ACCEPTANCES

AN TIR
Bríg ingen Betháin. Device. Lozengy argent and azure, on a pale vert three trefoils inverted argent. 
Dregate, Shire of. Branch name and device. Quarterly per fess wavy gules and sable, in pale a laurel wreath and a castle Or. 
Elisabeth Catesby. Household name House of the Clove and Hoof. 
Submitted on the LoI as House of the Cloven Hoof, the forms had the name spelled as Clove ‘n Hoof. We have therefore returned the name to the original meaning; but since we do not register scribal abbreviations we have spelled and in full. 
Francesca Testarossa de’ Martini. Name and device. Sable, a horse’s head couped and a point pointed Or. 
Submitted as Francesca Testarossa de Martini, the preposition in the surname is a modern form. We have substituted the shorter period form; dei Martini would be the original. Note that this is an inherited surname meaning ‘of the Martini family;’ the patronymic ‘daughter of Martin’ would be Martini without the preposition.
Francesca Testarossa de’ Martini. Badge. (Fieldless) A horse’s head issuant from a chevron inverted couped Or. 
Gwenllyen Potter. Name and device. Or, a dragon’s head cabossed and on a point pointed rayonny gules an amphora Or, a bordure sable. 
Gytha Corbin. Name and device. Argent, in pale a raven rising to sinister wings elevated and addorsed purpure perched atop a helm reversed sable. 
Harrows Cross, Canton of. Branch name. 
Jacobus filius Catomagli. Device change. Ermine fretty gules. 
Nice armory!
His current device, Argent, a winged seahorse erect sable on a chief azure three triskeles argent, is released.
Líadan ingen ui Shégdae. Name change from Rowan O Moroghoe. 
Submitted as Líadan inghean uí Séaghdha, she requested an authentic 8th-10th century Irish name. We have therefore made the name grammatically correct for that time period.
The submitter might want to know, however, that clan names of this type are not clearly attested until after the time period she is interested in — the few existing examples of ua X bynames can be interpreted literally as ‘grandson of X’. In short, it seems likely that in 8th-10th century there wasn’t yet a Clan Seaghdha to belong to.
Her old name is released.
Lorn Stark. Device change. Argent, in pale three wolves courant to sinister sable. 
His current device, Ermine, in pale three wolves courant to sinister sable, is released.
Meriel Kennet. Name and device. Gules, a cross between four escallops inverted erminois. 
Rauþúlfr inn Orþstóri. Name. 
Submitted as Rauþúlfr inn OrÞstóri, we have corrected the capitalization typo in the LoI.
Rosalia la Gatta. Name and device. Or, a cat rampant to sinister sable queue forchy the tails ending in roses proper within an orle azure. 
Submitted as Rosalia La Gatta, we have changed the capitalization to conform to period practice.
Rosamund of the Misty Meadows. Reblazon of device. Purpure, a heron close maintaining in its dexter talon a rose argent barbed and seeded gules. 
Sunnifa Ámundsdóttir. Name change from Sunnifa Ágmundsdóttir. 
Her old name is released.
Tjörvi Fasthaldi. Device. Quarterly gules and sable, in chief two cat’s eyes Or pupilled sable, a bordure argent. 
ANSTEORRA
Adalulfa von der Helle. Name. 
Submitted as Adalwolfa von der Helle, the question was raised whether there was a pattern of feminizing Germanic masculine names. A quick browse through Morlet’s Les noms de personne sur le territoire de l’ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe siècle, vol. I - les noms issus du germanique continental et les créations gallo-germaniques does reveal enough pairs of the type Adalsada – Adalsadus to suggest such a pattern. However, Morlet only provides us this kind of evidence for Latinized Germanic names, so we can’t get to the Germanic form. We have therefore changed the given name to a Latinized spelling.
Anastasia de Maris. Badge. (Fieldless) A dragon passant contourny azure. 
Submitted under the name Aaron Ashennan of Clan MacKenzie, the name change was returned in May 2000.
Arabella Mackinnon. Name. 
Bianca Mantegna. Name. 
Bran Feda Dorcha. Name. 
Submitted as Bran Cille n-Dorcha, the submitter originally requested an authentic 9th-11th century Irish name but, in consultation with the Kingdom College of Heralds, stated he was really more interested in the meaning of the name. First of all, in this time period, essentially all known names of the format <given name> <locative> are for people in religious life; secular names normally have a patronymic byname.
In this time period the locative byname is simply the place name in the genitive case, without a connecting preposition. We would, therefore, have changed the name to Bran Caille Dorcha. However, the submitter did show interest in having an authentic name, although this consideration is secondary to his wish in retaining the meaning. This has prompted us to make another change as well.
There is an existing place-name Fid nDorcha, mentioned in Hogan’s Onomasticon Goedelicum, that has the meaning ‘dark wood’. We could not find a place name Coill Dorcha, as used in the submission. Moreover, we didn’t find any clear examples of Caille X being used as locative bynames. In the interests of making the name as authentic as possible, we have changed the hypothetical locative to an actual one with the same meaning.
Catherine de Lance. Device. Per chevron argent and azure, three fleurs-de-lys counterchanged, a chief azure. 
Cicilia Rosa. Name. 
Listed in the LoI as Cicilia di Rosa, the name was changed into that form in Kingdom. However Rosa is a header spelling in De Felice’s Dizionario dei cognomi italiani, so we were able to change the name back to the form originally submitted.
Dáire de Haya. Name. 
Daniel McNeil. Name. 
Elewys Luscomb. Device. Purpure, on a pile argent a boar rampant purpure, a bordure Or. 
Etienette de Bitche. Name. 
Gavin Stuart. Name. 
Geneviève del Gamba. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Submitted as Geneviève de la Gamba, we have changed the byname to match the documentation provided on the LoI.
Giovanna Lena Caronna. Name and device. Per pale argent and Or, a pale bretessed purpure between in chief two wolf’s heads erased respectant sable. 
Gwenhuyvar verch Morgant Dedwydd. Name. 
Helen Shiercliffe. Name. 
Ihon Vinson MacFergus. Name. 
John of Severn. Badge. (Fieldless) A lion passant argent charged on the shoulder with a rose vert. 
Kenewi ap Owain. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Submitted as Kenway ap Owain, we have changed the given name to a documented spelling.
Mahee of Acre. Device. Purpure, a Latin cross throughout Or, in sinister canton a decrescent argent. 
Medb Liath. Name. 
Melody MacGregor. Name. 
Morgan Ellisse. Name. 
Rufus Duzeper. Name and device. Per pale invected azure and argent, a natural dolphin urinant argent and three escallops one and two azure. 
The invected line should be drawn with fewer and larger invections.  The SCA default for per pale lines is that invected lines have the points facing to sinister and engrailed lines have the points facing to dexter. 
Tessa da Rimini. Device. Azure, two keys in saltire wards to base and a chief embattled argent. 
Thorvald the Bald. Name. 
Ulrich der Haveke. Name. 
ATENVELDT
Angelina della Costa. Name and device. Or, two mermaids proper crined and sustaining in chief a heart gules. 
Submitted as Angelina Della Costa, we have changed the capitalization to match period practice.
Caitilín inghean uí Shirideáin. Device. Or ermined, a fret and on a chief vert two trefoils Or. 
Edward von Griffenberg. Name and device. Sable, a hangman’s noose argent. 
Submitted as Edward von Griffonberg, we have changed the byname to an uniformly German spelling.
Golda ferch Deiniol. Device. Per chevron vert and Or, two suns in their splendour Or. 
Nice armory!
Joseph Walter McFadden. Badge. Or, a pall sable between three shamrocks stems to center vert, a bordure sable. 
Please inform the submitter to draw the bordure and the pall larger.
Julian Faith McCabe. Device. Per saltire azure and vert, two unicorn’s heads erased respectant Or. 
Please inform the submitter to draw the horns and the beards of the unicorns larger.
Kormákr of Tir Ysgithr. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per bend sinister bevilled azure and gules, a horse’s head contourny couped argent changed with a mullet of four points sable and a sword bendwise sinister proper. 
Submitted under the name Kormákr Kálsvísa.
Li Ming Fa. Name. 
For the registration of this name special thanks go to Pillar for providing extensive documentation, very briefly summarised by herself this way:
Relevent period Chinese given name conventions can be summarized as follows: (1) generally two syllables long, (2) meanings are carried by their written Chinese characters, and (3) female names sometimes refer to flowers.
Malkolm Tay. Device. Azure, a chevron argent ermined vert, overall a mancatcher issuant from base Or. 
Otto Blauschild. Device. Azure, a fret argent, a bordure ermine. 
Please inform the submitter that the bordure should be wider and have fewer ermine spots.
Phelan Ó Coileáin. Name and device. Azure, a horseshoe inverted within a bordure Or. 
Submitted as Phelan O’Coileain, the name mixed Anglicized and Gaelic spelling in a single name element. This is not acceptable, as per RfS III.1.a, so we have changed the byname to an entirely Gaelic spelling. As the submitter requested an authentic Irish name we would have changed the byname to the Anglicized O Collaine, but the submitter did not accept major changes.
Please inform the submitter that the horseshoe would be more identifiable if it had nail holes.  In addition, the bordure should be wider.
Rhys MacArthur. Name and device. Per bend azure and vert, a mullet of four greater and eight lesser points argent and a bear rampant contourny Or. 
Richard of Atenveldt. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per chevron inverted gules and argent, an oak tree and a bull’s head cabossed counterchanged. 
Submitted under the name Richard of the Oak Shield.
Vincent Cadowen of Blackthorn. Name. 
ATLANTIA
Aindrea Gille Eoghainn. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Submitted as Aindrea gillie Eoghainn, we have changed the byname to a correct Gaelic spelling.
Aislinn inghean Mhaoilbhrighde. Name and device. Argent, in bend an acorn proper capped between two oak leaves bendwise sinister vert, a bordure gules. 
Submitted as Aislinn inghean Maoilbhrighde, the question was raised whether Aislinn was a medieval name, and if not, whether it should be considered SCA compatible. While evidence suggests that the name is post-period, the name has been registered over 30 times in the past two decades, with at least one registration each year save one. This suggests that the name is commonly enough used to be considered SCA compatible.
We have changed the patronymic to a grammatically correct genitive form.
The device is clear of Tanya of the Oak, reblazoned elsewhere in this letter, Argent, an oak sprig singly leaved vert fructed proper within a bordure gules.  As seen from the emblazon, the slipping is primary, thus there are CDs for type and number.
Aurelia Aurifaber. Name and device. Sable, a hammer and on a chief argent four oak leaves fesswise stems to center vert. 
Bartola de Rossa. Device. Azure, a daffodil Or slipped and leaved proper sustained by a hand reversed aversant bendwise sinister argent, a bordure Or. 
Briana Morgan of the Valley and Gavin MacFergus. Joint household name Clan MacFergus of Muir and badge. (Fieldless) A griffin segreant per fess gules and sable. 
Nice badge!
Briana of Skye. Device. Per pale sable and gules, a wolf’s head cabossed and in chief a rapier reversed argent. 
Bríg ingen Érennaigh. Name and device. Per chevron vert and Or, two quill pens in chevron nibs to chief Or and a cat’s head cabossed sable, on a chief Or three trefoils vert. 
Charlesbury Crossing. Branch name change from the Canton of the Guardians of the Sacred Stones and device. Sable, a horse statant argent within a laurel wreath Or. 
Their old name and device, Argent, a winged man displayed maintaining above his head a spear fesswise all within a laurel wreath vert, are released. Congratulations.
Cynwrig ap Rhys. Device. Azure, a chevron fracted between a sword fesswise argent and a plate charged with a monkey rampant proper. 
Denis de Dijon. Badge. (Fieldless) A panther passant guardant per pale Or and vert spotted of various tinctures and incensed gules. 
Drostan Arnache. Name and device. Purpure, a wolf sejant and on a chief argent three crosses crosslet fitchy gules. 
Submitted as Drostan Annachie, no evidence was provided for the byname. We have therefore changed it to the documented form listed as the submitter’s second choice. 
Élise da Nizza. Name and device. Argent, a pale purpure cotised vert between two sprigs of lavender proper. 
Gawain Kilgore. Device. Per pale azure and gules, a boar passant contourny within a bordure Or. 
Isabelle Marie de Fontevrault. Device. Argent, an estoile within an orle of fleurs-de-lys azure. 
Please inform the submitter that the fleurs-de-lys on the top of the orle should be level.
James of Middle Aston. Name and device. Azure, a pile inverted invected argent between two mullets Or. 
Jonathas Reinisch. Name change from Jonathas Rinesch. 
His old name is released.
Jaudin Guillaume. Badge. (Fieldless) A standing balance argent. 
Nice badge!
Kira Linn of Mountain Island. Name and badge. (Fieldless) A heart between and sustained by two hands inverted argent. 
Louise de La Mare. Name. 
Medb Ceitinn. Device. Argent, a fox’s mask sable maintaining in its mouth a rose fesswise reversed purpure slipped and leaved vert, a chief doubly enarched sable. 
Muirenn ingen Dara. Name. 
Submitted as Muirenn ingen Darragh, the byname mixed Anglicized and Gaelic spelling. As Bordure put it, 
Woulfe (p. 494 s.n. Ó Dara) lists Darragh as a modern Anglicized form of the name. As such, using it with ingen  violates RfS III.1.a, “Each phrase must be grammatically correct according to the usage of a single language.”
We have therefore changed the name to an entirely Gaelic spelling. 
Pedro de Alcazar. Household name House Kettle and Trumpets. 
Rixende de Rouen. Device. Azure, a wine amphora and a bordure Or. 
Stephen Bridewell. Device. Or, on a bend sinister sable three crescents palewise argent. 
Please instruct the submitter to draw the bend sinister a little thinner.
Ursula Gilforde. Name. 
Yolande of Isenfir. Name change from Yolande the Fair (see RETURNS for device). 
Her old name is released.
Zoe Doukaina Radene. Device. Gules, in bend two theatrical masks, a chief urdy Or. 
CAID
Azor Ryurik. Name and device. Quarterly gules and erminois, in bend a bear rampant contourny and a bear rampant argent. 
Catheryn Cameron Stewart Morgan. Badge. (Fieldless) On an eight petaled flower alternating petals argent and azure barbed vert, a mullet of eight points Or. 
There are period examples of Tudor roses depicted with alternating colors of petals, therefore while an eight petaled flower with alternating tinctures is unusual, it is not unusual enough to be returnable.
Ceridwen Sais. Name. 
Ceridwen is SCA compatible.
Eileen Dover. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Elspeth of Stillwater. Name. 
Submitted as Elspeth of Stille Water, we have changed the spelling of the byname to match such period examples as Stillcart, dated to 1590 in Black’s Surnames of Scotland or Stillwell, dated to 1583 in Reaney and Wilson’s A Dictionary of English Surnames. 
Elwyn de Tarleton. Name change from Elwyn Raney. 
Submitted as Elwyn DeTarleton, we have changed the spelling of the byname to match the submitted documentation.
Fergus O’Fey. Name. 
Frederick Asquith Feare. Device reblazon. Argent, a vol and on a chief triangular sable an axe proper fimbriated of flame Or. 
Giulia Maddalena di Nicolo Sardone. Name change from Madeleine de la Chatte Enfumée. 
Submitted as Giulia Maddalena Sardone di Nicolo. As Kraken put it,  
In Italian, by the time that we find (a) double given names and (b) faimly surnames, I would expect the direct patronymic to have disappeared. On the other hand, given patronymic surname is unexceptional. Adding the double given name is a weirdness, 
We have therefore changed the order of the patronymic and the surname.
Her old name is released.
Gwyneth of Iona. Name. 
Submitted on the LoI as Gwineth of Iona, the given name was originally submitted as Gwyneth. As Jaelle of Armida, then Laurel, wrote in the November 1997 LoAR, 
Morgan & Morgan note the feminine Welsh given name Gwineth in 1577. Therefore, Gwyneth is acceptable as a plausible variant of that name.
We have therefore changed the name back to the submitted form. 
Juliana Angelique d’Avelaine. Name and device. Azure, on a cross wavy argent between in chief two crosses crosslet Or five fleurs-de-lys azure. 
Please inform the submitter to draw the waves more deeply.
Kevin MacColin O’Gallagher. Device. Vert, a comet bendwise Or within an orle of trefoils argent. 
Líadnán mac Ruaidrí. Name. 
Luther Anshelm. Badge. (Fieldless) A dog passant Or collared gules sustaining a banner flying to sinister argent. 
Margaret of Starkhafn. Holding name and device. Argent, two bears combatant sable and a wooden chest proper, a bordure azure. 
Submitted as Mairead MacLabhrain, the name was returned March 2000.
Richard of Blackburn. Name. 
Sasha Dmitrievich Dozortsev. Badge. (Fieldless) A badger statant contourny Or. 
DRACHENWALD
al-Sadiq ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim. Name and device. Gules, a chevron between three Latin crosses fitchy, a bordure argent. 
Submitted as Sadiq ibn-Ahmad ibn-Ibrahim, he requested an authentic 12th century Arab name. We have therefore added an article and deleted hyphens to match evidence provided by al-Jamal.
Château du Ciel, Shire of. Branch name. 
EAST
Alric Stalworth. Name. 
Submitted on the LoI as Alric Stalworthe, we have changed the byname back to the form originally submitted. To quote Metron Ariston,
Given the evidence for the surname in Reaney and Wilson under Stallworthy, where it is stated the longer form is an altered form of stalworth, after worthy. That being the case, we should give the submitter his originally requested form of Stalworth.
Anton LaFlamme de Saint Aubin. Name and device. Gules, on a chief Or three mullets pierced azure. 
Nice armory!
Bronwen Carus. Device. Purpure, a tyger sejant Or. 
Conor Ó Ceallaigh. Device. Sable crusily Maltese, on a lozenge Or a Maltese cross azure. 
Domenico Giovanni Belpensiero. Name. 
Duncan Kerr. Name. 
Eleanora Stewart. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Maddalena Salutati. Name change from Gwyneth Greenecliffe de la Brunefalaise. 
Her old name is released.
Sabina Wüterich. Name and device. Argent, a griffin segreant azure, on a chief indented gules three oak leaves argent. 
Sian of Malagentia. Name and device. Argent, a horse salient between three snaffle-bits sable. 
Tovah bat David. Name and device. Argent, a bend cotised azure between two pomegranates gules seeded Or slipped and leaved vert. 
Please inform the submitter to draw the bend larger and the pomegranates a bit smaller.
Ulrich Ruoff von Weinheim. Name change from Ulrich of Acre and device. Azure crusily, a bear’s head erased argent collared gules. 
His old name is released.  Please inform the submitter to draw fewer and larger crosses and to draw the bear more fully facing to the side.
Wulfhere of Stonemarche. Name and device. Per fess argent and sable, a wolf’s head erased contourny and a clenched gauntlet counterchanged. 
MERIDIES
Áine Dhuin Bhuidhe. Device. Barry engrailed azure and argent, in saltire five towers within a bordure Or. 
Aislinn inghean an Shionnach. Name and device. Per chevron inverted argent and azure, a fox’s mask gules maintaining a rose fesswise azure slipped and leaved vert and two sprigs of oak argent. 
Submitted as Aislinn inghean Sionnach, Sionnach is a descriptive byname meaning ‘fox’, not a given name. We have therefore added an to make it grammatically correct and lenited it. The question was raised whether Aislinn was a medieval name, and if not, whether it should be considered SCA compatible. While evidence suggests that the name is post-period, the name has been registered over 30 times in the past two decades, with at least one registration each year save one. This suggests that the name is commonly enough used to be considered SCA compatible.
Alexander Kyppyn Kirkcaldy. Device. Per pale argent and sable, a standing balance counterchanged and on a chief azure three fish naiant argent. 
His current device, Per pale sable and argent, a standing balance counterchanged, on a chief azure three mullets argent, is released.
Alexander Ravenscroft. Household name House Stentor and badge. (Fieldless) A lion’s jamb bendwise couped gules sustaining a straight trumpet bendwise sinister Or. 
Aleyn Kynyd ap Rhys. Name. 
Basileios Philanthropenos Philomathes. Badge. Two lightning bolts in saltire gules, overall a cloud argent. 
Clare de Estepa. Device. Per pale Or and purpure, a tower within a bordure counterchanged. 
Danyell de Tyrwynne. Name and device. Azure, a sheaf of spears and in chief three acorns argent. 
Edila Emmadoghter. Name and device. Purpure, in pale three lozenges, a tierce engrailed argent. 
Eric of Chester. Device. Per bend gules and sable, a Latin cross between in bend two decrescents argent. 
Feme inghean Donnabháin. Name. 
Genevieve d’Argent Chene. Name and device. Quarterly azure and argent, on a roundel sable a tree eradicated argent, a bordure nebuly counterchanged. 
Ginevra Bagnesi da Diacceto. Badge. (Fieldless) Two demi-swans rousant addorsed conjoined wings addorsed argent. 
Jon the Tall. Name and device. Per bend sable and azure, a dexter human footprint within a bordure argent. 
Kieran MacTier. Name (see PENDS for device). 
Submitted on the LoI as Kieran MacTeir, the patronymic appears to be a typo. We have changed it back to the spelling used on the forms.
Lasair ingen mhic Seoin. Name and device. Vert, two unicorns rampant addorsed, in base three annulets interlaced one and two, a bordure argent. 
Maeve MacLaren. Name. 
Submitted as Máeve MacLaren, we have removed the accent from the given name to match the documentation.
Meridies, Kingdom of. Order name Order of the Argent Slipper (see RETURNS for badge). 
Meridies already has several order names of the type Argent X, so this particular use is grandfathered to the Kingdom.
Morgan of Osprey. Device. Vert, a paw print bendwise sinister Or, a bordure Or semy of lozenges sable. 
Morgina d’Anjou. Name and device. Per pale sable and Or, a sea-lion vert between three escallops counterchanged. 
Natalya Berkutova Voronina. Device. Argent, a vol sable, on a chief triangular azure a wolf’s head caboshed argent. 
A potential conflict was called against Frederick Asquith Feare, reblazoned elsewhere in this letter, Argent, a vol and on a chief triangular sable an axe proper fimbriated of flame Or. There is a CD for the tincture of the chief and another for the multiple changes of the tertiary charge.  The original blazon did not specify the tincture of the chief, so it was unclear whether or not there was a CD for tincture.
Onóra inghean mhic Catháin. Name and device. Sable, three fish naiant in annulo Or. 
Submitted as Onóra nic Catháin, nic only appears in Anglicised spellings. As we do not allow mixed-spelling name elements we have changed the patronymic (and thus the entire name) to be consistently Gaelic.
Sabah ibn Qadir. Name. 
Submitted as Sabah ibn Qadir al Tar, there was a problem with the byname al Tar. To quote al-Jamal, 
Tar, on the other hand, is more problematical. First, “the string” does not follow the pattern of “inanimate objects used as  descriptive epithets” cited. These included “the rose”, “the raisin”, and “the onion”. All these are plants or plant parts. The string  does not even come close. Second, tar in Arabic is “revenge” or “to fly” (Jaschke’s English-Arabic Conversational Dictionary, p.  365). “String” in Persian is risman (Lambton’s Persian Vocabulary, p. 367).
We have therefore dropped that element.
Sarah MacGregor. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Scoithin mac Mhuireadhaigh. Device. Or, in saltire five lions rampant, an orle sable. 
Seleone, Barony of. Order name Order of the Golden Sea Lion. 
Susanna Campbell. Name and device. Argent, a dragon sejant erect contourny vert maintaining a rose slipped and leaved proper between three decrescents azure. 
Submitted as Susanna inghean ui Caimbeul, Caimbeul is a descriptive byname, not a given name. As the submitter indicated she will accept Susanna Campbell or a name with that meaning, we had three choices: make the name entirely Anglicized as above, apply the Gaelic byname to herself (Susanna Caimbeul) or apply the byname to her father (Susanna inghean an Chaimbeul). We have chosen the first option, as it is the one that most clearly affiliates her with the Clan. This choice also has the additional benefit of being the most authentic of the three.
Tanya of the Oak. Reblazon of device. Argent, an oak sprig singly leaved vert fructed proper within a bordure gules. 

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK
AN TIR
Anne Cary. Name. 
This name conflicts with the real-world opera singer Annie Louise Cary, 1841-1921, found in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
ANSTEORRA
Geneviève del Gamba. Device. Azure, a decrescent within an orle of fleurs-de-lys argent. 
Conflict with Diana de Savigny, Azure, a decrescent within seven trees in orle argent. There is only a single CD for the change in type of the secondary charges.
Ive Rathbourn. Device. Quarterly gules and sable, on a sun Or a wheel proper. 
Conflict with the badge for the Compagnie du Dindon d’Or (Kriemhild of Stonecroft), Vert, a mullet of nine points throughout Or, thereon a turkeycock’s head [Gallopavo meleagris] erased proper. There is a CD for the field, but nothing for the difference between a mullet of nine points and a sun, and nothing for changing the type only the tertiary charges. An examination of Kriemhild’s emblazon shows that the head is primarily brown.
Kenewi ap Owain. Device. Per pale azure and vert, a pale bretessed argent. 
Conflict with Nicolette Bonhomme, Per pale gules and sable, a pale embattled argent. There is no heraldic difference between embattled and bretessed on a pale therefore there is only a single CD for the difference of the field.
Maria Elena de los Santos. Device. Azure, on a bend between two angels contourny blowing trumpets argent three roses proper. 
The angels are depicted with their faces and part of their upper torso turned away from the viewer.  They should be redrawn either facing to the side or facing forward.  The standard heraldic depiction is facing forward. 
Michael Silverhand. Device. Quarterly per fess embattled azure and argent. 
Withdrawn by the submitter.
ATENVELDT
Angelica Blauschild. Device. Azure, a pair of wings argent conjoined by a Hungerford knot Or, pendant from the knot a needle and a quill pen argent, a bordure ermine. 
The device has a complexity count of nine, which is over the rule-of-thumb limit. While we sometimes register armory with this complexity count, those cases follow patterns of period complex armory, which this device does not. Furthermore the needle and quill pen were unidentifiable.
In any resubmissions, if the wings must be joined by a knot, please drawn the knot substantially thicker.
Kormákr Kálsvísa. Name. 
The byname Kálsvísa, justified as a kenning based on the name of a legendary horse, has serious problems. No evidence was submitted that proper names appeared as kennings, that is, allusive names used primarily in scaldic poetry; the most the College could find was that names were used as parts of kennings. Furthermore, the argument presented in the submission does not address the issue of whether Kálsvísa as a name refers to a particular legendary individual in such a way that its use should be prohibited. It is also unclear whether the byname is a claim to superhuman powers and therefore presumptuous.
His device was registered under the holding name Kormákr of Tir Ysgithr.
Richard of the Oak Shield. Name. 
Based on such examples as Sword or Spear, found in Reaney and Wilson’s A Dictionary of English Surnames, the meaning of the byname appears to be acceptable. However, there is no evidence that these bynames would be used with of the; also, oakshield would have been spelled as one word. The name would thus have appeared in the desired period as Richard Okesheld. As the submitter does not allow changes we have to return it.
His device has been registered under the holding name Richard of Atenveldt.
ATLANTIA
Aindrea Gille Eoghainn. Device. Sable, a reremouse dormant dependent from an annulet argent. 
The bat was not dormant, but was rather in its natural sleeping posture. We know of no examples of this posture in period heraldic depictions of bats, and for good reason: this posture eliminates any identifiable aspects of the bat.  Therefore the device violates VIII.4.c, Natural Depiction: “ Excessively natural designs include those that depict animate objects in unheraldic postures ” and VIII.3, Armorial Identifiability.
Balthasar van Maldeghem. Device. Per pale sable and Or, a mace and a bordure embattled counterchanged. 
There was discussion as to whether the mace was wide enough to be counterchanged along its long axis.  Previous cases have decided that winged swords are not, and that double-bitted axes and comets are. The issue is identifiability — such counterchanging was banned precisely because the charge became unidentifiable. After examining the emblazon, we decided that the charge was just barely too narrow to be counterchanged like this.
Robert of Canterbury. Name and device. Gules, three bunches of grapes slipped and leaved Or. 
No name forms were included with the submission. As we lack the ability to form a holding name, the device must be returned as well.
Sajah bint Habushun ibn Ishandiyar al-Hajjaji. Device. Per pall inverted vert, sable, and argent, two non-crosses argent and a non-cross gules. 
Non-crosses are an SCA invention and have been registered only once, in 1977. Like many other charges from that time period, they are no longer registerable barring evidence that such crosses are compatible with period style.
Wil Elmsford. Alternate name Ninichiro no Togakure. 
No documentation was submitted for this name, and since the College could not provide such documentation either we have to return this. The submitter might wish to consult Name Construction in Mediæval Japan by Solveig Throndardottir (mka Barbara Nostrand), ISBN 0-9642082-0-2.
Yolande of Isenfir. Device. Argent, on a pile purpure between two roses purpure, seeded slipped and leaved proper, a pegasus segreant argent. 
Withdrawn by the submitter.  Please instruct the submitter to draw the pile a little narrower on subsequent submissions.
CAID
Eileen Dover. Device. Vert, two badgers combattant argent marked sable between in chief a roundel checky sable and argent and in base a dance Or. 
No evidence was presented for the abasement of the dance.  As drawn, it looks more like a fimbriated base, which not allowed.
Starkhafn, Barony of. Order name Order of the Illumination of Starkhafn. 
This was an appeal of a Kingdom return of the order name. We find that decision correct; the name does not follow any known period examples for order names.
CALONTIR
Calontir, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Buteo Pursuivant. 
The Laurel office never received any forms.
Calontir, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Gold Penguin Herald. 
The Laurel office never received any forms.
Calontir, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Gyr Pursuivant. 
The Laurel office never received any forms. Furthermore, contrary to what the LoI states, there is no such bird as Gyr, although there is a species named Gyrfalcon. 
Calontir, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Harrier Pursuivant. 
The Laurel office never received any forms.
Calontir, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Kite Pursuivant. 
The Laurel office never received any forms.
Calontir, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Merlin Pursuivant. 
The Laurel office never received any forms.
The question was raised in commentary whether this title conflicts with the literary person Merlin. However, personal names and other names are two separate categories.
Calontir, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Raptor Pursuivant. 
The Laurel office never received any forms. Furthermore, contrary to what the LoI claims, the name is not “the name of a hunting bird from the hawk, eagle or falcon families, which were common during period”. To quote Metron Ariston: 
In classical and medieval Latin raptor is the term for a thief or plunderer or even a rapist, essentially anyone who seizes upon something and carries it away. The earlier English usage for this term follows that meaning. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the use of the term for the order of birds of prey would appear to be a nineteenth century usage.
The name does not appear to follow period examples of heralds’ titles, any more than the synonymous Rapist Pursuivant would.
DRACHENWALD
None!
EAST
Adele Krin. Device. Quarterly purpure and argent, a cross formy and bottony counterchanged. 
We can do no better than quote Brachet:
Looking at the drawing in Foster, it seems to me likely that the blazon is happenstantial and this is just a fancy drawing of a cross bottony. Note that the drawings in Foster are not period drawings, they are 19th C. work by  the author.
A bit more research proves confusing. Anglo-Norman Armory II, C. Humphery-Smith, p309 blazons  the cross of John Benstede (from the Falkirk Roll) as  a cross clechy voided and bottony argent  (and each convex intersection of the cross clechy has a small trefoil attached!) Brault, in Eight Rolls of Arms, p89, gives the blazon from the Thevet version of the Falkirk Roll as “87. Sir John de Benestede port la croys perce’ et patee et botonee d’argent.” (There are no emblazons in Brault.) In  the notes it says that the tincture of the field is missing in both copies of the roll. Looking at the rest of the roll the blazon is peculiar in several respects, not the least of which is the lack of field. If different authorities in different books have vastly different interpretations, enough to change the recorded blazon in the case of Cecil H-Smith, it seems to me that this is good evidence that this cross is a one-off period weirdness.
The appeal, therefore, is denied.
Azelin Cola of Wishford. Household name House Ancaster and badge. (Fieldless) On a bell Or, a duck statant gules. 
This name is in aural conflict with the protected real-world house of Lancaster.
The badge is in conflict with Roger de Hinchelie, Vert, on a bell Or a lion rampant guardant gules. There is a CD for fieldlessness, but not a second for changing the type only of the tertiary charge.  A bell is not simple enough to void and thus not simple enough for X.4.j.ii to apply.
Eleanora Stewart. Device. Sable, chapé barry wavy argent and azure, a crane maintaining a key argent. 
Conflict with Rosamund of the Misty Meadows, reblazoned elsewhere in this letter, Purpure, a heron close maintaining in its dexter talon a rose argent barbed and seeded gules. There is a CD for the field, but an examination of the emblazon of Rosamund’s device shows that the rose is maintained and thus there is not a CD for changing it to a key.
Kazimira Suchenko. Device. Argent, a harpy displayed azure, the human half proper, crined and feathered azure, orbed and armed Or. 
Conflict with the badge for Michael von Rosenau Argent, an owl displayed azure maintaining a rose fesswise gules, slipped and leaved vert.  There is one CD for the difference between an owl and a harpy; however, there is not substantial difference.  No CD can be given for change of less than half the tincture of the harpy.  In addition, by current precedent, caucasian human flesh proper is considered to be a variant of argent, and the amount of flesh contacting the argent field is just sufficient to cause problems with identifiability.
Martin Diaz. Device. Argent, on a bend sinister cotised azure, three mullets of six points palewise argent. 
Conflict with Darlene of Caithness, Argent, on a bend sinister cotised azure between a teazel purpure leaved vert and a sprig of blueberry proper, two compass stars palewise argent. [Vaccinium corymeosum].  Current policy is to not grant different between mullets of six or more points, thus there is not a CD for changing the number only of the tertiary charges, leaving only one CD for removing a secondary charge group.
MERIDIES
Chandani bint Razi. Name. 
Contrary to what the submitters claim, Chandani does not appear in Schimmel’s Islamic Names; on the contrary, the evidence found by the College suggests that it is a modern non-Arabic name.
Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for the Order of the Argent Slipper. Sable, a slipper within a bordure argent. 
Blazoned with a sable field, the forms showed an argent field, which violated the rules of contrast.
Sarah MacGregor. Device. Gyronny argent and gules, on a plate a thistle sable. 
Conflict with the badge for Household Moonrime (Vanora of Kintyre), Pean, on a plate a thistle sable. There is only a single CD for the field.  Furthermore, just as we do not allow a compony bordure to share a tincture with the field, the consensus was to not allow a roundel to share a tincture with a gyronny field, as the number of divisions is not high enough to ensure identifiability.
Seleone, Barony of. Order name Order of the Lacy’s Heart. 
Unfortunately, the name does not follow period examples for order names.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN PENDED UNTIL THE FEBRUARY 2001 LAUREL MEETING 
CAID
Cecilia la Feconda. Device. Or, a bunch of grapes gules slipped and on a chief vert three suns Or. 
The letter of intent blazoned the grapes as vert. 
MERIDIES
Conor the Black. Badge. Argent, a thistle sable within a bordure gules. 
Submitted with an argent field, the field was removed at kingdom. Fieldless badges cannot have bordures or any other charge that is defined by the edge of the (non-existent) field. However, since the intent was clearly to have an argent field, we are re-adding the field and pending this so that the college can check it for conflict. 
Kieran MacTeir. Device. Azure, a winged wolf segreant argent maintaining with its dexter forepaw a sword inverted proper, a bordure argent semy of lozenges gules. 
The original blazon had the wolf as proper instead of argent.  In addition, the only part of the wolf touching the sword is a single claw.  The College of Arms is asked to comment on whether this should be reblazoned or returned.