ÆTHELMEARC COLLEGE OF HERALDS - commentary archive
Letter of Intent #122
Heronter Heralds Commenting Group

Unto the AEthelmearc College of Heralds, Greetings from the Heronter Heralds on this 7th Day of November.
(Yes, we know we're late!)  Comments herein on ILoI AE122.

1: Alays de Rambert - New Name & New Device
"Per chevron raguly, gules and Or, three hares sejant counterchanged. "
No conflicts found.


2: Annys de Valle - New Name & New Device
"Per chevron inverted purpure and sable, a chevron inverted ermine, in chief a fox passant argent. "

Clear of:
Name: Hans ter Beke
Date: January 1996
Kingdom: East
Type: Device
Blazon: "Per chevron inverted sable and vert, a chevron inverted ermine. "
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for addition of fox)


3: Anzelm Woulczek - New Name & New Device
"Or, in pale a caucasian women,vester vert, crined sable, arms elevated, sejant affronty atop a crow close sable."
Blazon-fu: "Or, a caucasian woman proper, vested vert, crined ..."
No conflicts found.


4: Avelina del Dolce - New Device
"Vert, in pale a dance slipper Or and a unicorn rampant argent. "
No conflicts found.


5: Belcolore da Castiglione - New Name & New Device
"Argent, in pale a lion statant gules and a castle purpure."

Possible conflicts:
Name: Douglass Gerard
Date: October 1985
Kingdom: West
Type: Device
Blazon: "Per fess embattled argent and vert, in chief a lion passant guardant gules holding a Latin cross sable."
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for addition of castle, 0 CVD for tertiary)


6. Bella de la Rose -- New Name & New Device
"Gules, on a chevron sable fimbriated between three roses, two roses slipped and leaved Or."
No conflicts found.


7. Bera Jorundsdottir -- New Name


8: Caítriona Erris inghean Uí Bhraonáin - New Name & New Device
"Ermine, three cats sejant azure. "

Possible conflicts:
Name: Catherine Winifred of Tor Bitterroot
Date: December 1971
Kingdom: Not listed
Type: Device
Blazon: "Ermine, a domestic cat sejant affronty azure, orbed Or. "
(0 CVD for field, 1 CVD for 3 vs. 1, 0 CVD for tincture, 1 CVD for sideview vs. affronty?)


9: Charlotte Frasier - New Name & New Device
"Gules, a goat's head erased argent, a chief Or. "

Clear of:
Name: Geoffrey of Ramsgate
Date: January 1973
Kingdom: Not listed
Type: Device
Blazon: Gules, a ram's head erased Or.
(0 CVD for field, 0 CVD for ram vs. goat, 1 CVD for tincture, 1 CVD for chief)

Name: Gleann Abhann, Principality of
Date: January 2001
Kingdom: Meridies
Type: Badge
Blazon: (Fieldless) A ram's head erased argent armed Or collared sable.
(1 CVD for fieldless, 1 CVD for chief)

Name: Gleann Abhann, Principality of
Date: January 2001
Kingdom: Meridies
Type: Badge
Blazon: (Fieldless) A ram's head erased argent armed Or collared gules.
(1 CVD for fieldless, 1 CVD for chief)


10: Chi An'ling - New Name & Resub Name
"Vert, two peonies singlely slipped and leaved argent. "
No conflicts found, but we question whether this is period style.
 

11: Cinnion map Liuelin map Higuel - New Badge
"(Fieldless) A comet bendwise sinister inverted azure. "
No conflicts found.


12: Connor MacGregor of the Bog - New Name & New Device
"Gules, on a bend sinister between two lion's paws Or three roundels sable."
Blazon-fu: paw-prints, not paws.  No conflicts found.


13: Daibhidh Clàrsair - New Device
"Per bend sinister dovetailed purpure and ermine, a dragon in annulo Or and a talbot gules. "
No conflicts found.  The talbot is far too small.  We count 4 tinctures, 2 charges, 1 complex division.


14: David Chadwyk - New Device
"Argent, a fireball vert enflamed gules and on a chief vert three rapiers argent. "
No conflicts found.  We count four rapiers.


15: Deryk Legard - New Name & New Device
"Per fess azure and vert, an oak tree argent charged with a mullet of four points gules."

Possible conflicts:
Name: Ariadne of Alyson-tara
Date: July 1979
Kingdom: Not listed
Type: Device
Blazon: Sable, a blasted tree voided argent.
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for mullet vs voided)

Name: Ioseph of Locksley, the Rhymer
Date: January 1973
Kingdom: Not listed
Type: Device
Blazon: Vert, a tree eradicated argent.
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for mullet)

Name: Petruccio Alfonso Maria Cuccieri de Cataluña
Date: September 2004
Kingdom: Ansteorra
Type: Device
Blazon: Gules estencelé, an tree eradicated argent.
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for mullet)


16: Donndubhán Malach - New Name & New Device
If the name is used with adjectives denoting color, shouldn't there be a color adjective to go with this?

"Argent, a cross cotised gules, overall a dragon statant sable. "
No conflicts found.


17: Eachmharcach an Fhasaigh - Resub Name
 

18: Elric de Lindeseya - New Name


19: Erik of the Three Streams - New Name
It seems the submitter has documented Erik Threestreams.  We don't see any justification for the "of the".


20: Evan Goch - New Name


21: Fáolan Dubh mac Lochlainn - New Device
"Quarterly argent and azure, in bend two wolf's heads erased sable. "

Clear, but highly reminiscent of:
Name: Eglantine deWolfe
Date: June 1989
Kingdom: Trimaris
Type: Device
Blazon: "Quarterly nebuly argent and azure, in bend two wolf's heads, erased and addorsed, sable, in bend sinister two roses argent, barbed and seeded proper."
(1 CVD for nebuly, 1 CVD for roses)


22: Gaius Plinius Iustinianus - New Name & New Device
"Sable, a crampon and on a chief Or a mongoose couchant to sinister guardant sable. "
We're not sure the mongoose is couchant.


23: Galdra-Aron - New Name & New Device
We agree with Frederick, it sounds like the submitter is claiming magic.

"Gules, a fret Or between in fess two wyverns respectant argent."

Clear of: 
Name: Iain Alasdair MacKenzie
Date: January 1996
Kingdom: An Tir
Type: Device
Blazon: "Gules scaly Or, two dragons segreant addorsed argent."
(1 CVD for field treatment, 1 CVD for fret)


24: Galla Amsel - New Name & New Device
"Vert estoilly, a triquetra between two enfields addorsed and a stag lodged argent."
Very busy device.  No conflicts found.


25: Grimaldus the Chapelain - New Name & New Device
"Per pale argent and gules, a Maltese cross within an orle counterchanged sable and argent."

Clear of:
Name: Emeric Wendel
Date: August 1979
Kingdom: Not listed
Type: Device
Blazon: Per pale argent and gules, a Maltese cross counterchanged.
(1 CVD for orle, 1 CVD for counterchange tinctures)

Name: Lodewicus von Fürstenwalde
Date: August 1995
Kingdom: West
Type: Device
Blazon: "Per pale sable and argent, a Maltese cross counterchanged. "
(1 CVD for orle, 1 CVD for field)


26: Hallveig knarrarbringa - New Name & New Device
"Gules, an oak tree eradicated and on a chief argent two ravens rising sable."
No conflicts found.


27: Hubert le Webber - New Name & New Device
"Per fess azure and gules, two spears in saltire Or. "

Clear of:
Name: Abel Breme
Date: May 2004
Kingdom: East
Type: Device
Blazon: "Azure, two spears in saltire and in chief three bells two and one Or."
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for bells)

Name: Aedan ó Kincora
Date: May 1982
Kingdom: Middle
Type: Device
Blazon: "Vert, in saltire two spears between four annulets Or. "
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for annulets)

Name: Hrorek Halfdane of Faulconwood
Date: August 1979
Kingdom: Caid
Type: Device
Blazon: "Azure, two spears in saltire and in chief a mullet or."
(1 CVDF for field, 1 CVD for mullet)

Name: Society for Creative Anachronism
Date: April 1996
Kingdom: Laurel
Type: Badge
Blazon: "Sable, two tilting lances in saltire and in chief a chamfron Or."
Comments: (For the Equestrian Marshallate)
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for armor)


28: Hugh of York - New Name & New Device
"Or, a saltire gules and overall a four-leaved clover crosswise vert, a bordure gules."
No conflicts found.


29: Iwan Berenthaler - New Name & New Device
"Per pale gules and counter-ermine, on a bear rampant argent a mascle sable."

Clear of:
Name: Bernard Stirling
Date: October 2004
Kingdom: Lochac
Type: Device
Blazon: "Gules billety, a bear rampant argent."
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for mascle)

Name: Lachlan Bradoc
Date: August 1986
Kingdom: West
Type: Device
Blazon: "Per pale gules and vert, a bear rampant guardant argent.'
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for mascle)

Name: Richard Ó Conchobhair
Date: October 2001
Kingdom: Outlands
Type: Device
Blazon: "Lozengy sable and Or, a bear rampant argent sustaining a banner per fess azure and gules.:
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for mascle vs banner)


30: James of Hartstone - New Badge
A"rgent, in fess three apples gules slipped and leaved proper."
No conflicts found.


31: Joie la bedelle - New Name & New Device
"Azure, a standing seraph within an annulet of mullets voided and interlaced argent."

Possible conflicts:
Name: Erik the Relentless
Date: March 2001
Kingdom: Atenveldt
Type: Device
Blazon: "Purpure chapé ployé, a standing seraph argent."
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for mullets)


32: Kallista Morguna - New Name & New Device
"Purpure, a squirrel maintaining an acorn within an orle of nine acorns Or."
No conflicts found.


33: Katelinen van Wetteren - New Name & New Device
"Per bend argent and vert, in bend three mullets of six points counterchanged."
Blazon-fu: "... of six points bendwise counterchanged."


34: Lantani de Forez - New Name & New Device
"Sable, a ruined tower argent and on a chief Or three branches of coral gules."
We're not sure that coral is a documentable charge.  It has no definitive shape.

Clear of:
Name: Barrett the Map Maker
Date: December 1991
Kingdom: Atlantia
Type: Device
Blazon: "Sable, a tower Or enflamed proper and a chief Or, semy of sparks gules."
(0 CVD for field, 1 CVD for tower tincture, 0 CVD for chief, 1 CVD for coral vs. sparks)


35: Lína in danska - New Name & Resub Name
"Vert, on a pale doubly endorsed argent three fir trees."

Possible conflicts:
Name: Juturna di Parma
Date: August 1994
Kingdom: West
Type: Device
Blazon: "Vert, on a pale endorsed argent three roundels vert."
(0 CVD for field, 0 CVD for pale, 0 CVD for double vs. single endorse,



36: Lucius Livius Lazarus - Resub Name & Resub Device
"Sable, a Roman numeral II (two) between in pale two mullets voided and interlaced within and conjoined to annulets Or. "
No conflicts found


37: Matthias di Lupo Corsi - New Name & New Device
"Azure, a sword inverted proper and overall a winged book argent bound Or charged with a Omega symbol inverted azure."
We count four layers: field, sword, winged book, Omega symbol.  What's the limit?  No conflicts found.


38: Meadhbh Amhránaíth - New Name & New Device
"Vairy vert and argent, a tyger couchant sable maintaining a harp Or."

Clear of:
Name: Care-Cheri of the Fallen Stars
Date: January 1973
Kingdom: Not listed
Type: Device
Blazon: "Gyronny gules and ermine, a domestic cat dormant to sinister sable."
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for reversal)

Name: Katharina Alexandra Zrinski
Date: September 1991
Kingdom: Middle
Type: Device
Blazon: "Checky gules and argent, a catamount couchant sable."
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for tertiary???)


39: Michael de Birmingham - New Name & New Device
"Per bend sinister sable and gules, a bend sinister urdy Or between a compass star and a bird's claw argent."
No conflicts found.  Would 'talon' be a more accurate term?  We count 4 tinctures (sable, gules, or and argent) and 3 charges (bend sinister, compass star, bird claw) and 1 complex partition (urdy).


40: Nandi of Kings Crossing - New Name & New Device
"Sable, three piles wavy in point argent, overall an elephant's head cabossed Or."
No conflicts found.


41: Olafr the mercenary - Resub Device
"Per pale argent and gules, two crosses formy fitchy at the foot counterchanged sable and argent."

Clear of:
Name: Maximilian Racheengel
Date: December 1994
Kingdom: Meridies
Type: Device
Blazon: "Per bend sinister purpure and argent, two crosses formy fitchy counterchanged argent and sable."
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for tincture swap?)

Name: Roderick Mactavish
Date: February 1985
Kingdom: West
Type: Device
Blazon: "Per pale azure and argent, two crosses crosslet fitchy counterchanged."
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for tincture change?)


42: Onora Dovedale - New Name


43: Otelia d'Alsace - New Badge
"Gules, a dove migrant to base and a bordure argent."
There's a strong Catholic image here, as this is the traditional depiction of the Holy Spirit.

Possible conflicts:
Name: Candace Margreta Zanten
Date: June 2003
Kingdom: Atenveldt
Type: Badge
Blazon: "Pily bendy azure and Or, a swift migrant bendwise sinister argent."
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for bordure, 1 CVD for rotation)

Name: Ceinwen merch Hugh
Date: September 2004
Kingdom: East
Type: Device
Blazon: "Azure, crusilly patonce Or, a dove migrant bendwise sinister argent."
(1 CVD for field, 1 CVD for bordure, 1 CVD for rotation)

Name: Sebastiano da Pachino
Date: October 1998
Kingdom: East
Type: Device
Blazon: Gules, a bird migrant, in dexter chief two mullets of four points in bend, a bordure nebuly argent.
(0 CVD for field, 1 CVD for rotation, 1 CVD for partition, 1 CVD for mullets)


44: Pearce Redsmythe - New Badge
"(Fieldless) A bowen cross purpure."
No conflicts found.


45: Raghnailt in Eich - New Device
"Per pale azure and argent, between two seahorses respectant a triquetra all within a bordure mullety counterchanged."
The seahorses are far too small to be recognizable.


46: Sétna McBryan - New Name


47: Sigurðr Eiríksson - New Name & New Device
"Gules, in bend sinister a wing and another inverted argent."
No conflicts found.  We're not sure this odd style is period.


48: Sihr bint Boulos - New Name


49: Trisola Vitalis - New Name & New Device
"Purpure, a domestic cat sejant and on a chief argent three dragonflies vert."
No conflicts found.

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