Submitted as Order of the Golden Lamp of the Endless Hills, the registered name of the branch is Barony of Endless Hills. We have therefore removed the extra article.
Under the Standards for Evaluation, this does not conflict with the registered Award of the Gold Lamp, as the addition of the branch name clears the conflict. Under the Rules for Submissions, they would conflict, but the submitters have permission to conflict with this item.
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Submitted as Bard's Hall, this form of the name conflicts with the protected position Bard, registered to the SCA. The submitter proposed to fix this by adding a designator Tavern, making this Bard's Hall Tavern. Unfortunately, this construction was not documented; commenters could not find any support for it either. Aryanhwy merch Catmael was able to document a sound-alike placename Bardshal; we have made the name Bardshal Tavern in order to register the name.
This badge is not in conflict with the device of Lavinia of the Tyrol, Per bend sinister Or and vert, ermined Or, in dexter chief a harp vert. Under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation, there is one CD/DC for the change of field, and another CD/DC for the addition of the secondary Lacy knot.
Please advise the submitter to draw the harp with internal detailing, to aid in its identification. The knot likewise should be drawn to show the interlacing cord.
Nice badge!
Submitted as an alternate name, the submitter withdrew the submitted primary name. That makes the remaining name submission the primary name.
Submitted as Victorio Rafael De La Guerra y De La Paz, commenters were able to document all byname elements to late period Spain in the IGI Parish extracts. However, no documentation was presented for the capitalization of the preoposition de and the article la; we have changed them to the documented lowercase forms.
The submitter seems to think that double given names and two bynames (which today would reflect the paternal and maternal surname) were typical in period Spain. They are not; most people had a single given name and a single byname. A name as complex as this is quite unlikely even in late period Spain, but such names can be found occasionally among the high nobility. Family names like Hurtado de Mendoza y de la Cueva and López de Mendoza y de la Vega (both found in the late 15th century in Nobiliario Español by Julio de Atienza) are equivalent to this. Therefore it can be registered.
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Submitted as Mercuriade Alessandra Canaparius, Mercuriade is a pseudonym for a 14th century female doctor. The argument was made that such pseudonyms might well have been used as given names during the Humanist revival of the Renaissance. However, no evidence for such a pattern was presented. Barring evidence of this use of medieval pseudonyms of this sort, this name cannot be registered. We would welcome further research on this point. We have dropped that element in order to register the name.
Latinized bynames must match the gender of the name. Thus, the feminized Canaparia must be used. We have made that change in order to register the name.
This does not conflict with the registered Margaret di Ferrara. Under the Rules for Submissions, diminutives conflict with the names from which they are derived. However, Ghita is a diminutive of Margarita, not Margaret. As the names are otherwise different in sound and appearance, these names do not conflict. Under the Standards for Evaluation, we compare names on sound and appearance only, and Ghita and Margaret are quite different in both sound and appearance. Under the Standards for Evaluation, Margarita da Ferrara (her original submission) would be clear of conflict as well.
Submitted as Ian'ka Ivanovna zhena Petrovitsa, the submitter requested authenticity for 11th century Russia. Unfortunately, our resources for that period are slim. We can suggest that Ian'ka Ivanova zhena P'trovitsa is a plausible name for the following century, but neither byname can be dated to the 11th century in anything close to the submitted form. Petriata is an 11th century form of Petr and Ioannikii a pre-1100 form of Ivan or Ioann. However we believe that a name created with these elements would be a greater change than the submitter allows. Therefore, we are making this name authentic for the 12th century, to partially meet her request. This requires two changes: changing the undocumented spelling Petrovitsa to the documented P'trovitsa and changing the early 17th century Ivanovna to the earlier Ivanova. The first is required for registration, while the second is only required for temporal compatibility.
The submitter has permission to claim a relationship with the registered Ivan Petrovich. This permission is clearly necessary under the Rules for Submissions. We decline to rule whether Petrovich is sufficiently different from P'trovits to be registerable without that permission under the Standards for Evaluation.
Nice device!
Nice badge!
This device is not in conflict with the device of Rachel of Sandy Stream, Argent, a schnecke issuant from sinister chief and in dexter chief a seeblatt purpure. Under both the Rules for Submission and the Standards for Evaluation, there is a CD/DC for changing the orientation of the schnecke, from issuing from sinister chief to issuing from dexter chief, and a CD/DC for changing the tincture of the schnecke.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a secondary charge with a schnecke.
Submitted as Rebekah Sit al Saylam, the byname is not properly constructed. The submitter said that she intended Sit to be understood as a patronymic marker, but it is not one. Instead, Arabic Sitt is used in compound given names; it means "lady" and is followed by some group of people, place, or trait that the person in question is "lady of." There is no evidence that it was followed by given name or used in a byname. The correct Hebrew form meaning "daughter of Saylam" is bat Saylam. The submitter explicitly allowed the use of bat. We have made that change in order to register the name. The submitter may want to know that commenters could not confirm the patronym from the original source. Therefore, it is possible that it is a transcription error. However, barring definitive proof that it is such an error, it remains registerable.
Commenters observed that Rebekah appears in the published work from which the name is documented as an Anglicized form of the Hebrew name which in modern Hebrew is Rivkah. Without further documentation, this spelling is not registerable in Arabic context. This spelling is found in sixteenth century English and French bibles, including the Geneva Bible. As such, it would be registerable in an English or French context.
The mix of French and Catalan is a step from period practice under the Rules for Submissions; it is an allowable lingual mix in Appendix C of the Standards for Evaluation.
In a Catalan or Spanish context, which is the source of the patronym, the form Rebeca is dated to 1362. As such, a linguistically consistent form is Rebeca fija de Saylam; a Hebraicized Rebeca bat Saylam is plausible as well.
Blazoned when registered in December 1981 as Quarterly vert and argent, in bend sinister two four-leaf shamrocks palewise vert, we are clarifying that the four-leaved shamrocks are slipped.
Appearing on the Letter of Intent as William Flaeil, the submitted form was William Flaiel. As commenters realized this, the name does not need to be pended for further commentary.
While the byname spelling is not documented as a Middle English form, it is documented as an Anglo-Norman spelling (in the Anglo-Norman Dictionary, http://www.anglo-norman.net/, s.n. flael). As Anglo-Norman spellings are found in English byname context, this can be registered. The submitter may want to know that a later byname can be constructed with the meaning "at the sign of the Flail" (for the location of a tavern), which would take the form de la Fleil.
Please advise the submitter to draw all of the leaves closer to vertical; the one nearly horizontal leaf in this depiction seems out of place.
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Please advise the submitter to draw the tree higher, so it is more properly centered on the field.
This name mixes a Turkish given name and an Arabic byname. This is a step from period practice under the Rules for Submissions; it is an allowable lingual mix in Appendix C under the Standards for Evaluation.
This badge is in conflict with the device of Godric of Twynham, Per saltire arrondi argent and gules, but Godric has granted blanket permission to conflict for any armory that is one countable step from his device. In this case, under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation the change of tincture of half the field provides the necessary CD/DC.
This badge is not in conflict with the device of Petrus Curonus, Per saltire Or and gules, or with the device of Ælfthryth il, Per saltire sable and azure. Under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation, there is a CD/DC for change in tincture of half the field, and another CD/DC by precedent for the difference between per saltire and per saltire arrondi.
This badge is also not in conflict with the device of Barbara Wrona, Per saltire azure and sable. Under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation, there is a CD/DC for change in tincture of half the field, and another CD/DC by precedent for the difference between per saltire and per saltire arrondi. Alternatively, under the Standards for Evaluation, this is clear of conflict by section A5F2, Substantial Change of Tincture, which states "If a new submission with a field divided into two sections, three sections, quarterly, or per saltire has changed the tincture of each section of that field and each has at least one tincture on the field that the other does not, the two are substantially different and do not conflict."
The submitter may want to know that a standardized Old Norse form would be B{o,}ðvarr Ketilsson; the submitted form is typical of Old East Norse, spoken in Viking-age Sweden.
The submitter's previous name, Ebben Bassi, is released.
The byname is the lingua Anglica form of a documentable 13th century byname de Neydwode.
Ghaltai Jida is now the submitter's primary name, while Philip Bell is now the alternate name.
Nice 15th century Italian name!
Hamilton is the submitter's legal given name. Baelfire Dunn is a registered SCA branch name.
The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Philip Aleksandrovitch, Vert ermined Or, a wolf's head erased argent a bordure Or, with the device of Kostantin Volkovich, Gules ermined Or, a wolf's head erased argent and a bordure Or, and with the device of Elizaveta Aleksandrovna, Purpure ermined Or, a wolf's head erased argent and a bordure Or.
His previous device, Quarterly azure and gules, a chevron Or and overall a cross clechy throughout argent, is released.
Margaret Cameron is now the submitter's primary name, while Aldís Grímólfsdóttir is now the alternate name.
Nice late period English name!
Roxbury Mill is a registered branch name.
Under the new Standards for Evaluation, this does not conflict with the registered March of the Black Rose or Award of the Compass Rose of Ansteorra. In each case, the addition of a word (and removal of a kingdom name in one case) is sufficient to make them clear of conflict. Both are conflicts under the Rules for Submissions, as the addition of a second adjective to an already modified noun does not clear conflict, nor does the removal of a branch name. However, items that are clear of conflict under either set of rules can be registered during this transition period.
As documented, the name mixes an Italian given name and a French byname. Commenters were able to find the given name in France as a masculine given name (dated to 1630) or feminine given name(dated to 1575) name in the IGI Parish extracts. Thus it is a completely French name.
Please advise the submitter to draw the chevron thicker, to emphasize its status as the primary charge.
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Her previous name, Alice de la Paleysse, is retained as an alternate name.
Under the Rules for Submissions, this device is in conflict with the device of Caterina Nadalini, Purpure, on a lozenge ployé Or a bunch of grapes proper. There is only one CD for the changes in type and tincture of the tertiary charge.
Under the Standards for Evaluation, this device is not in conflict with Caterina's device, as there is a DC for the change in type of the tertiary charge, and a DC for the change in tincture of the tertiary charge. It is therefore registered.
Her previous device, Per pale purpure and vert, a chalice within a bordure rayonny Or, is retained as a badge.
This badge is not in conflict with the badge of Melissa Kendal of Westmoreland, reblazoned elsewhere on this letter as (Fieldless) A quill pen bendwise sinister sable ribbed gules. Under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation, there is a CD/DC for fieldlessness, and another CD/DC for the change in orientation. Under the Standards for Evaluation, this is also not in conflict by a substantial change in orientation of the primary charge.
The submitter may want to know that this name mixes Old East Norse spellings (for the given name) and Old West Norse spellings (for the byname). The completely Old East Norse form would be Stæina Halfdanardottir, while the completely Old West Norse form would be Steina Hálfdanardóttir. As the name is registerable as submitted, it does not need to be changed; the mix is not even a step from period practice under the Rules for Submissions.
This badge is not in conflict with the device of Ellen Winterbourne, Gyronny azure and vert, on a mullet of eight points argent an eagle's head erased gules, beaked sable. Under the Rules for Submissions, there is a CD for fieldlessness, and another CD for the combined change in type and tincture of the tertiary charge. Under the Standards for Evaluation, there is a DC for fieldlessness, a DC for change in type of the tertiary charge, and a DC for change in tincture of at least half the tertiary charge.
This depiction of flame is grandfathered to the Barony of Starkhafn.
"Baronial champions" is a generic identifier.
The given name was documented as Dutch. However, it is also found in England in the 13th and 14th century, making the name completely Middle English.
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Please advise the submitter to draw the bend wider.
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Please advise the submitter to draw the bordure's embattlements as wide as they are deep.
The submitter's previous name, Katou Tatsuko, is released.
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Nice late period English name!
The submitter's previous name, Antonio di Capizzi, is released.
The submitter has permission to conflict with the badge of the Barony of Endless Hills, Argent, a thunderbolt gules.
The entire central column of a thunderbolt represents fire or flame, but here only the ends of the column are depicted as flame proper.
This name does not conflict with the registered Brian MacFergus. The sound and appearance of the given names are significantly different under the Rules for Submissions; the changes affect multiple syllables under the Standards for Evaluation.
Please advise the submitter to draw a line in white dividing the base from the field.
The submitter has permission to conflict with any armory of the kingdom of the East, which includes the populace badge, (Fieldless) A tyger passant azure, and the badge for the Chronicler, Or, a tyger passant azure maintaining a quill argent. Any blazonable change is sufficient to allow registration, and the removal of the maintained charge quill is a blazonable change.
The submitter is a duchess and thus entitled to the display of a coronet.
Nice Elizabethan name!
Under the Rules for Submissions, this device is in conflict with the badge of Markus Hammerhand, (Fieldless) A hand argent charged with a hammer sable. There is a CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for the change in type only of the tertiary charge. Under the Standards for Evaluation, this device is not in conflict with Markus's badge, as there is a DC for fieldlessness, and a DC for the change in type of the tertiary charge. It is therefore registered.
This device may be in violation of section A3D2c of the Standards for Evaluation, which requires charges in a group to "be in either identical postures/orientations or an arrangement that includes posture/orientation...Some standard arrangements for period charge groups are discussed in Appendix K." While the gouttes here are in a unified arrangement, that arrangement is not listed in Appendix K, and so may not be registerable without further evidence. However, this is a registerable arrangement under the Rules for Submissions, and therefore this may be registered.
The byname Ó Móráin is grandfathered to the submitter, as it is part of his father's registered name.
This name does not conflict with the registered Éadaoin inghean Chionaodha. Even in late period, when both bynames are pronounced as if they have two syllables (earlier, Chionaodha had three), the vowel sounds are quite different. In Anglicized Irish, Mac Chionaodha is written Mac Kinna or Mac Kenay, while Mac Choinnigh is writen Mac Coinny. As the vowel sounds in each syllable are different, these names are clear of conflict under the new Standards for Evaluation. We decline to rule whether the same would be true under the Rules for Submissions.
This device violates section A3D2c of the Standards for Evaluation, which says "A charge group in which postures for different charges must be blazoned individually will not be allowed without period examples of that combination of postures." Here the primary charge group consists of a fox sejant to sinister and a horse passant. As the fox and horse have comparable postures, and their postures are not identical, this is not registerable under the Standards for Evaluation. However, there is no such restriction under the Rules for Submissions, and so the device may be registered.
This does not conflict with the registered François Dupuis. The second syllables of the bynames share no sounds in common, which is enough to make them clear under either the Rules for Submissions or the Standards for Evaluation.
Nice cant!
Nice device!
This name was registered in February 2002 as Jacquelinne Sauvageon. The name was submitted as Jaquelinne Sauvageon, but the Letter of Intent listed it as Jacquelinne Sauvageon with no mention of the change. It was registered in the changed spelling. Either spelling is registerable, so we have changed the name to the originally submitted form.
Submitted as Martin of Carolingia, this name was a response to the inability to document the submitter's desired submission, Martin Wasserspeier. During commentary, Eastern Crown documented the name as two separate bynames, Wasser Speier. The submitter indicated that he preferred that, so we have changed it to that form.
Her previous badge, (Fieldless) A winged demi-lion maintaining a sword and a rose slipped Or, is released.
This name does not conflict with the registered Valentina la Valente. Under the Rules for Submissions, neither element is substantially different, and they conflict. However, under the new Standards for Evaluation, the changes to multiple syllables are sufficient to clear conflict, as we compare the names as a whole.
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This submission was pended from the January 2012 Letter of Acceptances and Returns to allow the discussion of issues involving other possible order names (see RETURNS). The submitters asked that this be registered only if the other submissions were returned.
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The submitter allows the registration of any name that is not identical to this name.
This name does not conflict with the registered Cieran Sionnach. Under the Rules for Submissions, the given names are not different enough to clear conflict. Under the Standards for Evaluation, the names are more than different enough in appearance. Change in sound affect three syllables: the given names and first syllable of the byname is \KyAIR-a HIN-\ for the submission and \KyEER-an SHIN\ for the currently registered name. While some modern people may pronounce the given names incorrectly (or following the rules of other languages), we do not consider all possible mispronunciations when considering conflict.
Section A3D2c of the Standards for Evaluation requires charges in a group to be in identical postures/orientations or in an arrangement that includes posture/orientation, but precedent says:
In short, if the charges in a single charge group do not have comparable postures, they are not in violation of the "identical postures/orientations" part of the rule. The charge group as a whole must still be in a standard arrangement. [May 2012 Cover Letter]
However, A3D2c goes on to also say "A charge group in which postures for different charges must be blazoned individually will not be allowed without period examples of that combination of postures." The charges here do not have comparable postures or orientations, but they also are not in a unified arrangement, as the pairs of feathers in saltire must be blazoned separately in order to adequately describe their positioning. This is probably not a valid design under the Standards for Evaluation, but as it is valid under the Rules for Submissions, it may be registered.
Nice 15th century French name!
Nice device!
Nice 14th century English name!
The submitter has permission to conflict with the populace badge of the kingdom of Lochac, Quarterly azure and argent, on a cross gules four mullets of six points argent. The addition of the bordure grants the necessary difference.
Nice late period Welsh or English name!
Please advise the submitter to draw the tankard larger.
This name was registered in 1996, but was not noted at that time as a name change from Taliesin o'r Parc.
The submitter's previous name, Taliesin o'r Parc, is retained as an alternate name.
Nice late period English name!
Nice device!
The submitted form mixes an Old Norse given name with a later Swedish form of the byname, dated to 1455 and later. The Old Norse form of the byname would be Árnadóttir. This combination is not registerable under the Rules for Submissions, as there are two steps from period practice: one for the lingual mix between Old Norse and Swedish and a second for the temporal gap between the names of over 300 years. This combination is registerable under the Standards for Evaluation, as it combines names from a single regional naming group that are dated to within 500 years of one another.
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This name was returned in kingdom for lack of documentation that the name Bikki was used by normal humans. The name was documented as a literary name from a saga; such names are generally registerable when they are the names of normal humans who are important characters in a story.
The submitter should know that the name is closely related to the Old Norse word that means "bitch." This makes it unlikely that it would ever have been used as a real person's name. On the other hand, it is the name of a character who is a normal person. Additionally, the names of the other characters in this incident are normal, non-allegorical names. As such, we cannot say with any security that this is not a plausible literary name, and it can be registered.
Amber is the submitter's legal given name.
The submitter's previous name, Gwynneth Annora, is retained as an alternate name.
His previous device, Azure, a pall between a peacock in his pride argent and two Stafford knots of chain Or, is released.
Antonio grants permission to conflict for all armory which is one countable step (DC) from his device.
The submitter requested authenticity for 16th century Italy. Cecilia remains the more common spelling until after 1600 in Italy. However, the submitted spelling can be found in the 16th century (for example in Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori by M. Giorgio Vasari, published in 1568). So this name meets that authenticity request.
This device is in conflict with the device of Hieronymus Dernoma, reblazoned elsewhere on this letter as Gyronny argent and sable, a mullet of seven points argent fimbriated sable, and with the badge of the Barony of Rivenstar, Azure, a riven star argent. Current precedent grants no difference between a mullet of seven points and a sun, or between a riven star, which has four greater and two lesser points, and a sun. Thus, under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation, there is only a single CD/DC for the change in field.
New precedent on mullets, estoiles, and suns was established on the April 2012 Cover Letter, to take full effect as of the November 2012 meetings. Under that precedent, mullets of seven or fewer points will be granted difference from a sun, which would grant the necessary second CD/DC in this case. As it is favorable to the submitter, we are choosing to apply that precedent at this time.
The submitter may want to know that, while this name is registerable, the form suitable for the 900s is Muirenn ingen huí Dúnchada.
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Blazoned when registered in August 1976 as Gyronny argent and sable, an estoile of seven points argent fimbriated sable, the primary charge is actually a mullet, not an estoile.
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Commenters raised the issue of whether or not a pair of angles is a period charge. Parker says "this bearing seems intended to represent the hook or fastening of a waistband (the arms of Wastley being allusive), and for this purpose the rings are attached..." No evidence has been found that the arms of Wastley date to any earlier than the early 19th Century. Without further evidence of the use of this charge in period, we will no longer allow it after this registration.
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Submitted as Eleanor of Penn Forest, the submitter requested authenticity for 13th to 15th century England. Documented forms using Forest as a placename element generally take the form Forest of X where X is an existing placename (see Watts and the Middle English Dictionary s.n. Forest). In this case Penne is an existing placename, making of the Forest of Penne a plausible byname for that time. We have changed the name to that form in order to meet her authenticity request.
Please advise the submitter to draw the charges larger to fill the available space.
The submitter requested authenticity for 11th or 12th century England. This name meets that request.
Submitted as Hrefna Cyrredsdottir, the byname is not properly constructed. Cyrred is a masculine Anglo-Saxon name. This name therefore combines an Anglo-Saxon name with Old Norse dottir. A name phrase (like a byname) may not mix two languages. The completely Anglo-Saxon form would be Cyrredes dohtor. We have made that change in order to register the name.
This name mixes an Old Norse given name and an Anglo-Saxon byname. This mix is a step from period practice under the Rules for Submissions. It is an allowable lingual mix listed in Appendix C of the Standards for Evaluation.
The submitter requested authenticity for 12th to 13th century Norse. As the byname is Anglo-Saxon, we cannot meet that request. Additionally, we do not know that Hrefna or the other elements continued in use until that time. However, the name is registerable as is.
Nice device!
Section A3D2c of the Standards for Evaluation requires charges in a group to be in identical postures/orientations or in an arrangement that includes posture/orientation. Precedent says:
In short, if the charges in a single charge group do not have comparable postures, they are not in violation of the "identical postures/orientations" part of the rule. The charge group as a whole must still be in a standard arrangement. [May 2012 Cover Letter]
The secondary charges here are in a standard arrangement for two charges, but their orientations are not identical; however, they may not have comparable postures/orientations. In any case, this is a valid design under the Rules for Submissions, and so it is registered.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a hoofprint.
Nice late 13th century French name!
This name mixes a Gaelic given name with an Anglicized Irish byname. This mix is a step from period practice under the Rules for Submissions. It is an allowed lingual mix under Appendix C of the Standards for Evaluation. A completely Anglicized Irish name would be Semus O Mourane or James O Mourane; a completely Gaelic form would be Seamus O Moghrain.
Please advise the submitter to draw the cauldron with a handle. Cauldrons in period heraldry always have handles and no legs.
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This name was pended from the January 2012 Letter of Acceptances and Returns to allow commentary on the submitter's authenticity request. The submitter requested authenticity for 11th century Basque, in Soule, France. We can confirm that all elements are 11th century, but cannot confirm that all would have been used in the French (as opposed to Spanish) Basque-speaking region.
This submission was pended from the January 2012 Letter of Acceptances and Returns to allow the conclusion of the discussion about Norse byname capitalization.
Submitted as Hrafn Snarfari, the name was changed at kingdom to the lowercase, snarfari to match precedent. As precedent was changed in April 2012 to allow Norse bynames to be registered with either capitalization, this can be restored to the submitted form.
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The submitter requested authenticity; this name is authentic for 15th century Irish Gaelic.
Some commenters felt this depiction, complete with a black mask, looked too much like the New World black-footed ferret, which was not discovered until well after period, and thus would not be registerable. However, the common domestic ferret is considered a subspecies of the European polecat, which also exhibits a dark mask and other similar markings. As we are no longer in the habit of specifying which specific species of animal is being depicted, and this is could easily be described as a European ferret, we will assume it is such and register it.
This name does not conflict with the registered Elizabeth Greene. The bynames share only the first consonant cluster, making them substantially different in sound and appearance under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a compass star.
Submitted as Jacob Redborne, the name was a resubmission of a kingdom return of Jacob Redbrook, which was returned for lack of documentation of the byname. The submitter indicated that if the original submission could be registered, he would prefer it to the submitted form.
Dolphin was able to date the original byname to 1627 in the IGI Parish Extracts. Edelweiss was also able to date Redbrooke to various dates in the 16th century. Therefore, we have restored it to the originally submitted form.
This does not conflict with the registered Margaret Gresham. The bynames are substantially different in sound and appearance. The submitted name can be either a single syllable name or a two syllable name. Even in the case with the same number of syllables, the vowels in both syllables as well as the consonant cluster between them are different, making the names different enough in sound and appearance to register.
Blazoned when registered in October 1976 as (Fieldless) A quill pen sable, ribbed gules, the quill pen is bendwise sinister.
Submitted as Tymme le Brewere, the submitter indicated that he really preferred Tim the Brewer. Dolphin was able to document Tim as a given name from the IGI Parish Extracts from 1575 on. The byname the Brewer can be justified as a vernacular form of le Brewer, dated in Bardsley (s.n. Brewer) to 1327. We have made these changes in order to meet the submitter's request.
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- Explicit littera accipiendorum -
None.
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Submitted as her primary name, this name was withdrawn by the submitter.
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Commenters questioned if the use of an escarbuncle of chain Or in combination with the surname de Navarra is presumptuous, citing the arms of Navarre, Gules, an escarbuncle of chain within and conjoined to an orle of chain Or. This would be a possible violation of section XI.2 of the Rules for Submissions, which says that "Armory that asserts a strong claim of identity in the context of the submitters name is considered presumptuous," and of section A6E of the Standards for Evaluation, which states "the use of a piece of historical armory combined with the family name of the holder may be presumptuous."
As discussed in greater detail on this month's Cover Letter, as an escarbuncle of chain Or seems uniquely linked with the royal family of Navarre, we will not allow its use in combination with the surname Navarre.
This device is returned for being obtrusively modern, which is a violation of section VIII.4 of the Rules for Submissions and section A3F3 of the Standards for Evaluation. Commenters overwhelmingly saw this as two light sabers clashing, something which is decidedly outside the period of the Society.
There is also a problem with the depiction of the candlesticks. Both section VII.7.a of the Rules for Submissions and section A2C of the Standards for Evaluation require that elements must be recognizable and identifiable, and depicted in their period and not modern forms. Period candlesticks have a broad base, to prevent them from tipping over, and often also include a cup for catching wax. The slimmer profile of the candlesticks depicted here, along with the unlit candles, had some commenters guessing that the charges were broken swords, daggers, or even boffer weapons, instead of the intended candlesticks and candles. Given the intent of the original submission, the submitter may be happier redesigning this with swords, instead of with candlesticks.
This device is returned for redraw, for violating section VII.7.a of the Rules for Submissions which requires that "Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance." This is repeated in section A2C2 of the Standards for Evaluation which states "Elements must be drawn to be identifiable." Commenters found the eagle's foot here difficult to identify, both due to its being inverted, and by the unusual way in which it is holding the arum lily. The erasing of the foot is also too small to properly identify.
This device is returned for redraw, for using an unblazonable, unidentifiable vine. No evidence was provided, and none was found by commenters, that a "heart-shape" was a valid arrangement in period armory. Commenters also confused this vine with a laurel wreath, which is a restricted charge, due to the similar shape of the leaves. The flowers depicted on this vine were too small to be noticed. It is unlikely that any vine with similarly shaped leaves depicted in a circular arrangement would not be confused with a laurel wreath.
The submitter may wish to know that the depiction of semiminims here is registerable, but a more period depiction would have the vertical line extending from the top of the lozenge, not its side.
(to Atenveldt acceptances) (to Atenveldt returns)
Commenters could find no evidence of a fess treated in this manner, embowed on one side and enarched on the other. The blazon on the form was a chief enarched to base, which is also an unprecedented complex line. Without evidence that a chief or a fess was treated in such a way in period armory, this design is not registerable under either the Rules for Submission or the Standards for Evaluation.
This device is returned for using a fleury complex line of division, which is not registerable. While we allow a fleury counter-fleury complex line, as an extension of other similar complex lines, we have no evidence of a complex line with only demi-fleurs issuant in one direction.
This device is also in violation of section A3D2c of the Standards for Evaluation, which requires charges in a group to be in identical postures/orientations or in an arrangement that includes posture/orientation. Precedent says:
In short, if the charges in a single charge group do not have comparable postures, they are not in violation of the "identical postures/orientations" part of the rule. The charge group as a whole must still be in a standard arrangement. [May 2012 Cover Letter]
However, A3D2c goes on to also say "A charge group in which postures for different charges must be blazoned individually will not be allowed without period examples of that combination of postures." The annulets and swan's heads here do not have comparable postures or orientations, but they also are not in a unified arrangement, as they must be blazoned separately in order to adequately describe their positioning. While this is a registerable arrangement under the Rules for Submissions, the submitter should be aware of the issue as the Rules for Submissions will no longer be in effect as of the November 2012 meetings.
(to Atlantia acceptances) (to Atlantia returns)
This badge is returned for not being reliably blazonable, a violation of section VII.7.b of the Rules for Submissions which states "Elements must be reconstructible in a recognizable form from a competent blazon." This is repeated in section A3F5 of the Standards for Evaluation which requires that "Depictions that require the careful description of the relative positions of charges, tinctures, etc. in order to produce a visual effect cannot be registered. Designs must be able to be described in standard heraldic terms to be registerable." It is difficult to adequately describe the size and placement of the roundels. It is also not good period style to use both a lozenge ployé and a plain lozenge in the same design. Furthermore, the overall impression of the design as a jeweled ring may be a problem, as it detracts from identity of the individual charges.
(to Caid acceptances) (to Caid returns)
None.
(to Drachenwald acceptances) (to Drachenwald returns) (to Drachenwald pends)
This device has been withdrawn by the submitter.
(to Ealdormere acceptances) (to Ealdormere returns)
This device is returned for being non-period style, for having two different tertiary groups on the same underlying charge. This has not been allowable by long-standing precedent under the Rules for Submissions, and is repeated in section A3D1 of the Standards for Evaluation, which requires that "Depictions of charges that blur the distinction between charge groups will not be allowed." The difference in scale here between the dragon and the anvil makes the two charges appear to be in two different groups, instead of in one unified tertiary charge group. Unfortunately, the size of the charges is constrained by the pale; nevertheless, the overall impression is of a a dragon and in base an anvil, an arrangement of tertiary charges which is not registerable.
This device is returned for a redraw, for violating the guidelines set forth on the May 2011 Cover Letter for a properly drawn per chevron field division; the field division here is too high. Please see that Cover Letter for further discussion and details of how to properly draw per chevron lines of division.
This device is also in violation of section A3D2c of the Standards for Evaluation, which requires charges in a group to "be in either identical postures/orientations or an arrangement that includes posture/orientation...Some standard arrangements for period charge groups are discussed in Appendix K." The mullets and the decrescents are in the same group here, but their arrangement is not listed as a standard arrangement for five charges in Appendix K. While this is a registerable arrangement under the Rules for Submissions, the submitter should be aware of the issue as the Rules for Submissions will no longer be in effect as of the November 2012 meetings. However, an exception will be granted to this submitter for a timely resubmission of a redraw of this device.
(to East acceptances) (to East returns)
This submission was pended from the January 2012 Letter of Acceptances and Returns to allow further discussion of the grandfather clause.
This item depends on whether the grandfather clause can be extended from the pattern registered to the kingdom, of material chalice or precious stone, to material keystone. By long precedent, the use of grandfathered patterns in order names requires multiple examples. As the submitters have several examples of precious stones, a stone like alabaster would be registerable. This would allow Order of the Alabaster Chalice. However, they only have a single example of precious stone + object, a chalice. Barring a pattern of multiple kinds of objects, a new kind of object, like a keystone, cannot be registered to them under the grandfather clause.
This submission was pended from the January 2012 Letter of Acceptances and Returns to allow further discussion of the grandfather clause.
This item depends on whether the grandfather clause can be extended from the pattern registered to the kingdom, of material chalice or precious stone, to material keystone. By long precedent, the use of grandfathered patterns in order names requires multiple examples. The submitters have several examples of precious stones of various sorts, including Order of the Marble Chalice. However, they only have a single example of precious stone + object, a chalice. Barring a pattern of multiple kinds of objects, a new kind of object, like a keystone, cannot be registered to them under the grandfather clause.
(to Gleann Abhann acceptances) (to Gleann Abhann returns)
None.
(to Lochac acceptances) (to Lochac returns)
This device is returned for conflict with the device of Olaf Wulfbrandt, Sable, a fess embattled between three crosses bottony Or. Under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation, there is one CD/DC for change in type of the secondary group, but nothing for the change in half of the tincture of only the bottommost charge.
This is an appeal of the Laurel return of this badge in November 2010. The badge was returned for violating the precedent forbidding non-ordinary and ordinary charges in the same charge group.
Blazoned on the Letter of Intent as a sinister tierce paly Or and gules, the appeal argued that as tierces paly that share a tincture with the field may be registered, the motif here could be equally blazoned as a tierce paly instead of two pallets. While tierces paly may share a tincture with the field, they must be identifiable as such; here, there are only four traits to the supposed paly, making the rightmost trait of the "tierce" gules; as that matches the field, it reinforces the impression of two pallets.
While drawing a field or field division with an even number of traits is the best way to depict paly, a tierce is not a field division, but a peripheral ordinary. In this case, as it shares a tincture with the field, it would be better if it were drawn with an odd number of traits, or if the tinctures were changed.
This is an appeal of the Laurel return of this badge in November 2010. The badge was returned for violating the precedent forbidding non-ordinary and ordinary charges in the same charge group.
Blazoned on the Letter of Intent as a sinister tierce paly Or and sable, the appeal argued that as tierces paly that share a tincture with the field may be registered, the motif here could be equally blazoned as a tierce paly instead of two pallets. While tierces paly may share a tincture with the field, they must be identifiable as such; here, there are only four traits to the supposed paly, making the rightmost trait of the "tierce" sable; as that matches the field, it reinforces the impression of two pallets.
While drawing a field or field division with an even number of traits is the best way to depict paly, a tierce is not a field division, but a peripheral ordinary. In this case, as it shares a tincture with the field, it would be better if it were drawn with an odd number of traits, or if the tinctures were changed.
(to Meridies acceptances) (to Meridies returns)
None.
(to Middle acceptances) (to Middle returns)
None.
(to Northshield acceptances) (to Northshield returns)
This badge is returned for violating section VIII.3 of the Rules for Submissions, which requires that "Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability...Identifiable elements may be rendered unidentifiable by significant reduction in size..." This badge also violates section A2C2 of the Standards for Evaluation, which requires that "Elements must be drawn to be identifiable...Ambiguity can be created when a depiction falls between two states that contribute to difference, such as tincture..." The ermine spots on the lion here are not large enough, so that their exact tincture is difficult to determine. While by the blazon this badge is technically not in conflict, under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation, with the badge of Irmele Schäfferin von Grünsberg, (Fieldless) A lion Or ermined azure, there is a potential visual conflict here, as Lijsbet's ermine spots in this depiction could be confused with azure ones, particularly given that the artistic details of arming and languing are azure. Drawn with more substantial sable ermine spots, there should be no visual conflict.
This submission was withdrawn by the kingdom.
(to Outlands acceptances) (to Outlands returns)
None.
(to Trimaris acceptances) (to Trimaris returns)
None.
(to West acceptances) (to West returns)
- Explicit littera renuntiationum -
Submitted as Lindquistring Herold, this submission was documented on the basis of the registered Orden des Lindquistringes. While the nominative is the form we'd expect for a heraldic title (instead of the genitive that the grammar of the order name requires), grandfathering applies only to the exact registered form, not modified versions of it. The new Standards for Evaluation (In NPN1C2G) put it like this: "Only the exact, actual name phrase from the registered form may be used..." While the Rules for Submissions are slightly less clear, saying (in II.5) "Only the actual name element from the originally registered submission is covered by this permission." In either case, substantial precedent makes it clear that there is not an exception for grammatically required changes: for example, Xson does not allow the grandfathering of Xdottir.
This is pended to allow further discussion of two questions: First, should we allow the grandfather clause to apply in cases that require minor grammatical changes? Second, is there evidence to allow the registration of a name like Herold des Lindquistringes? We note that new documentation for the title would allow it to be registered without resorting to the grandfather clause. Current documentation supports the construction Saint Xes object (where X is a given name), but not other patterns.
This was item 2 on the Drachenwald letter of March 30, 2012.
(to Drachenwald acceptances) (to Drachenwald returns) (to Drachenwald pends)
- Explicit -
Created at 2012-08-05T18:41:13