The Ansteorran Gazette © 2000 Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. Ridgway’s Publishing House FEBRUARY, A.S. XXXIV (2000 A.D.) 1 DOLLAR A LETTER FROM THE ZODIACUS HERALD ANSTEORRAN Greetings! I am HL Rosalia O Brogan the somewhat new Zodiacus Herald. COLLEGE OF HERALDS I will be endeavoring during my term in this office to improve the Order of Prece- CALENDAR dence (OP) and make it more accessible to the populace of the Kingdom. A reminder to EVERY MONTH that end, court reports are due within two weeks of an event. These should be sent to 15 Deadline for submissions Zodiacus (myself), Forerynel Pursuivant, Sable Scroll, and to Star Signet. It is very due at ASTERISK. important that all these offices receive copies of this report as quickly as possible so that the OP may be as accurate as possible at all times. Please do not hand me court reports 20 Comments on ILoI of pre- at the event where it was taken, as this report must go to several offices I will only accept vious month due to RETIARIUS. these reports by mail. Items for Ansteorran Ga- If you have corrections that need to be made to the OP please send me a photocopy zette due to OBELISK. of the charter award scroll. If the charter is missing or was not given I will need the name of the individual, award given, the event the award was given at, and what crown 15-19 MARCH -- GULF WARS gave the award. For name corrections a letter from the individual, whose name is to be Gulf Wars -- CoH meeting corrected is preferable. I will also accept corrections via e-mail with the correct infor- re: ILoI 1299 mation and a scanned copy of the scroll, if you have more than one scroll please send it via the United States Post Office. My email address is [email protected]. I am 25 MARCH -- RED TAPE MTG available at any time to answer questions, you may leave me a voice message at home or Star Principal Applications due, cop- send me an email, please allow at least 24 hours for answers. If your group is in need of ies to current Star Principal, Their a copy of a current copy of the Order of Precedence, please contact me and I will for- Majesties, and the Laurel Queen of ward that information, preferably by electronic copy to keep costs down. It is only pos- Arms sible to maintain an accurate OP by participation of the heralds recording court. Please send these reports promptly. ? APRIL -- TO BE SCHEDULED I would like to welcome Lord Timothy of Glastonbury to the College of Heralds. TBS -- CoH meeting He will be fulfilling the role of my deputy, Forerynel Pursuivant. Lord Timothy hails re: ILoI 0200 from the Barony of Elfsea and is a Protégé to Viscount Galen of Bristol. ? MAY -- TO BE SCHEDULED In Service to Heraldry and Ansteorra, TBS -- CoH meeting Rosalia, Zodiacus re: ILoI 0300 A LETTER FROM ASTERISK HERALD Unto the Submitters and Heralds of Ansteorra come greetings and a bit of relief. As of now, photocopies are not required for documentation from A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames by Charles W. Bardsley. Thanks to the efforts of HL Perronnelle Charrette de La-Tour-de-Pins and HL Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, the Laurel Sovereign now has Her Very Own copy of Bardsley. We expect her to add it to the “No Photocopy” list Just Any Time Now. In anticipation of this Happy Event, I am eliminating the requirement for Ansteorra now. If Laurel delays the announcement, Asterisk or Bordure will make any copies that may be needed. (We weren’t geneous enough to find Laurel a copy before we had copies; the Kingdom offices have two hardbacks and a photocopy, and Lady Bordure TABLE OF CONTENTS has a personal copy, too.) Zodiacus’ Letter 1 Asterisk’s Letter 1 In service, CoH Calendar 1 Retiarius’ Letter 2 Kathri, Asterisk Star Principal’s Letter 2 The Ansteorran Gazette is the official monthly publication of the College of Heralds of the Kingdom of Tressure’s Letter 2 Ansteorra. It is not a publication of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., nor does it delineate corporate Deputy Obelisk’s Letter 2 SCA policies. Subscriptions are available from the Asterisk Herald on a pro-rated basis for $1 per month with ILoI 0200 3-9 each subscription ending on 31 DEC of each year (12 issues are published each year). Please make all checks Status of ILoIs 10 or money orders payable to: SCA Inc.-Kingdom of Ansteorra. Contents copyright 2000 Society for Creative AICC 0999 10-19 Anachronism, Inc. For information on reprinting articles and artwork from this publication, please contact the Laurel LoAR (ILoIs 04-06 of 1999) 19-21 editor (Obelisk Herald), who will assist you in contacting the original creator of the piece. Please respect the Who Sends What to Whom Back Cover legal rights of our contributors. Printing by Ridgway’s of Tulsa, OK. Submission Costs/Copies Back Cover Ansteorran Gazette February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Page 1 A LETTER FROM RETIARIUS PURSUIVANT Unto the Ansteorran College of Heralds:
Greetings from the new Retiarius, HL Estrill Swet. Here are a few words of introduction. I've lived in Mooneschadoweshire for my entire SCA life (twenty years this fall) and I enjoy dancing, painting scrolls, embroidery, and playing drum in the musician's pit. I've been A&S minister, chronicler, & seneschal of our local group. Currently I'm also the deputy to local herald concerning the OP. But most of my free time lately has been taken up with my four-month-old son, Arthur. I am looking forward to working with those of you who send in commentary. For now, I anticipate no changes in how things worked under the previous Retiarius, HL Perronnelle. Many thanks for her hard work and for suggesting that I apply for this position. I would appreciate commenters to please send me a small file to test format compatibility. Please email that to: [email protected]. My address is: Deborah Sweet, 824 E 8th, Stillwater, OK 74074. Phone: 405-624-9344 (no calls after 10 PM).
In service, Estrill, Retiarius A LETTER FROM A LETTER FROM TRESSURE HERALD STAR PRINCIPAL HERALD Unto the Ansteorran College of Heralds, Greetings from Greetings unto the College! Tressure Herald. There have been many changes in the education arm of Only a couple of things to say this month. The first is a the college, most notably the elimination of several deputy po- reminder that if you are interested in applying for the position sitions in the arm. This is but one of the first steps in the reor- of Star Principal Herald you have until March 25. Contact me ganization of Heraldic education in Ansteorra. Golden Staff if you wish more details about the job. will remain as a deputy to Tressure and for the time being, so will Wakeforest. These changes have been instituted to better Other positions that are coming available in the next 6 serve the college. Other changes include re-writing the branch months are: Asterisk, Coronation; Bordure, October Crown warranting class. Most of the information taught before will be and the Regional positions in the Coastal, Northern and South- retained, as it is still valid. The primary changes will be to the ern. Please start considering these offices. They are vital the format of the class. the continued running of the College and the heraldic services During my term as Tressure I will be endeavoring to pro- we provide to the populace of this Kingdom. vide suggestions here in the Gazzette, to further heraldic edu- cation and visibility at the local level. One of the things I would As of this publication the title for the Southern Regional recommend to locals is to register a civil ensign (badge) for herald will be changed. The current title, Twilight, was re- your branch. This is a relatively painless process involving ask- turned from Laurel as unregisterable. The Southern Regional ing for designs and submitting the one that best suits your group Herald will now carry the registered title of Orbis. with an officer's poll agreeing to the badge. This provides a visible heraldic symbol that the populace may bear that says: In service, "I am part of this group." It also gives the populace a chance to Francois, Star be more involved in the submission process. Local groups can use it to mark branch property, or to identify each other at events with banners or tabards for the fighters. All of these things make the heraldry of the branch more A LETTER FROM DEPUTY OBELISK visible, and can enhance to look and mood of your events. As Oyez, Oyez, all voice heralds and other hams pray at- Branch heraldry becomes more visible, many of the populace tend. A Voice Heraldry Triathlon will be held at the Southern will want their heraldry to be more visible. Regional Festival, April 1 (no, it's not an April Fool's joke), in Displaying your own arms and badges will also help. Ravensfort. Contestants will be judged on Speed, Accuracy, Many people who might register arms and badges, don't sim- and Distance. For more information, or to sign up as a com- ply because they don't see a use for it. Many people, who have petitor, please contact AElfwyn aet Gyrwum by email at registered armory, don't display it because they don't know what [email protected] or by snail mail at 10404 Northampton, they can do. San Antonio, TX 78230. Everyone tells me getting me by phone is impossible, but if you want to join the ranks of the frus- Until next time, I remain in service, trated, you can try me at (210)690-9823. Darius, Tressure Thanks, Ælfwyn Page 2 February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Ansteorran Gazette INTERNAL LETTER OF INTENT 0100 1) Adalwolfa von der Helle (Stargate) MacKinnon Black p 531 under MacKinnon dates New name. Makkynnon to 1536 and Mackiynan to 1545. Photocopies: None needed. Documentation provided: Changes: Minor changes only; specific permission Adalwolfa Morlet (I, 18, column2) under granted to change MacKinnon if necessary for Adalulfus dates masculine forms "Adalulfus" to a840, registration. Scottish language / culture is most a914, a918; "Athalolfus" to a 1036. important. Desired gender is male. von der Halle Bahlow (Dictionary of German Names, English version) p 231 under Hell dates this form to 1382. 4) Arabella Mackinnon (Eldern Hills) Photocopies: None needed. New name. Changes: Any. Meaning "noble she-wolf" and German language / culture are most important. Desired gender is Documentation provided: female. Arabella Withycome p 28 under Arabel(la) dates Arabella to 1255. 2) Aaron Ashennan of Clan MacKenzie Mackinnon Black p 531 under MacKinnon dates (Moonschadowe) Makkynnon to 1536 and Mackiynan to 1545. Scottish Resubmitted badge. Name in ILoI1099, Clan and Family Names, R Martine (rev ed 1992, LoI0100. Mainstream Publishing) p. 152 shows this spelling. (fieldless) A dragon Photocopies: Martine. passant to sinister azure. Changes: Any. Changes requested for authenticity to 1400-1500 Scottish time period. Desired gender is female.
5) Bianca Mantegna (Brad Leah) New name. New device. Per pale argent and purpure, a Submission history: shirt and 2 piles (Fieldless) A dragon passant coward azure maintaining a counterchanged. compass rose argent was returned in kingdom 12/99 for conflict with Drachenwald, [Tinctureless] A silver wristguard engraved with a dragon passant coward, wings addorsed, maintaining in dexter forepaw a sword erect” and Sciath Ni Chúanachtaigh of Clan MacRath (reg. 7-99 via Caid), Gyronny Or and gules, a dragon passant azure.
3) Angus MacKinnon (Steppes) New name. New device. Per chevron purpure and vert, a chevron and Documentation provided: in chief a mullet of Bianca The New Centruy Cyclopedia of Names, C. L. four greater and four Barnhart, ed (1954, Appleton-Centruy-Crofts, Inc.) p 804 lesser point Or. under Capello, Bianca dates this person to 1548-1587. Mantegna The New Centruy Cyclopedia of Names, C. L. Barnhart, ed (1954, Appleton-Centruy- Crofts, Inc.) p 2608 under Mantegna, Andrea dates this person to 1431-1506. Photocopies: All cited. Changes: Any. Language / culture is most important; none listed but all documentation is from 13th-14th C Northern Italy. Desired gender is female.
Documentation provided: Angus Black p 218 under Dove dates Angus John Dowisoun to 1516.
Ansteorran Gazette February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Page 3 6) Catherine de Lance (Steppes) 8) Dáire de Haya (Elfsea) Resubmitted device. Name in ILoI0899, LoI New name. 1099. Per chevron Documentation provided: azure and Dáire "100 Most Popular Men's Names in Early argent, three Medieval Ireland" by Tangwystyl verch Morgant fleurs-de-lys Glasvryn (Heather Rose Jones) at counterchanged www.panix.com/~mittle/names/tangwystyl/Irish100 p 3 , a chief azure. dates this spelling to the pre-Norman period, roughly pre- h 12t C. de Haya "The Early Charters of the Family of Kinninmonth of that Ilk" reprinted in The Study of Medieval Record ed Bullough and Storey (1971, Oxford Universiy Press) found at http://sadko.ncl.ac.uk/~ndjk/Personal/Scotland/Origins/Ch arters.htm p 11 of 18 shows "Wilielmo da Haya" and "Dauide de Haya" as testitors to a grant by King William I of Scotland c. 1194. Submission Photocopies: Web pages as cited. history: Changes: Any. Sound of Dáire as English "dare" is most Per chevron azure and argent three fleurs-de-lys counter important. Desired gender is male. Changes requested for changed returned in kingdom 10/99 for conflict with authenticity to post-1066 Scotland / Ireland. David Lennox Hamilton (2/91) Per chevron azure and argent, two fleurs-de-lys argent and a thistle proper. 9) Daniel McNeil (Brad Leah) New name. 7) Cicilia Rosa (Wastelands) New name. New device. Documentation provided: Daniel "Late 16th Century English Given Names" by Pily purpure Talan Gwynek at and argent, in www.panix.com/~mittle/names/talan/eny16/eng16alpha.h base an iris tm shows this spelling used 12 times. purpure slipped McNeil Black p 550 under MacNeil dates McNeill to and leaved vert. 1329 and 1633. Photocopies: Web page cited. Changes: Minor changes only. English language / culture is most important. Desired gender is male.
10) Elewys Luscomb (Crossrode Keep) Resubmitted device. Name in ILoI 0999, LoI 1299.
Purpure, on a pile argent a boar rampant purpure, a bordure Documentation provided: Or. Cicilia "Italian Renaissance Women's Names" by Rhian Lyth of Blackmoor Vale (Jo Lori Drake) at www.panix.com/~mittle/names/rhian/italian.html access 10/2/99 dates this spelling to 14th/15th century Florence. Rosa Fucilla p 78 line 3 shows this surname in the "Botanical Names" chapter. Photocopies: Web page cited. Changes: Minor changes only. Italian language / culture is most important. Desired gender is female. Changes requested for authenticity to Italian language / culture.
Page 4 February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Ansteorran Gazette Submission history: Purpure, on a pile argent a boar Documentation provided: rampant purpure was returned in kingdom 11/99 for Geneviève feminine given name found under "G" conflict with Julian of the Purple Must (1/74), Purpure, in "An Index to the Given Names in the 1292 Census of on a pile argent two sprigs of laurel proper. Paris" by Colm Dubh at www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/paris.html accessed 11) Etienett de Bitche (Glaslyn) 9/22/98 5:44pm. New name. de la Gamba Dauzet (noms et prenoms) p 277 under Gamb- lists "Gamba" as the Italian form with the Documentation provided: diminutive "Gambetta". A viola da gamba is a period Etienett Dauzet (noms de famille) p 241 under Etienne bowed stringed instrument, the predecessor of the modern derives the name from the early Christian martyr and cello. Term is dated to 1590-1600 by Random House saint, Stephen, and traces it through many times and Dictionary, Unabridged (2nd ed, 1987, p 2124). regions of France. The construction of a French feminine Photocopies: Web page cited. given from a French masculine given is documented by Changes: Any. Meaning is most important, but none Cateline de la Mor, "Sixteenth Centry Norman Names" at listed. (Submitter plays a viola da gamba.) Desired www.panix.com/~mittle/names/cateline/norman16.html, gender is female. which lists "Anthoine" and "Anthonette" and the same author's "Names from Fourteenth Centruy Foix" at 14) Giovanna Lena Caronna (Loch Soilleir) ../cateline/foix.html which lists New name. New device. Barthólemy/Bartholomette, Bernard/Bernadette, and Guillaume/Guillamette. Per pale argent de Bitche Dauzet (nox de Lieux) p 86 under and Or, a pale Bitche dates the spellings "Bites" to 1196 and "Bitch" to bretessed purpure 1203. between two Photocopies: Web pages as cited. wolves' heads Changes: Any. No preferences marked. erased respectant sable. 12) Gavin Stuart (Falconridge) New name
Documentation provided: Gavin Black p 681 under Rait lists "Gavin Rath" dated to 1477. Stuart Black p 748 under Stewart dates this spelling to 1429. Photocopies: None needed. Changes: Any. Scottish late period language / culture is Documentation provided: most important. Desired gender is male. Giovanna Biographical Dictionary (1994, Larousse) p 592 under Giovanni shows the masculine 13) Geneviève de la Gamba (Elfsea) form dated to 1403-1482. Submitter wants the feminine New name. New device. form. Azure, an Lena None provided. [Asterisk: De Felice increscent within (nomi) p 226 under Lena describes this spelling, undated, an orle of nine as a nickname for Maddalena and Marilena. Under fluers-de-lys Maddalena, p 245-6, he give the Greek and Latin argent. sources and describes the name as "widely diffused thoughout Italy," crediting its popularity to the Bibical Mary Magdalene.] Caronna Submitter's legal surname. Photocopies: Larousse and driver's license. Changes: Minor changes only. Sound and language / culture are most important, but none listed. Desired gender is female.
Ansteorran Gazette February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Page 5 15) Gwenhuyvar verch Morgant Dedwydd (Brad Photocopies: All cited, plus pages on the "pedigree of Leah) Shiercliffe of Ecclesfield-Hall" from an untitled, undated New name. source which traces the family from Henry VI through 1789. Documentation provided: Changes: Minor changes only. Sound is most important, Gwenhuyvar This spelling appears in The but none specified. Desired gender is female. Changes Welch Triads, Bromwich, Rachel (University of Wales requested for authenticity to 15c-16c English. Press, 1978). These spellings appear in the White Book text of the Mabinogi. 18) Ihon Vinson MacFergus (Gates Edge) verch Welsh for "daughter of." This spelling New name. New device. h is most common through the 16t century. Per pale gules Morgant Welsh form of "Morgan," found in this and vert, a saltire spelling as late as the 14th century, per Morgan and argent. Morgan under Morgan. Dedwydd Modern (post-1500) Welsh for "happy." Alternate spellings are documented by Morgan and Morgan under Dedwydd. Photocopies: Email from the Academy of Saint Gabriel, prepared by Arval Benecoeur with the help of Tangwystel verch Margant Glasvryn and Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, citing the above documentation. Changes: Minor changes only. Welsh language / culture is most important. Desired gender is female. Changes requested for authenticity to 13th century Welsh.
16) Hans Faust (Brad Leah) New device. Name in ILoI0899, LoI 1099. Documentation provided: Argent, on a Ihon Black p 450 under MacAlaster dates chief triangular Ihone dow Mcalaster to 1614. The Bruce, a poem written a cross of by John Barbour about 1355, as printed in an edition with Jerusalem translation and notes by A. A. M. Duncan (Canongate argent, a base Books Limited, 1997), shows "Schyr Jhon the Balleoll" wavy sable. (Sir John Balliol) on p. 55 and "Schyr John Cumyn" (Sir John Comyn) on p. 75. In this book, Duncan explains on page 33, "where i represents a consonant it is printed as j." Vinson French masculine given name, a nickname derived from Vincent via Vincon per Dauzet (..noms et prenoms..) p 596 under Vincon. MacFergus Black p 493 under MacFergus date s M'Fergus to 1575. Photocopies: None. Changes: Minor changes only. Submitter will allow dropping of "Vinson" only if essential to register the 17) Helen Shiercliffe (Brad Leah) name. Desired gender is male. New name.
Documentation provided: Helen "Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames" by Talan Gwynek at www.panix.com/~mittle/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?H elen dates this spelling to 1438 Boutflour and 1588 Macartney. Shiercliffe Microfiche of consolidated birth, marriage, and confirmation records of Ecclesfield Priory, England, show this spelling used in 1522, 1529, 1531, 1537, and 1558 by at least four different people.
Page 6 February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Ansteorran Gazette 19) Ivie Rathbourn (Bordermarch) 21) Mahee of Acre (Loch Solleir) Resubmitted device. Name in ILOI 1099, LoI Resubmitted device. Name in ILoI0999, 0100 LoI1299. Quarterly gules Purpure, a cross and sable, on a Or, in sinister sun Or a wheel canton a proper. descrescent argent.
Submission Submission history: history: Gules on a demi-sun Or a wheel proper, reblazoned .. on Purpure a cross Or was returned in kingdom 11/99 for a sun Or .. was returned in kingdom 10/99 because the conflict with Sweden, Azure, a cross Or, and Kingdom of sun was not drawn properly, and would conflict with Calontir (4/84), Purpure, a cross of Calatrava Or. Macedonia, "Gules a sun Or", with only 1 CD for the wheel. 22) Maria Elena de los Santos (Trelac) Resubmitted device. Name in ILoI0799, 20) Kenway ap Owain (Eldern Hills) LoI0999. New name. New device. Per pale azure Azure, on a bend and vert, a pale between two bretessed argent. angels blowing trumpets argent, three roses proper.
Submission history: Documentation provided: Azure, on a bend sinister between two angels addorsed KenwayReaney & Wilson p 263 under Kenway lists argent crined sable blowing trumpets Or, three roses Robertus filius Kenewi 1198. proper was returned in kingdom 9/99 for conflict with Owain Reaney & Wilson p 333 under Owen lists John Morganthe of Nordwache, Azure, on a bend sinister Owain 1242. between a mask of tragedy and a mask of comedy argent, Photocopies: None needed. a garden rosebud gules, slipped and leaved vert, and Changes: Any. Lnguage / culture is most Roseanna vom Meirei, Azure, on a bend sinister between important, but none specified . Desired gender is male. two garbs argent, three roses azure, for a complexity Changes requested for authenticity to 12-13th century count of nine, and for the non-period postures and Welsh. tinctures of the angels.
Ansteorran Gazette February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Page 7 23) Medb Liath (Elfsea) gules and argent. Submitter's alternate, Quarterly argent New name. and azure, conflicts with Hohenzollern, Quarterly argent and sable. Documentation provided: Medb Feminine Irish Gaelic given nmae found 26) Monica de la Cueva (Brad Leah) in Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, "early Irsih New device. Name in ILoI0899, LoI1099. Feminine Names from the Index to O'Brien's Corpus Ermine, a Genealogiarm Hiberniae" found at pomegranate www.panix.com/~mittle/names/tagwystyl/obrien accessed slipped and leaved 1/12/2000. proper. [Asterisk: Liath descriptive byname meaning "gray" The pomegranate is found in Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, "early green with red Irsih Feminine Names from the Index to O'Brien's Corpus seeds.] Genealogiarm Hiberniae" found at www.panix.com/~mittle/names/tagwystyl/obrien accessed 1/12/2000. Photocopies: Web pages as cited.. Changes: Any. Sound of given - "Mave as rhymes with wave," and meaning of byname "gray" are most important. Desired gender is female.
24) Melody MacGregor (Stargate) New name. 27) Morgan Ellisse (Wiesenfeuer) New name. Documentation provided: Melody Legal given of submitter. Bardsley p Documentation provided: 113 under Blunt dates "Melodia" to 1273 as a given Morgan Bardsley p 541 under Morgan dates "Morgan name. Gough" to 20 Hen. VI (c1440) and "Morgan Davies" to MacGregor Black p 505 under 1616. MacGregor dates "Macgregor to 1603 and "M'Gregor" to Ellisse Mari Elsbeth nic Bryan, "Surnames in King's 1600. Stanley Marriages: 1573 - 1600" found at Photocopies: None needed. www.panix.com/~mittle/names/mari/kngsstanley/Surnam Changes: Any. Language / culture is most important, but esAlpha.htm dates this spelling to 1576. none specified. Desired gender is female. Photocopies: Web page as cited. Changes: Any. Elizabethan English language / culture is 25) Michael Silverhands (Stargate) most important, and submitter wants surname to be Resubmitted device. Name in ILoI0999, pronounced "el' - is" with short vowels. [Asterisk: I've LoI1299. got to find a font with diacritical marks.] Desired gender Per pale and per is male. fess embattled azure and argent. 28) Rufus Duzeper (Wastelands) Resubmitted name. Unpended device. Per pale engrailed azure and argent, a natural dolphin urinant argent and three escallops one and two azure.
Submission history: Quarterly azure and argent was returned in kingdom 11/99 for conflict with Ulf of Sjaelland (2/96), Quarterly
Page 8 February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Ansteorran Gazette Documentation provided: 31) Ulrich der Haveke (Mendersham) Rufus Withycombe p 260 under Rufus lists Resubmitted name. Resubmitted device. this name, undated. Bardsley p 243 under Dingley dates Gyronny Or and Rufus Rogers to 1598-9. gules, a sheaf of Duzeper Reaney & Wilson p 127 under Dashper arrows sable. dates Alb(e)ricus Duzeper to 1221, William Duzeper to 1279, and Roger Duzeper to 1293. Photocopies: None needed. Submission history: Name Connor Makinzie was returned by Laurel 4/99 for conflict with Connor MacKenzie reg 10/98 (after this submission had left kingdom). Therefore, the device which was submittted in ILoI 0399 was pended in kingdom 5/99 awaiting an acceptable name. Changes: Minor changes only. English language / culture is most important. Desired gender is male.
29) Tessa de Rimini (Wastelands) Documentation provided: Resubmitted device. Name registered 4/99. Ulrich Talan Gwynek (Brian Scott), "Medieval Azure, two keys German Given Names from Silesia", in saltire, wards (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/bahlow_v.htm) to base, and a is "a compilation of the given names found in Hans chief embattled Bahlow's Mittelhochdeutsches Namenbuch nach argent schlesischen Quellen (Neustadt an der Aisch: Verlag Degener & Co., 1975). The title may be translated "Middle High German Name Book from Silesian Sources.". He documents Ulrich 9 times, in the years c.1250, c.1285, 1296, 1300, 1311, 1320, 1337, 1349, 1369 der German for "the" or "of the." Bahlow (p. 5 s.n. Adler) dates: Werner ze dem adeler – 1316 (this person was the owner of a wine pub, so "The Eagle" is likely the name of the pub.); Werner der Adeler - 1309 (same person as above); K. Bletz zem adeler – 1300; Submission (who was also known as) der adeler – 1300 history: Haveke Bahlow (p. 202 s.n. Häfke) gives this as meaning Per bend azure and argent, two keys in saltire, wards to hawk from the LGer. "havik". This entry dates: Hence base, counterchanged and a chief embattled argent was Havik – 1268, H. Heveke – 1468 returned by Laurel 9/99 because one of the keys was Photocopies: Web page as cited. counterchanged along its axis, thus making it Submission history: Name "Ulric von Mendersham" was unidentifiable. returned in kingdom 12/99 for use of German ("von") and English ("Mendersham") in one phrase. Device Gyronny 30) Thorvald the Bald (Brad Leah) of eight Or and Gules a Norse serpent nowed sable was New name. fasttrack returned in kingdom 10/99 for violating the Laurel precedent of May 1998 against registering Documentation provided: zoomorphic beasts of any kind.” Thorvald New Century Cyclopedia of Names, ed Changes: Any. 13th century German language / culture C. Barhart (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1954) p 3851 lists is most important. Desired gender is male. Changes Thorvald as "Scandinavian navigator, said to have requested for authenticity to 13th century German. explored the coast of New England (c1003-04)." the BaldDescription byname. Reaney & Wilson (3rd ed) p 24 under Bald, Bauld list Simon le Bald' 1178, John Balde 1221 and Bald' filius Bald' 1199. Photocopies: New Century Cycolpedia of Names as cited. Changes: Any. Scandinavian language / culture is most important. Desired gender is male.
Ansteorran Gazette February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Page 9 ANNOTATED INTERNAL COLLATED COMMENTARY - FOR ILOI 1099 Herewith please find the decisions made at La MarcheSauvage Bryn Gwlad – Bryn Gwlad commentary, by Gwenllian ferch on December 18, 1999. Maredudd, Salvatore, and Daniel de Lincoln (y’r humble Kathri, Asterisk scribe and first-person comments below). We checked all ———————————————————————— armory against the 8th edition Ordinary. We found no conflicts unless noted. Unto the Ansteorran College of Heralds does Perronnelle Charrette de La Tour du Pin, Outgoing Retiarius Pursuivant, FLASH! Parker’s Glossary is on-line with colored make most courteous greetings. emblazons! Huzzah! See http://www04.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/ ta2/saitou/ie401/index.htm . It’s one of the most complete For information on commentary submission formats or to sources for heraldic charges and terms. Although Victorian, receive a copy of the collated commentary, you can contact it’s still quite useful. the new Retiarius, HL Estrill Swet, at: ———————————————————————— Deborah Sweet 824 East 8th 1. Adelicia Brabant (Gate’s Edge) Stillwater, OK 74074 resub device; name in LoI0899; Azure, in saltire two artist’s 405-624-9344 (no calls after 10 PM) brushes argent, overall on an artist’s palette Or a road-runner [email protected] proper, all within a bordure argent. Da’ud ibn Auda Perronnelle, Post-Retiarius [Device] Let’s see: one of the reasons the prior submission ———————————————————————— was returned as because of the “non-period form of palette”, and so this submission uses a different form that still isn’t Commenters for this issue: the defined one for the SCA. Indeed, the charge at first blush appears to be a very fat cross formy pierced in chief. Da’ud ibn Auda – al-Jamal Herald Unless she’s submitted documentation for this particular form of artist’s palette as being a period artifact, I think we Magnus von Lubeck – Raven’s Fort still have a problem. [Asterisk: Although not exactly the form shown in the PicDic, this pallete is close enough to be Jararvellir – Midrealm; present at this session were Musa forwarded, in the opinion of those at the meeting.] ibn Ibrahim al-athir, Isfael ap Briafael, Iohanna di Carracci, and Aryanhwy merch Catmael. Comments prefaced “I” are Jararvellir from me, Aryanhwy. [Device] We all had issues with the road-runner; it’s indigenous to North America and was not found in Europe in period. (I don’t even know if it’s found in period now.) However, this STATUS OF ILoIs is a moot point because the device has four layers (field, paintbrushes, pallet, and bird) and must be returned as per ILoI0899: Discussed 10/16/99. Results AG 11/99. RfS VIII.1.c.ii Armorial Depth. [Asterisk: See Bryn Gwlad, LoI 10/30/99. Laurel meeting 2/12/2000. below.] ILoI0999: Discussed 11/20/99. Results AG 12/99. LoI 12/31/99. Laurel meeting 4/2/2000. Bryn Gwlad [Device] Overall charges count as being on the field, so this is ILoI1099: Discussed 12/18/99. Results this Gazette. 3 layers (field, 4 things on the field, bird), so it’s OK. LoI 1/31/2000. Laurel meeting est. 5/13/2000. A roadrunner has been registered only once before, in the ILoI1199: Discussed 2/19/2000. Results next Gazette. very early days of the Society: Reyna de San Diego, 1/76, “Azure, a roadrunner courant to sinister ...”. Danny don’t ILoI1299: Comments due to Retiarius 2/20/2000. Discussion Scheduled 3/15-19/2000 - Gulf Wars. think that the one very early registration is enough to justify it today. Was it known to Europeans in period? [Asterisk: It ILoI0100: THIS ILoI DOES NOT EXIST. was probably known to the Spaniards in what is now northern COLLEGE ON VACATION JANUARY OF 2000. Mexico and SW USA, which has been sufficient for registration.] The OED (1st ed.) first citation is 1872. It ILoI0200: This Gazette. Comments due to Retiarius 3/20/2000. defines it as the “paisano or chaparral cock”; the first it dates Discussion to be Scheduled . to 1885, the second to 1882, saying it’s “evidently the Mexican name caporal Americanized”. Surely Spanish ILoI0300: Next Gazette. Comments due to Retiarius 4/20/2000. sources would have the earliest records, but we have no such Discussion to be Scheduled . Page 10 February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Ansteorran Gazette references. [But we don’t have to document the words in the membership in such a clan (no matter what ‘clan’ word was blazon and if Laurel wants to change, it she can.][ used for the group) was indicated in a personal name was by the use of ó (or older ua) plus the clan eponym in the genitive Also, what tincture is the bird? If it’s all brown, it’s a “brown (i.e., ó Aonghusa) not by using a construction equivalent to roadrunner proper”. “PRECEDENT: Henceforward, and ‘of Clan X’.” (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR June 1998, p. 5) more in line with period heraldic practice, animals which Clan affiliations are not indicated by “of Clan [Whatever]” are normally brown may be registered simply as an {X} in personal names, and such have been returned (or modified, proper (e.g., boar proper, hare proper). Animals which are as in the precedent above) before. frequently found as brown but also commonly appear in other tinctures in the natural world may be registered as a brown [Device] The primary charge here is not a manticore; that {X} proper (e.g., brown hound proper, brown horse proper).” charge is described as: “a monster, consisting of a lion’s body (LoAR Cover Letter, 10/95) with a human face (sometimes head), a scorpion’s tail, and sometimes horns.” (Pictorial Dictionary, 2nd ed., cf. Otherwise, “Proper is allowed for natural flora and fauna “Manticore”) (emphasis added) The monster here has the where there is a widely understood default coloration for standard lion’s tail, and is probably visually and heraldically the charge so specified. My rule of thumb here is that if you indistinct from a lion rampant Or. As such, it likely conflicts have to look it up in a book, it is excessive.” (Cover Letter, with Belgium and Brabant, Sable, a lion rampant Or. May 1991) Is the “proper” for a roadrunner widely understood? Danny doesn’t know how to color one. The term “orb” is a defined heraldic charge; what the ———————————————————————— manticore here is holding isn’t it. Blazon fu: maintaining a 1. COLLEGE ACTION: hurt or maintaining a roundel azure. Device: Forwarded to Laurel reblazoned “…a brown roadrunner proper, … Magnus von Lubeck ———————————————————————— [Name] Please tell local heralds that books by Hanks & Hodges, Kolach, and Yonge make nice paperweights but that is about 2. Ælfwyn æt Gyrwum (Bjornsborg) all they are good for. Laurel will not accept anything from new device; name reg 04/99; Azure crusilly moline, on a fess these books. Heini Gruffudd, Welsh Names for Children, Or three annulets azure. page 6, under Aeron gives it as a man or woman’s name and lists “Celtic Agrona = goddess of slaughter; god of battle, as Jararvellir Aerfen, Aberaeron, Ceredigion.” Other entries with no dates [Device] Beautiful! include Aeronwy - variant of Aeron, Aerona - feminine of Aeron, and Aeronwen - Aeron + gwen (white, blessed). This Bryn Gwlad suggests that the name is associated with divine powers but [Device] (Daniel’s irreverent comment: 3 hugs, semy of weird the variants suggest its use as a human name. The only kisses? Daniel’s a friend; he can do that.) other helpful item found was in T.P and Prys Morgan, Welsh ———————————————————————— Surnames, page 45, under Arawn dates the masculine name 2. COLLEGE ACTION: Aron from 1215-1350 and from 1350-1415. Black gives Device: Forwarded to Laurel. the spelling as Aschennan. ———————————————————————— [Device] This is a mantyger rather than a manticore. “The principal difference between a mantyger and a manticore... 3. Aeron Aschennen of Clan MacKenzie (Mooneschadowe) is the manticore has a scorpion’s sting for a tail. It is doubtful new change of primary name from Anastacia de Maris; new that there is a CVD for the difference, but it is a blazonable change of device; current name registered 10/95; Barry bendy distinction.” (LoAR 4/91 p.3). azure and argent, a manticore rampant guardant Or maintaining an orb azure. Jararvellir [Name] According to Gruffudd,
6. Alisandre Oliphant (Bjornsborg) I cannot find a direct precedent whether a compass star is new badge; name reg 04/86; (Fieldless) A rose purpure barbed simple enough to be voided per the Bruce precedent. If it and seeded proper. isn’t, then X.4.j.ii doesn’t kick in, no 2d CD for type only of the tertiaries, and there’s a conflict. I believe it isn’t X.4.j.ii- Jararvellir ”simple”. From X.4.j.ii.a, “‘Gules, on a mullet of six points [Badge] Clear from conflict in the on-line OandA. Or a cross crosslet sable’ does not have a clear difference from ‘Gules, on a mullet of six points Or a pellet’ because Bryn Gwlad the interior of a correctly drawn mullet of six points is too [Badge] Blazon fu: the rose is “inverted”. small.” I think this should apply with more force to a mullet ———————————————————————— of eight points. 6. COLLEGE ACTION: ———————————————————————— Badge: Forwarded to Laurel. 8. COLLEGE ACTION: ———————————————————————— Device: Forwarded to Laurel. ———————————————————————— 7. Caitlin nan Cnoc Airgead (Gate’s Edge) resub device; name reg 03/90; Per fess argent and sable, a demi- 9. Dominic MacNamara (Bjornsborg) horse issuant from the line of division contourny sable. resub device; name in LoI0699; Argent, a fish-tailed demi-dog vert maintaining a Celtic cross gules and a chief invected Magnus von Lubeck azure. [Device] Can be reblazoned “Per fess argent and sable a demi- horse rampant contourny issuant from the line of division Magnus von Lubeck sable.” [Device] Keith of the Oaks February 1990: “Argent, a sea-dog ———————————————————————— rampant vert within a bordure azure.” There is one CD for 7. COLLEGE ACTION: changing the type of secondary from bordure to chief. Device: Forwarded to Laurel reblazoned as “… a demi-horse [Asterisk: Actually, it’s 1 CD for adding a chief and 1 CD rampant contourny issuant …” for dropping the bordure.] ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— 9. COLLEGE ACTION: 8. Derek Fallon Rathbourn (Bordermarch) Device: Forwarded to Laurel. new change of device; name reg 03/90; Quarterly gules and ———————————————————————— sable, on a compas star argent a wolf’s head cabossed sable vomiting flames proper. 10. François la Flamme (Stargate) new change of device; name registered 02/94; Vert estencelé Jararvellir Or. [Device] There was some problem with identifiability on this one; perhaps some internal detailing on the wolf’s head Da’ud ibn Auda would fix that. Also, could we find a better way to blazon [Device] Consider Libya, Vert. RfS X.4.a.ii. states that: “If the flames than “vomitting”? the fields of two pieces of field-primary armory have no tinctures in common, they are considered completely Also, while blazoned as “Quarterly gules and sable,” the different and do not conflict, irrespective of any other mini had the first and third quarters already colored as black similarities between them. The ermine furs and their variants – perhaps was it supposed to be “Quarterly sable and gules”? are considered to be different tinctures, so Per bend ermine and azure is completely different from Per bend erminois Bryn Gwlad and gules and from Per bend argent ermined gules and [Device] Reblazon: this is almost certainly “Quarterly sable sable.” If estencely is considered to be an “ermine variant”, and gules”. It’s also “a compass star elongated to base”. (it is, in essence, ermine without the tail part, leaving only It’s also “breathing flames proper”. the spots) then this is clear by application of X.4.a.ii. If, on the other hand, estencely is considered to be semy of sparks (Due to the stylized head, Daniel first thought it resembled (as it has sometimes been blazoned in the SCA), then the “on a star elongated to starbase, a Klingon battlecruiser volant field is strewn with a group of charges which are by definition Ansteorran Gazette February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Page 13 not primary charges (see RfS X.4.b.), and thus there may be 12. Ivie Rathbourn (Bordermarch) only one CD from Libya. new name; new device; Gules on a demi-sun Or a wheel proper.
Jararvellir Da’ud ibn Auda [Device] This received many favorable comments from the [Name] Her desired gender is female, but she only documents entire room. The only thing we suggest is drawing the sparks the name as a masculine surname, “the son of Ive”. I’m not in a more even manner. at all sure that the given has been sufficiently supported here, ———————————————————————— at least not based on the documentation submitted in the 10. COLLEGE ACTION: ILoI. Device: Forwarded to Laurel for a ruling on the issue raised by [Device] The primary charge is not a “demi-sun”; such charge Da’ud. [Asterisk: And as I said at the meeting, I’m not telling is only the chiefmost half of a sun. But neither is it a sun, my boss he can’t have what he wants. If it’s true, let his boss which charge has alternating straight and wavy rays. The tell him.] emblazon here looks more like an “eight-armed snowflake” ———————————————————————— than it does anything else. [And snowflakes have been banned for some years now.] I am afraid this falls afoul of 11. Gerard le Wise (Wastelands) RfS VII.7.a., which requires that: “Elements must be resub device ;name reg 06/99; Per chevron inverted sable and recognizable solely from their appearance.” gules, an oak leaf in chief and an owl displayed in base argent. “The wheel’s “proper” coloration is brown, the color Da’ud ibn Auda of wood.” (Pictorial Dictionary, 2nd ed., #792) [Device] “Per chevron [inverted] intersects the sides of the field, even if the line of partition is enhanced (raised) or Magnus von Lubeck abased (lowered). The angle is fairly shallow. [Baldwin of [Name] Withycombe, page 168 gives the female name Ivy as Erebor, Cover Letter, 10 October 1984, p. 2] “This is being a late 19th century invention. Bardsley dates the surname to returned for a redraw. This is not a chief triangular, per after period in 1641 and doesn’t date the pet form of the chevron inverted, chapé, or a pile, but rather something name Ivie. There was no reference to a female form of the partway between all of them. (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR March name. There is also no registration of the name in the SCA 1997, p. 12) The emblazon here has the same problem: it is so this name looks to be modern. She might want to consider not per chevron inverted since it issues from the corners of Iva. Reaney & Wilson, page 250 under Ivatt give Iva as an the chief; it is not a chief triangular because it goes down to Old French feminine of Ivo. Withycombe, page 167 under the fess point of the shield; it is not chaussé because that Ivo dates that name in England from the Domesday Book goes to the base point of the shield, nor is it a pile because 1086. Reaney & Wilson, page 372 under Rathbone dates that does not issue from the corners of the chief. This sort the spellings Rathebon to 1275, Rathebun to 1297 and 1327, of “betwixt and between” line has long been cause for return. and Radbone to 1547. The grandfather clause should allow her to use Rathbourn. Magnus von Lubeck [Device] This is a sun rather than a demi-sun and a wheel [Device] The chevron inverted line of division needs to be proper is brown. How does it conflict with thee, let us count drawn lower. the ways. Macedonia December 1994: “Gules, a sun Or.” Important non-SCA flag. One CD for the tertiary. Kriemhild Jararvellir of Stonecroft January 1974: “Vert, a mullet of nine points [Device] It’s hard to draw an owl displayed and have it still throughout Or, thereon a turkeycock’s head [Gallopavo look like an owl. While this is a rather ugly bird, it’s a fairly meleagris] erased proper.” One CD for the field and conflict good displayed owl. The leaf is borderline oak/maple. only if the proper color here is brown. Sara of the Rushes Perhaps it could be redrawn a bit. January 1973: “Gules, an estoile of four straight and four rayonny voided rays Or.” One CD for the tertiary but none Bryn Gwlad for the estoile. Kyrgyzstan September 1995: “Gules, on a [Device] This is a “chief triangular”. Thus it’s color-on-color. sun Or three bendlets and three bendlets sinister, all enarched, If redrawn as a correct “per chevron inverted”, it would be within and conjoined to an annulet gules.” Important non- clear. SCA flag. One CD for the tertiary changes. ———————————————————————— 11. COLLEGE ACTION: Jararvellir Device: Returned fro redraw of leaf and line of division. [Name]
Ansteorran Gazette February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Page 15 15. Meadhbh inghean Róis (Wastelands) Azure, in pale a heart distilling gouttes d’Or and a stag’s resub device; name reg 04/99; Argent a chevron vert, two garden skull caboshed argent within a bordure embattled Or.] The roses gules slipped and leaved vert and a triquetra vert. device conflicts with ... Vert, a heart Or between the attires of a stag’s head cabossed argent, attired, within a bordure Da’ud ibn Auda embattled Or. There is only one CD for the tincture of the [Device] We no longer blazon “garden roses”. “The field. The gouttes, the tincture of the horns, and the difference commentary is in, with a clear majority of commenters in between a stag’s skull cabossed and a stag’s head cabossed favor of adopting Baron Bruce’s proposal that we continue are insufficient for the necessary CD. [12a/93, p.16]” (Da’ud to accept garden roses in SCA armory, but simply blazon 2.1 prec., s.v. Difference (CD)). them as roses. As a consequence, we will immediately and ———————————————————————— henceforth blazon a rose, whether the default heraldic rose 16. COLLEGE ACTION: or the garden rose, as a rose.” (Da’ud ibn Auda, Cover Letter Badge: Returned for conflict with Armida Morgan, but we November 1994) Because the roses are not in the default would still like a clarification about the name. Bordure has “palewise” posture, their posture needs to be noted in the inquired of Laurel. blazon. Blazon fu: Argent, a chevron vert between two roses ———————————————————————— gules slipped and leaved in chevron and a triquetra vert. 17. Mìchél mac Donnchaid (Eldern Hills) Magnus von Lubeck new name [Device] Blazon as “Argent a chevron vert two roses gules slipped and leaved and a triquetra vert.” November 1994 Magnus von Lubeck LoAR Cover Letter “As a consequence, we will immediately [Name] Withycombe page 219 under Michael gives Michell and henceforth blazon a rose, whether the default heraldic from 1439 and 13th century. Reaney & Wilson, page 311 rose or the garden rose, as a rose.” under Mitchel gives Michel de Whepstede 1327. Black, page 543 under MacMichael gives Johannes McMichell from Jararvellir 1527 and page 599 under Michelson as son of Michael [Device] This could perhaps be better blazoned as “in chief in Gilbertus Michelson from 1483. O Corrain & Maguire page chevron two garden roses, flowers to chief, proper.” I believe 76 Donnchad lists it as one of the more common Irish names the proper coloration for garden roses is gules flower, vert in the later Middle Ages and dates it to 944 and 1064. Black, leaves and stem. page 228 under Duncan dates Donnchaid in the genitive form ———————————————————————— from 1467 and Donnchad from 1520. 15. COLLEGE ACTION: Device: Forwarded to Laurel reblazoned Argent, a chevron vert Jararvellir between two roses gules slipped and leaved in chevron and a [Name] I can’t say for sure, but I believe the grave accent on triquetra vert. the first is a modern editorial mark; I don’t know of the ———————————————————————— grave accent being used in period Gaelic. As for the rest of the name, looks good to go. 16. Michael of Kendel (Bjornsborg) ———————————————————————— new badge; no folder in files and reg of name not shown in 17. COLLEGE ACTION: O&A, but device reg 08/94; (Fieldless) A stag’s head erase Name: Forwarded to Laurel. argent attired Or. ————————————————————————
Magnus von Lubeck 18. Owen Campbell (Mendersham) The device is registered under Michael of Kendal August 1984 resub device; name reg 12/98; Gyronny of eight Or and sable (via Ansteorra). I think that was before names were required. an orle of trefoils counterchanged. The College might check with Laurel’s office to see if a registered name is needed. Da’ud ibn Auda [Badge] Armida Morgan July 1974: “Azure, the head of a [Device] Gyronny is “of eight” by default; “of eight” may be hind erased argent.” There is one CD for fieldless. safely dropped from the blazon. The shamrocks (not simply “trefoils”, which have differently shaped leaves from the Bryn Gwlad ones here) appear more to be “in annulo” than as an “orle”. [Badge] Lovely! Consider Armida Morgan, 7407, “Azure, Orles follow the shape of the shield; the shamrocks here are the head of a hind erased argent.” “[A hare vs. a hare armed in a circle. with stag’s attires] There is a CD ... for the removal of the attires, which a comparison of the emblazons showed to be Only the first and second reasons for return have been the visual equivalent of removing wings, for which we also addressed; the submission still is a cadet version of Campbell grant a CD. (Da’ud ibn Auda, LoAR May 1995, p. 10)” of Argyll, which in combination with the surname is probably (Da’ud 2.2, s.v. Difference). On the other hand, “[Returning sufficient to cause its return. “[The submitter] provides Page 16 February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Ansteorran Gazette copious extracts from Burke to support the contention that 20. Serena Gethin (Gate’s Edge) members of the clan may use differenced versions of the new name; new device; Quarterly sable and gules, a seahorse chief’s arms. Unfortunately, the examples support the erect within an orle of annulets argent. original contention of the College that the use of the clearly cadenced arms ... implies a claim to kinship with the head Da’ud ibn Auda of the clan, which is not permitted. The general feeling of [Device] Sea-monsters are erect by default; we can safely the College was that an allusion to the Campbell arms or remove “erect” from the blazon. badges might be permissible with the simple name Campbell, but that the arms differenced went beyond the differences Magnus von Lubeck required for what Scots heraldry charmingly calls a ‘stranger [Device] The seahorse is erect by default. in blood’.” (Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane, LoAR August 1987, pp. 15-16) Jararvellir [Name] This is a beautiful name; unfortunately, it is not Welsh. RfS X.4.a.ii. defines “the peripheral ordinaries are the [Device] Another red, black, and white device? Geez, what is chief, the bordure, the base (including the point pointed), it that you guys have in the water down there? the quarter, the canton, the gyron, the orle, the double tressure, and flaunches..” Because an orle (or, as here, Bryn Gwlad charges in orle) are not considered primary charges (they do [Name] Salvatore says, “Serena is not Anglicized Welsh. No not lie across the center of the field), there is in fact only one evidence that it made it into the Welsh culture [to match the CD (per RfS X.4.b.) between this submission and Campbell, surname]. Needs to be modified to fit into that language/ Duke of Argyll, the addition of the secondary shamrocks. culture”, if desired to reach the desired authentic 14th C. This is presumptuous of the arms of Campbell, even without Welsh. the surname. Note that the 8/99 LoAR Cover Letter has a nice discussion Magnus von Lubeck of registerability of mixed-culture names. “The fourth [Device] This still appears to have problems of presumption category is when names mix elements of two cultures and with the Campbell name and arms. we know of many case of names containing elements of both cultures and of both spelling conventions; for example, Bryn Gwlad English and Welsh. As these names are historical we allow [Device] Blazon fu: “gyronny of eight” is the default; delete them even when the two languages are used in the same “of eight”. If there was a problem of presumption before, phrase.” then there still is with this resub. Da’ud’s cited a prec. from 1987. I think it should not be cause for return. I think the [Device] No blazon fu: the 3/97 Cover Letter clarified that in SCA CoA was more anal in 1987 about presumption issues. the SCA this is indeed a seahorse, the fish being called a For example, then you couldn’t use a god/goddess name natural seahorse, and the term “hippocampus” has been sunk. (Ceridwen, Rhiannon, Athena, Diana, Thor, &c) with an (Irreverent comment: “Ring, ring, ring ... hello, seahorse attribute of that divine person, but now you can use one. I here”.) believe this armory is clear of Campbell, Duke of Argyll, ———————————————————————— “Gyronny Or and sable”, by X.1. 20. COLLEGE ACTION: ———————————————————————— Name: Forwarded to Laurel. 18. COLLEGE ACTION: Device: Forwarded to Laurel. Device: Returned because arms are both presumptuous of and ———————————————————————— in conflict with Campbell, Duke of Argyll, “Gyronny Or and sable.” See Da’ud. 21. Serena Gethin (Gate’s Edge) ———————————————————————— new badge; name submission immediately above; (Fieldless) A torse wreathed of sable, gules, and argent. 19. Sean McConnul Duncan (Gate’s Edge) resub badge; name reg 03/91; (Fieldless) A griffin segreant Da’ud ibn Auda contourny azure. [Badge] Torses wreathed (multiply divided) of three tinctures are a post-period phenomenon. Jararvellir [Badge] The griffin is salient, not segreant. Magnus von Lubeck ———————————————————————— [Badge] The torse is in annulo. All torses registered are 19. COLLEGE ACTION: wreathed of two tinctures only – one metal and one color. Badge: Forwarded to Laurel. This lovely armory will have to be returned because of ———————————————————————— contrast problems. See July 1998 LoAR “[A bend sinister wreathed sable and gules.] This is being returned for running Ansteorran Gazette February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Page 17 afoul of our contrast requirements. We require that charges which are “wreathed” to have good contrast between their Da’ud ibn Auda parts. ‘A wreathed ordinary must be of two tinctures with [Device] Six charges on the field do not have a default good contrast.’ (Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, LoAR arrangement; we probably ought to specify them here. September 1992, p. 43).” August 1988 LoAR “Philip Quarterly azure and argent, six towers, three, two and one, MhicRath of Locksley. Unfortunately, this example, where counterchanged. there is adequate contrast between the sable and Or, does nothing to emend the current ban on wreathing of two metals. Jararvellir The basis for the limitation on wreathing of two tinctures of [Device] Gorgeous device! Got many resounding approval- the same category is the reduction of identifiability that type noises from the entire group. ensues.” February 1985 LoAR “Katerina de Turenne. ———————————————————————— Society convention presently allows an ordinary to be 22. COLLEGE ACTION: wreathed of only one color, with the internal lines being Device: Forwarded to Laurel reblazoned “.. six towers, three, considered either a treatment or a form of diapering. (WvS, two and one, …” 28 Dec 82, p. 11) I find this usage questionable, and judging ———————————————————————— from the comments on this submission, the College of Arms is of like mind. (Mundane practice is apparently to twist 23. Talmon Wilbanks (Gate’s Edge) together a strand of color with a strand of metal.)” resub device; name in LoI0899; Argent a tree proper, the crown charged with two swords inverted in saltire argent, all within Bryn Gwlad a bordure azure. [Badge] (Irreverent comments: “Now THAT’S a torse of a different color!” “I’m looking over / A three-wreathed cover Magnus von Lubeck ...”) [Device] Compare with Clare de Chesnei March 1993: “Argent, a tree eradicated proper, a bordure azure semy of acorns Or.” Is there a contrast problem? VIII.2.b.v. says “Elements Removing the acorn semy and adding the swords may clear evenly divided in three tinctures must have good contrast it under X.4.i. between two of their parts.”, but I don’t recall seeing examples of three-way tincture divisions other than per pall Bryn Gwlad and per pall inverted. [Device] Reblazon: “Argent, on a tree proper ...”. ———————————————————————— Is there a period style problem? “Eliada of Thun. Azure, a 23. COLLEGE ACTION: fess wreathed Or and argent ... A wreathed ordinary must be Device: Forwarded to Laurel reblazoned “Argent, on a tree of two tinctures with good contrast.” (9/92 LoAR, Aten. proper two swords … “ ret.) – but this is a wreathed ordinary, not a wreath as a charge. ———————————————————————— Do they adduce any period evidence of three-wreathed torses? It’s never been registered before. 24. Ulric von Mendersham (Mendersham) new name; see Fasttracked Returns for new device Clear of Trimaris, 9706, “(Fieldless) A joscelyn wreathed azure and argent, belled argent.” Even if Serena’s were Da’ud ibn Auda “wreathed color and argent”, it’d be a change of half the [Name] RfS III.1.a. requires that “Each phrase must be tincture. grammatically correct according to the usage of a single language.” “von Mendersham” is such a single phrase, but Teceangl– In Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland (Edinburgh, the particle is German and the (SCA) placename is English. 1949), p 195, the author makes reference to the grant of He might be Ulric of Mendersham, or he might be Ulric von arms and crest to the City of Exeter in England, which [German placename], but not “von Mendersham”. In featured a wreath/torse of three colours, Or gules, and azure. returning the byname von An Tir, Laurel stated: “The The grant was made in 1580, so definitely qualifies as period. languages of the locative do not match (German and Welsh).” ———————————————————————— [The submission was returned solely for this reason. This 21. COLLEGE ACTION: ruling implies that SCA places are not entirely part of the Badge: Forwarded to Laurel with documentation of the three- “lingua franca” and are subject to the style rules for linguistic colored wreath/torse, with request for a change in the existing consistency] (Da’ud ibn Auda, LoAR August 1990 p. 14). precedent. ———————————————————————— Magnus von Lubeck [Name] Hans Bahlow, Dictionary of German Names, Edda 22. Stephen MacThomas (Gate’s Edge) Gentry translation, page 391 under Ohl dates Olrik to 1318 resub device; name change in LoI0499; Quarterly azure and and page 574 Ulrich mentions St. Ulrich bishop of Augsburg. argent, six towers counterchanged. Morlet, Les Noms de Personne, volume 1, page 176 under Page 18 February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Ansteorran Gazette Odalrichus gives Ulricus dated from 11th-12th century, 996- The following items from the January Coronation Submission 1031, 10th-11th century, 9th-11th century, 1045, 1060, 1070- Table were deemed ready to go straight to Laurel. 1078, and 1100. Omer Englebert, Lives of the Saints, Barnes & Nobles, 1994, page 258 St. Ulrich (890-973) bishop of 1) Albrecht von Landshut () Augsburg. New name. Item 2 of LoI0100. Documentation provided: Jararvellir Albrecht: Bahlow (p. 10 s.n. Albrecht) notes “the medieval [Name]:
Ceinwen ferch Rhuel. Alternate name Owen ap Llywelyn. ACCEPTANCES - 01/05/2000 Adelicia Brabant. Name. Crossrode Keep, Shire of. Branch name and device. Argent, The name is not in conflict with the Adelicia, wife of Henry I, on a saltire gules a tower Or, overall a laurel wreath vert. since she is actually known as Adelicia of Louvain. Furthermore, the name of a less important queen of a less important king is not auto- Dvora Beloselskaia. Name. matically worthy of protection. Submitted as Dvora Belosel’skaia, the submitter originally re- quested the registered form, which is equally acceptable. Annes Clotilde von Bamburg. Device change. Per bend vert and gules, a frog rampant Or. Faoileann Ruadh. Name and device. Vert, three oak leaves Her current device, Lozengy Or and vert, on a pall gules four conjoined in pall and in chief three acorns Or. bezants is released. Geoffrey Biedermann. Name change from Matt Biedermann. His current name is released. Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Badge for the Ministry of Children. Or semy of hands sable. Gisele Maria Overton. Name. Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Badge for the Children’s Defender. James Francis Navarre. Device. Gules, a lion passant, in can- Or semy of hands sable, on a lozenge gules a broadsword Or. ton a mullet of six points, a bordure embattled Or. Geoffrey Sparhauk. Name and device. Argent, six hawk’s Katherine Rose Oliver. Device. Per chevron ployé argent and heads erased azure armed Or. vert, an ivy leaf bendwise, another bendwise sinister vert, and an owl Nice armory! Or. Gisele Maria Overton. Device. Per pale vert and purpure, a Kein MacEwan. Device change. Counter-ermine, a griffin chamfron Or. segreant gules gorged of a ducal coronet inverted and on a chief in- This is clear of Seumas Camshronach an Lochabair, Sable, a dented Or three mullets sable. chamfron Or enflamed proper. There is a CD for the change to the His current device, Counter-ermine, a griffin segreant gules, field, and the enflaming in Seumas’s device is significant enough for on a chief indented Or, three mullets sable, is released. the second CD.
Màiri M’Donnyle. Device. Vert, a chevron between three cush- Melek of Ancyra. Name and device. Argent, a catamount ram- ions argent, a bordure Or. pant sable winged gules, wings enflamed proper, a bordure gules.
Mikael Colquhoun. Name. Murdoc of Wastelands. Name and device. Azure, in pale two lightning bolts fesswise, overall a sword Or. Octavia de Verdon. Name and device. Argent, on a bend Submitted as Murdoc of the Wastelands, the group name does cotised between two fleurs-de-lys sable a feather argent. not include the article.
Raedwulf Burke. Alternate name Robert Wolfe. Pádraig Ó Duinn. Name and device. Per chevron azure and Nice name! argent, two eagles displayed Or and an oak tree proper fructed Or.
Richard MacRichie. Device. Argent, a salamander vert Sean McConnul Duncan. Device. Argent, a griffin segreant enflamed proper, on a chief triangular vert a Bowen knot argent. and a chief urdy azure. Please instruct the submitter to draw fewer and larger divisions Rosamunde del Shore. Name. in the chief.
Santiago Ramirez. Name. Talmon Wilbanks. Name. Nice name! Talon of Blackoak. Name and device. Per chevron inverted
Page 20 February, A.S. XXXIV (2000) Ansteorran Gazette ANSTEORRAN EXCERPTS CONTINUED azure and vert, a chevron inverted between a mullet and three sy- argent, is also in conflict and therefore we are registering the device camore leaves argent. under the Grandfather Clause. His current device is released.
RETURNS - 01/05/2000 John Bayne. Name and device. Gules, on a pale between two None! trees Or a tree sable. Nice name! ACCEPTANCES - 02/14/2000 Ailitha ingen Chathail. Name. Loch Ruadh, Canton of. Badge. Quarterly gules and sable, Please inform the submitter that a name mixing English and on a flame Or a rock gules, a bordure Or. Gaelic spelling was vanishingly rare in period. As the given name is solidly English, the name would be considerably more authentic with Marcus Blackwell. Device. Or, a dexter arm fesswise issuant an English byname as well. from dexter proper vested gules sustaining a roundel barry wavy sable and argent. Ainar Magnusson. Name and device. Sable, on a pile through- out between two mullets of six points argent a raven sable. Maria Elena de los Santos. Name. Nice raven! Mor Loft. Device. Or, a phoenix sable rising from flames gules Ascelyn Balstene. Device. Per chevron argent and gules, a and on a chief rayonny sable a bow fesswise surmounted by two ar- mortar and pestle vert and a comet argent. rows inverted in saltire Or. This is clear of Vallust Balstene, reblazoned elsewhere in this letter, Per chevron argent and gules, an armadillo statant contourny Reginleif Ragnarsdottir. Device. Or chape gules, a raven azure. vert and a comet bendwise inverted argent. There is one CD for type of half the primary charges and another CD for the change of orienta- Robin Anderson of Ross. Device. Azure, on a roundel argent tion of the other half of the primary charge group. a bird migrant sable, in chief three daisies argent seeded Or.
Catin de Mortain. Name and device. Vert, a dragon passant Sigen Fridreksdottir. Badge. (Fieldless) On a Thor’s hammer and on a chief doubly-enarched argent three hearts azure. azure a roundel argent. Cecilie die Ärtztin. Badge. (Fieldless) A bat-winged dolphin haurient contourny sable. Stargate, Barony of. Badge for the Order of the Silver Nail. Per chevron inverted sable and argent, a horseshoe nail and a horse- Celestria Monelyght le Dragon. Name. shoe counterchanged.
Chenwrec MacGriogair. Name. RETURNS - 02/14/2000 The submitter should be informed that mixing an English name Kassandra vom Rhein. Name and device. Per bend sinister with the Gaelic spelling of a byname was extremely rare in period. A Or and vert, a stag’s head erased contourny proper and a grapevine form of MacGregor that is much closer in time and spelling conven- fructed argent. tion to his given name is M’Gregere, dated to 1292 in Reaney and No forms were included with the submission. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames.
Conall Ó Ríoghbhardáin. Device. Per chevron azure and ar- gent, three crescents argent and a natural leopard rampant sable spot- ted argent.
Crystal of Middleford. Name and device. Per saltire vert and azure a hippogriff segreant within a bordure argent. This is clear of Elspeth Charissa aus Reinwald, Purpure, a pegasus rampant, wings inverted and addorsed, within a bordure ar- gent. There is one CD for the field and a second CD for the difference between a pegasus and a hippogriff.
Deirdre inghean Ghiolla Ruaidh. Name. Deirdre is SCA compatible.
Gabriele René de Bernard. Name and device. Argent, two bears combattant gules and a rose, a chief engrailed azure.
Gest Grimsson. Device change. Vert, a narwhal hauriant em- bowed argent. This is in conflict with Balin the Fairhaired, Sable, a whale haurient argent. There is only 1 CD for change of field. However, his current device, Per pale vert and sable, a narwhale hauriant embowed
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