Submitted as Astor Peyton, the given name was documented as a header spelling in Reaney and Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames. While we do register header spellings from this source as standard modern forms, the header spelling of a surname, as in this case, is not necessarily acceptable as a given name. We have therefore substituted a spelling used as a given name and dated by Reaney and Wilson to 1642, within our grey area. Granted, they also say that the name was used as a given name in the 17th century, but this is not sufficient for disallowing the name: the Glossary of Terms says it is logical to assume that something current in the period 1601—1650 may also have been current in the last years of the 16th century, so long as there is no specific evidence to the contrary. Reaney and Wilson, while casting doubts, are not specific enough.

The device is clear of Gweneth Atwater, Argent, semé of roses azure, seeded Or, a domestic cat rampant to sinister guardant sable. While there is not a CD between a domestic cat and a lion, there is a CD for changing the number of secondary charges and a second CD for adding the tertiary charges. As drawn the charges in chief cannot be double roses as the outer rose and the inner rose have different orientations.

Submitted under the name Reann ingen Cearbhaill, the name was returned in November 2000.

Her former device, Purpure, semy of escallops inverted argent, a lion couchant, upon a chief Or two frogs sejant respectant vert, is released.

The device is clear of Dan of Hamildoon, Azure, a shakefork inverted Or. There is a CD for the addition of the secondary charges. By long standing precedent there is a CD for ordinaries throughout vs. ordinaries couped; therefore, there is a CD for the change in the primary charge.

Batonvert documented several period forms of escallops from Pastoureau's Traité d'Héraldique and Ian Cox's The Scallop. Several of these escallops are similar enough to the submitted design to justify registration of this badge.

Examination of the emblazon shows that the bridge is the primary charge with the raven's head and laurel wreath as secondaries and the ford as a peripheral ordinary. Therefore the device has three charge groups, none of which have three different types of charges, and therefore does not violate the rule of thumb in RfS VIII.1.a, Armorial Simplicity, forbidding three or more types of charges in a single group.

This was pended from the October 2000 LoAR. His former device, Argent, two spears in saltire gules surmounted by a boar's head, erased and affronty, within a bordure sable, platy, is released.

This was pended from the October 2000 LoAR. Her former device, Argent, a catamount passant regardant and in base three shamrocks all within a bordure embattled vert, is released.

The device is clear of Johanna bat Ephraim ben Rialah, Or, a griffin azure within a bordure azure crusilly Or. Johanna's griffin is in the default position of segreant; therefore there is a CD for the change in posture and another for removing the tertiary charges on the bordure.

Nice armory!

This was pended from the October 2000 LoAR.

Her former device, Plumetty vert and Or, a sheaf of arrows argent, fletched and barbed gules, is released.

Submitted as Cormac mac Taran of Bloodstone Hold, no documentation was provided for the locative byname. We have therefore dropped it.

Submitted as Gil Gareth the Greywolf, the documentation for the first element seems to be based on a misreading of Bardsley's A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames. We have changed it to a form of Giles dated to 12th century in Reaney and Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames. We have also dropped the unattested article from the nickname. As he requested an authentic 12th-14th century name we would have dropped the second given name/first byname; but since he does not allow major changes, we cannot do this.

While this resembles marshalling, it does not directly violate RfS XI.3, Marshalling, nor does it match any of the types of period marshalling that we prohibit.

Submitted on the LoI as Antonius Alvredi, the submitter originally submitted Antonius Alvredus. Since Reaney and Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, lists Willilmus Hermannus as a variant of Willelmus filius Hermanni, we can register the originally submitted form.

His former name is released. His former device, Per pale wavy sable and argent ermined gules, a double bitted axe argent and another sable, is retained as a badge.

The article in Bahlow's Deutsches Namenlexikon is not quite clear on whether Ebben is in fact a form used as a given name or a patronymic byname. Since, however, Socin's Mittelhochdeutsches Namenbuch has Ebbinus as a given name, we can register this.

Submitted as Gottfried aus Mainz, no documentation was provided for the non-standard locative particle. We have therefore changed it to the common one.

This is clear of Mary Felix the Fool, Vert, two zebras combattant argent, striped sable. While there is not a CD for removing the stripes, zebras and stags are substantially different; therefore, the device is clear by RfS X.2, Difference of Primary Charges.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the stags slightly smaller so that they fill the space without distortion.

Her former name is released.

The badge is clear of Rowena of Arundel, Barry wavy vert and argent, a brown stag's head erased proper. There is a CD for fieldlessness and another CD for changing the tincture of the primary charge.

Submitted as Seán Sabhaois, he requested an authentic 15th century Irish name. We have therefore changed the spelling of the given name to match examples from the 15th century Annals of the Four Masters.

Submitted as Ysoria fille Emery, we have changed the patronymic particle to the normal Latin/Norman form.

Submitted on the LoI as Ciara/n O/ Ro/na/in, we have changed the representation of the accented letters to the originally submitted, standard form.

Submitted as Domnall dubh Ui Maille, he requested an authentic Irish Gaelic name. We have therefore changed it to a form suggested by names found in the 15th century Annals of the Four Masters.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the bird so its entire body is shown.

This is clear of Antek Ignatovich, Azure, a cross couped of three crossbars, missing the dexter base arm, a bordure embattled argent. The two crosses, having a different number of arms, are substantially different. This is also clear of Andrew Grey of Blakeheathe, Sable, a cross crosslet fitchy within a bordure embattled argent. There is one CD for the change to the field, and a second for the difference between a cross crosslet and a cross moline.

This is clear of Almaith ingen Chormaic, Azure, a schnecke issuant from dexter base argent. A schnecke is a charge, so there is a CD for the change in the tincture of the field and another for the change in tincture of the primary charge.

Submitted under the name Artemesia Leonora Simonetta d'Este, the name was changed in July 2000.

This was pended from the October 2000 LoAR.

Maximilian is a Knight of the Society.

Please instruct the submitter to draw fewer leaves on the bordure.

This was pended from the October 2000 LoAR.

Submitted on the LoI as Rachel bas Gershom Sternenkiker, the given name was changed from Rochl in Kingdom. However, Schmuel Gorr, Jewish Personal Names, transliterates one of the forms as Ro{h.}el (that is, with a dot below the h); we have changed the name accordingly.

Please instruct the submitter to draw larger mullets; the mullets on the large emblazon should be proportionally more like the mullets on the mini emblazon.

Submitted as Birgiða Skálphæna Sorensdottir, there was an unfortunate flaw in the documentation of the patronymic. Soren was documented to 1263 from Danmarks gamle personnavne, but the entry — written in Danish — notes that Severinus does not appear in the form Søren this early and that this instance is either a modernisation of an older form or a misreading of Swen. The form Søren does not appear before the 15th century, so we had to change the patronymic suffix to match that time period.

The submitted form for the given name is not attested in Norse or Danish. Given the choices of the Viking-era Brigiða or the medieval Danish Birgitta we opted for the latter, since the submitter listed this as her second choice. It is also the right choice in view of her request for an authentic name. This request is also the reason why we dropped the descriptive byname: while the name would be registerable as Birgitta Skálphæna Sørensdatter, the strikingly Viking-era middle element is out of place in an otherwise post-mid-15th century Danish name.

The main question in this submission was how to represent the letter yogh. For most purposes within the College, Da'ud notation is likely to be used; in that notation, {gh} is the appropriate choice.

Nice badge!

Submitted as Gareth De Sable, we have changed the particle to lower case.

Please instruct the submitter to use a steeper angle when drawing the chevron.

The name is in aural conflict with Catríona Macraith, registered in April 1994: the given names are identical and the bynames differ only in the final consonant.

The large emblazon had the sun colored tenne. As this is not a registerable heraldic tincture, we must return the device.

The device has several problems. First, the holes in the arming cap reduce its identifiability considerably. Second, the neck is neither couped nor erased, and we could find no way to blazon it as drawn. Therefore the combination of the neck, the mouth (or lack thereof), and the arming cap makes this design too far from period practice to be registerable.

Unfortunately the name Rhianwen ferch Bran ap Gruffydd has already been registered in June 1986. The current submitter is, in effect, claiming to be Rhianwen's father, and the submission is therefore in violation of section VI.3 of the Rules for Submissions.

As the submitter states, Chavalerio is an occupational byname meaning Knight. It is, therefore, presumptuous according to section VI.1 of the Rules for Submissions.

Conflict with Llywelyn ap Gwyn of Anglesey, Argent, three dragon's heads couped within a bordure embattled gules. There is not a CD for erased vs. couped, thus there is only a single CD for changing the tincture of the bordure.

Conflict with Chad Silverswan, Per pall inverted argent, sable and azure, two swans rousant respectant counterchanged and a Latin cross argent. There is a CD for the type of all the primaries, but there is not a CD for the change in posture between rousant and striking. Furthermore, swans and falcons, while significantly different, are not substantially different therefore we cannot call the two pieces of armory clear by RfS X.2, Difference of Primary Charges.

This conflicts with Katharine Campbell, registered in June 1988. According to RfS V.1.a, two name elements need to differ significantly in sound and appearance to be considered different. The difference in pronunciation between Catriona and Katharine is not quite significant enough.

Conflict with Mairghread Maire Draigdaimhalachd, Per saltire azure and vert, a dragonfly tergiant displayed argent, orbed Or, with only a single CD for fieldlessness.

Conflict with Adren cú Faol, Per chevron pean and Or, in base a wolf sejant ululant sable. As the wolf in Adren's device must be in base, there is only a single CD for the change of the field.

Furthermore, the identifiable portions of the wolf are mostly on the blue sections; therefore the device may have been returned for contrast problems even without the conflict. In addition, the position as drawn blurred the distinction between sejant and statant.

Conflict with the Shire of Champclair, Per fess azure and vairy Or and azure, in chief a sun within a laurel wreath Or. There is not a CD between a compass star and a sun. Furthermore, the position of the shire's charges is forced by the rules of contrast, so there is not a CD for the position of the charges on the field. Therefore there is only a single CD for the change of the field. In addition, the wreath was not drawn as a laurel wreath but as two sprigs of laurel. A wreath should be nearly circular, but this case had only a little curvature of the laurel springs at the top.

Conflict with the badge for Tangwystyl verch Rhiwallon Ogwr, (Fieldless) A double rose per pale azure and Or. There is only a single CD for adding the field.

Conflict with Amber Lang, Vert, on a lozenge argent, a cat sejant guardant sable. There is a CD for changing the field, but there is not a CD for changing only the posture of the tertiary charge.

Conflict with François Baptiste Lerenard, Sable, on a chevron gules fimbriated between three fox's masks a fleur-de-lys argent. There is only a single CD for changing the type of the secondary charges.

This was pended from the October LoAR

This was registered in November, 2000.