The given name Kaede is a period word meaning "maple," which follows a pattern of creating Japanese feminine given names from the names of trees and flowers. Thus, this name can be registered.
Baronial Sergeantry is a generic identifier.
The submitter requested authenticity for late 16th century Italian. This name meets that request.
The submitter is a knight and a viscount, and so is entitled to the display of an orle of chain and a coronet.
Nice 15th century Italian name!
Please advise the submitter to draw the charges with internal detailing so they are more easily identifiable.
Submitted as Gareth Sevensterre, the submitter indicated that he preferred Sevenstar if it were registerable. The submitted form is registerable, but we can create a form closer in sound to the submitter's request. Commenters could not document Sevenstar, but Non Scripta found Seven and Star as independent bynames in late period England (from the FamilySearch Historical Records). As there is a pattern of using two bynames in England, that allows Gareth Seven Star to be registered. We have changed it to that form in order to meet the submitter's request.
The Letter of Intent cites a grey period ship named de Sevenstar ("the Sevenstar" in Dutch). The byname derived from that ship name would be van de Sevenstar "of the Sevenstar." Such a name would be registerable as well.
Submitted as Gerhard Irmelrich, the submitter requested authenticity for late 13th century German vernacular.
Gerhard is a late 13th century form (found for example in Talan Gwynek, "Medieval German Given Names from Silesia" (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/bahlow/). Irmelrich is dated to the mid 14th century, but late 13th century forms are quite different. Ermenrich is found in Socin (p. 140) several times between 1280 and 1293. A Latinized Emelricus is found twice in the earlier part of the 13th century Seibicke (s.n. Emmerich); the vernacular is likely to be Emelrich. We have changed the name to that form in order to meet the submitter's authenticity request.
Nice 15th century Italian name!
Submitted as Rhowyn Arden the Bard, the documented form of the given name is Rowyn. The Letter of Intent tried to justify R/Rh switches in English. However, the examples they could find (Rhodes/Rodes and Rhys/Rys) are both borrowed words (from Greek and Welsh respectively). In each case, Rh- is the standard modern initial spelling (in English transcriptions) of these words. As such, they are not evidence for the pattern in native English words or even loan words that begin with sounds not normally transcribed using Rh-. We have therefore changed the name to the documented form.
We note that Rowen is also a documented spelling (dated to 1559 in the FamilySearch Historical Records) and can be registered.
Darkwood is the registered name of an SCA branch.
Nice late period Flemish name!
Toria can be documented as a Spanish given name; thus this name can be registered as a Spanish-Italian mix. This is an allowable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA.
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This badge is in conflict with the device of Iago ab Adam, Ermine fretty gules. There is one DC for fieldlessness, but nothing else. While we do typically grant a DC between a fret couped and fretty, that is only when there is a field, as fretty can be depicted as a single fret throughout. By long-standing precedent, there is no difference between an ordinary and the same ordinary couped on fieldless armory. Fortunately, the submitter has permission to conflict with Iago's device, and so this badge may be registered.
His previous badge, (Fieldless) A mascle gules, is released.
The submitter grants permission to conflict for all armory not identical to his badge.
Upon his death, the submitter's badge will be released.
The submitter grants permission to conflict with all names not identical to her registered name.
The submitter grants permission to conflict for all armory not identical to her badge.
The submitter grants permission to conflict with all names not identical to her registered name.
The submitter grants permission to conflict for all armory not identical to her badge.
The submitter grants permission to conflict with all names not identical to her registered name.
This device is not in conflict with the device of Gavine Armestrang, Per bend gules and sable, a bend between two armored arms embowed argent. There is a DC for the change in type of secondary charges. Armored arms, despite their armor, are still considered human body parts, and thus are animate charges, not inanimate charges. SENA A5G7a states that "Groups of animate charges or their parts may have comparable postures/orientations as a group even if their individual postures are not comparable." While arms and quadrupeds do not have directly comparable postures, the posture of the group as a whole may be compared. In this case, the embowing of the arms specifically helps to determine that both arms are oriented in the same direction, as opposed to the respectant orientation of the lion and wolf. There is therefore a DC for the change in orientation of the secondary charges.
This arrangement is not a violation of SENA A3D2c. Per the June 2013 Cover Letter, "We will henceforth treat a pair of charges in saltire...as a single unit only for purposes of arrangement under SENA A3D2c. As always, the entire charge group must be in a blazonable period arrangement, such as two and one, in fess, in cross, etc."
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Arn Hold is the registered name of an SCA branch.
Arn Hold is the registered name of an SCA branch.
This transfer was authorized by Houri's wife, his legal heir.
His current device, Or, a chevron gules between three bugle horns and on a chief sable a boar's head erased contourny Or, is retained as a badge.
Her previous device, Per saltire azure and argent, two Arabic lamps argent lit Or, is released.
The name is registerable as a mixed German and Scandinavian name without any reference to the grandfather clause. Ulrich is found broadly in period High German (for example, Talan Gwynek "Medieval German Given Names from Silesia" http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/bahlow/, dates it from c. 1250-1369). Goutte d'Eau shows that Albrikts(s)on is in use as late as 1414 in the Diplomatarium Suecanum. This name mixes a German given name and a Swedish byname; this is an allowable lingual mix under the standards of Appendix C of SENA.
Given the mention of his father's registered name (Albrecht), the submitter may want to know that Ulrich Albrecht or Ulrich Albrechts is a fully German form of the name.
The submitter's previous name, Ulrich von Kallenberg, is retained as an alternate name.
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Submitted as Akastos Theodoros, the byname is not properly constructed. The father's name needs to be in the genitive (possessive) form, which is Theodorou. We have changed the name to that form in order to register the name.
Blazoned on the Letter of Intent as a polypus, the pointed head of this charge led most commenters to identify it as a calamarie instead.
We have blazoned this period treatment of partitioning a bordure along an interior line as bordure parted bordurewise in the past. The outermost/uppermost tincture is blazoned first, and then the innermost tincture. It may not be the most elegant blazon, but it suffices.
The charge of a mountain of three peaks vert, fimbriated and snow-capped argent is grandfathered to this group.
Fleur Delacour, a relatively minor character in the Harry Potter books and movies, is not important enough to protect. Thus, we do not need to consider whether the two names are different enough in sound; the submitted name does not presume identity with a protected person and can be registered.
Please advise the submitter to draw the ladybugs with larger spots, to aid in their identification.
There is a step from period practice for changes in annulo not in their default palewise orientation.
Submitted as Morgann MacDara, MacDara is a modern spelling. The late 16th to early 17th century forms of the name are M'Dary and M'Darey (from Woulfe s.n. Mac Dáire); the Gaelic period spelling is mac Daire.
The submitter also enquired about a patronymic derived from the name Dubh Dara. A late period Anglicized form is M'Dwdara (Woulfe s.n. Mac Dhubhdara), while the period Gaelic forms of the byname are Mac Duibh Dara or Mac Duibhdara. Any of these forms is registerable.
The submitter indicated that he preferred the Gaelic Mac Duibh Dara. We have changed the name to that form in order to register the name and meet the submitter's request.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a lightning bolt not as part of a thunderbolt.
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Submitted as Æðelswiþe de Sanderstede, when the given name was corrected to the nominative Æðelswiþ or Æþelswiþ, the byname was changed from de Sanderstede to of Sanderstede. This change was unnecessary, and we are restoring the byname to its submitted form. We note that Æðelswiþ of Sanderstede would be registerable as well.
As discussed on the Cover Letter this month, modern drop spindles will no longer be registerable after the April 2014 decision meetings. Please advise the submitter to use a period drop spindle instead.
Nice Anglicized Irish name!
Submitted as Robert Cameron de Grey, the submitter made it clear he would prefer Cameron de Grey if it could be registered. Noir Licorne was able to document Cameron as an English surname in 1608. Thus, Cameron can be used as a given name, following the late period English pattern of using family names as given names. We are changing this to Cameron de Grey to meet the submitter's preferences.
When the default orientation of a wheel of cheese was described in November 2012, the exact positioning of the cut-out wedge was stated as being on the sinister side. We are partially overturning that precedent, and stating that the exact placement of the cut-out wedge does not matter nor is it blazonable; its existence is important in being able to define the charge, but that is all.
Appearing on the Letter of Intent as Dearbháil O'Haloran, the spelling O'Haloran could not be dated to before 1650. The spelling that could is O Halloran, which was dated to 1602 by Eastern Crown in Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records and of the Keeper of the State Papers in Ireland: Presented to Both Houses of the Oireachtas, Issues 17-21. Forms with and without the apostrophe are used interchangeably. We have changed the name to the dated spelling (but with the apostrophe) in order to register the name.
Given her earlier submission, the submitter may want to know that Derder O'Halloran is also registerable. In March 2008, Pelican said "Derder is also a reasonably plausible speculative late 12th century Scots/English spelling of the name." As elements within a single naming pool, they only need to be within 500 years and the combination can be registered. Similarly, a completely Gaelic Deirdre inghean Ui hAllmhurain is registerable.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a tierce with another charge.
We do not allow charged hearts as fieldless badges, as a heart shape may be a form of armorial display. However, even though we do not grant a DC between a heart and a seeblatt, they are not identical. A seeblatt is not a form of armorial display, and so may be charged in a fieldless badge.
Stierbach is the registered name of an SCA branch.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a Russian firebird.
Nice late period Italian name!
This complex low-contrast line of division is identifiable here and thus registerable.
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The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Aleksandr Yaroslavovich Vyetcikov, Sable, a pall of chain Or between three bezants. This permission is needed, as period palls of chain are drawn with central annulets of a variety of sizes. We are retaining the submitter's blazon, instead of reblazoning this as a pall of chain, in order to emphasize the annulet as she desires. There is no difference between an annulet suspended by three chains in pall and a pall of chain.
Alexandrea is the submitter's legal given name.
Nice device!
Precedent says that the Inn of the White Hart from Arthur C. Clarke's short story collection is important enough to protect. However, the fame of fiction changes over time; few commenters recognized the name and fewer thought it important enough to protect. Thus, this name can be registered. This name is different enough in sound and appearance from the registered Order of the White Hare. SENA NPN.3.C.3 says that, for single syllable words, changes to the sound of a single group of vowels or consonants can be sufficient to allow registration. In this case, the vowels are different as well as part of the final consonant cluster. The change of a single letter, as in this case, is a sufficient change in appearance under NPN.3.C.3 as well. Thus, this name can be registered as submitted.
The pattern of matronymic bynames in the form de Na X (where Na is a title equivalent to Spanish doña or Italian donna) in Catalan is documented in Anne Brenon, Le petit livre aventureux des prénoms occitans au temps du Catharisme (Tolosa: Loubatières, 1992). While scans were not included, Brunissende Dragonette was able to confirm the information from the book, allowing this name to be registered as submitted.
Nice device!
There is a step from period practice for using a schnecke with another charge.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a triskelion of spirals.
Submitted as Daniel Fisserman of Muddywater, the last element is a byname based on a constructed locative. Commenters were unable to find examples using modern Muddy-, rather than Mud-. However, there are period exemplars using Middle English Mudi- and a variety of place names using -water (including the 1346 Fresshwaterre in the Middle English Dictionary s.v. water). Thus a Middle English Mudiwater is plausible. We have changed the name to that form in order to register the name.
Nice device!
Appearing on the Letter of Intent as FergusMacDuff, the correct spelling (and the one on the forms) has a space between the given name and the byname. We have made that change in order to register the name.
Great late period Scots form of a Gaelic name!
Submitted as Ksafipa Krasnoi, the byname needs to match the given name in gender. The feminine form of this byname (meaning "the red") is Krasnaia or Krasnaya. We have changed the name to the first form in order to register the name.
Nice device!
This complex low-contrast line of division is identifiable here and thus registerable.
Nice late period English name!
The submitter's previous name, Quintin Phelan, is retained as an alternate name.
The submitter's previous name, Maud of the Well, is retained as an alternate name.
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Blazoned when registered in September 2013 as Per chevron azure and Or, two crequiers azure leaved gules and an otter's head cabossed Or, the field is actually Per chevron Or and azure.
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The submitter requested authenticity for 14th-16th Finnish. We believe this name to be authentic for the 16th century, though we were unable to confirm that the byname is correctly constructed for that time. However, the construction is plausible and can be registered.
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Nice 13th century English name!
Submitted as Violetta da Parma, the name was changed at kingdom to Violetta Da Parma to make the name completely English, as they could not document Violetta in Italian.
However, this name can be restored to its Italian form: Violetta is found as a woman's name in 16th century Pisa ("Names from 15th and 16th Century Pisa," unpublished article by Juliana de Luna). Thus, this is a completely Italian name and can be restored to the submitted form.
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Nice name for Viking-age Iceland!
Bedic is the submitter's legal surname.
A far more period motif would have the arm issuant from a cloud. Here the arm is the primary charge, the sustained sword a secondary charge, and the demi-sun another secondary charge.
This badge is not in conflict with the device of Gautier d'Isigny-sur-Mer, Ermine, a jester's cap gules, or with the Barony of Bjornsborg's badge, (Fieldless) A jester's hood gules, doubled and belled Or. In both cases, there is a DC for fieldlessness, and at least a DC for the difference between a cap or hood and a human head wearing a hood.
Eft is the lingua anglica form of the period term evete, ewt(e), eefte, etc., a term largely displaced in most dialects by the more recent word newt. As we would register a newt as a charge, such a term could be used to create the name of an order. It is a header form in the OED; thus it can be registered as a form of that period word.
Please advise the submitter to draw the natural salamander a bit wider and more separated from the lotus blossom.
Submitted as Black Squirrel Pursuivant, the name was changed by kingdom to Black Squirrell Pursuivant to match the dated forms they could find. This change was unnecessary; the name as submitted could be registered under the lingua Anglica allowance. In addition, Diademe was able to date the modern spelling to 1624 in the OED s.v. squirrel. Thus, we can restore the name to its submitted form.
Submitted as Order of Bellina, that name is too similar in appearance to the registered Casa Bellini to be registered. The change of a single letter in a relatively long multisyllabic word is not enough to clear conflict. To clear this conflict, the submitters allowed the addition of the element of Carillion. We have made this change in order to register the name.
Please advise the submitter to draw the wolf larger, so it is more readily identifiable.
This name does not conflict with the registered Costanza de Navarre. Changes affect the first syllable of the given name (the submitted name has an n while the registered name does not), the preposition (or lack thereof), and the end of the byname. While the locative element might rarely be pronounced identically, the other changes are sufficient to make them different enough in sound to allow this name to be registered.
The Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry says that a chamfron was used in period as the badge of the Baron of Drelburgen.
The submitter requested authenticity for 15th-16th century Italy. This name is authentic for 16th century Tuscany, though the submitter may want to know that both Isabetta and Lisabetta are more common forms of the given name than Elisabetta.
Submitted as Geneviève Lucrezia Bonaventure D'Este, commenters could find no evidence for the grave accent in the given name before 1650. Thus, we have removed it in order to register this name. The submitter may want to know that d'Este, with lowercase d, is the more typical spelling of the byname.
This name mixes French and Italian; this is an allowable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA.
This name does not conflict with the registered Catherine du Fay. The names are quite different in appearance, but are relatively closer in sound. In most linguistic contexts, the two given names have different numbers of syllables and do not conflict. However, in some Middle English pronunciations of Catherine, the -e in Catherine is not silent, and the final sound of both names is similar. Even considering that Middle English pronunciation, the names are still clear under SENA PN.3.C.1, Changes to Two Syllables. Changes affect two syllables: the changes to the start of the second syllables of the given name (th vs. t) and the change from du to de in the bynames. Thus, the name is clear of conflict and can be registered.
Nice device!
Blazoned when registered in August 1979 as Argent, on a pile inverted azure, a lyre argent, this field division is far better described as per chevron throughout.
The submitter requested authenticity for 15th-16th century Italy. This name is authentic for 15th century Florence.
The submitter requested authenticity for 15th-16th century Italy. This name is authentic for 15th century Florence.
There is a step from period practice for the phases of the moon motif.
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None.
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As discussed on the Cover Letter this month, a mullet elongated palewise will no longer be registerable after the April 2014 decision meetings.
This device was pended from the May 2013 LoAR in order to receive the last necessary letter of permission to conflict. The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Degary Golafre of Pembroke, Quarterly sable and gules, a griffin segreant coward maintaining in its dexter talon a Celtic cross and in its sinister talon a sword inverted Or, the device of Gavin Flandre, Gules, a griffin segreant checky argent and azure, the device of Kiera Loch Beldragon, Gules, a griffin segreant maintaining a harp Or, a chief urdy erminois, the device of Morgan ap Siarl, Gules, a griffin segreant ermine maintaining in its dexter foreclaw a cross of four lozenges Or, the device of Nicolette de Coulours, Quarterly purpure and vert, a hippogriff segreant Or, the device of William Castille, Gules, a griffin segreant and a chief Or, and the device of Griffin Wharvager, Gules, a griffin segreant Or and a ford proper.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a non-eagle displayed.
The submitter's previous name, Margat Catte, is released.
Saraswati is definitely a period term (the Sanscrit name for the goddess); the 12th century Tamil poet Ottakoothar wrote a poem in praise of her.
In September 2011, Pelican registered Anek{a-}strasya Bai, ruling:
The submitted given name is the Sanskrit form of an alternate name for Durga, while the pattern for the use of goddesses' names by human women is Tamil. However, Sanskrit was sometimes used to write Tamil names, in the same way that Latin was sometimes used to write names in European languages. Therefore, we can give the submitter the benefit of the doubt that a name might be recorded using the Sanskrit version of a Tamil name.
This given name is equivalent and can also be registered.
We are not certain what would have been done with the title -mân.ikkam "temple woman" in a Sanskrit context. However, given the relatively scarce sources for names from the Indian subcontinent, this information is sufficient to give the submitter benefit of the doubt and register the name.
Dragon's Mark is the registered name of an SCA branch.
Appearing on the letter of Intent as Yosef_ben Lazar ben Yaakov, the submitter indicated that he would like to add a second given name Baruch if possible. Juetta Copin documented that pattern, so we can add that name in order to meet the submitter's request. The submitter also indicated interest in adding Aharon as a second given name in the patronymic byname; we could find no evidence of such a pattern and hence cannot meet that request.
The submitter may like to know that with the addition of Baruch he could drop the byname ben Yaakov. If he wanted, he could do a request for reconsideration asking us to drop that element.
As discussed on the Cover Letter this month, a mullet elongated palewise will no longer be registerable after the April 2014 decision meetings.
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There is a step from period practice for counterchanging the bordure over a chief.
The ways in which House and various kinds of personal names and titles are combined in English is complicated. A variety of grammatical forms are found using different forms of personal names and titles, some before and some after the designator House.
House of X, where X is a location or title, is used for noble households: House of Lancaster, House of York, House of Britanie, House of Clarence, House of Scotland, House of Suffolke, House of Guyse and Lorayne, House of Vandome, and House of Cerda (all from the 1594 A Conference About the Next Succession of the Crown of Ingland, http://books.google.com/books?id=kOQbU56suzcC).
By the Tudor era, some titles were not derived from place names, but were created directly from family names. Examples include Baron Seymour and Baron Howard in William Camden's Reges, Reginae, Nobiles, et alij in Ecclesia Collegiata B. Petri. Thus, one could hypothesize a noble household created from this sort of noble title that would take a form like House of Reynard.
That this structure could at least conceptually be used with things that were not titles can be seen in the Shakespearean House of Montagues and House of Capulet (spellings from the 1623 folio. Capulet in particular is of unclear origin but doesn't appear to be derived from a place name or title, but from a family name of non-locative origin.
The forms House of X and X House (where X is the entire name of a person) are both used to describe groups of people in the 16th century. Sharon Krossa (Effric Neyn Ken?ocht Mcherrald) "A Brief, Incomplete, and Rather Stopgap Article about European Household and Other Group Names Before 1600" (http://medievalscotland.org/names/eurohouseholds/englandhouse.shtml) gives examples of each order: þe hous of Julyane huxster and sir Henry Percy house.
Plain surnames are also used to name buildings. Examples of X House where X is a non-locative family name include Woolsey House (1644, Journal of the House of Commons) and Cecil House (1601, Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House, Volume 11: 1601). Mari Elspeth nic Bryan and Juliana de Luna "Names of English Colleges" give many examples of both X Inn/Hall and Xs Inn/Hall where X is a family name.
Given this evidence, we must give the submitter the benefit of the doubt and allow names like House of Reynard to be registered as English household names.
Nice badge!
Her previous device, Vert, a wolf statant guardant argent between in pale two oak leaves Or, is retained as a badge.
Submitted under the name Dalphina d'Orleans.
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Nice device!
This is the defining instance of a harness loom in SCA armory. Blazoned on the Letter of Intent as a four-harness loom, the harness loom depicted does not appear to have four harnesses; furthermore, that is a detail that we need not blazon. The harness loom depicted here is a copy of the one seen in a 15th century edition of Boccaccio's Livre des femmes nobles, BnF Ms Fr 598, on f.70v (found at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84521932/f150.item).
The submitter has permission to conflict with the badge of Catrin ferch Dafydd, Azure, a rose, slipped and leaved, within a bordure dovetailed argent.
This device conflicts with the device of Olivia Whytrose, Per saltire gules and sable, a rose within an orle argent. Olivia has granted blanket permission to conflict for any armory that has one DC. There is a DC for the change in field, and so this device may be registered.
Submitted as Kjeld Geirrison, the submitter indicated he wanted a 10th century Viking name. After consultation, he indicated he would be very happy with the Viking name Ketill, rather than the late period Kield (note that Kjeld was an undocumented hypothetical Viking-era spelling of this later name). Additionally, the byname is not correctly formed; the genitive (possessive) form of Geiri required in a patronymic byname is Geira. Thus, the correct form of the byname is Geirason. We have made these changes in order to register the name and meet the submitter's request for authenticity.
Submitted as Kolgríma Nikolásdóttir, the byname is not correctly formed. The father's name, Nikolás, must be placed in the genitive (possessive) form, which is Nikolásar according to Lind s.n. Nikolás. The byname is thus properly Nikolásardóttir. We have made that change in order to register the name.
The submitter is a countess and thus entitled to the display of a coronet.
This is the defining instance of a gimlet in SCA heraldry. This charge can be seen in Virgil Raber's Wappenbuch, 1548 (found at http://bilderserver.at/wappenbuecher/VirgilRaberEXAv2_52z2/, page 208/109).
Nice badge!
The submitter requested authenticity for Welsh; we cannot guarantee that Aderyn is a Welsh spelling, as it is found in English context. However, it is clearly registerable as a name in a mixed English/Welsh context, or as a Welsh name written by an English speaker. Thus, we can register the name as submitted.
The pattern this order name would follow is a saint plus a charge or article associated with a saint. Ragnar is a late period Scandinavian name, a form of the earlier Ragnarr. The more common pattern would give Ragnar with the Hammer or Ragnar of the Hammer. But two German orders follow this pattern: Ritterschaft sant Gergen Shiltz "Knightly-society of saint George's Shield" and Geselschaft auf St. Wilhelms Schilt "Society on Saint William's Shield." This name can be understood as the lingua Anglica form of an order constructed like these derived from the name of a hypothetical Danish or Norwegian saint or similar figure. Lingua Anglica uses standard modern forms, so the apostrophe is required, although it is not usually found in period English possessives.
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Submitted as Bébinn ingen Conchobair, the patronym must be lenited, making it Chonchobair. We have changed the name to that form in order to register it.
Nice 14th century English name!
Commenters questioned whether the change from Helias Stigata to Helias de Stigata was authorized by the submitter; that change was explicitly allowed on the form.
Nice late period English name!
Nice 15th century German name!
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- Explicit littera accipiendorum -
This badge is returned for conflict with the badge of Guillaume le Fort, Chequy gules and argent, a ram passant to sinister sable, maintaining with the sinister foreleg a bill bendwise Or. There is one DC for fieldlessness, but nothing for the maintained charge.
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The badge referenced by this blanket permission to conflict was returned in May 2013.
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This badge is returned for redraw, for not being a valid depiction of a per chevron inverted throughout line of division. Any sort of per chevron division needs to divide the field into roughly two halves; this is predominantly azure, not evenly divided between azure and argent. On a square badge form, a per chevron inverted throughout likely needs to start from very nearly, though not at, the upper corners. Alternatively, the bottom point of the per chevron inverted could be raised, making it not throughout. Please see the May 2011 Cover Letter for general guidelines on drawing per chevron style divisions.
This badge is not in conflict with the device of Sean of Eagle Rest, Sable, chapé ployé, an eagle's head erased to sinister Or. There is a DC for the field, and a DC for the difference between an eagle's head and a properly drawn griffin's head.
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Since all thrown weapons events and activities fall under the auspices of the marshallate, this badge would de facto be a badge for the thrown weapons marshals. We do not register badges for officers or deputy officers if a kingdom or corporate level badge exist for the office. Precedent says:
[Badge for Thrown Weapons Deputy] This badge is for a deputy for the marshallate in charge of thrown weapons. Precedent is mixed about whether deputies to major offices may have Kingdom badges assigned to them, or whether they must use a corporate level badge. The Sovereigns of Arms and Laurel Clerk discussed the issue, and Laurel determined the following: A combat marshal must be quickly identifiable on the field during inter-kingdom wars. Thus, it is important that the badges for marshals should be the same throughout the Society. Such badges should therefore be registered at the corporate level, rather than the kingdom level. This is currently the case for the Equestrian Marshallate, whose badge was registered at the Society level as Sable, two tilting lances in saltire and in chief a chamfron Or. [An Tir, Kingdom of, 02/02, R-An Tir]
This ruling was upheld in another return of a badge for a thrown weapons marshal for Trimaris in February 2006.
(to Atenveldt acceptances) (to Atenveldt returns)
This device is returned for violating SENA A3D2a, for having "slot machine" armory, more than two types of charge in the same group. Precedent states:
This device violates our ban on so-called 'slot machine' armory. There are three types of charge in the secondary charge group: annulets, triquetras, and a phoenix. Unless the submitter can provide evidence that the annulet interlaced with a triquetra is a period heraldic motif considered to be a single charge, we will continue to interpret an triquetra and interlaced with an annulet as two charges. [Catherine Wentworth of Cambridge, R-Outlands, August 2008 LoAR]
We have a similar situation here, with three types of charge in the primary charge group: a drakkar, a triquetra, and an annulet.
This device is returned for conflict with the device of Edmund Mowbray, Azure, a standing seraph and a chief argent. There is a DC for the addition of the tertiary eagle. Current precedent grants no difference between a standing seraph and a winged man. While a standing seraph by definition has six wings, and under some circumstances that may be significant enough visually to grant difference from a winged man with just two wings, Edmund's four additional wings largely overlap the figure's body and are not visually distinct enough to overturn this precedent or this conflict.
(to Atlantia acceptances) (to Atlantia returns)
This device is returned for conflict with the device of Eugene Louis Montclare, Argent, atop a mount of six peaks (coupeaux) vert a raven close sable maintaining in its beak a scale gules. There is a DC for the addition of the bordure, but nothing for the maintained charge. There is no difference between Eugene's mount of six peaks, which is issuant from base, and Giliana's trimount couped. While to our modern eyes a mount couped appears quite different from a mount issuant from base, in period the two were used interchangeably. The arms of Helfenstein, an elephant standing upon a mount, are depicted variously with mounts both couped and issuant: in the Zimmernsche Chronik, Cod.Don.580a, in 1566, on page 33 (found at http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ZC_580a_033_crop_Helfenstein.jpg), and in the Ingeram Codex, in 1459 (found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ingeram_Codex_090.jpg), and in Siebmacher's Wappenbuch on page 16 (found at http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_16_Siebmacher.htm).
(to Caid acceptances) (to Caid returns)
None.
(to Calontir acceptances) (to Calontir returns)
Kjar(r) is found in the sagas, but not as the name of a human being. He's the father of a Valkyrie who marries the brother of Wayland the Smith. Other stories place him as a Roman king. No evidence was provided that it was used by human beings, which is required for registration. Thus, the element Kjar(r) cannot be registered. In resubmission, the submitter might consider some similar sounding names. Orle suggests "The masculine name Kárr (Lind cols. 675-676) might be something to consider. It's well-documented in use since the landnám. Or Kiaran (Lind col. 688) or Kiartan (Lind cols. 688-689), both of which were originally Celtic names that have become "Norsified"."
This device is returned for blurring the distinction between the primary and secondary charge groups. The field division itself lends to the confusion, and may be grounds for return itself. Ideally, the center point of the per pall inverted division would be higher on the field, dividing the field into three equal sections, instead of two "greater" and one "lesser" section as depicted here. Alternatively, if the white section were drawn smaller, it would be seen as a point pointed.
If this is meant to be a single primary charge group consisting of the owl and two annulets, then this must be returned for violating SENA A3D2c, 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 charges here do not have comparable postures or orientations, but they also are not in a unified arrangement, as the two annulets interlaced must be blazoned separately in order to adequately describe their positioning.
If this is meant to be a sole primary owl, the annulets should be placed upon a point pointed instead, as a tertiary charge group, and the field redrawn as simply per pale. That would give the owl room to grow and be more centered upon the field as well.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a non-eagle displayed.
(to Drachenwald acceptances) (to Drachenwald returns)
This device is returned for not being reliably blazonable, a violation of SENA A1C which requires an emblazon to be describable in heraldic terms. The badger's head here is neither sable marked argent, nor argent marked sable, but is instead equally sable and argent, depicted in such a manner as cannot be adequately described in blazon. The rule of contrast requires that the head be primarily argent, marked with sable as it lies upon the vert section of the field; if this is redrawn in that fashion, please advise the submitter that making the neck argent will help with the identification of the erased edge of the head.
This device is returned for conflict with the device of Edward Bolden, Pily bendy sinister gules and Or, a unicorn rampant contourny argent. There is a DC for the change in field, but nothing else.
(to Ealdormere acceptances) (to Ealdormere returns) (to Ealdormere pends)
None.
(to East acceptances) (to East returns) (to East pends)
This device is returned for using a post-period charge. No evidence was presented, and none found by commenters, that showed this form of a curved sword with a closed handguard was found in period. Even the depiction of a cutlass found in the 1632 edition of Guillim's Display of Heraldrie looks different than this depiction, with a different blade and regular guard. It is worth mentioning that Guillim's cutlass does not appear in his 1611 edition at all. These swords look rather more like modern cavalry swords, and as such are not registerable.
Commenters discussed whether or not there was any presumption with this device. As it does not conflict with any real-world armory important enough to protect, there is no presumption under our rules. It is certainly allusive of a modern military design, but allusion is acceptable.
(to Gleann Abhann acceptances) (to Gleann Abhann returns)
This name consists of two bynames: one meaning "knight, horseman" the other meaning "of the Kinggiyad people." We require a name to include at least one given name; without a given name, this name cannot be registered.
This alternate name was pended from the May 2013 Letter of Acceptances and Returns.
(to Lochac acceptances) (to Lochac returns)
This device is returned for conflict with the device of Annalies Katerina Schneider, Per pale azure and argent, a tree blasted and eradicated and a chief dovetailed counterchanged. There is a DC for the change in type of secondary charge from a chief to a bordure.
The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Richenda du Jardin, Per pale azure and argent, a crequier counterchanged.
(to Middle acceptances) (to Middle returns)
None.
(to Northshield acceptances) (to Northshield returns) (to Northshield pends)
This name has multiple issues, each of which is a reason for return. First, Belatumara is not clearly dated; it's simply mentioned in comparison to a dated citation. What language or time-frame it is found in is not clear, nor is it clearly a feminine given name. Barring this documentation, it cannot be combined with other elements. It appears to be a Latinized form of some kind of Gaulish name.
Second, the byname filia Morbet does not appear to be properly constructed. Morbet is documented as a descriptive byname of unclear meaning, and no documentation was given for the use of such an element after filia.
Finally, the combination of these elements was not documented. The given name was documented from an article about Breton names, but is of unclear origin and usage. The byname is from an article about Pictish names. No evidence was presented that Breton and Pictish could be combined and they are not combinable under the standards of Appendix C. Barring evidence that they can be combined, this lingual mix is not registerable.
This device is returned for violating our long-standing ban on Celtic knotwork, for not being heraldic. While we do allow triquetras in armory, in this combination they look more like knotwork and less like discrete charges.
This badge was withdrawn by the submitter.
This badge is returned for violating section A2C1 of SENA, which states that "Elements must be drawn in their period forms and in a period armorial style." We have long required that any letters and words in armory be written in a period script, although we no longer blazon the exact script used.
We have no explicit precedent or rule requiring documentation of the appropriateness of any word or phrase used in an armorial design, but the submitter is cautioned to be aware of SENA A3F3, which governs Obtrusively Modern designs.
This device is returned for non-period style, for having four different backgrounds in a quarterly field. SENA A3B3c says "Elements divided quarterly or per saltire may use any two tinctures..." and goes on to explain that a section may be further divided, but the implication still is that there will be two pairs of matching sections. Without further documentation of this style of field division in period armory, this is not registerable.
(to Outlands acceptances) (to Outlands returns)
None.
(to West acceptances) (to West returns)
- Explicit littera renuntiationum -
Submitted as Jowan filia Ranell, the name was changed at kingdom to make the form completely 16th century Anglicized Irish. This is a major change to the name. However, the forms indicate that the submitter did not allow major changes and the Letter of Intent did not indicate that the submitter had authorized this change. We are pending this name to allow kingdom to confirm that the submitter authorized this change.
The submitter may want to know that a Latinized English filia Ranulfi is also a possible form of the submitted byname.
As she does not allow a holding name, this device is pended until the name is decided.
This was item 2 on the Ealdormere letter of July 21, 2013.
(to Ealdormere acceptances) (to Ealdormere returns) (to Ealdormere pends)
No evidence was presented to support the use of a particular piece of armor like a pasguarde (a plate reinforcement for the left elbow in jousting) as a charge or as the basis for an order name. Barring such evidence, this cannot be registered. Thus, we are pending this to allow commenters to discuss whether such a piece would be registerable as a charge, which would allow it to be used to create a hypothetical order name.
If registered, the badge Gules, an armored arm fesswise embowed argent sustaining a sword bendwise sinister proper, the arm issuant from a demi-sun issuant from sinister Or will be associated with this name.
This was item 6 on the East letter of July 27, 2013.
(to East acceptances) (to East returns) (to East pends)
This is pended to allow discussion as to whether the name Dalphina combined with a placename creates an inappropriate claim. Dalphina is clearly a given name. However, if it is also a form of the word dauphine, then it may not be used in a context that appears to create a claim to rank. This is pended to allow commenters to research this question and comment on the issue.
Dalphin is clearly a period spelling of the masculine form: "Franchois d'Angolame, Dalphin de France" is dated to 1506 in Histoire générale de l'Europe depuis la naissance de Charle-Quin (http://books.google.it/books?id=87cWAAAAQAAJ), p. 25; "car le dalphin de France" is dated to 1419 in Mémoires de Jacques de Clerq (http://books.google.it/books?id=XpkFAAAAQAAJ), p. 255; and "la femme du Dalphin de France" is dated to 1444 in Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de France et de Bourgogne (http://books.google.it/books?id=aNQTAAAAYAAJ).
Her device has been registered under the holding name Rachel of Border Downs.
This was item 3 on the Northshield letter of July 9, 2013.
(to Northshield acceptances) (to Northshield returns) (to Northshield pends)
- Explicit -
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