Moses the Lost.
Name and device. Per chevron ployé argent and purpure,
a wolf courant sable and a Thor's hammer argent.
Odo de Payens.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
ATLANTIA
Antonio Galileo da Milano. Name.
Aron Nied wied .
Name.
Bastian de la Salle.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
Bera Thorbjarnardóttir. Name and device. Gyronny arrondy Or and gules, a bear's paw print sable charged with a Thor's hammer Or.
A possible conflict was called against
Eric Bearsbane (SCA) Argent, on a bear's paw print sable, a
flaming sword proper. There is one CD for the change in field,
and Eric's sword is not on the flame, thereby giving a
second CD for changes to type and tincture of the tertiaries.
Bera Thorbjarnardóttir. Badge. (Fieldless) A bear's paw print sable charged with a Thor's hammer Or.
A possible conflict was called against
Eric Bearsbane (SCA) Argent, on a bear's paw print sable, a
flaming sword proper. There is one CD for the change in field,
and Eric's sword is not on the flame, thereby giving a
second CD for changes to type and tincture of the tertiaries.
Brenno Motteggiatore Guarnieri.
Badge. (Fieldless) A jester's hood purpure charged with a Roman
numeral two argent.
Christiana filia Clarae Fayreclought. Name.
Submitted as Christiana Clarae Fayreclought,
the form Clarae is a Latin genitive of the root name (Clara).
The grammatical effect of the name is "Christiana Clara's
Fayreclought". We have added filia between the two
names, to resolve the grammatical anomaly. This also has the added
benefit of avoiding using a double given name in English, which
was a rare, late period practice.
Danr of Odense. Name and device. Vert, a fleur-de-lis Or a chief ermine.
Please instruct the submitter to draw
the charges larger.
John Ironstone.
Badge. (Fieldless) A phoenix atop a rose Or.
Kai de Ravenglas. Name change from Kikuchi Tsuranaga.
His former name is to be retained as
an alternate name.
Katryne of Bakestonden. Device. Quarterly argent and vert, three owls statant affronty counterchanged.
This was pended from the May 1997 LoAR.
Morwenna of Oakleigh.
Name change from Morwenna of Caer Mear.
CAID
Abigail of Lough Derravara. Device. Argent, a humming bird volant to sinister vert headed gules sustaining in its beak a threaded needle sable, a chief countercompony gules and Or.
From now on since there is no evidence
that new world flora and fauna were used in period armory, while
they will still be permitted, using them will now be considered
a weirdness. Note: this is not slot machine. While it is
true that there are technically three different charges in one
group (the bird, the thread and the needle), the combination of
the thread and needle are considered one charge since they normally
go together.
Arwen Gyles.
Device. Vert, three wolves rampant and a chief embattled argent.
Bjorn Pile of the Wode. Name.
Submitted as Bjorn of the Woode Pyle,
two locative surnames were not normally combined in the same name.
If we view one as family surname and the other as a "true"
locative, then either the order or the grammatical context is
off. Reaney & Wilson (p.499 under Wood) note Alexander
of the Wode (1285) as well as examples with a variety of other
prepositions (de, at, in, by), and examples with the plain noun:
Richard Wod (1230). The same book, under Pile (p.351)
has Henry de la Pil (1221), Robert Pile (1243),
Robert Attepile (1274), although they derive the use as
a byname from the ordinary meaning of "pile" as "stake,
post". One would normally expect the "family surname"
to come before the true locative, thus we have rearranged the
elements into a documentable form.
Calam Stiùbhard. Name.
Submitted as Calam Stiubhard,
the Gaelic form of Stiubhard is needed with the Gaelic
given name. We have corrected this.
Cameron of Caladoon.
Transfer of Household name for House Rising Star to Kara the Twin
of Kelton.
Carnmore, Canton of.
Device. Argent, a castle vert, in chief three laurel wreaths,
a base rayonny gules.
Cormac mac Seamuis. Name.
Submitted as Cormac mac Seamus,
Seamus need to be put into the genitive. We have corrected
this.
Dietmar Reinhart von Straubing. Device change. Or, a cross moline throughout azure between four seeblatter points to center vert.
His former device Or masoned sable,
a chief embattled azure, a base rayonny gules. is hereby released.
Eleanor de Passavant.
Device. Quarterly Or and purpure, four quatrefoils counterchanged
gules and Or.
Elsbeth von Sonnenthal.
Name and device. Per chevron embattled gules and sable, three
suns in splendor Or and a unicorn's head couped argent.
Étaín Liath. Name and device. Paly sable and Or, a natural panther passant in base a crescent inverted argent, a chief ermine.
Please instruct the submitter on how
to properly draw a panther passant.
James of Wiverewald.
Name and device. Ermine, a chevron between three estoiles gules.
Kara the Twin of Kelton.
Transfer of Household name for House Rising Star from Cameron
of Caladoon.
Lasairfhíona ní Chon
Chonnacht. Device. Gyronny
argent and vert, on a goblet within an orle Or a rose proper.
Lorenzo Sansovino. Name and device. Azure, in chief a goblet fesswise Or.
This does not conflict with the registered name Lorenzo di Monte San Savino. In each case the byname is a single name phrase that is clearly different from the shared given name, so by RfS V.1.b.iv (Change of Name Phrases) the names do not conflict provided that the bynames are significantly different from each other. RfS V.1.a.ii (Bynames) says:
Two bynames are significantly different if they look and sound significantly different. In general the addition or deletion of prepositions and articles is not significant. Additional restrictions apply to certain types of bynames as specified below.
The specific information on locative bynames is contained in RfS V.1.a.ii(b) (Locative Bynames):
Two locative bynames need not refer to different places in order to be considered significantly different; they need only look and sound sufficiently different.
Since we ignore the preposition, the
relevant comparison is between Sansovino and Monte San
Savino. The differences between Sansovino and San
Savino are insignificant, but the addition of the substantive
element Monte significantly changes both the look and sound
of the name.
Máirín ben Dhiarmait.
Name and device. Purpure, a bear rampant contourney argent.
Margaret MacIain of Lochwood.
Name.
Milisent de Lilley.
Name and device. Purpure, a chevron argent and in base a pheon
Or, on a chief argent three fleursdelys purpure.
Muirghein Dhaire. Name change from Morgan O'Daire.
Her former name is to be retained as
an alternate name.
Nicolette von Zweiberge.
Name.
Runa Ragnarsdóttir. Name and device. Sable, a drakkar argent.
Against Denis an Seodoir (SCA) Sable,
an eaglewinged longship displayed argent., this is clear with
one CD for the addition of the wings, and one for the position
since Denis' is affronty. We have reblazoned this to better reflect
the actual blazon (see WEST).
Safiyyah bint Firas alKhayyami.
Name.
Siobhán nic Chollaic. Name and device. Gules, on a bend sinister between six triquetra argent a compass star palewise sable.
Submitted as Siobhán nic Collac,
the patronymic needed to be in the genitive and lenited. We have
done so.
Veronique de Viennois.
Device. Gules, a cross triply parted and fretted Or between four
lotus flowers affronty argent.
William le Fendur.
Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and Or, an eagle rising
wings addorsed and inverted counterchanged.
DRACHENWALD
Aarnimetsä, Barony of.
Guild name for Kultaisen Kapustan Kilta and badge. Sable, a spoon
Or between two wolf's heads cabossed argent.
Aurora Winter.
Name.
Blaise de Clairvaux.
Name and device. Argent, a crane in its vigilance sable a bordure
azure semydelis argent.
Guise Buron vom Duesseltal.
Device. Per bend sinister sable and gules, a lightning bolt palewise
a bordure Or.
Guntram von Wolkenstein.
Name and device. Per pale sable and Or, a cinquefoil counterchanged.
Melesent de Huguenin. Name.
Submitted as Mélesine de Huguenin,
no documentation was presented for the period use of Mélesine.
We have substituted the closest period form.
EAST
Adrian Alonzo De Cadiz.
Name.
Anastasia Diaz de León.
Badge. (Fieldless) A dragon couchant reguardant wings displayed
vert.
Brianna McBain.
Badge. Gules, three fox's masks Or.
Brigid Cathcart.
Name.
Connor McPhaddin. Name.
Submitted on the LoI as Connor McPhaiddin,
the name was misspelled. We have restored it to the submitted
form, which was correct.
Diego Miguel de Vega. Name and device. Vairy sable, argent, gules and Or, on a pile Or a natural panther rampant contourny sable.
Gerard Leigh (a 16th century herald)
mentions very rare occurrences of vairy of three or more tinctures.
This particular form of vairy was listed in the examples of vair,
described by FoxDavies as "vairy of four tinctures".
Papworth has Vairy Or, gules and azure., Sir. Roger Holthouse,
from Glover's Ordinary. As a treatment found in both a period
treatise and actual period armory we have no qualms about registering
this.
Emrys Ransom.
Name.
Mikael McCue.
Badge. Per pale azure and argent, on a lozenge counterchanged,
a Wake knot Or.
Richenda de Cameron. Device change. Gules, three acorns Or.
Her former device Azure, semy of
thistles, slipped and leaved, a bear's paw print argent.,
is hereby released. Nice armory!
Roger of Blackmoore.
Device. Sable, two stag's antlers bases crossed in saltire Or,
in chief a moon in her plentitude argent.
Ruaidhri an Cu.
Name.
LOCHAC
Alaric of Bangor.
Device. Per bend sinister vert and sable, a griffin sejant erect
sustaining a sword Or.
Jourdain de Marcenais.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
Milborough Aldaway. Device. Argent, two cats sejant addorsed their tails entwined a bordure embattled sable.
Please instruct the submitter to draw
the bordure larger.
MERIDIES
Ailin nic an Bhaird.
Device. Per pale gules and sable, a dragon segreant tail nowed
maintaining a lyre Or, and on a chief argent three shamrocks vert.
Basilia de Warren.
Name.
Catelin Cavendish. Name.
Submitted as Caitlin Cavendish,
it combines Gaelic and English in the same name. We have substituted
the English form of Caitlin.
Edmund Cavendish.
Name.
Godfrey of Huntington. Badge. (Fieldless) A ram clymant argent.
Nice armory!
Guaire Ó Ciaráin. Name.
Submitted as Guaire O'Kieran,
it combined Gaelic and English orthography in the same sentence.
We have changed the patronymic to all Gaelic.
Gunther van der Aachen.
Device. Quarterly vert and argent, a Latin cross fleury counterchanged,
on a chief sable three fleurs-de-lys argent.
Gwilym Penteg de Caernarfon. Name.
Submitted as Gwilym Penteg o Caernarfon,
the preposition o is not normally found with proper names
of places in Welsh names. On the other hand, it should be noted
that in written records, the Latin preposition de more
often than not is -- at least in the medieval period. Gwilym
Penteg de Caernarfon is a better match for the documentary
forms.
Ingrid Gerdesdottir.
Name and device. Per fess Or and sable, a cat couchant and an
acorn within a double tressure counterchanged.
Mared ferch Dafydd.
Name.
Margret nic Kinnon. Name.
Submitted as Margret nic Fhionghuine
on the letter of intent, the submitter had originally submitted
Margrett nic Kinnon. We have corrected the form on the
LoI, which mixed English and Gaelic orthography to an all English
version which is close to what the submitter originally wanted.
Marion Percy de Savage. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Marion Percy Savage,
we have changed the name to make the double surnames into a hereditary
plus toponymic form.
Meridies, Kingdom of.
Badge for the Order of the Velvet Owl. (Fieldless) An owl's head
cabossed within and conjoined to an annulet argent.
Salah ibn Rami.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
OUTLANDS
Alexander Grunaug. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and sable, a natural tiger rampant argent marked sable and a billhook bendwise sinister argent.
Submitted as Alexander Grunagen,
the byname was a constructed name that was meant to mean greeneye.
However, it was not properly formed, and it hasn't the desired
meaning. Brechenmacher's Etmologisches Wörterbuch der
Deutschen Familiennamen s.n. Grünaug has an actual
citation: Albrecht Grunaug 1434. We have replaced the byname
with the documented form.
Alexandra de Morteyn.
Device. Ermine, on a bend Or fimbriated vert, three pomegranates
palewise gules slipped vert seeded Or, a bordure vert.
Alexandria Morgan.
Device. Purpure, on a pale argent endorsed Or an iris purpure
slipped and leaved vert.
Axel the Executioner.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
Bartholomew of Ashdown Forest.
Name.
Daffyd of Emmet.
Alternate name for Evlyn Death and badge. Argent, on a cross purpure
a garb Or.
Dùthaich Beinne Àird,
Shire of. Device. Per pale
azure and sable, an elephant rampant argent, armed, within a laurel
wreath Or.
Iago ap Heilin.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
Iain mac Tharlaich. Name.
Submitted as Iain mac Tarlach,
the patronymic uses the 20th c. Gaelic spelling. We have substituted
the correct Scots Gaelic patronymic.
James Eldon of York. Name and device. Azure, three Celtic crosses and on a point pointed argent and a dragon passant contourny azure.
Submitted as James Eldon Burgess
on the LoI, the submitter's original form was James Eldon Burgess
of York. It was changed in kingdom since the form Burgess
of York would be presumptuous. Since the form James Eldon
Burgess is not a period formation, and the name originally
submitted was not registerable, we have changed it to James
Eldon of York which keeps most of what was originally submitted
was in a period formation. While blazoned on the LoI as Per
chevron azure and argent. . , we register the picture, not
the words, so we have reblazoned this to match the emblazon.
Joseph Cameron Blackswan.
Name and device. Per bend sinister checky vert and argent, and
argent, a bend sinister vert, in base a swan naiant sable.
Keresztély Ilona.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
Kiara Loftus.
Name and device. Argent, three trefoils slipped a bordure vert.
Maximilian Delmonico.
Name and badge. (Fieldless) An equal-armed Celtic cross clechy
sable.
Morien Glyndwr.
Name.
Nicholas Kenington.
Name and device. Gules, on a fess indented argent a brown ferret
passant proper.
Pierre Gaston de Vallier.
Name (see RETURNS for badge).
Randal the Malcontent. Name and device. Per pale argent and sable, two bars wavy counterchanged between in bend a harp gules and a dagger argent.
Sebastian Jameson of Stokesay.
Name.
Stjerne-Odd Sörensen. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Stjerne-Oddi Sorensen,
this used modern Norwegian in the patronymic byname. We have
changed the name to a consistent lateperiod DanoNorse
spelling.
Theodora Tedaldi.
Device. Per bend azure and gules, a decrescent argent and a brunette
woman's head couped at the shoulder proper.
Tore av Uddevala. Device. Vert mullety, a dance Or.
Please instruct the submitter to draw
the dance wider.
SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM
Society for Creative Anachronism. Heraldic title. Metron Ariston Herald
Submitted as Metpon Api ton Herald,
this combined Greek and Roman alphabets. We have transliterated
it entirely into the Roman alphabet.
Society for Creative Anachronism. Badge for Web Ministry. Argent, a spider tergiant sable a chief gules.
Some members of the College questioned
the appropriateness of registering a badge for use by the Web
Ministry, since it is a 20th century function. It is not our place
to decide if a corporate office may have armory, or how they use
it as long as it meets our rules. Since no one called a conflict
on the badge, and since there is a tradition of registering badges
for the various functions of the chronicler's office, we see no
reason not to register this.
TRIMARIS
B etislava Je ábek. Name.
Submitted as B etislava Jerabek,
we have added the necessary diacritical marks.
Brilliana de Raimes.
Name and device. Gules, a lion's head contourny between three
lozenges argent.
Crispin d'Ardenne. Name and device. Sable, on a fess argent between six swords inverted four and two, a lion dormant azure.
Submitted as Crispin Darden,
the LoI stated that the submitter really wanted the byname d'Ardennes.
Since Dauzat s.n. Dard notes the surname Dardenne
(variant Dardaine) from the forest or one of the numerous
villages of this name, we have changed the name to a form closer
to what the submitter actually wants.
Dafydd ab Ystyffan. Name and device. Quarterly argent and sable, a Celtic cross and in chief three roses counterchanged.
Please instruct the submitter to draw
the cross centered on the field.
Ian Fitz Patric.
Name.
Killian Bryce.
Device. Argent, a lizard rampant and on a chief embattled vert
three estoiles argent.
Liamuin ingen Silla'in. Device. Per chevron purpure and vert, two tau crosses and a moon in her plentitude argent.
Rhiannon Walkinfire.
Device. Argent, a cow courant purpure and in base a crescent vert.
Tatheg 0' Brian.
Device. Per bend sinister azure and vert a boar rampant contourny
and a goat clymant argent.
Trìòis, Shire of. Name and device. Per fess indented vert and azure, a dance and in base a laurel wreath Or.
Submitted as Tri Os, Shire of,
Trì is the standard Scottish (and Irish) Gaelic
cardinal numeral equivalent to Latin tres or English three.
In the case of the noun, the lack of the marking changes the
meaning from "inlet" or "sandbar" to "moose"!!!
The Scots Gaelic singular is òs. Scots regularly
uses an unlenited plural form with trì (Calder,
A Gaelic Grammar, p. 126). When declined, it follows
the pattern of nòs (= "custom") which
would produce òis. However, this also needs to be
combined into one word, which we have done. Please instruct the
group to draw the laurel wreath larger.
WEST
Alfred of Greyvale.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
Aonghas MacLachlainn.
Badge. Per pale azure and argent, a sheaf of smith's hammers proper.
Ceridwen of Esterfen.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
Ceinwen ferch Belyn.
Device. Per chevron gules and argent, in chief three compass stars
argent and a cat sejant sable.
Denis an Seodoir. Reblazon of device. Sable, a winged longship affronty argent.
This device, registered in 1975, was
originally blazoned as Sable, an eaglewinged longship displayed
argent. We have corrected the blazon to better match the
emblazon. Note: while this was a Western submission, the submitter
lived in the then Principality of An Tir.
Lodema the Potter.
Name and device. Argent, an amphora gules and a chief embattled
azure.
Maximilian von Wismar.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
Raven Silverthorne.
Device. Quarterly sable and gules, a raven between three roses
argent.
Robin Blackfell.
Name and device. Sable, on a lozenge Or within an orle argent,
a winged unicorn segreant sable.
Rolf of Esterfen.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
Taran de Montfort.
Name and device. Per fess sable and argent, two estoiles and an
eagle's head erased counterchanged, a bordure azure.
Thea of Midvale.
Name and device. Or, a serpent involved gules, a base embattled
azure.
THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED
FOR FURTHER WORK:
AETHELMEARC
Henry of Longhouse. Badge. Azure, three cups inverted two and one, each cup distilling a roundel argent, in chief a baton fesswise Or.
This is being returned for being unblazonable.
The only thing that can be distilled are gouttes. However, given
the size of the roundels compared to the cups and baton, there
is no way to blazon this that would accurately reproduce this
picture. Furthermore, if the roundels were drawn to be of equivalent
size to the cups and baton, this would have to be returned for
slot machine, for having three different charges types in the
same group.
Rurik Longsword. Badge. (Fieldless) A hurst argent.
This conflicts with the device of Blaine
de Navarre (SCA) Purpure two trees conjoined in fess argent.
Normally there would be a CD for two vs. three trees, but the
conjoining makes them a hurst, and there is no difference
for the number of trunks attached to the conjoined crowns of the
trees.
AN TIR
Karl von der Ostwache. Badge. (Fieldless) A castle sable with a central tower argent, issuant therefrom a beacon argent enflamed gules.
While blazoned on the LoI as (Fieldless)
Issuant from a wall couped sable a tower, issuant therefrom a
beacon argent enflamed gules., it could as easily be blazoned
as above. As such, it conflicts with Harold of Breakstone (SCA)
Or, a castle triple towered sable, pennants flotant to sinister
vert., with one CD for the field, and nothing for changing
the tincture of the tower and beacon which is substantially less
than one half of the charge.
Laighe na Gréine, Port of. Name and device. Per pale Or and azure, a tower argent within a laurel wreath counterchanged.
According to the LoI the name is intended
to mean "port of the setting sun" in Irish Gaelic.
Unfortunately, no evidence was provided in the LoI and no one
in the college could provide any, for Scots or Irish place names
being formed in this particular abstract pattern, apart from mythic
references to the Sunset Lands, which are a distinctly supernatural
locale. Barring such evidence, the name must be returned. Without
a name we must return the device since we do not form holding
names for groups. Even if the name had been registerable, we
would have had to return the device for lack of paperwork.
Ljótr Einarsson. Device. Per saltire vert and Or, in chief a dexter gauntlet fesswise reversed sustaining a hammer palewise argent, in fess two wolf's heads erased addorsed sable.
This is being returned for breaking
our rule on "slot machine" with three different charges
(the gauntlet, the hammer and the wolf's heads) in the same charge
group. If a charge is sustaining another it is considered two
different charges in the same group, unlike maintained charges.
ANSTEORRA
None!
ARTEMISIA
Adriana Menteith. Device. Per chevron wavy purpure mullety argent and vert, in base a unicorn passant argent.
This is being returned for a redraw.
The wavy line of division is almost invisible. Furthermore, the
line of division needs to divide the field more evenly.
Alessandra Raffaela di Luciano. Alternate name of Zahara min Shammar.
This is being returned because the byname
is improperly constructed. This same construction was returned
8/93 (Numira al Nasifa Bint Abdullah min Dimashq, Atenveldt);
at the time Laurel noted that while min Dimashq 'out of
Damascus' may be grammatically correct, the normal Arabic idiom
would be al-Dimashqi 'the Damascene'; this error was a
contributing factor in the return. Assuming that Shammar
is a legitimate place-name or tribal name, the masculine byname
should be al-Shammari and the feminine, wanted here, al-Shammariyya.
The name is probably fine as Zahra al-Shammariyya and may
be all right as Zahara al-Shammariyya. However, the prepositional
construction with min has no example in the available corpus
of Arabic names. Since this change is greater than we feel comfortable
making, we are returning the name.
Castelleone, Shire of. Name and device. Azure, a winged lion sejant Or collared azure between three suns in splendor on a chief Or two Laurel wreaths vert.
This is being returned for conflict
with the kingdom of CastileLeon. Vincent, Mary, and R. A.
Stradling, Cultural Atlas of Spain and Portugal, NY, NY,
Facts on File, 1994, page 46, caption: "This particular manuscript
was made by a scribe called Facundus in 1047 for King Fernando
I and Queen Sancha of CastileLeon..." Most of Spain,
outside of Aragon, Catalunã, Navarre, Galicia, and Granada,
was known by that name; it is still a recognized province of the
kingdom, along with Castile La Mancha (pg. 202 of the same book).
Since we do not form holding names for groups, the device is being
returned as well.
Gunter Aldrich vom Schwartzwald. Device. Per saltire sable and gules, four caltrops within a bordure argent.
This is being returned for a redraw.
The charges are not recognizably caltrops, or anything else.
Hamall the Quiet. Device. Or, a bendlet enarched azure between two ravens rising bendwise contourny wings elevated and addorsed and another bendwise wings elevated and addorsed sable.
This is being returned for a redraw.
We don't register single diminutives of ordinaries, and this
is far too narrow to be a bend. The ravens also need to
be redrawn, since they were not in any recognizable heraldic position.
Ileana Vodraska. Device. Azure, a Latin cross pointed argent on a chief vert three increscents Or.
Blazoned on the LoI as Per chief
embattled vert and azure, three increscents Or a finch cross argent.,
there is no such division as per chief in SCA blazonry.
A division (i.e. per pale, per saltire, per bend, etc.) is intended
to divide a field into equal parts. A chief is only one third
of the field and is therefore considered a sub-ordinary which
is considered to be a charge on the field. Therefore, this is
Azure, a Latin cross pointed argent, on a chief vert three
increscents Or. Unfortunately, this means that the device
violates our requirements on good contrast and must be returned
for colour on colour.
Lorraine de Monteclair. Name.
This is being returned for lack of a
given name. As Dauzat says, Lorrain is a locative, meaning
'of or from Lorraine'. Additionally, the place-name is incorrectly
constructed: the French noun is mont, not monte,
so the name should be Montclair. A slightly different
form is preserved in the place-name Montclar (Dauzat &
Rostaing, 471). If she picks a suitable given name, she can use
the Latin de Monteclaro and preserve the interior e.
Melisande Alys Deschaux. Device. Argent, a bend sinister dancetty gules between a decrescent and increscent sable.
This is being returned for a redraw.
The bend is very badly drawn: in chief it is almost dancetty,
but in base it is much closer to indented. It needs to
be redrawn as clearly one or the other.
One Thousand Eyes, Barony of. Order name for Order of the Argent Peacock.
The household name for Jonathan Thorne's House of the Argent Horse was returned September 94 for the following reason:
"Argent" is not a common English element; as an adjective referring to a color, its use is confined almost entirely to heraldry. English, unlike German, has no tradition of house names based on armory; the authentic usage would be White Horse.
Given this reason for return (the household
was subsequently registered as Maison du Cheval d'Argent) we are
returning this for the same reason.
One Thousand Eyes, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Iron Talon of One Thousand Eyes. (Fieldless) A talon erect sable grasping an orb argent.
This conflicts with the badge of Arnow
Rabenhertz (SCA) (Fieldless) A raven's foot couped sable armed
and banded gules., Charles Ravenstone (SCA) Per fess lozengy
argent and sable, and argent, a bird's leg a' la quisse sable.,
and the badge of the Shire of Mathom Trove, Per chevron inverted
argent and azure, overall an dragon's gambe erased sable grasping
a sun Or., with the only CD in all cases for fieldlessness.
One Thousand Eyes, Barony of. Order name for Order of the Opus.
This was an appeal of October 1992 Laurel
return for being too close to the character Opus in the Bloom
County comic strip. While this conflict was no longer valid as
personal names do not conflict with order names. However, Latham's
Revised Medieval Latin Word-List gives 'customary service'
as the normal meaning of opus in English documents of our
period, and no exemplars could be found for period models for
the name. Therefore, we are returning this for non period style.
One Thousand Eyes, Barony of. Order name for Order of the Reflection of the Dream.
This was an appeal of a December 1990 return for nonperiod style. The appeal did not provide any documentation to show that the order name followed any period exemplars. Barring such evidence, the name must be returned.
In the appeal the person putting the appeal together states:
"In addition the College of Heralds have and must continue to make specific allowances based on realities such as long-standing, popular practices and wellunderstood applications of modern terms and techniques to period activities."
Unfortunately the writer(s) seem to
misunderstand the purpose of the College of Arms. We have no such
mandate. Our mandate, according to Corpora, says (among other
things) "Members are encouraged to develop unique, historically
valid names and armory." The Order of the Reflection of
the Dream is not a historically valid name.
One Thousand Eyes, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Swan and the Escallop. (Fieldless) An escallop within a ribbon conjoined in chief argent.
In the September 1994 LoAR, Da'ud as Laurel said:
"The ribbon is an SCA invention. While the Armorial and Ordinary has five registrations of a ribbon, the most recent is 1984. In three of those it is a maintained charge or the equivalent. A fourth has three scarves "knotted in triskelion", which have a different and more substantial appearance. The fifth, which has the ribbons as a primary element, also has them intertwined into a mascle effectively, a mascle of two ribbons. Thus, the charge appearing in the Pictorial Dictionary, and copied here, has never been registered before in this form as a significant element of armory in the SCA. Its loops and twists are unblazonable, leaving a great deal of variation in appearance and making it virtually impossible to reconstruct accurately from the blazon alone, which would violates RFS VII.7.b. There seems to be no compelling reason to register the ribbon as an heraldic charge."
We see no reason to overturn this precedent.
One Thousand Eyes, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Talon d'Or. (Fieldless) A dragon's gambe inverted Or grasping an orb azure.
This conflicts with Lenore of the Dark
Lands Sable, a talon erect couped Or enclosing an orb gules.,
with the only CD for the fieldlessness.
Otfried der Bergstiger. Device. Or, a fess azure and overall an increscent gules.
This conflicts with Marc of Glastonbury
(SCA), Or a fess azure, overall a lion rampant gules, wearing
the hood and tippet of a teaching master sable, turned up and
tasseled ermine., with only one CD for changing the type of
an overall charge. Note: even if there had not been a conflict,
this would have had to be returned because the azure fess
was colored closer to argent and we register the picture, not
the words.
Stephan MacTir. Device. Vert, two chevronelles braced a bordure argent.
This is being returned for a redraw;
the chevronels and bordure are drawn far too thin.
Wilhelm von Adlersheim. Device. Sable, an eagle rising Or.
This conflicts with Anne Gaverel d'Avesor
(SCA) Sable, a peregrine falcon close belled and jessed Or,
orbed gules, maintaining in dexter foot a fountain., John
of Ravenwolf (SCA) Sable a raven speaking Or, beaked and membered
argent. and Amron the Stygian (SCA) Sable, a hawk volant
to sinister, wings aventred Or., with the only CD in each
case for position of the bird, and with Eve Nightstalker (SCA)
Azure, an owl striking Or, beaked and membered argent, orbed
sable., with one CD for the difference in the fields.
ATENVELDT
Odo de Payens. Device. Per fess argent and vert, in base a wolf statant argent, on a chief embattled purpure three cups argent.
This is being returned for a redraw.
As drawn it is not clearly per fess, nor field, a chief.
While not grounds itself for return, the wolf needs to be drawn
in a more heraldic position.
ATLANTIA
Bastian de la Salle. Device. Per pale embattled argent and vert, a rapier inverted sable.
This conflicts with Thaddeus the Brown,
(SCA) Gyronny Or and vert, a dagger inverted sable., with
one CD for the field and nothing for type of blade.
Minán the Stout. Name change from Domhnall de Lindsay.
Withdrawn by the submitter on the June
1997 Atlantian letter of intent.
CAID
`Afra' bint Tamir alSahrahwayyiah. Device. Vert, a fess sable fimbriated, overall a mosque, in canton a decrescent Or.
This is being returned for lack of documentation.
We can find no indication that a mosque has ever been registered
before in the SCA. As a consequence, this would be the defining
instance of the charge. Previous Laurel Sovereigns of Arms have
returned items for lack of documentation, c.f. a winch (Bruce
Draconarius of Mistholme, LoAR 9/92, p. 42), a Mongol helm (Bruce
Draconarius of Mistholme, LoAR 12/92, p. 15), a zalktis (Bruce
Draconarius of Mistholme, LoAR 1/93, p. 28) and a Viking tent
arch (Da'ud ibn Auda, LoAR 5/94, p17). Therefore, we need evidence
that this depiction of a mosque is a period depiction before we
can decide if it is a registerable charge.
Aislinn the Faeire. Name and device. Purpure, a dragonfly argent and a gore argent estencely purpure.
The name combines Gaelic and English
orthography in the same name. The Anglicized forms of Aislinn
would be Alice or Elsha. Normally we would make
the name all Gaelic or all English, but in this case we are not
sure which element is more important to the submitter, so we are
returning the name so the submitter can decide. The device is
being returned for breaking our ban on charged gores which were
banned effective March 1992. Estencely is a semy of sparks, and
we consider semy of anything as a group of charges, and not a
field treatment.
Gerhard Helmbrecht. Name.
This conflicts with Gerhardt Helmbrecht,
which was registered July 1983.
Maritsa Milovich. Badge. (Fieldless) A sheep's head cabossed argent dependent therefrom a bell Or.
This conflicts with the arms of Carl
of Carmarthin (SCA) Azure, masoned argent, a ram's head cabossed
argent. The bell doesn't add anything for difference, since
it is not large enough to be considered a sustained charge.
Naevehjem, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) On a roundel conjoined in pale to a staff argent, a gurges gules.
This is being returned for violating
RFS VIII.4. Obtrusive Modernity Armory may not use obtrusively
modern designs. "Modern" is defined as anything outside
the period of the Society. Everyone looking at this said "A
lollipop!"
Nicolette von Zweiberge. Name.
No paperwork was received for this submission,
so we have to return this.
DRACHENWALD
Adamastor, Shire of. Name.
Submitted as Adamastor, Shire of, from the name of the titan Adamastor. Unfortunately, no evidence was presented to show that place name were constructed from names of titans in period. It should be noted that this would - with the change of only one letter - make a fine English place name: Adamestor. Adam is one of the commonest given names in period, both in England and Scotland (Black, Surnames of Scotland, p. 7). It is well documented from the thirteenth century in the older genitive possessive form in "e" from surnames like Adamesson (Reaney, Dictionary, p. 2) and place names like Adamesplat (Smith, English Place-Name Elements, Vol. II, p. 67). Similarly, tor from the Old English torr for a "rocky peak" or "crag" is relatively common early on in the southwest and occurs elsewhere as well (Smith, op. cit., p.p. 184-185). Adam is a strong masculine noun whose Old English genitive form would be Adames (Mitchell and Robinson, A Guide to Old English, pp. 19 and 176). Thus Adamestorr or Adamestor (the latter form also appears in some Old English manuscripts with a single "r") would also have the meaning "Adam's tower". However, since the group would not allow changes, this had to be returned. Even if the group would allow changes, this would have to be returned for lack of a petition.
EAST
Bogdanko Podkova. Device. Argent, a scorpion sable.
This is being returned for a redraw.
It is not drawn as a solid object, but rather as a number of disconnected
parts. Furthermore, a scorpion has eight legs, not six. If drawn
correctly this should be clear of Raymond Crus Hummer (SCA), Argent,
a lobster displayed gules.
Catalina d'Oro. Change of name from Catalina d'Orieux.
Lacking period evidence for unmarked
patronymics in Italian, this should be di Doro or just
plain Oro but as the submitter allows no changes
this must be returned.
LOCHAC
Jourdain de Marcenais. Device. Per fess azure and gules, a pall inverted Or between three roundels enchancré Or.
"No evidence was presented that
a roundel enchancré is a period charge. Therefore, barring
period evidence of its usage, after the July 1997 Laurel meeting
we will no longer register it." (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR March
1997, p. 2). Since this is after the July Laurel meeting we are
returning this.
Nerissa de Saye. Device. Per pale gules and purpure, a unicorn passant reguardant argent, armed and crined Or between three voided western crowns Or.
This is being returned for violating
VIII.3. Armorial Identifiability. It states Voiding and fimbriation
may only be used with simple geometric charges placed in the center
of the design. This has been taken to mean that we void primary
charges only; the crowns in this submission are clearly secondaries.
Even if they were the primaries, this would have to be returned
as crowns are not simple enough charges to fimbriate or void.
Note: since the submitter is a viscountess she may use a crown
in her arms, just not this depiction.
MERIDIES
Beorn of the Northern Sea. Household name and badge for House Argent Lyre. (Fieldless) On an acorn sable a lyre argent.
The household name for Jonathan Thorne's House of the Argent Horse was returned September 94 for the following reason:
"Argent" is not a common English element; as an adjective referring to a color, its use is confined almost entirely to heraldry. English, unlike German, has no tradition of house names based on armory; the authentic usage would be White Horse.
Given this reason for return (the household
was subsequently registered as Maison du Cheval d'Argent), House
Argent Lyre is also unacceptable. The badge is being
returned for conflict with the badge of Traidenis Vilkas of Winter
Oak (Fieldless) On an acorn sable, a wolf's head cabossed argent.,
with one CD for fieldlessness and nothing for change of type
only on the tertiary. Even if there had not been a conflict we
would have had to return this for a redraw. As drawn it is not
identifiability an acorn.
Cailin Canace Pryde of Glen More. Name and device. Per saltire vert and Or, two maiden's heads couped and helmeted Or and two oak trees proper.
This name has a number of serious problems, beginning with the forename. In the case of Cailin Math, mentioned in the letter of intent, it was documented as a variant of masculine Cailean; Black s.n. Colin dates it to 1467 as a Gaelic spelling. Even if the lady is willing to use a man's name, this Gaelic spelling can't be combined with the very obviously non-Gaelic remainder of the name. She might consider Colina 1250 (Reaney & Wilson s.n. Collin). Colina Pryde would be eminently registerable.
Canace
is very likely only a literary name in our period. It's found
in Greek mythology (in a tale told by Ovid) as the name of a daughter
of Aiolos (Æolus). The tale was known to Chaucer,
but it is not known why he transferred the name to the daughter
of a Mongol khan (The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, F. N.
Robinson, ed., 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1961,
p.718, n.29ff). Given the rarity of double given names even at
the end of our period, and given that there's no evidence that
Canace was anything but the name of a character in a romance,
the combination would violate the rule of two weirdnesses. The
changes necessary to fix the name are greater than we feel comfortable
making, so we are returning this name. Since the submitter will
not take a holding name, we are forced to return the armory as
well.
Fergus O'Kelly. Badge. [Fieldless] A sun pean.
This conflicts with the badge of the
chronicler of Ansteorra: (Fieldless) A mullet of five greater
and five lesser points distilling gouttes. There is one CD
for tincturelessness but nothing between a sun and this mullet,
and nothing for the teeny goutes.
Marion Percy de Savage. Device. Gules, a chevron Or between two open books and a unicorn rampant argent.
This conflicts with Timotheos of Alexandria
(SCA) Azure a chevron Or between two open books and a unicorn
rampant reguardant maintaining a quill pen argent., with one
CD for the field, but none for the details of the unicorn.
Rosalind O'Maughan. Badge. (Fieldless) A chimera with the body of a lion, the tail of a dragon and the face and breast of a woman rampant guardant sable.
This is being returned for a redraw.
As drawn it is in trian aspect. Additionally, this is a humanoid
monster, and we don't register rampant humans or humanoids.
Salah ibn Rami. Name and device. Sable, on a pavilion Or, in pale two swords crossed in saltire sable and a brown Bactrian camel statant proper.
This is being returned for violating
the rule of tincture. As submitted there is virtually no contrast
between the very dark Or and the very light brown.
OUTLANDS
Ástrídr Oddsdóttir. Device. Lozengy ermine and vert, two birds close respectant sable.
Blazoned on the LoI as corbies,
as drawn these were not identifiability corbies, or any
other type of specific bird. Therefore, they have been reblazoned
as birds, which puts this in conflict with the Shire of
Vakkerfjell Per pale argent and Or, two swans statant close
respectant sable maintaining in their beaks a laurel wreath vert.
There is one CD for the field, nothing for the small maintained
laurel wreath, and nothing for the difference between the swan
and a generic bird.
Axel the Executioner. Device. Purpure, a sheaf of three double-bitted axes argent.
This conflicts with Sven Gunther Alcan
(SCA) Purpure a rose slipped argent overall two double bitted
axes in saltire Or. While Sven's blazon uses the term overall",
the three charges are in the exact same sort of sheaf" as
Axel's axes; they are one primary charge group, not a primary
charge group with an overall charge group. There is one CD for
changing the tincture of two thirds of the charges in the sheaf
to Or, but nothing for changing the type of one third of the charges
from an axe to a rose.
Collette Ewartburgh. Device. Or, in pale three estoiles azure two and one and a sheep statant sable, all between flaunches indented vert.
This is being returned for breaking
the rule of tincture. While the sheep were blazoned on the LoI
as sable, as colored they were a medium grey that could just as
easily be blazoned argent. Since we register the pictures not
the words, this must be returned for insufficient contrast. If
they were colored a true sable, that problem would be eliminated.
Connor Graham. Device. Per chevron gules and vert, in chief an increscent, a roundel, and a decrescent conjoined in fess argent, and in base a stag's head cabossed Or.
This is being returned for several reasons.
First, this breaks our rule on slot machine with three different
types charges (a crescent, a roundel and a stag's head) in the
same group. Secondly, it is being returned for unidentifiability
because of the drawing of the stag's head. Because it has no internal
details, it is quite difficult to make out what it is. Third,
the conjoining of the increscent, roundel and decrescent are distinctly
non period. While we will reluctantly register the arrangement
of an increscent, roundel and decrescent if they aren't conjoined,
the conjoining makes them unidentifiable as well as nonperiod.
Eudoxia d'Antioche. Device. Azure, a calopus rampant argent, armed and horned gules.
According to Dennys' The Heraldic
Imagination, the Calopus or Catwolf appears
in the early 16th c. and is described as having a wolf-like body,
feet and tail and a cat-like face with two serrated horns."
This depiction does not match the beast on the emblazon; that
is more like a lion with a lupine tail and a pair of goat's horns.
As such, we cannot give any difference between this and a lion
and this conflicts with Charles Redmane (SCA) Erminois, a lion
rampant argent, maned gules., and with the Mowbray Dukes of
Norfolk (real world armory) Gules, a lion rampant argent.,
with one CD for the field in both cases. Furthermore, if a difference
is to be allowed, a great deal of the difference would be for
the horns. With the gules horns against the blue field, there
would not be sufficient contrast to provide difference.
Iago ap Heilin. Device. Barry wavy argent and azure, a sea otter flotant supine proper.
This is being returned for non period
style. The posture flotant supine is not heraldic. It
is no more acceptable than mortant.
Keresztély Ilona. Device. Argent, a cross triparted and fretted fleury vert.
This is being returned for a redraw.
The cross does not have a proper fleury (it looks more leafy)
and while the cross is parted, each piece of the arms needs to
have some substance. This is drawn as thinline heraldry.
Pierre Gaston de Vallier. Badge. Azure, a lion's head erased vorant a sun Or.
This conflicts with Alphia Birazpars
(SCA) Sable, a natural leopard's head couped Or marked sable.
There is one CD for the field. Since the sun is much smaller
than the lion's head, it would appear to fall into the maintained
not sustained" charge category and not worth difference.
Couped vs. erased is not worth difference nor is the difference
between heads of lions, cats and natural leopards. Furthermore,
since the sun is the same tincture as the lion's head, it blends
into the charge, giving even less visual difference.
Rio de las Animas, Shire of. Name.
This is being returned for lack of
period documentation. According to the submitter's own documentation,
the river was named in 1776, which is over 100 years after
our "grey" area. Without documentation that places
were named in this fashion in period, this must be returned.
Stjerne-Odd Sörensen. Device. Azure, a fess engrailed ermine between a demi-sun Or and a crescent argent.
This is being returned for a redraw.
The fess needs to be redraw with the engrailing drawn deeper and
bolder. Additionally there need to a lot fewer of them.
Good period style would have five engrailings on the fess; here
there are nineteen.
Thorfinnr inn vegsvinni Ingason. Device. Argent, two ravens rising wings addorsed respectant, maintaining between them a stone sable.
This is being returned for breaking
the rule of tincture. While blazoned on the LoI as sable, they
were colored in a very light grey, far closer to argent
than sable. Since we register the picture, not the words, this
is being returned for insufficient contrast. If they were colored
with a true black, it would eliminate this problem.
TRIMARIS
nan Crioch Tuatha, Shire of. Badge. (Fieldless) A sealion rampant gules.
This conflicts with Ivar Krigsvin (SCA)
Checky sable and argent, a sea-lion erect gules. The only
CD is for fieldlessness.
Thorvald Greybeard. Badge. Azure, a unicorn head couped argent.
This conflicts with Verena Marre (SCA),
Azure, a unicorn's head couped argent armed and crined Or between
two bars wavy ermine., with one CD for the removal of the
bars, Mary of Neath (SCA), Azure, three unicorn's heads erased
in pall conjoined at the horns argent, armed and crined Or.,
with only one for number of primary charges, Saerlaith nic Uilliam
O'Ceallaigh (SCA), Per bend paly argent and azure and azure,
in dexter base a unicorn's head couped argent., with one CD
for the change in the field, and Isabella d'Hiver (SCA), Azure,
a unicorn's head couped argent collared gules., with one CD
for the addition of the collar.
Tymm Colbert le Gard. Device. Per pale wavy azure and sable mullety argent, in dexter a dolphin hauriant contourny argent.
This is being returned for a redraw.
The wavy is unacceptable by current standards, being far too shallow,
and there are far too many mullets. Finally, we no longer
allow combining azure and sable with a complex line of division.
WEST
Alfred of Greyvale. Device. Sable, on a chevron argent between in chief a sword fesswise grasped at either end by a gauntlet and in base a triple-towered castle Or, three flames gules.
This is being returned for violation
our rules on slot machine, with three different types of charges
(glove, sword and castle) in the same group. Furthermore, this
needs a redraw. The castle as drawn is not a single unit, but
a number of discreet parts.
Ceridwen of Esterfen. Device. Argent, on a bend gules a cat sejant affronty palewise argent.
This is being returned for a redraw.
In a departure from the norm, the bend is far too wide.
Maximilian von Wismar. Device. Quarterly sable and azure, a sword inverted between a decrescent and an increscent argent.
This is being returned violating the
rule of tincture. As drawn this is Per pale azure and sable.
. . a chief per pale sable and azure. This results in putting
a color chief on a color field which has insufficient contrast.
Rolf of Esterfen. Device. Argent, on a bend vert a paw print palewise argent.
This is being returned for a redraw.
In a departure from the norm, the bend is far too wide.
Yedaya Magdiel. Device. Vert, an elephant passant argent caparisoned purpure.
This conflicts with Andrew Castlebuilder,
Per chevron purpure and Or, overall an elephant trumpeting
passant proper, on its back a carpet purpure fimbriated Or supporting
a tower argent masoned sable. There is a CD for field, but
nothing for removing the small argent tower which lies totally
against the yellow field.
The following items are pended until
the January 1998 meeting for additional research:
AETHELMEARC
Karl von Elfstein der Schmuckmacher. Badge. (Fieldless) A ragged staff argent.
A conflict was called with one of the badges of the Warwick's (Fieldless) A ragged staff argent. We currently protect the Warwick badge "(Fieldless) A bear statant erect argent muzzled and chained gules supporting a ragged staff argent." Woodward notes (Treatise on Heraldry British and Foreign, p. 585), this badge of Warwick the Kingmaker explicitly combines two preexisting badges of the Beauchamp Earls of Warwick. The silver ragged staff in particular continued in use as a separate badge through the period of the Wars of the Roses. FoxDavies (Heraldic Badges, pp. 155156) cites the following instances of the badge alone. Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, (died 1401) showed it on the border of his helmet in his effigy at Warwick. Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, (Died 1439) explicitly used the bear and ragged staff combination and the ragged staff alone as separate badges. According to Gowers Political Poems (cited by FoxDavies, op. cit., p. 155) Richard Nevill, Earl of Salisbury and Warwick used the bear and the ragged staff as separate charges as well as conjoined. What is more, the aforementioned Richard Nevills men used as their livery "rede jakettys with whyte ragged staves upon them" FoxDavies, op. cit., p. 156). In the Tudor period, it is clear that the Warwicks used the ragged staff as their primary badge. John Dudley, Earl of Warwick in 1552 used a guidon of red damask with a white lion "powdered with ragged stayffes of silver" (FoxDavies, op. cit., p. 156, quoting Machyns diary). The Elizabethan courtier Ambrose Ducley, Earl of Warwick, used the ragged staff argent according to Harleian MS 1156.
Please send us your comments on whether
or not to protect this badge.
ATENVELDT
Jonathon von Trotha. Device. Per saltire azure and Or, three whelk one and two counterchanged and a sea horse argent a double tressure counterchanged.
Blazoned as the LoI as Per saltire
Or and azure, three whelk shells counterchanged and a sea horse
argent finned Or all within a double tressure Or.