AEthelmearc Letter of Report #AE40
May 1, 2000 C.E. / A.S. XXXIV

1. ) Aileann inghen Prosinnsias - new device accepted, name registered May 1999.

"Vert, a chevron argent overall a fleur-de-lys or."

2.) Alastar Scott MacCrummin - new device accepted, name registered Aug. 1990

"Or, three triangular trivets azure."

If this device passes, his old device, "Argent, on a flame proper a triangular trivet between three pheons inverted azure." will be released.

3.) Angus MacBain - new badge accepted, name registered Dec. 1995

"[Fieldless] A quadrefoil pean, a lion rampant argent."

4.) Angus Olyver - new device accepted, name registered May 1997

"Lozengy gules and or, in pale three cannons reverse on a chief sable three bezants."

5.) Charles de Cayeux (M) - new name and device accepted

Charles - from Dauzat, pg. 112 Popularized after Charlemagne. Source: French

de Cayeux - from Dauzat and Rostaing's Dictionary Etymologic de Noms de Lieux en France, pg. 158

"Azure, a cross ermine, in canton a crescent or."

6.) Christofano Vecchione - new badge returned, name registered Jan. 1992

"[Fieldless] A pear vert."

While it's clear of Niccolo Stefani di Firenze "[Fieldless] A pear Or", (one difference for being fieldless, one difference for tincture), it's in conflict with Hector aus Pier, "Per chevron throughout azure and Or, in base a pear vert." There's one difference for the field, but none for position on a fieldless badge. For those of you who didn't get the pun, he tried to register "a pervert." :-)

7.) Clement of Morocco - resubmitted device returned, name registered Mar. 1997

"Purpure, a bend sinister or charged with a copse of three trees sable."

His previous submission, with the field red, was returned in-Kingdom for conflict against Sebastian of Ventburr, "Gules, on a bend sinister or, three wings palewise each terminating in a hand brandishing a sword sable." While the new submission clears that conflict, it's now in conflict with Gwynffd of Ogg, "Purpure on a bend sinister Or, a blackbird perching upon a log sable, holding in its beak an annulet gules". As I expected, no one got his pun. The French word for woods is "bois" so the device has "de boyz in de bend" (The boys in the band). Having taken two years of French in high school, I pronounce the word "bwah", not "boyz". If you think that's bad, wait until you see what he's going to submit next! :-)

8.) Daman Mac Saoirbhreathaich (M) - new name withdrawn at the submitter's request

Daman - O'Corrain and Maguire, pg. 69

Saoirbhreathaich - Ibid, pg. 160

The name is intended to be male 7th - 9th century Irish.

9.) Deirdre Gilbride - change of name and device accepted

Richenda du Jardin (F) -- She wishes the name to be a fourteenth century French female name meaning "Richenda of the Garden".

"Per pale azure and argent, a crequier counterchanged."

If her new name and device are accepted, her old name Deirdre Gilbride and device "Per fess vert and sable, a mortar and pestle and a snake glissant argent" will be released.

10.) Duarcan O'Raghailligh (M) - new name accepted

Duarcan - O'Corrain and Maguire, pg. 77 header form, says name occurs various times in the later Middle Ages.

O'Raghailligh - MacLysaught, pg. 257 (under Reilly) - Gaelic form

My apologies on this one. I don't do a lot of word processing in Windows 95, and I haven't mastered all of the non-standard characters yet. I will draw in by hand the correct accent marks as the submitter wanted and BMDL recommended. Unfortunately, I can't get them to come out even if I cut and paste from BMDL's letter.

11.) Duncan MacAngus (M) - new name and device accepted

Duncan - Black, pg. 228 This spelling documented on pg. 457 from 1539.

MacAngus - Ibid. pg. 453.

Black actually notes the existence of two men named Duncan MacAngus, of various spellings, however since neither of them is historically significant, their names are not protected. It should be noted that the submitter's father has the SCA name of Angus MacBain.

"Per chevron sable and gules ermined or, in chief two dragons combattant or."

The device is close to, but clear of, Damhnait of the Cleftlands, "Azure, two dragons combattant Or." One difference for the field, one difference for a change of position that isn't forced by the tincture.

12.) Eleanor Vaughan (F) - new name accepted

Eleanor - Withycombe, pg. 96 - Eleanor is a header form This spelling was used beginning in the twelfth century.

Vaughan - Reaney & Wilson, pg. 465 - Vaughan is a header form. Variant spellings are dated from 1222 on.

13.) Graidhne ni Ruaidh - change of device accepted, name registered June 85

"Azure mulletty or, a decrescent argent, and issuant from chief a demi-sun or."

If this is registered, her current device "Sable, mulletty, issuant from chief a demi-sun or, and in base a crescent argent." will be released. Yes, she's only changing the field.

14.) Hildarun Hugelmann - new device accepted, name in process

"Sable, a crampon or."

15.) Juliana de Luna (F) - new name and device accepted

Juliana -Diez Melcon, pg. 51 - Juliana Pelagii 1151

de Luna -Ibid. pg. 234 - Lop de Luna 1221

"Gules, six crescents pendant arranged two, two and two, chequy argent and sable."

As the submitter cannot find documentation for the original tincture division of the charges, she has consented to go with "vanilla chequy". :-)

16.) Kaithren Rowand - new device returned, name in IloI #A39

"Azure, on a pile wavy or, a fleur-de-lys sable and a lion couchant or."

"The field is not really chaussi; it is not per chevron inverted, it is not a pile, it is not a chief triangular; being somewhere between all of these, we don't really know what it is. Chaussi issues from the corners of the chief and would touch the base point of the shield; per chevron inverted would issue from the sides of the field (rather than the chief corners); a pile would issue from further in on the chief (rather [than] from the corners) and would almost touch the base point of the shield and would not have room for a charge beaneath it, and a chief triangular would not descend the field nearly so far as the one does here. Please have them choose one and reemblazon it properly."

The submitter has been contacted and will be re-submitting an entirely different device.

17.) Kyriell Hawkmoon - new badge returned, name registered July 1990

"On a plate, a hawk belled close azure."

All of the junior heralds got a Dagonell point for identifying what's wrong with this blazon, including a few "junior" heralds who are wearing kingdom titles. :-) "[Fieldless] On a plate, ..." is identical to simply "Argent, ...". Unfortunately, it also has conflicts: Holleigh Falcon, "Argent, a falcon azure, hooded, jessed and belled gules, within an orle of holly leaves vert, fructed gules". One difference for the orle, no difference for the hawk's harness. Also Karena del Falco, "Argent, a falcon close gules". One difference for the change of tincture, no difference for the bells.

18.) Orianna Fridrikskona - augmentation of arms withdrawn at the submitter's request, name registered Feb. 1992

"Argent, on a pile cotised azure, three escallops in pale argent, in sinister chief AEthelmearc."

This augmentation was granted to her by King Morguhn and Queen Meirwen at last year's Ice Dragon in Rhydderich Hael.

19.) Roana d'Evreux (F) - new name, device

Roana - Reaney & Wilson, (under Roan) - Roana is a feminine name dated to 1212.

Evereux - Ibid, (under Deveraux) - derives from the placename Evreux, though this spelling is not documented in any dated form.

"Reaney _OES_ (pp. 70-73) gives an extensive list of English surnames derived from French place names, especially from Normandy; the list includes (p. 71) those derived from . While the submitted form is not given, the other ones listed in Reaney are. In addition, derivations include only such surnames originating from places in France as are known to survive today.... The surname is first found in Domesday Book unless a date is given. Obsolete names are not listed. Certainly this dates the place name, and this is probably a reasonable variant spelling."

"Argent, a tree eradicated sable and a tierce purpure."

20. ) Roana d'Evreux - new badge

"[Fieldless] A tree eradicated per pale purpure and sable." 

21.) Thomas Ouswood (M) - new name and device

Thomas - Withycombe, (under Thomas) - This spelling from 1086, 1199-1220 & 1273.

Ouswood - Ekwall, Fourth Edition (under Ousden) meaning "Owl Valley" dates the spelling "Uuesdana" to the Domesday Boke and "Uuesdene" to 1198. Reaney and Wilson (under Wood) dates "del Wode" to 1274.

"Vert, a lantern argent enflamed or."