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. Herewith, our commentary on AE114, upon this All Hallow.s Eve, October 31st.
1: Adrienne MacLeod - New Name & New Device
"Argent, a bear statant sable between three roses gules barbed and seeded azure."
Clear of:
Name: Cassia MacWilliam
Date: February 2002
Kingdom: Ansteorra
Type: Device
Blazon: Argent, a bear statant vert.
1 CVD for tincture, 1 CVD for roses
Name: Ursula Georges
Date: February 2001
Kingdom: An Tir
Type: Device
Blazon: Gules, a bear passant sable.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for roses
2: Aíbell ingen Diarmata - Resub Device
"Or, flaunches gules and in fess three snails counterchanged."
Clear of:
Name: Annys of Pengwyrn
Date: August 1999
Kingdom: Artemisia
Type: Device
Blazon: Or, flaunches azure.
1 CVD for tincture, 1 CVD for snails
Name: Kat'ryna Neblaga Volchkova
Date: October 1999
Kingdom: East
Type: Device
Blazon: Vair, flaunches gules.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for snails
3: Ailis Linne - New Badge
"(Fieldless) a mullet of five points voided and interlaced within and conjoined to an annulet azure."
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacle) says this is a pentacle.
Isn't there a rule that says pentacles aren't allowed?
Clear of:
Name: Kendrick Wayfarer
Date: April 1996
Kingdom: Atlantia
Type: Badge
Blazon: (Fieldless) A compass rose azure.
Name: Leah bat Yehiel
Date: January 1998
Kingdom: An Tir
Type: Badge
Blazon: (Fieldless) A mullet of eight interlocking mascles azure.
4: Alheydis von Körckhingen - New Release of Badge
"Azure, a decrescent argent within an orle Or."
No conflicts found.
5: Alianor de Ravenglas - New Device
"Argent, a bend azure between two ravens and a chief sable."
No conflicts found.
6: Battista di Lupo Speranza - New Name & New Device
"Per bend sinister sable and vert, a compass star and a wolf dormant argent."
Ummm, Irish??? We think you mean Italian. :D
7: Beowulf fitz Malcolm - Resub Device
"Quarterly purpure and sable, a sun eclipsed of the field, a bordure embattled argent."
No conflicts found. Nice heraldry! Reminiscent of his father's but actually well clear of conflict with it.
8: Bj{o,}rn Ulfreksson - New Name & New Device
"Per pale Or and azure, a bear rampant sustaining a spear counterchanged."
Name is clear of Bj{o,}rn Ulfsson, registered 10/97 in An Tir.
Clear of:
Name: Andreas Björn
Date: February 1998
Kingdom: Drachenwald
Type: Device
Blazon: Per fess argent and sable, a bear rampant counterchanged maintaining a key azure.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for tincture
Name: Ursula Beaumont
Date: January 1987
Kingdom: An Tir
Type: Device
Blazon: Per bend Or and sable, a bear rampant counterchanged.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for tincture
9: Bj{o,}rn Ulfreksson - New Badge
"Per pale Or and azure, a bear's head cabossed counterchanged."
Clear of:
Name: Artemas Maximus
Date: April 1988
Kingdom: East
Type: Badge
Blazon: Per pale indented ermine and counter-ermine, a bear's head cabossed per pale indented sable and argent.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for tincture
Name: Bjorn Toller Brumenbär
Date: August 1991
Kingdom: An Tir
Type: Device
Blazon: Per pale sable and argent a bear's head cabossed counterchanged within a bordure gules.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for tincture, 1 CVD for bordure
10: Cainder ingen Chonchobair - New Name & New Device
"Argent, a saltire gules between in fess a thistle proper and a shamrock vert."
No conflicts found. Let's guess. Scottish and Irish persona right? :D
11: Cainnech Chille Dhara - New Name & New Device
"Argent, a spear gules winged sable."
Clear of:
Name: Lawnslot of the Black Lance
Date: September 1992
Kingdom: West
Type: Device
Blazon: Argent, a lance between flaunches sable.
1 CVD for flaunches vs. wings, 1 CVD for tincture
Name: Isabeau Michaela Hawke
Date: September 1996
Kingdom: Atlantia
Type: Badge
Blazon: (Fieldless), a hawk's lure sable.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for spear
12: Charles de Pomerai - New Name & New Device
"Or, a lion rampant and in chief three apples gules, a bordure engrailed sable."
No conflicts found.
13: Christina Buttermann - New Name & New Device
"Per chevron Or and sable, two roses sable and a harp Or."
No conflicts found.
14: Christopher Logan of Lockley - New Name & New Device
"Per pale purpure and argent, a cross of Jerusalem counterchanged."
Clear of:
Name: Denis des Baux
Date: December 2000
Kingdom: Middle
Type: Device
Blazon: Per pale purpure and argent, on a Celtic cross a lozenge counterchanged.
1 CVD for cross-type, 1 CVD for lozenge
Name: Stephan of Monmouth
Date: October 2000
Kingdom: Ansteorra
Type: Device
Blazon: Per pale Or and sable, a cross of Jerusalem counterchanged.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for tincture
(Anyone out there ancient and venerable enough to remember 'Conflict by Outline'???)
15: Christopher Logan of Lockley - New Badge
"Vert, on a cross argent between in chief two lion's heads erased adorssed Or a cross potent purpure."
Blazon-fu: "addorsed" No conflicts found.
16: Ciaran Faolán Ó Tighearnaigh - New Name
Clear of:
Name: Ciaran mac Tighearnaigh
Date: March 2000
Kingdom: Atlantia
Type: Name
17: Conrad Kienast - New Name & New Device
"Per bend sinister urdy argent and vert."
No conflicts found.
18: Cormac O'Gadhra - Resub Device
"Per chevron sable and vert, a lion dormant and in chief a decrescent argent within a bordure ermine."
Clear of:
Name: Stephanie of Garrow's Loch
Date: April 1990
Kingdom: Caid
Type: Device
Blazon: Gyronny sable and Or, a natural panther couchant within a bordure argent.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for crescent
19: Dominic Beniamin - New Name
We note the Reaney and Wilson footnote is p.39, s.n. Benjamin, 1996 ed.
20: Eckhart von Insterburg - New Name & New Device
"Per bend sinister argent fretty vert azure, in base a winged lion sejant argent."
No conflicts found.
21: Edward of Blackthorn - New Name & New Device
"Per pale paen and gules, a bull rampant argent."
Blazon-fu: "pean"
Clear of:
Name: William Tinker
Date: December 1996
Kingdom: Caid
Type: Badge
Blazon: (Fieldless) A bull rampant guardant contourny argent.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for contourny
22: Egill the Dane - New Alternate Name (Brecc Ruadan Finn) & New Badge
"(Fieldless) An acord vert capped Or."
Blazon-fu: "acorn" The Honda Accord didn't come out until 1976, so it's not period. :D
Clear of:
Name: Alys Katharine
Date: October 1991
Kingdom: Middle
Type: Badge
Blazon: (Fieldless) On an acorn vert a Catherine wheel Or.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for tertiary
Name: Madoc Arundel
Date: July 1985
Kingdom: East
Type: Device
Blazon: Or, an acorn within oak leaves in annulo vert.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for secondary
Name: Muin maqq Mínaín
Date: October 1997
Kingdom: Atlantia
Type: Badge
Blazon: Argent, an acorn enflamed vert
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for flames vs cap
23: Fáelán mac Geróit - New Name & New Device
"Quarterly argent and sable, a wolf's head cabossed counterchanged maintaining in its mouth three thistles slipped inverted counterchanges argent and gules."
Black [p251] documents Fáelán as Scots Gaelic, but cites it only to 14th c. though he calls it a reduced form of Fáelchiu, which he cites to the 8th c. Gerald is described by OCM [p110] as .brought into Ireland by the Anglo-Normans., so it is not Gaelic in origin, then. We were unable to find evidence of Gerald or Geróit in Scotland. This is a thoroughly register-able name, but not what ILoI says the client wants. Does he want this Irish name, or does he want something 8th c. Scottish?
No conflicts found.
24: Felicitas Flußmüllnerin - New Name & New Device
"Sable, on a nesselblatt Or a waterwheel gules."
Clear of:
Name: Friedrich Bruner
Date: January 1993
Kingdom: West
Type: Device
Blazon: Per pale gules and sable, a nesselblatt Or.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for tertiary
25: Fiachna mac Cennétig - New Name & New Device
"Quarterly vert and azure, a heraldic dolphin naiant embowed between three pairs of battle axes in saltire Or."
Fiachna - OCM p.98, sn Fiachna "Perhaps a diminutive of fiach, 'a raven.' Fiachna was a popular name in the early period. Fiachna mac Delbaith was an early king of Ireland. Fiachna mac Aeda Roin (789) and Fiachna mac Ainbitha (886) were two early kings of Ulster."
Cennétig - OCM p.49 gives early examples including a battler against Vikings and also the father of Brian Boru.
No conflicts found.
26: Fiona ingen ui Fhaolain - New Device
Blazon-fu: "Azure a greyhound courant between three coneys sejant argent."
Clear of:
Name: Isabel the Mad
Date: November 1998
Kingdom: Meridies
Type: Badge
Blazon: (Fieldless) A greyhound courant argent, collared vert.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for secondaries
Name: Lynn of Dragonsmark
Date: February 1994
Kingdom: Middle
Type: Device
Blazon: Quarterly vert and gules, a wolf passant contourny ululant argent.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for secondaries
27: Fridrich Flußmüllner - New Name & New Device
"Sable, on a schnecke Or issuant from sinister chief, a waterwheel gules."
Clear of:
Name: Iohann se pipere
Date: October 2001
Kingdom: Meridies
Type: Device
Blazon: Sable, a gyron argent.
1 CVD for tincture, 1 CVD for tertiary
Name: Peter Schneck
Date: January 1997
Kingdom: Drachenwald
Type: Device
Blazon: Sable, a schnecke issuant from dexter chief argent.
1 CVD for tincture, 1 CVD for tertiary
28: Gabriel Hawkes - Resub Device
"Per chevron Or and purpure, an angel argent wings inverted and haloed and maintaining in front a straight sword palewise inverted and a bordure embattled sable."
Blazon-fu: "Per chevron Or and purpure, an angel argent wings inverted and haloed and maintaining _to base_ a sword palewise inverted and a bordure embattled sable."
No conflicts found, 'to base' is a better heraldic description than 'in front', 'straight' is default for a sword.
29: Gabriel Hawkes - New Badge
"Per chevron Or and purpure, two fleurs de lys sable and a winged sword argent, a bordure embattled sable."
No conflicts found.
30: Gareth Whytebull - New Name - No problems found.
31: Garran Ó Murchadha - New Name - No problems found.
32: Geoffrey le Warde - New Name & New Device
"Vert, a sword inverted and on a chief argent three mullets vert."
No conflicts found. The preferred spelling seems a reasonable variant.
33: Gilles de Beauchamps - New Badge
"(Fieldless) An escallop vert."
Clear of:
Name: Louise Elizabeth Mindenhale
Date: September 1990
Kingdom: Ansteorra
Type: Device
Blazon: Argent, an escallop and a chief vert.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for chief
Name: Rafaella d'Allemtejo
Date: March 1999
Kingdom: An Tir
Type: Badge
Blazon: (Fieldless) On an escallop vert a rose argent barbed and seeded Or.
1 CVD for fieldless, 1 CVD for tertiary
34: Gillian de Marisco - New Name & New Device
"Azure, a caravel to sinister argent, in chief a dragon volant to sinister Or."
Clear of:
Name: Runa Ragnarsdóttir
Date: September 1997
Kingdom: Caid
Type: Device
Blazon: Sable, a drakkar argent.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for dragon
Name: Trimaris, Kingdom of
Date: February 1996
Kingdom: Trimaris
Type: Badge
Blazon: Azure, a galleon Or.
Comments: (For Order of the Golden Galleon)
1 CVD for tincture, 1 CVD for dragon
35: Gillian Llywelyn - New Household Name, House Blackhart - No problems found.
36: Gwyneth de Neutone Hille - New Name & New Device
"Argent, a tee blasted vert atop a mount sable charged with a stag's head cabossed argent."
RfS 7.3. Period Artifacts. "Artifacts that were known in the period and domain of the Society may be registered in armory, provided they are depicted in their period forms."
Since wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf#History) says that the game of golf originated in Scotland in the 1100's then the heraldic depiction of a golf tee is ... what? Typo? Uh, never mind. :D No conflicts found.
37: Hans zem Dragen - New Name & New Device
"Gules, a bend bendy sinister argent and sable between a drawn bow and arrow bendwise sinister and a sword bendwise Or."
Gules, argent, sable, Or, bend, bow, arrow, sword - 8 items technically pushes the complexity limits, but it's a unified design and the bow and arrow are visually one item, so it should pass. No conflicts found.
38: Helene al-Zarqa' - New Device Change
"Azure, a double-headed eagle displayed argent and on a chief indented Or three semi-minums azure."
No conflicts found.
39: Ingirídr Hikri Fridriksdóttir - New Device Change
"Argent, a camelopard statant purpure."
No conflicts found. Great heraldry!
40: Ingunn Halldorsdottir - New Name & New Device
"Per bend sinister wavy vert and argent, a Thor's hammer Or and a fox rampant proper."
No conflicts found.
We know we were only supposed to do up to #40 for this letter, but we wanted some discussion from AEthelmearc.s College of Heralds on these two.
41: Isabel la Roja - New Name & New Device
"Or, a dragon-headed bow vert."
Clear of:
Name: Brice Armbruster
Date: January 1988
Kingdom: West
Type: Badge
Blazon: Argent, a crossbow vert.
1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for bow-type
"A letter of permission to conflict between Isabel la Roja, Or, a dragon-headed bow vert, and Seamus Rogan, Or, a dragon-headed bow vert, is provided, signed by Seamus Rogan (using his legal name)."
First of all, we can.t find any armory for Seamus Rogan registered. Is this a simultaneous registration with another kingdom? Secondly, we thought there had to be at least one difference between the two devices. We know 'co-registrations' were done in the past, are they acceptable now?
42: Ishiyama Gen'tarou Yori'ie - New Name & New Device
"(Fieldless) On a hexagon Or a rabbit's head cabossed sable."
No conflicts found. We recall there was a rule about registering charged geometric shapes as fieldless badges, essentially stating that this submission is equivalent to "Or, a rabbit's head cabossed sable." We can't find that ruling, has it been changed?
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