AEthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent #AE38

AEthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent #AE38
November 26, 1999 C.E. / A.S. XXXIII

Unto the College of Heralds of the Kingdom of AEthelmearc and to all to whom these words shall come, greeting from Dagonell Collingwood, Garnet Herald.

Good gentles, permit me to introduce myself.

I am Lord Dagonell Collingwood, more commonly called Dagonell the Juggler. My persona is an Englishman, however the time period ranges from War of the Roses to the Elizabethan era. I have been in the SCA for over ten years and have been a herald for most of it.

Mundanely, I am David P. Salley from Buffalo, N.Y. (Barony of Rhydderich Hael). I am a professional computer programmer currently working as Customer Service / Tech Support for Plantrol Systems Limited. I am married to Dr. Karen Ehrlich, Lady Cigfran Caer Gwalch, who is a computer science professor at University of Fredonia.

Comments on this letter are due by January 1. You are free to comment on all or any part of the letter. I welcome e-mail comments if your computer hasn't succumbed to the Y2K bug. My site address is "salley@klaatu.canisius.edu". If you prefer to see the ILoI electronically, I also maintain the AEthelmearc College of Heralds web-page. It can be reached via the AEthelmearc home page or its own URL at "http://www-cs.canisius.edu/~salley/heralds.html" Please note, that is a hyphen between "www" and "cs", not a period. Unfortunately, it will be a text-only posting, as I do not currently have access to a scanner. If you have regular access to a scanner and would be willing to scan in the ILoIs, please contact me. The web-site will also have a list of all the submissions as I receive them. These will be included in the next letter of intent.

I have recently added the e-mail addresses of Silver Buccle's staff to the web-page. If you are a member of Silver Buccle's staff, please check to see that your e-mail address is correct. Eventually, I would like to add the e-mail addresses of the local heralds and commentators. If you would like your e-mail address added, please contact me.

Finally, I would like to thank my assistant, Sayidda Shahira bint al-Sammad for helping me to draw, copy and color in all of the Pennsic submissions. And now, on with the show!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Dagonell

1.) Aleshondra Teodorous (F) -- New Name and Device

Aleshondra -- "In Feminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427" has 'Alessandra' The submitter would like 'Aleshondra' for the given name, but will be happy with 'Alessandra'.

Teodorous -- Dizionario dei nomi Italiani (pg. 341 -- under Teodoro) Theo dorus which is the Latinized form. She will take 'Theodorus' if she can't get 'Teodorous'.

"Argent, a rose gules, overall two swords in saltire and upon a chief sable three roses argent."

Herald of Record : Knute Hustabjorn

2.) Algar McCoulagh (M) -- New Name and Device

Algar -- Withycombe (pg.15 -- under Algar) "Old English, Aelfgar, compound of aelf 'elf' and gar 'spear'". DB 1066, FF 1160, HR 1273

McCoulagh -- Black (pg.483 -- under MacCulloch) "Sir Patrick McCoulagh and Gilbert McCoulaghe were charter witnesses in Galloway, 1354"

"Per pale or and argent, a phoenix purpure within a bordure sable crusily fitchy or."

Herald of Record : Blaise de Cormeilles & Constance Fairfax

3.) Astrid Radulfsdottir -- Change of Name, New Household Name and Badge

New Name : Astridr Wolfkunzel

Astridr -- Geir-Bassi (pg.8)

Wolfkunzel -- "Kunzel" found in Bahlow under "Konrad", pg. 308, no date given, "bold in his advice" is the meaning given. "Wolf" is a common first part to last names in both Bahlow and Brechenmacher. "Wolfrath", "Wolfrat" given in Brechenmacher, pg. 831, given the combination of "Wolf" with "Rat" meaning "counsel", it seems a reasonable hypothesis that the combination of "Wolf" with "Kunzel" is possible.

Household Name: House Wolfgang von Neunkirchen

Wolfgang -- Bahlow, Dictionary of German Names (pg.621) given as a heading, saint's name in 994.

Von Neunkirchen -- Brechenmacher, Josef Karlmann, Etymologies Worterbuch der Deutschen Familiennanen Neuenkircher -- header, Neuenkirchen 1446, Nygenkerke, Neuenkirchen 1639, Jakob Neuenkirch.

If the household name as submitted is not registerable, the submitter would prefer these alternatives in this order: 1.) House von Neunkirchen 2.) House Neunkirchen

"Argent, a cross formy sable and on a base embattled gules a wolf courant contourney argent."

Herald of Record : Katryna Aleblaga Volchkova & Irene von Schmetterling

4.) Ciarmhac Sayenga -- New Name and Device

Ciarmhac -- O'Corrain & Maguire (pg.51 -- under Ciarmacc, Ciarmhac) "'dark son'. A not very common name which occurs principally in the south in the early period. It gives the Munster surname O' Ciarmhaic, now rendered Kirby" The submitter is using the modern Irish form.

Sayenga -- Mundane name allowance. The submitter's mundane surname is Sayenga.

"Vert, a sun or eclipsed vert and on a chief argent three gouttes-de-sang."

Herald of Record : Mari Elspeth nic Bryan & Fridrikr Tomasson

5.) Daniel of Endless Hills -- New Name and Device

Daniel -- Withycombe (pg.78 -- under Daniel) "Its use as an ordinary Christian name seems to have begun in the 12th C. and it became common in the 13th and 14th C." It is also the submitter's mundane first name.

Endless Hills -- SCA Ordinary (pg.235 -- under Endless Hills) Group name registered in 1981.

"Per fess azure and sable, a demi-sun issuant from line of division or, a winged foot argent."

Herald of Record : Constance Fairfax

6.) Fiona ingen ui Faolain -- New Name and Device

Fiona -- SCA compatible, Baldwin 12/85

Faolain -- MacLysaught, Surnames of Ireland (pg.299 -- under O Whelan) "O'Faolain (faol, wolf) A variant form of Phelan numerous in the country between Co. Tipperary and Co. Wexford."

"Or, a pharoah hound statant sable."

7.) Gareth MacDuff -- New Name, Device and Badge

Gareth -- Withycombe, (pg.125 -- under Gareth) "Gareth was given to a child baptized at Wigan in 1593."

MacDuff -- Black, (pg. 488) MacDuff is a header form, a James MakDuf is recorded in 1594. On page 225, under Duff, we find a Brokynus Duff in 1341 and a Duncan Duff in 1292.

Device: "Azure, a unicorn rampant a chief invected argent." Badge: "Fieldless A dexter gauntlet fesswise sable sustaining a unicorn's head erased argent langued gules all contourny."

Herald of Record : Margaret Makafee

8.) Geraint Morys -- New Name Herald of Record : Hywel ap Ievan

Geraint -- Jones, H.R. A Welsh Miscellany (pg. 31) Submitter is seeking a close approximation to the pronunciation 'ga-ran'. She does not care what gender the name is.

Morys -- Reaney & Wilson, Dictionary of English Surnames (pg. 303 -- under Maurice) "Simon Morys 1296 SRSx"

9.) Guillaume de S. Jacques -- New Name and Device

Guillaume -- Dubh, Colm Index to Given Names in 1292 Census of Paris (pg. 10) Guillaume le Maingher is listed.

de S. Jacques -- Dauzat, Albert and Rostaing, Charles Dictionnaire Etymologique des Noms de Lieux en France (pg.605) S. Jacobus date to 1040, 1179, 1420. Leader spelling St. Jacques.

"Sable a lion sejant ermine."

Herald of Record : Adelais de Saviniaco & Richenda du Jordin

10.) Ingridr Hikri Fridriksdottir -- New Device

Name Registered 8/92

"Or, a sea-unicorn contourney and in chief four escallops purpure."

Herald of Record : Eleazar ha-Lori

11.) Kateryna y Ty Isaf -- New Name and Device

Kateryna -- Reaney and Wilson, (3rd ed., pg.47 -- under Blackmer) "Kateryna de Blakemere 1296 PN"

y Ty Isaf -- Richards, Melville Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units "pg. 216 gives the header 'Ty-brith Isnf' as a town in Laniwst Denbyshire. pg. 216 -- header 'Ty Fair' as a church / chapel in Caernarubnshire. pg. 217 -- header 'Tywyn Isaf and Uchaf' gives these as towns in Agergele Denbyshire - an ecclesiastical parish <1873." Ty Isaf is a modern place name the submitter would like the period form.

"Vert, a snowy owl guardant argent, on a chief embattled or, two feathers inverted crossed at the tips gules."

12.) Lavina Knappe -- New Name

Lavina -- Withycombe, (pg. 192 -- under Lavinia) "Lavina Cur 11, 1203"

Knappe -- Reaney & Wilson, (3rd ed. pg. 267 -- under Knapp) "John Knappe 1279 RH (Bk). 'Dweller at the top of the hill or on a hillock' (OE cnaepp) as at knapp (Devon) or Knapp Fm (Sussex)

Herald of Record : Fridrikr Tomasson

13.) Phillipa Graves -- New Device