March 2006 Letter of Intent
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Lewis Tanzos [email protected] Friday, 24 March 2006 Unto Elisabeth Laurel, Jeanne Marie Wreath, Margaret Pelican, the SCA College of Arms, and all others who do receive this letter, greetings from Tanczos Istvan, Blue Tyger Herald! It is the intent of Easterners to register the following items. Unless otherwise noted, the submitter has no desire for authenticity and allows any changes. 1 Aildreda de 3 Alana O'Keeffe (F) - Tamworthe (F) - New New Name & New Name & New Device Device Per chevron argent and Vert, three snails Or. azure, three estoiles counterchanged. Alana is from the LoAR of 08/02. See the returns 'Aildreda' is found dated for Meridies under to 1206 in R&W s.n. Morganna of the Mists: Audrey. 'The name Alana has been found in period. 'de Tamworthe' is from The Concise Oxford Gage LoC dated 15 June 2001 references this Dictionary of English Place-Names, Fourth Edition information.' Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn by Eilert Ekwall, p438, header Tamworth, which cited (1381) [Robertus Filius Radulf] and [Alana cites 'Tamouuorði', 'Tamouuorthig' 781; filia eius]. This citation is from Fenwick, Carolyn 'Tomeworðig' 799; 'Tameworþig' 922; and C, Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, Part 1: 'Tamuuorde' DB. R&W s.n Tamworth offer 'de Bedfordshire- Licestershire p 112.' Tamewurthe' 1189-99, 'de Tamwurth' 1262, and 'Tampworth' 1380. Combining the trends seen in 'O'Keeffe' is from Irish Names and Surnames by Ekwall and R&W, the submitted spelling seems not Patrick Woulfe p 450 under 'Ó Caoimh'. Apparently unlikely for c. 1200. the family 'flourished in the 10th century' and 'they maintained themselves as a distinct clan down to the 2 Alida dei Conti. - administrative release of 16th century.' Black gives the late 16th/early 17th holding name and association of arms with actual century anglicized registered name spelling 'O Keeve'. Azure fretty, on a pile inverted throughout Or a 4 Alastar O'Rogan - thistle proper. New Badge This name appeared as item 5 on the East Kingdom Azure, a scorpion tail to External Letter of Intent dated 30Apr2004, marked base Or and in chief a as a "resubmission", and was registered in crescent argent. September 2004. It should have been marked as a "Change of Holding Name" for the holding name The name was registered and device Alida of the East (May 2003, via the November 2003, via the East). East. There is a possible conflict with Timothy der 7 Apollonia von Kriegsfeld (F) - New Change Of Kenntnisreiche (03/1992 An Tir): 'Azure, in pale an Holding Name open book argent grasped by a scorpion Or'. If the book in Timothy's device is sustained, there is a CD The holding name, Karen von Kreigsfeld, was for number of primaries, and another CD for the registered May 1990, via the East. addition of the secondary crescent, so there is no conflict. However, if the book in the registered Apollonia is dated to 1438 in Talan Gwynek's device is maintained, there is only a single CD for "Medieval German Given Names from Silesia" change of type of secondary. (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/bahlow_ v.htm), also in Talan Gwynek's "15th Century 5 Angus MacGregur of German Women's Names" Black Rose (M) - New (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/germ15f. Name & New Device html). Per pale gules and vert, Kriegsfeld is a town in the Rheinland Pfalz region. a lion couchant within a Bahlow's Deutschlands Geographische Namenwelt bordure embattled has a river named Kriegbach (dated to 1226 as argent. 'Briche' s.n. Kraich) and mentions also Kriegsheim (s.n. Kriegbach). For the -feld part, see for example 'Angus' is from Black, Alsfeld (originally Alahesfeld) s.n. Altmühl, s.n. Angus, which cites Eichsfeld (containing a river name), Elverfeld an 'Angus mac Dunec' in (originally Elvervelt), Fachsenfeld. See also 1204. Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, plate 115: Degenfeldt. 'MacGregur' is from Black s.n. MacGregor, which 8 Arelinda Poincelin - cites a M'Gregur 1600, Makriggur 1600. New Alternate Name & New Badge Black Rose is an SCA branch name, registered Submitted Name: 05/1986. Auguste Herbert We note that there is a weirdness for the use of Argent, a flamingo names from more than 300 years apart, but no other close, one foot raised weirdnesses. and on a chief gules, three lilies argent. 6 Angus Kerr - New Badge Sound is most important. Must have 'Gus' in the first name and 'bear' in the surname. (Fieldless) A spearhead inverted bendy Or and Auguste is listed in Artois, 1601 in Aryanhwy's sable. 'French Names from 1601' ( http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french1601.ht Name registered June ml ). 2001, via the East. 'Herbert' is dated to 1501 in Aryanhwy merch There is a possible, though unlikely, conflict with Catmael's "Late Period French Surnames (used by England (9/1997 Laurel): "'[Tinctureless] a pheon'". women)" ( There's one CD for the field, and very likely another http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/latefren CD for orientation: the English and SCA default for chsurnames.html ). a pheon is with the point down, whereas the spearhead points up. 9 Aria d'Abruzzi (F) - New Name Meaning is most important: "From the region of 11 Bjarki the Short Abruzzi". Beard (m) - New Name & New Device Aria from Dizionario dei nomi italiani by Emidio de Felice p 74, s.n. Ario.De Felice says 'Ario' was Sable, a drakkar argent the name of a Roman martyr during the reign of and in base a snail Or, a Diocletian, and mentions two minor saints by this bordure wavy argent. (masculine) name. The closest medieval name that commenters could find was 'Aureo', in "Fourteenth Meaning most Century Venetian Personal Names" by Arval important. Please Benicoeur ( http://www.s- translate the name into Old Norse. The submitter gabriel.org/names/arval/venice14/venice14given.ht offers beer at next Pennsic. ml). There is a pattern of feminizing names in medieval Italy by changing a final -o to -a, so Bjarki is from The Old Norse Name by Geirr Bassi something like 'Aria' or 'Aurea' might be plausible. Haraldsson, p8, column 2. (Eastern Crown doesn't feel comfortable making this determination, so she's passing the buck.) Shortbeard is a constructed name. Examples of the protheme include breiðskeggr 'broad beard' (p20, Abruzzi from Matthew Donald's Atlas of Medieval col2); þunnskeggr 'thin beard' (p30, col1); and Europe p 96. Also in Dizionario dei cognomi orðrgskeggi 'bristle beard' (p30, col2) as well as italiani by Emidio de Felice p42, s.n. Abruzzo - 'Bláskegg' 'black beard' p20, and 'Refskegg' 'fox- variant given as Abruzzi. beard' p26. Examples of the deuterotheme include 'Stuttfelder' 'short cloak' p28. From these, something 10 Ása in svarta - New like 'Stuttskegg(r/i)' is likely to be correct, though Name & New Device there's also 'skamm': 'short' and 'kampi': 'whiskers, beard'. Quarterly Or and azure, a spoon and a hammer 12 Batujin Negan (m) - New Name in saltire counterchanged. All documentation from Baras-aghur Naran's "Documentation and Construction of Period Meaning 'Asa the Black' Mongolian Names" ( and Language/Culture http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/mongol.h most important. All docs tml), which says that the list of elements from from The Old Norse primary sources (which includes 'Batu') can be Name by Geirr Bassi Haraldsson. combined with the grammatical inflections -- '-jin' is the example. Negan is listed in the list of numbers Ása p 8, female given name. (meaning 'one'). The submitter intends the meaning of 'the first' in using this as an epithet/second in svarta p 28. 'inn svarti' is listed, the female form element. is desired. 13 Bertrand Valois - 'merch' is an early form of 'daughter of'. Precedent New Name & New says "When used as a patronymic particle, the Device Welsh merch mutates to ferch. There are some early-period texts where the particle didn't mutate in Vert, a gyron from its written form, but did in its spoken form --- i.e. sinister base and on a written 'merch' but still pronounced 'ferch'...." chief Or, three fleurs-de- (Rhonwen ferch Alun, 12/1992, Acceptances- lys vert. Middle). Bertrand is from The Athruis is from Tangwystyl verch Morgant Oxford Dictionary of Glasvryn's "The First Thousand Years of British English Christian Names Names" ( by E. G. Withycombe s.n. Bertram as the French http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/british100 form. s.n. Bertrand. Is also a header in Dictionnaire 0/british1000.html), appendix V, Given names from Étymologique des Noms de Famille by Marie- the Llandau charters, s.n. Welsh Masculine, lists Thérèse Morlet. IGN1292CP gives Bertran and 'Athruis'. No definite date is given, but it is between Bertrant. the 6th and 10th Centuries. Valois is in Dictionnaire Étymologique des Noms 16 Cal mac Mailcon - de Famille by Marie-Thérèse Morlet, header form, New Name & New meaning person from the Vez (est 797). Device 14 Birna rauð - New Sable, a phoenix gules Device rising from flames and in chief two flames Or. Or, on a chief vert three ducks naiant to sinister Submitter requests Or. authenticity for a 9th century Pictish name. Her name was registered All documentation is in December 2004, via from Tangwystl verch Morgan Glasvryn's "A the East. Consideration of Pictish Names". http://www.s- gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/. Cal - male given name dated to the 8th century. 15 Bronwen merch Athruis (F) - New mac - Gaelic Patronymic marker, "almost certainly Name & New Device in common use toward the 8th century". Gules, in pale a fret and Mailcon - male given name dated to the 8th century. a Celtic cross argent.