Æthelmearc Letter of Intent Æ127
June 1, 2010 (AS 45)

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.

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. Further, Kathleen M. O'Brien (Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada), Names Found in Ambleny Registers 1578-1616 <http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/Ambleny/FemGivenNamesFreq.shtml>, finds 1 example of Antoinette from 1591.

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.

4: Beatrijs van Cleef - New Release of Device

OSCAR finds the name on the Æthelmearc LoI of May 31, 2010 as 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 finds the name on the Æthelmearc LoI of May 31, 2010 as 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) 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.

7: 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.

8: Elise la Breve - New Name & New Device

Argent, a butterfly bendwise azure and an orle vert

Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Sound most important.

Originally submitted as Elyse le Bref. Submitter has agreed to the change

Elise - an English feminine given name. Dorset parish registers: Marriages, Volume 2 by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Edmund Robert Nevill, Thomas Matthews Blagg, <http://books.google.com/books?id=-6xCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA114&dq=elise+OR+elyse+intitle:parish&lr=&as_drrb_ is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&cd=12#v=onepage&q=elise%20OR%20elys e%20intitle%3Aparish&f=false> shows an Elise Candiffe marrying Walter Warry in 1563.

la Breve - "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

9: Gwydeon of 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.

Originally submitted as Gwydeon ap Arden. We changed the byname to an acceptable locative form. Welsh-English combination is acceptable per the Lingual Weirdness Table.

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. We note the Laurel Precedent from Mistress Alisoun's tenure:

[Gwydion Rhys ap Rhianwen] [The submittor has provided documentation from period legal documents that one Gwydion Bola (which means something like Gwydion the Fat, according to Brachet) was beadle of the English County of Carmarthen in the early fourteenth century. Brachet has added further citations from period sources in support of the use of Gwydion by humans in period. It is the consensus of the College that the case is more than adequately proved and the name Gwydion may be used in the Society so long as there is no other reference to the Gwydion of Welsh legend. (LoAR 26 Feb 89, p. 8)

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.

Name Comments:

Illuminada Eugenia de Guadalupe y Godoy (Dolphin) at 2010-06-01 12:46:20 ( Reply )
Gwyddion of mythology transforms a forest of trees into men in the poem Cad Goddeu in the Book of Taliesen. I believe this is too evocative of the Welsh legend for Gwydeon and "Ancient forest" to be registerable together, since the cited precedent includes the phrase "so long as there is no other reference to the Gwydion of Welsh legend."

Device Comments:

Illuminada Eugenia de Guadalupe y Godoy (Dolphin) at 2010-06-01 12:37:44 ( Reply )
These are not garden roses... they are roses Suggest blazon: Argent, a sword inverted and overall two roses in saltire slipped and leaved sable. No conflicts found!

10: 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:) 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.

11: Lasairfhíona inghean Aindriasa - 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.

Originally submitted as Lasairfhíona inghean Aindrias. We have changed the patronymic for grammatical reasons.

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.

12: 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

13: 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.

Device Comments:

Palotzi Marta at 2010-06-01 13:31:05 ( Reply )
Is there a default arrangement for three charges around a bend? If yes, is this really the default? Left to my own devices, I'd actually put one rose above the bend and two below it.

14: Myskia Náttfara - New Device

OSCAR finds the name on the Æthelmearc LoI of February 23, 2010 as submitted.

Purpure, a willow tree eradicated and in chief three mullets of four points argent

We note that the use of a weeping willow tree is one step from period practice, as per Laurel Precedent from the time of Mistress Elsbeth:

There is a CD between a weeping willow tree and an oak tree or a generic tree. There is not a CD between a white willow, which is the default willow tree, and an oak tree or a generic tree. There is a CD between a white willow tree and a weeping willow tree. Given that the weeping willow is unknown in period (let alone period Europe), its use is considered one step from period practice (a weirdness).

15: Renaut Lionett - New Name

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.

16: Ricardus 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.

Originally submitted as Richard de Derby. The submitter has agreed to the change.

Ricardus - Brian M. Scott (Talan Gwynek), Yorkshire Masculine Names from 1379 <http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/yorkshire/>, cites many instances of Ricardus. Also Reaney and Wilson [p. 377, sn Richard] cites <Richardus Basset>, dated to 1127-34.

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.

Device Comments:

Alicia le Wilfulle (Red Flame) at 2010-06-01 11:27:46 ( Reply )
Blazon correction: ...three shamrocks bendwise Or

Illuminada Eugenia de Guadalupe y Godoy (Dolphin) at 2010-06-01 12:54:02 ( Reply )
No conflict found.

17: Safiyya bint 'Amr - New Name

Submitter desires a feminine name.
Language (Arabic) most important.
Culture (Arabic) most important.

Safiyya - Michael of Safita and Neathery of Safita, Attested Medieval Arabic Names of Women, KWHSS Proceedings, June, 2003, cites this spelling. Further, David B. Appleton (Da'ud bin Auda), Period Arabic Names and Naming Pracices <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/arabic-naming2.htm> cites Safiya

bint - the feminine patronymic particle

'Amr - Dayid B. Appleton (Daud ibn Auda) Period Arabic Names and Naming Practices <http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/arabic-naming2.htm>, cites 'Amr, as a masculine ism.

18: Tadhg Sotal Ó Néill - New Device

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in June of 2009, via Æthelmearc.

Gules, on a sinister hand appaumy proper three shamrocks one and two vert

Device Comments:

Illuminada Eugenia de Guadalupe y Godoy (Dolphin) at 2010-06-01 13:02:15 ( Reply )
No conflicts found.

19: 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.

20: 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.

21: Tufa cognomento Gunthamundus - New Name

Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes.
Sound (The sound of) 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...

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. Further, Saint Gabriel report # 2392 supports this name formation, citing Gesimund/Gaisumunths and Hunimund/Hunamunths. Given this documentation, we feel that the combination is a reasonable one.