1: Æthelmearc, Kingdom of - New Transfer of Heraldic Title
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 1998, via Æthelmearc.
Ravenstongue Pursuivant
The Kingdom wishes to transfer this title to the Barony of Thescorre. The appropriate paperwork has been completed by the Industrious baronial officers, Baron and Baroness, and their heirs.
Herald of Record: Alianora Greymoor/Garnet
2: Antoinette de Lorraine - New Name
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Client requests authenticity for French 16th century.
Antoinette - R.J. Knecht, The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France, p. 302, cites one Antoinette de Bourbon, the dowager Duchess of Guise, who lived from 1494 to 1583.
de Lorraine - Barbara Stephenson, The Power and Patronage of Marguerite de Navarre, p. 4, cites one Marguerite de Lorraine, mother-in-law of Marguerite de Navarre.
3: Beatrijs van Cleef - New Name Change
Old Item: Beautrice Hammeltoune, to be released.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Language (Dutch 15th c.) most important.
Culture (Dutch 15th c.) most important.
The lady wishes to release her device Argent, on a fess azure between three cinquefoils pierced gules, a griffin statant argent. She wishes to promote her current badge Barry azure and ermine to her primay device and to associate the same with her new name.
Beatrijs - Sara L. Uckelman (Aryanhwy merch Catmael), 15th Century Dutch Names <http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/dutch/dutch15.html>, cites Beahrijs to Schoonhoven in 1478-81.
van Cleef - The New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04010e.htm>, cites Joost van Cleef stating
Joost van Cleef (JOSSE VAN CLEVE).The "Madman", a Flemish painter born in Antwerp c. 1520, died c. 1556. He was one of twenty van Cleefs who painted in Antwerp, but whether the well-known Henry, Martin, and William (the younger) were kin of his cannot be determined. Of his father, William (the elder), we know only that he was a member of he Antwerp Academy, which body Joost joined. Joost was a brilliant and luminous colourist, rivalling, in this respect, the Italians, whose methods he followed. Severity and hardness of outline somewhat marred his otherwise fine draughtsmanship. Portraiture in the sixteenth century was represented by Joost van Cleef; and Kugler places him, artistically, between Holbein and Antonio Moro, his "Portrait of a Man" in Munich (Pinakotheck) being long attributed to Holbin. He painted in France, England, and Germany. The celebrated portrait painter of Cologne, Bruyn, was a pupil. Imaging himself unappreciated, he went to Spain and was presented to Phillip II by Moro, the court painter.
Because Henry VIII, according to English authorities chose Titian's pictures in preference to his, van Cleef became infuriated, and his frenzy later developed into permanent insanity. The French contend that it was Philip, in Spain, who gave Titian the preference. The most distressing feature of Joost insanity was that he retouched and ruined his finished pictures whenever he could gain access to them, and his family finally had to place him under restraint. Beautiful altar-pieces by van Cleef are found in many Flemish churches, notably "The Last Judgment" (Ghent). Perhaps the most celebrated of his works is the "Baccus" (Amsterdam), whose young face is crowned with prematurely grey hair. "A Virgin" (Middleburg) is noteworthy as having a charming landscape for the background, a combination rare in those days. Other works are: "Portrait of the Painter and his wife", at Windor Castle; "Portrait of a Young Man", at Berlin; and "Portrait of a Man", at Munich.
The submitter has submitted a letter attesting to her desires with respect to her armory.
Herald of Record: Self/Garnet
4: Beatrijs van Cleef - New Release of Device
OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted.
The lady wishes to release her device Argent, on a fess azure between three cinquefoils pierced gules, a griffin statant argent, registered under her previous & newly released name, Beautrice Hammeltoune. She wishes to promote her current badge Barry azure and ermine to her primary device and to associate the same with her new name. Her letter of intent is on file.
5: Beatrijs van Cleef - New Other
OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted.
The lady wishes to promote her current badge Barry azure and ermine to her primary device and to associate the same with her new name. Her letter of intent is on file.
6: Bella Cavalerii - New Name & New Device
Argent, a horse rampant sable and on a chief purpure three estoiles argent
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Meaning (Italian for "horse person") most important.
Bella - Jo Lori Drake (Rhian Lyth of Blackmoor Vale), Italian Personal Names <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/italian.html>, cites this name.
Cavalerii - The Abruzzo Heritage e-zine, 1800 Surnames Recorded in 1447 <http://www.abruzzoheritage.com/magazine/2002_06/d.htm>, cites this surname. Family Names Appearing in the Catasto of 1427 <http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/catasto/newsearch/family_names.html> cites Cavaliere . De Felice, Emidio. dizionario dei cognomi italiani, p. 99, sub Cavalli, cites Cavallari, Cavallaro, Cavallàr, Cavallèri, Cavallèro, Cavalèri, Cavalèro, Cavalièri, Cavalière, Cavalièro, Cavalièr.
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du
7: Bera of Tavastland - New Device Change
OSCAR finds the name on the Æthelmearc LoI of October 25, 2009 as submitted.
Azure, a fees argent charged with two bars gules
Old Item: Azure goutty d'Or, six lymphads sailing to
sinister Or, each sail charged with a martlet volant to sinister gules,
a base Or, to be released.
Her previous device, Azure goutty d'Or, six lymphads sailing to sinister Or, each sail charged with a martlet volant to sinister gules, a base Or, registered under her previous name, Marianna Molin di Salerno, in October, 2007, is to be released.
Herald of Record: Self
8: Bera of Tavastland - New Badge
OSCAR finds the name on the Æthelmearc LoI of October 25, 2009 as submitted.
Quarterly argent and gules, in bend sinister eight apples argent
The submission forms say that this is to be associated with "The Brotherhood of the Silver Apple." The household name is not being submitted at this time and, as a note of interest, would conflict with the Order of the Silver Apple which is registered to the Baeony of Terr Pomaria in An Tir.
Herald of Record: Self
9: Betha Symonds - New Name Change
Old Item: Betha of Bedford, to be retained.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
No changes.
Her previous name was registered November, 2002. It is to be retained as an alternate name.
Betha - Brian M. Scott (Talan Gwynek), Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames <http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Elizabeth>, cites Betha as a hypocoristic form of Elizabeth, from 12th c.
Symonds - Reany & Wilson, p. 410, sub Simmonds & Bardsley, p. 692, sub Simon. Bardsley cites a John Symondes to the reign of Edward III. Further, the Soldier in Later Medieval England <http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/database/search_musterdb.php>, cites both John Symons and Henry Symons to 1439. We believe that the proposed spelling is a reasonable variant.
Herald of Record: Dougal @ Pennsic/Garnet
10: Elyse le Bref - New Name & New Device
Argent, a butterfly bendwise azure and an orle vert
Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Sound most important.
Elyse - Scott Catledge (Colm Dubh), An Index to the Given Names in the 292 Census of Paris <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/paris.html#E> cites one Elyse un gendre
le Bref - "the short". Edward Latham, A Dictonary of Names, Nicknames, and Surnames of Persons, Places, and Things <http://books.google.com/books?id=20w-AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Edward+Latham&hl=en&ei=XsnIS_vu AYWKlwfzgoHqCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false>, p. 42, states:
Bref, Le (French ",The Short").A surname given to Pepin, King of the Franks (d. 768), son of Charles Martel
Herald of Record: Livia Valentini
11: Gruffudd ap Owein - New Name Change & New Device
Sable, a griffin sergeant contourny between three eagles' jambes Or
Old Item: Griffith Ryder, to be released.
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Sound most important.
Language (Late 15th c. Welsh) most important.
Culture (Late 15th c. Welsh) most important.
Gruffudd - Heather Rose Jones, Snapshot of a Cantref: The Names and Naming Practices in a Mawddwy Court Roll of 1415-16 <http://www.heatherrosejones.com/names/welsh/mawddwy1415.html>, cites this name as appearing 23 times in the rolls.
ap - standard patronymic particle: Heather Rose Jones, A Simple Guide to Constructing 16th Century Welsh Names (in English Contexts) <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/welsh16.html>.
Owein - Heather Rose Jones, A Simple Guide to Constructing 16th Century Welsh Names (in English Contexts) <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/welsh16.html> cites this as the standardized modern spelling of the original Owen. The submitter prefers Owain, if we can document it, and will accept Owein. So, can we find documentation for either Owein or Owain in period?
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du
12: Gwydeon ap Arden - New Name & New Device
Argent, a sword inverted and overall two garden roses in saltire, slipped and leaved, sable
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Gwydeon - An alternate spelling of Gwyddion. Heather Rose Jones (Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn), The First Thousand Years of British Names: Appendices IV and V <http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/british1000/appendix4_5.html>, cites: Guedgen/Guedguen/Gueithgen?/Guidgen/Guidgen(-)tiuai {Gwyddien} from the Landav Charters, pre-1100. Here Gwyddien is the standard spelling. Of course, Gwyddion is the mythological Welsh being mentioned in the Mabinogion. I'm ucertain as to its acceptability in the SCA.
ap - standard patronymic particle: Heather Rose Jones, A Simple Guide to Constructing 16th Century Welsh Names (in English Contexts) <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/welsh16.html>.
Arden - The ancient forest in Midland England. The Forest of Arden <http://hearteng.110mb.com/arden.htm> cites the forest as dating to Roman times. Further, Andrew Watkins, Landowners and their Estates in the Forest of Arden in the Fifteenth Century* <http://www.bahs.org.uk/45n1a2.pdf> cites place names such as Tanworth-in-Arden, showing that the name was used in the 15th c. Also, Mills, p. 176, cites Henley-in-Arden to the 12th c. Bardsley, p. 58, cites an Arden (Arderne) family in Lancashire, and dates Heloise de Arderne to 1171 and John de Arderne to 1220.
However, none of these shows Arden as a personal name, which is common following ap. Does anyone have better documentation or information on Gwyddion or this variant spelling?
Herald of Record: Cornelian/Garnet
UPDATE: 5/6/2010 - replacement emblazons:
13: Isabetta Orsini - New Name & New Device
Per fess argent and azure, a bear statant sable and four pawprints fesswise two and two argent
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Language (Italian) most important.
Meaning (surname: "little bear") most important.
Isabetta - Josh Mittleman (Arval Benicouer), Feminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427, cites this name as occurring 5 to 15 times.
Orsini - Family Names Appearing in the Catasto of 1427 <http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/catasto/newsearch/family_names.html>, cites this name as appearing 1 time in the rolls.
Herald of Record: Elsbeth Anne Roth
14: Lasairfhíona inghean Aindrias - New Name & New Device
Per saltire vert and argent, a raven close sable between in pale two thistles Or
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Language (14th c. Gaelic) most important.
Culture (14th c. Gaelic) most important.
Lasairfhíona - Kathleen M. O'Brien (Mari Elspeth nic Bryan), Index of Names in Irish Annals: Lasairfhíona <http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/Lasairfhiona.shtml>, cites this name to the 13th-16th centuries.
inghean - Sharon L. Krossa, Quick and Easy Gaelic Names <http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/>, cites inghean as the patronymic particle for feminine names.
Aindrias - Kathleen M. O'Brien (Mari Elspeth nic Bryan), Index of Names in Irish Annals: Aindrias <http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Aindrias.shtml>, cites this name in the 13th-14th centuries.
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du
15: Líadain ní Dheirdre Chaomhánaigh - New Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in August of 1996, via the East.
(Fieldless) A pine tree sable
16: Marina Martinez de Aragon - New Name & New Device
Azure on a bend between three roses barbed and seeded argent, three hummingbirds rising vert
Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Language (15th c. Spanish) most important.
Culture (15th c. Spain) most important.
Marina - Julia Smith (Juliana de Luna), Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/isabella/WomensGivenFreq.html>, cites Marina as occurring 6 times in the late 15th century.
Martinez - Julia Smith (Juliana de Luna), Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/isabella/patronymic.html>, cites this surname to the late 15th century.
de Aragon - Julia Smith (Juliana de Luna), Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/isabella/locative.html>, cites this locative to the late 15th century.
Herald of Record: Elsbeth Anne Roth and Margaret Makafee
17: Myskia náttfara - New Device
OSCAR finds the name on the Æthelmearc LoI of February 23, 2010 as Myskia Náttfara.
Purpure, a willow tree eradicated and in chief three
mullets of four points argent
UPDATE: 5/6/2010 - replacement emblazons:
18: Renaut Lionett - New Name & New Device
Azure, a chevron ermine between three dexter hands Or
Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes.
Sound (14th c. French) most important.
Language (14th c. French) most important.
Culture (14th c. French) most important.
Renaut - Scott Catledge (Colm Dubh), An Index to the Given Names in the 1292 Census of Paris <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/paris.html#R>, cites one Renaut le Picart. Further, Marie Therese Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde : les noms de personne en Haute Picardie aux XIIIe, XIVe, XVe siècles., cites this name.
Lionett - Marie Therese Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde : les noms de personne en Haute Picardie aux XIIIe, XIVe, XVe siècles., cites this surname.
Herald of Record: Alianora Greymoor
19: Richard de Derby - New Name & New Device
Azure, a swan argent and in base three shamrocks Or
Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes.
Sound most important.
Richard - Brian M. Scott (Talan Gwynek), Yorkshire Masculine Names from 1379 <http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/yorkshire/>, cites many instances of Ricardus, including Richard.
de Derby - Eliert Ekwall, Two Early London Subsidy Rolls <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=31949&strquery=Derby>, p. 314-327, cites one Willelmo de Derby to 1319.
Herald of Record: Livia Valentini
20: Safiyya bint 'Amr - New Name
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Language (Arabic) most important.
Culture (Arabic) most important.
Safiyya - Period Arabic Names and Naming Practices <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/arabic-naming2.htm>, cites Safiya as a feminine ism. Michael of Safita and Neathery of Safita, Attested Medieval Arabic Names of Women, KWHSS Proceedings, June, 2003, cites Safiyya.
bint - the feminine patronymic particle
'Amr - Period Arabic Names and Naming Practices <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/arabic-naming2.htm>, cites 'Amr, as a masculine ism.
Herald of Record: Ailis Linne
21: Tadhg Sotl Ó Néill - New Device
OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted.
Gules, on a sinister hand apaumy proper three shamrocks one and two vert
Name registered, June, 2009
Herald of Record: Elsbeth Anne Roth
22: Thescorre, Barony of - New Acceptance of Transfer of Heraldic Title
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in of at some point, .
Ravenstongue Pursuivant
The Industrious Barony of Thescorre wishes to accept the transfer of the title Ravenstongue Pursuivant from the Sylvan Kingdom of Æthelmearc. The very Industrious Baron and Baroness, their heirs, and appropriate officers have filed the appropriate petition.
Herald of Record: Alianora Greymoor/Garnet
23: Tiberius Pinarius Varro - New Name & New Device
Gules, two pallets wavy between in bend two lozenges Or, each charged with a scorpion inverted sable
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Language (Latin) most important.
Tiberius - Meradudd Cethin, Names and Naming Practices of Regal and Republican Rome - Prænomen and Nomen <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/roman/names.html> cites this prænomen.
Pinarius - Meradudd Cethin, Names and Naming Practices of Regal and Republican Rome - Prænomen and Nomen <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/roman/names.html> cites this nomen.
Varro - Merdudd Cethin, Names and Naming Practices of Regal and Republican Rome - Cognomen and Agnomen <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/roman/names2.html>, cites this cognomen.
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du
24: Tufa cognomento Gunthamundus - New Name
Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes.
Sound (The sound of "Tufa" is most important) most important.
His previous submission, Tufa Gunthamunths was returned Kingdom in January 2010 for grammatical problems.
Tufa - Willem Pieter Gerritsen, Anthony G. Van Melle, Tanis Guest, A dictionary of medieval heroes: characters in medieval narrative traditions [http://books.google.com/books?id=jacBvHiRUWwC] p. 270 states in part:
...Tufa, then joined Theodoric, but when the latter sent him to Odoacer with some of his men Tufa went over to the enemy and had the Goths accompanying him...(NOTE: This book is not available on Google Books in its entirety, but in preview only.) William Cooke Taylor, The history of the overthrow of the Roman Empire <http://books.google.com/books?id=hHwBAAAAQAAJ> p. 98, describes the military strategies of Tufa, a commander for Odoacer in Milan against Theodoric (king of the Ostrogoths). Morlet, Les Noms de Personne sure le Territoire de L'Anienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe Siècle, pp. 67-68, sub Theudofridus, cites Tuffredus. We believe that Tufa or Tuffa is a reasonable hypocoristic formation.
cognomento - Latin, "known as". Academy of Saint Gabriel report no. 1928 <http://www.s-gabriel.org/1928> states in part:
In almost all records, Goths are identified by single given names alone, without any surname [2]...We also found some examples of Gothic bynames recorded in contemporary Latin records. A typical example in a woman's name is Isilo cognomento Sisina, recorded in Iberia in 803 [3]. This name means "Isilo nicknamed Sisina". Here are a few similar examples: Masculine - Comasio cognomento Gomazi 800; Filo cognomento Brito 816; Davit cognomento Amorellus 861; Romaricus quen in cognomento Cervan apellant 883 (whom they call by the nickname Cervan); Walamirus cognomeno Annagia 889.
Gunthamundus - Early Germanic, "Battle Protector". Morlet, Les Noms de Personne sure le Territoire de L'Anienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe Siècle, pp. 116-117, sub GUND- cites several examples of Guntha- as a variant on the main element, which means "combat". Among the combined forms for Gund- is Gumundus. Morlet, ibid., p. 14, cites Admundus and states that -mundus means "protector. We feel that the combination is a reasonable one.
Herald of Record: Kateryna ty Isaf/Garnet