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Letter of Intent #39 Heraldic Flying
Circus Commenting Group
Unto Margaret
MacDuibhshithe, Silver Buccle Herald for the glorious Sylvan Kingdom
of AEtherlmearc, come Greetings from the Heraldic Flying Circus
and Moving Company!
I'm back doing
the letter this month, and should have it from now on. (I don't want
to go through a month like December again!) Anyway, here are our
comments on #A39:
1) Caroline of
Burgundy: New Device:
Dagonell notes that this submission came without a blazon. There is some
question as to whether the flowers are intended to be garden roses,
or if they are heraldic roses drawn in an
overly-realistic style.
2) Charles of
Alden: New Name:
Edmund (the herald of record) notes a typo. The discussion should read
"...the name comes from High Hald_e_n, which is located in Kent."
Also, the citation from Reaney & Wilson, p.5, dates "Alden" as a surname
to 1196.
New Device:
Can we find any evidence for use of a chief enarched inverted in
period armory?
3) Conrad
Longespee the Blak Heart: New Device:
Suggested re-blazon: "Sable, two lions in pale dormant, a chief
embattled erminois." We also suggest that the chief be drawn with more and
smaller embattles (if that is a word :));as Drawn it looks too much
like a label.
4) Gareth
Kincaid: New Device:
the first "counterchanged" in the blazon is redundant.
5) Iago
Benitez: New Badge:
Dagonell has been informed by the herald of record that the bird is a
popinjay (no blazon accompanied the submission).
6) Isabel de
Santiago: No Comment.
7) Jollivette
de Louvre: New Name: It
is noted that only the masculine form "Jolivet" is found in the cited
source, but "Jollivette" seems like a reasonable feminine form.
8) Joscelyn
Odette d'Arques: New Name:
Withy pp. 77-78 under "Jocelyn": "The use of Jocelyn as a girl's name
seems to be quite modern and is not mentioned in CMY[Charlotte
Mary Yonge, _History of Christian Names_, 1863, revised 1884]." While
the submitter is free to adopt a masculine name and persona, doing
so would preclude the use of the feminine "Odette".
New Device:
Suggested re-blazon: "Gyronny or and argent, a ram's head to sinister
azure, another to dexter sable, the horns interlocked."
9) Kaithren
Rowand: New Name:
Perfectly good documentation, but we have no clue if it has the intended
meaning.
10) Margaret
Acton: New Device:
Edmund, the herald of record, notes that the emblazon is correct, and
the blazon should read "...a chief _invected_...".
11)Mary
Elizabeth Clason: New Name:
Cigfran doubts that a double given name would have been used in
Scotland in period. New Device:
Cigfran's copy of the ILOI was OCR-scanned in text-and Graphics mode,
and the buckles became large, bold "e"s. We wonder how long it
will be before someone submits some odd collection of charges because it
spells out something when scanned...(and we thought landscapes
were bad!:)).
12)Matthias of
Harlech: No Comment.
13) Muirgen
Kincaid: New Device:
The charges should be drawn larger.
14) Og,
Stronghold of: New Group
Name: Dagonell speculates that their next submission will be Irish:
"O'Ryan's Gate".
15) Westland
Mor, Canton of: When they get
around to sending a petition: New Group
Device: Brown "proper" horns give poor contrast with the azure field.
We suggest making the horns argent.
We remain
yours in Heraldic Service,
Cigfran Caer
Gwalch Dagonell
Collingwood of Emerald Lake Edmund Lambert
Tregelles Elizabeth Law
of Clan Robertson Lontrallo Juliana
Rosalia Dolce di Siena and Otfrid
Ammerthaler, reporting