Æthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent Æ140
November 1, 2011


Fridrikr Tomasson        Garnet Herald, c/o Thomas Ireland-Delfs, 731 S. Main St., Newark NY  14513         garnetherald at aeheralds dot net

Commentary on these items will be due on: December 1, 2011
Commentary may be posted to the ACE internal commentary system at: http://ace.aeheralds.net
Commentary may also be sent privately to: garnetherald at aeheralds dot net -OR- fridrikr at thescorre dot org

1. Adelheid Grünewald New Name.

Submitter desires a feminine name.

Meaning ("of the Green Wood") most important.

Adelheid - Bahlow, German Names, p. 4, s.n. Adelheid gives Henil Adelheid, Glatz, 1361, meaning, "Henil, wife or mother of Adelheid." Talan Gwynek (Brian M. Scott), German Given Names 1200-1250 <http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/germ13/> cites 3 examples of Adelheidis, Aleidis.

Grünewald - Bahlow, p. 179, s.n. Grunewald, cites pzinter Matthias Grünewald dated1528. Brechanmacher, p. 602, dates Grünewald to 1470.

NOTE: If "Grünewalderin" can be documented, it is preferred.

Herald of Record: Ottfrid


2. Cathán Ó Dubhagain New Name and Device.
Azure, semy of (nine) estoiles pierced Or, a decrescent argent.
13201696571320169792

Submitter desires a feminine name.

Christina - Talan Gwynek (Brian M. Scott), Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames <http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Christina>, cites Christina to the 13th century.

Mary - ibid <http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Mary>, cites Mary to the 13th century.

Lowe - R&W, p. 286, cites Robert de la Lowe to the 13th c.

Name Formation - Doubled given names in English are "essentially unknown" in England in period according to Saint Gabriel Report 2373 <http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/2373.txt>. Can we provide any documentation to show the practice at all?

Herald of Record: Dawn de la Lune


3. Christina Mary Lowe New Name and Device.
Argent, three cats sejant, heads to dexter, and a bordure sable.
13201816731320181688

Submitter desires a feminine name.

Christina - Talan Gwynek (Brian M. Scott), Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames <http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Christina>, cites Christina to the 13th century.

Mary - ibid <http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Mary>, cites Mary to the 13th century.

Lowe - R&W, p. 286, cites Robert de la Lowe to the 13th c.

Name Formation - Doubled given names in English are "essentially unknown" in England in period according to Saint Gabriel Report 2373 <http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/2373.txt>. Can we provide any documentation to show the practice at all?

Herald of Record: Dawn de la Lune


4. Ekaterina Volkova New Household Name and Badge.
Per bend sinister sable and Or, two dogs courant contouring in annuli counterchanged.
13202063631320206379

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in December of 1995, via the East.

Household Name: Malenkaya Staya

The name is meant to mean "Little Pack"

Malenkaya - The On-Line Translator <http://www.online-translator.com> translates "small" as meaning ????????? which is best spelled Malenkaya in English.


Staya - ibid. translates "pack" as ???? or in English orthography staya

Name formation - Francois's Precedents, January 2001,

[Greyhound Pack] The first issue is whether Pack is acceptable as a household designator. The documentation provided in the LoI for use of Pack was:

The Oxford English Dictionary, Vol. 9, pg. 39, s.n. pack defines it as a company or set of persons and dates the word packe to 1578. The Middle English Dictionary, Part P.1, Sherman M. Kuhn, ed., published 1981, University of Michigan Press on pg. 560, s.n. pak defines the word as an assemblage of people; a company, band and dates the word pak to 1425 and pack to 1400.

Given this definition, if we register Company and Band as household designators, we should also permit Pack. There are at least forty registrations of household names with the designator Company (not including variant spellings). There are three registrations that include some form of the word Band as the designator: The Blue Band (Fionnbhárr Starfyr of the Isles, October 1996), Drafen War Band (Gregory of York, April 1983), and Warband die Steiner Wache (Canton of Steinsee, April 1997). As Company and Band are registerable as household designators, Pack is as well.
Thus, the household name "Little Pack" should be acceptable.

Herald of Record: Fridrikr

5. Elzbieta Traidenyte New Device.
Or, a Russian firebird rising gules and on a chief purpure, three estoiles Or.
13202069111320206928

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


6. Fridrich Flußmüllner New Badge.
Argent, a water-wheel gules within a bordure sable.
13202069891320207000

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


7. Isabel Fleuretan Resubmitted Name and Device.
Azure, on a pile cotised argent, a fleur-de-lys azure.
13202072981320207310

Submitter desires a feminine name.

Previous name: Isabel de Fleur returned by Laurel in July, 2010. Previous device, Azure, on a pile argent, a fleur-de-lys azure, returned at Kingdom in April, 2010, for conflict with Eleanora Valentina Beota (December 2007 via Artemesia): Azure, on a pile ployé argent, a hummingbird hovering vert.

Isabel - Talan Gwynek (Brian M Scott), Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames <http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Isabel>, cites Isabel Huggett to 1440; 1473 Isabel Hulver; 1485 Isabel Sorbie; and 1535 Isabel Normanville.


Fleuretan - Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Uckelman), Names from Choisy, France, 1475-1478 <http://heraldry.sca.org/names/french/choisy.html> cites one Benoist Fleuretan to late 15th century.

NOTE: If needed, the submitter will agree to adding de Canteleu [Arval Benicouer (Josh Mittleman) French Names from Two Thirteenth Century Chronicles <http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/crusades/)].

Herald of Record: Kameshima


8. Jocelyn of Tyburn New Name.

Submitter desires a feminine name.

Jocelyn - Withycombe sn Jocelyn, lists Jocelin in 1196, 1273, 1285.

Tybern - Eckwall, sn Tyburn, lists Tibern in the DB in 1275.

NOTE: The submitter prefers y to i in both names.

Herald of Record - Elsbet


9. Kaedeyama Itachi New Name and Device.
Azure, five Japanese maple leaves in annulo, conjoined at the stems, within a bordure argent.
13202076271320207654

Submitter desires a masculine name.
Language (Japanese) most important.
Meaning ("Weasel of Maple Tree Mountain") most important.

Kaedeyama - a constructed locative byname, intended to mean the mountain where the maple tree grows. The elements:


kaede - "maple (tree)" - <http://www.nihongodict.com/w/100911/kaede>

yama - "mountain" <http://www.nihongodict.com/w/28971/yama>

The construction "type of tree + mountain" is found in the name of Matsuyama Castle which was built in 1603. <http://www.city.matsuyama.ehime.jp/lang/en/sightseeing/castle.html>


Itachi - intended as a given name meaning weasel <http://www.nihongodict.com/w/55594/itachi>

Herald of Record: Ottfrid

10. Magnus de Lyons New Name and Device.
Azure, a lion and on a chief erminois, three mullets of ten points azure.
13208672901320867289

Submitter desires a masculine name.

Magnus - Withycombe, p. 203, dates Magnus to the 11th century.

de Lyons - R&W, p. 289, cites Henry de Lyons to 1296.

Herald of Record: Fridrikr


11. Margaret Grace New Name and Device.
Per bend sister argent and vert, two trefoils slipped counterchanged
13202078731320207887

Submitter desires a feminine name.

Margaret - Withycombe, p. 206-207.

Grace - R&W, p. 201, cites Adam Grace to 1302.

Herald of Record: Fridrikr


12. Margery Kent New Name Change.

Old Item: Catrina MacKinnon, to be released.

Submitter desires a feminine name.

Margery - Withycombe, sn Margery, lists Margery in 1440.

Kent - R&W, sn Kent, cites William Kent in 1296 and John a Kent in 1525.

Herald of Record: Elsbeth


13. Minamoto no Taikawa Saiaiko New Device.
Gules within a muscle fracted in saltire, an open fan argent.
13202085441320208543

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in February of 2006, via Æthelmearc.


14. Miriel du Lac New Name.

Submitter desires a feminine name.

Miriel - Dauzat, p. 436, cites Miriel as a variant of Muriel, dated to the 13th-14th centuries.

du Lac - Dauzat et Rostaing, p. 376, s.n. Lacq, cites Lac to the 13th century. Dauzat, p. 354, cites du Lac.

Herald of Record: Fridrikr


15. Rhiannon Elandris of Glyndyfrdwy New Household Name and Badge.
Per pale vert and purpure, a dragon-bodied harp argent.

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 1985, via the East.
House Dragancruit
Dragancruit = Intended to mean "dragon harp" - the elements:


dragon - Gaelic "dragon" FREELANG Irish Gaelic-English and English-Irish Gaelic online dictionary <http://www.freelang.net/online/irish_gaelic.php?lg=gb>, cites this translation.

fruit - Intended to be Gaelic "harp". However, ibid. shows fruit as meaning "hunch, hump". "Harp" would be better translated as "cláirseach".

Name Formation - Do we have any suggestions as to the need for lenition?

Herald of Record: Fridrikr

16. Roxanne de St Luc New Name and Device.
Sable, on a lozenge argent, a dragonfly sable.
13202090671320209083

Submitter desires a feminine name.

Roxanne - deFelice, Nomi, p. 323, sn Rosanna, cites Roxane as from the Latin Roxane.

St Luc - Dauzat et Rostaing, p. 612, cites St Luc.

Herald of Record: Fridrikr


17. Thomas Dyne New Name.

Submitter desires a masculine name.

Thomas - Withycombe, sn Thomas, cites Thomas in 1273.

Dyne - R&W, sn Dain, cites Gilbert le Dyne in 1275.

Herald of Record: Elsbeth


This concludes the Æthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent for November 1, 2011
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