ACCEPTANCES Page 1 of 41 January 2019 LoAR THE FOLLOWING ITEMS HAVE BEEN REGISTERED: ÆTHELMEARC Adhemar of Saint Albans. Name (see RETURNS for device). Submitted as Adhémar, we found no evidence for the inclusion of the acute accent in the given name in period. Our sources, including "Occitan Townspeople in the 14th Century" by Juliana de Luna (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/occitan/occitan.html), show the name without the accent. We therefore have removed the accent for registration. This name combines a French (Occitan) name with a Middle English byname, an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C. Annice Landi. Name. Annice is the submitter’s legal middle name. However, use of the Legal Name Allowance is not necessary because commenters were able to redocument the entire name as a period English name. Arvik Hyttoinen. Name change from holding name Arvik of Saint Swithin’s Bog. Submitted as Arvik Heitanen, we were unable to find any evidence that Heitanen was a period surname. It was documented on the Letter of Intent as a header form in "Finnish Family Names for Inhabitants Assessed for Taxes in Savonlinna Province in 1571" (http://www.genealogia.fi/nimet/nimi13ae.htm). While this article contains some period spellings, the headers are all modernized forms. In the case of Heitanen, the earliest evidence found for the surname was from the 1680s. In commentary, Adelaide Pympernell found the period surname Hyttoinen in "Family Names in the Old Rautalampi Administrative Parish in 1564, 1586 and 1621" (http://www.genealogia.fi/nimet/nimi12ae.htm). In this article, the header forms are modern, but the forms found in parentheses are period. Hyttoinen appears in parentheses. With the submitter’s permission, we have changed the name to Arvik Hyttoinen for registration. Ástríðr Þórólfsdóttir. Name and device. Purpure, on a bend sinister argent three triskeles purpure, in canton a Latin cross fleury argent. Nice 9th-10th century Icelandic name! Bjarki Rikarðarson. Name and device. Per pale argent and gules, a swallow gules and a bear rampant Or, a point pointed sable. Commenters raised questions about the given name Bjarki. On the June 2017 Letter of Acceptances and Returns, we ruled that this name can be registered. The given name Bjarki was documented based on the saga hero B{o,}ðvarr-Bjarki. Commenters questioned whether Bjarki is actually a given name in this construction. Scholars disagree on this question. Several scholars identify Bjarki as the given name, with B{o,}ðvarr- being a prepended descriptive byname meaning "battle-army" or "fighter." As current scholarship does not agree, we are giving the submitter the benefit of the doubt and registering Bjarki as a given name pending additional research. [Bjarki Vikarsson, A-Calontir] The submitter requested authenticity for Norse language or culture. Both name elements are in Old Norse. However, the doubts about whether Bjarki was, in fact, a given name mean that we cannot say whether or not the name is authentic. Charles MacCowan of Galloway. Name and device. Vert, a cross tripartite and fretted between in bend a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy argent, overall an arrow bendwise sinister inverted Or. Although Charles was originally documented in English on the Letter of Intent, Lillia Crampette also found the name in Scots dated to 1575 in the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (http://www.rps.ac.uk/mss/A1575/3/12). Accordingly, this name is entirely Scots. Artist’s note: Please draw the arrow thicker, with more prominent head and fletching, for easier identification. ACCEPTANCES Page 2 of 41 January 2019 LoAR Dalibor Vilcekov syn. Name. Both name elements were documented from Moroshkin via The Dictionary of Russian Names by Paul Wickenden of Thanet. As noted in the July 2017 Cover Letter: Wickenden relied on a book by Mikhail Iakolevich Moroshkin called Slavianskii imenoslov ili, sobranie slavianskikh lichnykh imen (The Slavic Name Book, or a Collection of Slavic Personal Names) that is today in the public domain and freely available online (https://archive.org/details/slavianskimenos00morogoog). Name elements from this source are marked in the Dictionary with the abbreviation [Mor]. Moroshkin was interested primarily in common name elements that appeared across the Slavic languages and, as a result, he grouped name elements together under a "Russified" spelling even if they were found in Latin-language records from Bohemia or German-language records from Poland. Thus, a name element taken from Moroshkin and appearing in the Dictionary may not actually be a Russian element. Despite these flaws, the Dictionary remains the best generally available source for Russian names and one easily accessible to submitters. Therefore, where the submitter has not requested authenticity, names found in the Dictionary will be treated as Russian, regardless of their source. Thus, even though these name elements are almost certainly from a Slavic language other than Russian, we allow them to be used in Russian naming patterns such as in the present name. Danielle de Lorraine. Device. Azure, a serpent involved and on a chief argent a bow reversed between two musical notes azure. Dominique von Weißenthurn. Badge. (Fieldless) An elephant passant Or maintaining in its trunk a feather bendwise sinister purpure. Einrich Stein Hogger. Name (see RETURNS for device). As documented on the Letter of Intent, Einrich is a gray-period German name borrowed into English and used with a double English surname, as permitted under the February 2015 Cover Letter. In addition, both Stein and Hogger are found as period German surnames, making this name entirely German. Godfrey de Bayeux. Name and device. Argent, on a saltire vert two spears in saltire argent. This name combines an English given name with a French byname, an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C. Jân al-Tha‘lab. Device. Per pale purpure and sable, a fox’s head erased and a point pointed Or. Kateryna Ty Isaf. Badge. Argent, a squirrel couchant head lowered purpure between three mullets of four points sable. Magnus Arminius. Name and device. Sable, a bear passant contourny argent, a chief embattled Or. This name was documented as an English given name with a Dutch byname. However, after the close of commentary, Alisoun Metron Ariston found evidence of Magnus in Dutch in the FamilySearch Historical Records, making this an entirely Dutch name. Magnus i Vaghom. Name and device. Argent, a cross cotised sable between in chief two enfields combatant vert. The submitter requested authenticity for an unspecified language, time period or culture. This name is authentic for 14th century Norwegian, as both name elements come from a document written in Norwegian in 1335. Margareta le Sayre. Name change from holding name Michelle of Thescorre and device change. Per chevron azure grillage Or and Or, an empty embroiderer’s quill azure. The byname le Sayre is a reasonable interpolated spelling based on the attested spellings le Sayur, Le Saier and Sayre. ACCEPTANCES Page 3 of 41 January 2019 LoAR The submitter’s previous device, Azure, a castle and on a chief argent, three frogs sejant azure, is released. Maria Baxter. Name and device. Argent, a natural sea-horse and in base a harp, on a chief wavy azure a roundel between and conjoined to an increscent and a decrescent argent. The submitter requested authenticity for English, Irish or Scottish culture. This name is authentic for either England or Scotland in the 16th century. In fact, Seraphina Ragged Staff found this precise name in Norfolk, England, in 1575 in the FamilySearch Historical Records. Meinolf Grímsson. Name and device. Or, a wolf rampant contourny maintaining a bow purpure. Paul Spyke. Alternate name Petrus Teufel Hase and badge. Gules, a carrot bendwise sinister Or. Romey Feurhertts. Alternate name Felixia de la Vyne. The submitter’s legal name is similar, but not identical to, her submitted name. The submitter has made sufficient changes from her legal name to allow its registration under Section III.A.10 of the Administrative Handbook. This name combines a Latinized French given name with an English byname, an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C. Romey Feurhertts. Device. Per pale gules and sable, a bezant charged with an annulet gules, a bezant charged with an annulet sable, and a squirrel Or. Slaine Ravenshaw. Name and device. Per saltire azure and sable, a saltire between in pale a skull and an owl affronty argent. This name combines a Gaelic given name with an English byname, an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C. AN TIR Adiantum, Barony of. Badge association for Populace. (Fieldless) Two bear’s heads erased addorsed conjoined at the neck Or. Anneke von Frankenstein. Device. Lozengy argent and purpure, on a chief purpure a reremouse argent. Artist’s note: Please draw fewer, larger lozenges. Seven to nine across the top is entirely sufficient. Aspasia Bevilacqua. Badge. (Fieldless) A coney courant azure maintaining on its back an owl contourny Or. Bowen Doyle. Device. Per pall inverted gules, sable, and argent, two stag’s attires palewise argent and an axe head sable. Domitius Regulus Augustinus. Name (see RETURNS for device). Submitted as Domitius Regulus Augustus, the use of Augustus as a Roman cognomen was limited to reigning Emperors, their heirs and possibly some direct clients of the Emperor. It was, for all intents and purposes, a title. Romans who added the cognomen Augustus to their names were considered to be asserting a claim to the imperial power and thus were in rebellion against the current Emperor. Accordingly, the use of Augustus as a cognomen in a clearly Roman name is a presumptuous claim of rank, which is not permitted under PN4B, and the name as submitted cannot be registered. Fortunately, the submitter specifically permitted us to change the cognomen to Augustinus, a cognomen that was in general use and was not used to assert a claim of Imperial power.