ÆTHELMEARC COLLEGE OF HERALDS - commentary archive
Letter of Intent #105
Heronter Heralds Commenting Group

Unto Garnet Herald and the Aethelmearc College of Arms;
Greetings from the Heronter Heralds, a division of the Heraldic Flying Circus and Moving Company, Southwest. Herein, our commentary on AE ILoI #105


4. Clemente de Warrewyk - Device
"Per saltire Or and sable, four anchors counterchanged."

Reminiscent, but clear of:
Name: Duncan Gallowglass
Date: August 1989
Kingdom: Caid
Type: Device
Blazon: Per saltire azure and argent, an hourglass Or, framed sable, between four anchors counterchanged.
(Clear by complete difference of major charge.)


5. Clewin Kupferhelbelinc - Device
"Per bend gules and azure, a bend between two tankards Or."

Clear of:
Name: James the Tavernkeeper
Date: February 1992
Kingdom: Trimaris
Type: Device
Blazon: Sable, on a bend between two mugs Or, a mace sable.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for mace)

Name: Scrope
Date: December 1994
Kingdom: Laurel
Type: Device
Blazon: Azure, a bend Or.
Comments: (Important non-SCA arms)
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for tankards)


6. Collette de Paris - Device Change
"Azure, a lion of Saint Mark and on a chief argent three fleurs-de-lys azure."

Clear of:
Name: Colin de Wyndmere
Date: August 1978
Kingdom: Not listed
Type: Device
Blazon: Azure, a sea lion erect and a chief nebuly argent.
(1 CD for lion vs. sealion, 1 CD for fleurs, 1 CD for partition)


7. Eilonwydd ferch Llewellyn Sutor … Gwynydd - Device
"Per pale argent and vert, an oak leaf and an acorn inverted counterchanged, in base a baronial coronet Or, all within a bordure embattled purpure."

No conflicts found.


8. Etain Eame - New Badge
"Sable, two cubit arms fesswise hands clasped argent, a bordure Or."

Clear of:
Name: Patricia of Blackmoor
Date: June 2001
Kingdom: Ansteorra
Type: Device
Blazon: Sable, a dexter hand aversant fesswise argent sustaining a gillyflower gules slipped vert.
(1 CD for two vs one, 1 CD for bordure, 0 CD for flower)


10. Fredeburg von Katzenellenbogen - New Badge
"(Fieldless) A yale rampant contourny vert, spotted and armed argent."

Clear of:
Name: Styrkárr Bjarnarson
Date: September 2002
Kingdom: An Tir
Type: Device
Blazon: Or, a yale rampant guardant vert bezanty armed gules.
(1 CD for fieldless, 1 CD for contourny)
We consider the spots to be tertiary and since they're the same in type and 'number', the difference in tincture is not enough for a difference.


11. Gabriel Hawkes - New Name and Device
"Per chevron Or and purpure, an angel holding a horn in front, in chief two tau crosses, a bordure embattled sable."

No conflicts found.


14. Hauoc the Wild - New Device (kingdom-level resubmission)
"Per chevron gules and sable, an eagle displayed within a bordure Or."

Clear of:
Name: Adenwald the Hazardous
Date: April 1991
Kingdom: Atlantia
Type: Device
Blazon: Per chevron azure and plumetty azure and argent, a hawk displayed, wings inverted, all within a bordure Or.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for wings inverted)

Name: Aethelhelm Hafoc
Date: June 1984
Kingdom: Middle
Type: Device
Blazon: Bendy sinister wavy sable and argent, a hawk displayed, belled Or, jessed vert.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for bordure)

Name: Calontir, Kingdom of
Date: July 1988
Kingdom: Calontir
Type: Badge
Blazon: Purpure, a falcon striking within a bordure Or.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for posture)

Name: Constantinople, Emperor of
Date: December 1994
Kingdom: Laurel
Type: Device
Blazon: Gules, a double-headed eagle Or.
Comments: (Important non-SCA arms)
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for bordure)

Name: Egil Haraldsson
Date: October 2003
Kingdom: Meridies
Type: Device
Blazon: Vert, an eagle Or and a bordure Or pellety.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for bordure treatment)

Name: Gilbert of the Glens
Date: June 1976
Kingdom: Not listed
Type: Device
Blazon: Azure, an eagle displayed grasping a sun in both claws, Or.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for bordure, 0 CD for tertiary)

Name: Gwalchmai Dinas Emrys
Date: October 1991
Kingdom: East
Type: Device
Blazon: Per saltire azure and gules, a hawk striking contourny and a bordure Or.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for posture)

Name: Napoleon I
Date: December 1994
Kingdom: Laurel
Type: Device
Blazon: Azure, an eagle displayed contourny grasping in both claws a thunderbolt Or.
Comments: (Important non-SCA arms)
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for bordure, 0 for contourny, 0 for tertiary)

Name: Parmen Volchkov
Date: April 2004
Kingdom: Calontir
Type: Device
Blazon: Purpure, an eagle Or within a bordure erminois.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for bordure tincture)


15. Helewys Spynnere - New Device
"Or, on a cross gules five quatrefoils argent seeded Or."

Clear of:
Name: England
Date: December 1994
Kingdom: Laurel
Type: Badge
Blazon: Argent, a cross gules.
Comments: (Important non-SCA flag)
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for tertiaries)

Name: Lochac, Princess of
Date: April 1987
Kingdom: West
Type: Device
Blazon: Quarterly azure and argent, on a cross gules four roses and in canton another all argent.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for rose in canton, 0 for roses vs quatrefoils) **squeek!**

Name: Templars, Order of the Knights
Date: December 1994
Kingdom: Laurel
Type: Device
Blazon: Per fess sable and argent, a cross gules.
Comments: (Important non-SCA arms)
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for tertiaries)


16. Henryk Bogusz herbu Zagloba - New Name and Device
"Azure, in pale a scimitar fesswise and a horseshoe inverted argent."

No conflicts found.


18. Margretha la Fauvelle - New Name and Device
"Per saltire vert and Or, a sun in splendor counterchanged."

Clear of:
Name: Bonifatius Eburhard
Date: February 2003
Kingdom: AEthelmearc
Type: Badge
Blazon: Per chevron Or and gules, a sun in its splendor counterchanged.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for tincture)

Name: Liudmila Vladimirova doch'
Date: April 2004
Kingdom: Caid
Type: Device
Blazon: Per pale Or and gules, a sun in splendour counterchanged.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for tincture)

Name: Raymond du Bois Vert
Date: August 1992
Kingdom: Atlantia
Type: Device
Blazon: Per pale Or and vert, a sun in its splendor within a serpent involved counterchanged.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for tincture, 1 CD for serpent)


19. Marianna Molin di Salerno - New Device
"Azure goutty d'Or, six lymphads sailing to sinister Or, charged on each sail with a martlet volant sinister gules, a base Or."

No conflicts found.


20. Megan the Mad - Device Change
"Azure semy of ducks naiant Or, a rapier bendwise sinister inverted argent."

Clear of:
Name: Jehane Coleman
Date: January 1995
Kingdom: Middle
Type: Device
Blazon: Azure, a sword bendwise sinister inverted and in dexter chief a dove striking contourny argent.
(1 CD for ducks, 1 CD for dove)

Name: St. Golias, College of
Date: September 1987
Kingdom: Outlands
Type: Badge
Blazon: Azure, a sword bendwise sinister argent between two goblets Or.
Comments: (For the Goliard Guard)
(1 CD for ducks, 1 CD for goblets)

Name: Sydail ap Allain
Date: January 1981
Kingdom: Ansteorra
Type: Device
Blazon: Per bend and per pale sable and gules, a sword bendwise sinister proper.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for ducks)


21. Miyao Kaneko - New Device
"Argent, a Japanese iris sable."

Possible conflicts:
Name: Jacques Martel de Normande, called the Jovial
Date: August 1979
Kingdom: East
Type: Device
Blazon: Argent, an Asian ladyslipper orchid slipped and leaved sable between three double-bitted battleaxes azure. [Paphiopedulum sp.]
(1 CD for axes)
It's possible that there is a visual difference between the iris and the orchid based on the fact that the orchid is slipped however, we're tossing this one upstairs to someone who can compare the original emblazons.

Name: Richard Ironsteed
Date: October 1976
Kingdom: Not listed
Type: Badge
Blazon: Argent, an iris azure, bearded Or, slipped and leaved vert.
Comments: (For House Bonne Amitie)
(1 CD for tincture)
Again, this may be visually different based on the slip. Again, we're tossing it upstairs. BTW, if you don't recognize the name, this is the first King of Atenveldt!

Name: Samal Kaan Uxmalil
Date: July 1986
Kingdom: Atenveldt
Type: Badge
Blazon: Argent, an iris within a bordure engrailed purpure.
(1 CD for tincture, 1 CD for bordure)


22. Miyao Kaneko - New Badge
"(Fieldless) A dragonfly bendwise sable."

No conflicts found.


23. Reyni-Hrefna - New Name and Device
"Quarterly arrondy sable and vert, a mullet of five fracted arrows argent fracts to center."

'Fracts to center'??? We don't believe the emblazon is recoverable from the blazon. This should be returned for violation of RfS VIII.4.d. Modern Style - "Generally modern style in the depiction of individual elements or the total design may not be registered. Artistic techniques and styles developed after 1600 should not be used in Society armory. Charges may not be used to create abstract or op-art designs, ..."


24. Rhiannon filia Catell - New Name and Device
"Per bend azure and vert, a seahorse erect argent and a chief Or."

Clear of:
Name: Eilonwy Andereth
Date: April 2001
Kingdom: Middle
Type: Device
Blazon: Azure, a unicornate sea-horse erect reguardant argent.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for chief, 0 CD for horn or reguardant)

Name: Elspeth Grizel of Dunfort
Date: December 1991
Kingdom: Middle
Type: Device
Blazon: Quarterly vert and purpure, a sea-horse contourny argent.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for chief, 1 CD for contourny)

Name: Rowan of Windtree Tower
Date: July 1984
Kingdom: Middle
Type: Device
Blazon: Per saltire sable and vert, a sea-horse erect argent.
(1 CD for field, 1 CD for chief)


27. Zianna beguy urdina de Zabaleta - New Name and Device
"Quarterly purpure and sable, in saltire a seahorse contourney Or between four crosses of lozenges counterchanged argent and Or."

Blazon-fu: Eliminate 'in saltire', e.g. "Quarterly purpure and sable, a seahorse..."
No conflicts found.


28. Zianna beguy urdina de Zabaleta - New Badge
"(Fieldless) A cross gringol‚ purpure with snake heads argent."

No conflicts found.


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