1.)
Aleshondra Teodorous (F) -- New Name and Device Webmaster's Note: As there were no returns from this letter, the External Letter of Intent is also the Letter of Report
Unto Dame Elsbeth Anne Roth, Laurel Queen of Arms and the College of Arms, greetings from Lord Dagonell Collingwood.
Please note: NEW ADDRESS! David P. Salley, 5294 Webster Road, Fredonia N.Y. 14063. If you've sent anything to the old address, it's all right. I still own that house and swing by periodically to check the mail.
It is the intent of the AEthelmearc College of Arms to register the following names and armory.
1.)
Aleshondra Teodorous (F) -- New Name and Device
Alessandra -- "In Feminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427" has 'Alessandra' The submitter preferred 'Aleshondra' for the given name, but no one could document it.
Teodoro -- Dizionario dei nomi Italiani (pg. 341 under Teodoro) Theodorus is the Latinized form. The submitter preferred 'Teodorous' for the surname, but no one could document it.
"Argent, a rose gules, overall two swords in saltire and upon a chief sable three roses argent."
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."
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.
From Count Jehan's letter of comment: "Konrad" does mean "bold in his advice" with the "kon" element meaning bold and the "rad" part meaning advice, but I believe "Kunzel" is simply a diminutive which has dropped the "rad" part--if it had an independent meaning, it would be "little bold one" or something of the sort. If she really wants "Wolfcounsel" it would be the form Wolfrat which she found--the rat in that form is equivalent to the rad in Konrad. I recommend she use Astridr Wolfrat.
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."
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."
5.) Daniel
of Endless Hills (M) 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 contourny argent."
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 hound statant sable."
The original blazon was "a Pharoah hound" but no one could document
that as a medieval species of dog or common heraldic charge.
7.) Gareth MacDuff
(M) -- New Name and Device
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."
8.) Geraint Morys -- New Name
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."
10.)
Ingridr Hikri Fridriksdottir -- New Device
Name Registered 8/92
"Or, a sea-unicorn contourney and in chief four escallops purpure."
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)
13.)
Phillipa Graves -- New Device
Name registered 8/96
"Per saltire argent and vert, four cats couchant sable and argent."
14.)
Rosamund du Grasse -- New Device
Name Registered 10/97
"Argent, a willow tree blasted and eradicated on a chief gules two
geese respectant argent."
15.)
Sabina de Lyons -- New Name and Device
Sabina -- Withycombe, (pg. 260 under Sabin) "Sabina Cur 1199-1215 FA 1303"
de Lyons -- Reaney & Wilson (pg. 289 under Lyon, Lyons) "Henry de Lyons 1296 SRSx"
"Gules, three lion's heads caboshed argent."
16.) Sven
Tyrvisson -- New Device
Name Registered 3/94
"Purpure, on a pile indented or, a double-headed ax sable."
17.) Una
the Bashful -- New Name and Device
Una -- Withycombe, (pg. 284 under Una) "an ancient Irish name"
the Bashful -- The online Webster's dictionary dates the word to 1548.
"Sable, a chevron ermine between three Catherine's wheels argent."
Commonly Cited References:
Bahlow, Hans Deutsches Nameslexikon.
Black, George F. The Surnames of Scotland.
Brechenmacher, Josef Karlmann Etmologisches Wuurterbuch der
Deutscheamiliennamen Dauzf Ireland
O'Corrin, Donnchadh & Maguire, Fidelma Irish Names
Reaney, P.H. and R. M. Wilson A Dictionary of English Surnames
Withycombe, E.G. Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names
Colm Dubh An Index to the Given Names of 1292 Census of Paris
(http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/paris.html)