1: Abhain ri Naimh - New Branch Name
No major changes.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Meaning (River of Brightness / Bright River) most important.
The only documentation supplied for the group name is a list of translations of elements, which were found in an unspecified online English-Gaelic dictionary. The translations of the elements are as follows:
abhain - river
ri - of
naimh - brightness
Herald of Record: AElric Ravenshaw
2: Barak Elandris Bear the Walsbane - New Augmentation of Arms
Per chevron inverted grady sable, a bear's paw print Or, and in chief a demi-escarbuncle argent.
The submitter's name was registered in March 1990 via the East.
His current device, Per chevron inverted grady sable and Or, masoned sable, in chief a bear's paw print Or was registered in August 1989 via the East.
The submitter has four registered pieces of armory.
Herald of Record: Valeska
3: Beatrix Krieger - New Name & New Device
Or gouty de sang, a cat couchant guardant and on a chief sable an ax fesswise to sinister Or.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Language (German 1200's) most important.
Culture (German 1200's) most important.
Beatrix - Withycombe, 3rd ed., p. 44, gives this as a header form, dated with this spelling to 1076-84, 1187-1215, and 1346.
Guntram von Wolkenstein, "Vlaamse Vrouwennamen: Flemish Feminine Names 1259 - 1530" [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/vlaamse.ht m] counts 54 occurrences of this name, comprising 5.72% of the data set.
Kreiger - Bahlow/Gentry, p. 285, s.n. Kriegk gives this as a co-header form and dates the form Chrieger to 1260. Bahlow gives the origin of the name as Middle High German kriege meaning 'obstinate, cantankerous." The change from Ch to K in the -er form seems reasonable.
Herald of Record: Ailis Linne
4: Brandr húslangr - New Device
Azure, on a bend argent cotissed Or a rose gules barbed,
stemmed and leaved vert.
This is a kingdom-level resubmission.
His previous submission of Azure, on a bend argent a rose gules barbed, stemmed and leaved vert was returned at kingdom on LoR AE109, dated February 25, 2008, for conflict with Andréa de Champs de Batailles (reg. 11/1979 via the West), Azure, on a bend argent a unicorn's head palewise couped sable between two cinquefoils purpure. The submitter had presented a letter of permission to conflict with Mary Taran of Glastonbury, Azure, goutty d'Or, on a bend argent a Glastonbury thorn twig blossoming proper (registered January 1974), dated 5/21/2005.
Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen
5: Briana de Mandoza - New Name & New Device
Gules, an eagle displayed argent and a bordure argent semy of cedar trees vert.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Briana - The cover letter to the LoAR of December 2001 [http://sca.org/heraldry/loar/2001/12/01-12cl.htm l] states in part:
The name Briana has been found as the name of a human character in period Spanish literature, specifically the Espejo de Principes y Cavalleros.Names of human characters in period literature are registerable with certain restrictions. (See the Cover Letter for the November 1999 LoAR for details.) Since Briana is the name of a human character in the Espejo, which was written in Spanish, it meets these requirements and is registerable as a Spanish feminine given name.
The first part of the Espejo was translated into English in 1578.
de Mendoza - Elsbeth Anne Roth (Kathy Van Stone), "16th Century Spanish Names: Locative Bynames by Frequency" [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/spanish/locatives-freq.htm l] counts 12 citations of de Mendoza, comprising 3% of the data set, and ranking as the 11th most common locative byname in the date set. Examples given date from 1560 to 1578.
Herald of Record: Marianna Molin de Salerno
6: Catalina de Luna - New Name & New Device
Per pale purpure and Or, a quatrefoil and in chief three decresents counter-changed.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Catalina - Juliana de Luna,"Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century: Women's Names in Alphabetical Order" [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/isabella/WomensGivenAlpha.htm l] counts 46 occurrences of this names in the data set.
de Luna - Ibid, under locatives [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/isabella/locative.htm l], lists de Luna as a locative surname. This surname is found three times on the list of "Full Names of Women" [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/isabella/WomenFullNames.htm l].
Herald of Record: Ailis Linne
7: Catherine O'Herlihy - New Badge
(Fieldless) An otter's head cabossed azure sustaining in its mouth a reed pen argent.
The submitter's name was registered in February 2000 via AEthelmearc.
Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen
8: Daiwyn ap Cadwaladwe - New Name & New Device
Gules, a mouse rampant contourny argent, in base three fleurs-de-lys in chevron inverted Or.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Daiwyn - Heather Rose Jones, "Snapshot of a Cantref: The Names and Naming Practice in a Mawddwy Court Roll of 1415-16" [http://heatherrosejones.com/names/welsh/mawddwy1415.htm l] lists this as a derivative of Dafydd and counts 2 occurrences of this form.
ap - Welsh for "son of". The submitter would prefer that this element be dropped if possible.
Cadwaladwr - Morgan & Morgan, s.n. Cadwaladr, cites Cadwaladwr ap Rice in 1544.
Bardsey, s.n. Cadwallader, cites David ap Cadwallader in 1322.
Herald of Record: Roana d'Evreux
9: Elizabeth Thorne - New Name Change
Old Item: Rose Thorne, to be retained.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Client requests authenticity for 12th-14th century England.
Language (12th-14th century England) most important.
Culture (12th-14th century England) most important.
Her old name, Rose Thorne, was registered in November 1992 via the East.
Elizabeth - Withycombe, 3rd ed., p. 100, s.n. Elizabeth, dates the submitted spelling to 1205.
Thorne - The byname is grandfathered to the submitter.
Also, Bardsley, p. 746, s.n. Thorn, dates Hugh Thorne to 1273.
Herald of Record: Caitilín ní Mhaolconaire
10: Gabriel de Wenslagh - New Name & New Device
Gules, a stag at gaze and on a chief argent three bickerns gules.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Language (English 14th century (early)) most important.
Culture (English 14th century (early)) most important.
Gabriel - St. Gabriel report #1400 [www.s-gabriel.org/1400] cites various spellings of the name, including Gabriel filius Reginaldi in 1212 and Gabriele Spyg in 1296.
Julian Goodwyn, "English Names Found in Brass Inscriptions: Male Given Names" [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/brasses/men.htm l] dates one occurrence of Gabriel to 1512.
de Wenslagh - Julian Goodwyn, "English Names Found in Brass Inscriptions: Surnames A-H" [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/brasses/lastnameAH.htm l] dates one occurrence of this form to 1306.
Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme and Akagawa Yoshio, A Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry, s.v. anvil, gives "bickern" as another name for a two-headed anvil.
Herald of Record: Ailis Linne
11: Ghita Rinaldi de Amici - New Name
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Language (14th-15th century Italian) most important.
Culture (14th-15th century Italian) most important.
Ghita - Rhian Lyth's "Italian Personal Names" from the Heraldic Proceedings of AS XXIV, dates this name to 1370. No photocopies of this source were provided.
Rhian Lyth of Blackmoor Vale, "Italian Renaissance Women's Names" [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/italian.htm l] gives a simple listing of 14th and 15th century Italian names, including the submitted Ghita.
Rinaldi - Rhian Lyth's "Italian Personal Names" from the Heraldic Proceedings of AS XXIV, dates Rinaldo to 1383. Rinaldi is a patronymic form of Rinaldo. No photocopies of this source were provided.
Ferrante LaVolpe, "Family Names Appearing in the Catasto of 1427" [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ferrante/catasto/family_names.htm l] counts one occurrence of Rinaldi.
Ferrante LaVolpe, "Italian Names from Florance, 1427: Alphabetical names list" [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ferrante/catasto/names.tx t] counts 17 occurrences of Rinaldo.
de Amici - Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien), "Italian Men's Names in Rome, 1473-1484: Bynames with Examples (sorted alphabetically)" [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/Studium/BynAlphaExamples.html#deAmic i] dates Bernardino de Amici to 1483 and 1484. In the analysis [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/Studium/BynAlphaAnalysis.htm l], the author states, "By the time period of these records, many of these bynames were no longer used literally. Rather, they were inherited."
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du
12: Giovanni da Monza - New Name & New Device
Gyronny of eight Or and sable, three griffins sergeant gules.
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Giovanni - Maridonna Benvenuti, "Milanese Notaries 1396-1635" [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/maridonna/milaneseNotaries /] dates Giovanni Ambrogio Biraghi to 1540-1587 in the raw data.
da - Italian locative preposition meaning "of" or "from."
Monza - Maridonna Benvenuti, "Mercator's Place Names of Italy in 1554: Northern Italy" [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/maridonna/mercator/north.htm l] lists Monza under the "Lombardia" header. (Note for geographic compatibility: Milan is under the same header in the same article.)
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du
13: Griffin le Grey - New Name & New Device
Argent, on a chevron between three ships in full sail azure three escallops argent.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Griffin - Julian Goodwyn (mka Janell K. Lovelace), "English Names found in Brass Enscriptions: Male Given Names" [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/brasses/men.htm l] counts one occurrence of Griffin dated to 1583 in Berkshire
Withycombe, s.n. Griffin, Griffith, Gives Griffinus Hull and Griffinus seu Griffith Kynaston, both dated to 1428 in Shropshire.
le Grey - Reaney and Wilson, s.n. Gray give le Greie, le Gray and le Grey all dated to 1296.
Herald of Record: Marianna Molin de Salerno
14: Grímólfr berserkr - New Name & New Device
Per pale azure and argent, three wolves' heads erased counterchanged.
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Meaning (Grim wolf + psychotic) most important.
Grímólfr - Geirr-Bassi, p. 10, counts 5 occurrences of this name in the Landnámabók.
berserkr - Geirr-Bassi, p. 20, counts 1 occurrence of this descriptive byname in the Landnámabók and gives the meaning as "berserk."
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du
15: Gytha Oddsdottir - Resub Name & Resub Name
Per chevron inverted azure and vert, in chief a cat dormant Or and issuant from dexter base three wolf's teeth argent.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
The submitter's previous submission of Gytha Oggesdohtor was returned at Laurel in August 2007 with the following comments:
Conflict with Gytha Ogg, a major character in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. The byname Ogg is an unmarked patronymic or metronymic; RfS V.1.a.ii.a says "Two bynames of relationship are significantly different if the natures of the relationships or the objects of the relationships are significantly different." As both Ogg and Oggesdohtor may express the same nature and object of relationship, these names are in conflict.This submission introduces a consonant change to avoid the conflict with the fictional character Gytha Ogg.
Gytha - Withycombe, p. 135, s.n. Githa, states that this Norse name is found in England in the 11th century and cites Countess Gytha, the Danish wife of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, c. 1054.
Geirr-Bassi, p. 10, lists the feminine Gyða as an orthographic variant from the Landnámabók.
Oddsdottir - The Sagas of the Icelanders (Viking Penguin 2000) ISBN: 0-670-88990-3 notes at least 7 different Odds . These references span 7 different sagas, with some sagas referring to more than one of the 7 separate individuals. No photocopies of this sources were provided.
The Diplomatarium Norvegicum (search engine at [http://www.dokpro.uio.no/dipl_norv/diplom_field_eng.htm l]) contains the transcription of approximately 20,000 diplomas connected to Norway in the period 1050 to 1590. Searching on "Odd" yields:
Odd Amunda sun - 1303
Odder Ozsen - 1324
Odd Halla son - 1339
Odd Iorunnarson - 1325
Magnildæ Odz dotter - 1438
and others
Geirr-Bassi, p. 13, counts 24 occurrences of <Oddr> in the Landnámabók. Thus, Oddsdóttir would be the expected Norse feminine patronymic.
The combination of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse was ruled one step from period practice in 2001 [Ethelfleda Daviðsdottir, 12/01]
The submitter's previous device submission, Per chevron inverted azure and vert, a cat dormant Or and issuant from dexter base three wolf's teeth argent, was returned at Laurel in August 2007 with the following comments:
The device is returned as the emblazon is unlikely to be recreated from any blazon we can derive. The cat isn't really in chief since it lies partially on the azure portion of the field and partially on the vert. Nor is it in the center of the shield, which is where the current blazon would place it.This design follows Laurel's suggestion by placing the cat entirely on the azure section of the field.While the overall design of this device does not appear to resemble armory, the concept is registerable. Electrum looked for examples of wolf's teeth with other charges in Seibmach. He noted:
I found only one such example, on page 155, Keudel zu Schwebda, which can be blazoned as Argent, a fess vert and in chief six wolf's teeth, three from the dexter and three from the sinister, sable. Of note in the mode of depiction here are 1) the sets of three wolves' teeth on the dexter, and the three on the sinister are each conjoined at the base. 2) Each set of two from top to bottom (1 dexter and 1 sinister) are within millimeters of being conjoined on the palar line. Unfortunately, The Keudel arms were the only ones I noted.We note that if the cat is centered on the field, it is unlikely that the wolf's teeth can be drawn in an acceptable manner. Thus, if this design is resubmitted, we recommend that the cat lie entirely on the azure portion of the field.I think the problems here are 1) the cat is too low on the field (it should be either fully centered on the field, or should default to its proper position fully on the blue). 2) The wolves' teeth are not properly conjoined at base. 3) If the cat gets back up where it belongs, then the wolves' teeth could be drawn larger. I will note that the example of Keudel does justify use of another charge with the teeth, and the forcing the teeth to chief or base as necessary.
Herald of Record: Iain mac Bhaird
16: Nishimura Saburou - New Name
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Meaning (third son) most important.
Nishimura - Solveig Throndardottir, Name Construction in Mediaeval Japan, p. 104, dates this surname to 1568 and gives the meanings of the elements as "west" (nishi) and "village" (mura).
Saburou - Solveig Throndardottir, Name Construction in Mediaeval Japan, p. 212, dates this masculine yobina to 1572 and gives the meaning as "third son."
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du
17: Petr Kotok - New Device
Quarterly gules and sable, a bezant between eight sickles, hafts to center, in annulo Or.
The submitter's name was registered in September 2007 via AEthelmearc.
Herald of Record: Ailis Linne
18: Willehalm Stürmer - New Name
Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes.
Client requests authenticity for 13th century.
Language most important.
Culture most important.
Willehalm - Talan Gwynek, "Medieval German Given Names from Silesia" [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/bahlow_v.ht m] dates this spelling to 1213.
Stürmer - Bahlow, p. 497, s.n. Sturm, gives this as an alternate undated header form.
Brian M. Scott, "Some Early Middle High German Bynames with Emphasis on Names from the Bavarian Dialect Area" [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/Early_German_Bynames.htm l] gives STURMÆRE and STÜRMÆRE as normalized Middle High German forms, and documents the spelling Sturmere to 1161, 1197 and 1227.
Brechenmacher - p. 699, s.n. Stürmer, lists Stormer, but the dating is unclear. If it forms part of the preceding citation, the date is 1227.
Herald of Record: Caitilín ní Mhaolconaire
ADDENDUM
added April 3, 2008 6:25pm
19: Æthelmearc, Kingdom of - New Badge
(Fieldess) A stirrup Or strapped gules.
This submission is to be associated with Order of the
Golden Stirrup
This kingdom name was register in January 1998 via AEthelmearc.
This is a kingdom-level resubmission.
A previous badge submission for this order, (Fieldless) A stirrup Or, was returned on LoR AE109 dated February 25, 2008 for conflict with James Ericsson: (Fieldless) A stirrup Or, leathered azure (registered June 1991 via The West). James's strapping was too small to count for difference. The current submission includes large strapping in a different tincture to avoid the conflict.
Herald of Record: Alheydis von Köckhingen