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

Unto Dame Elspeth Anne Roth, Laurel Queen of Arms, Lord Pietari Pentinpoika, Pelican King of Arms and the members of the Society College of Arms, greetings from Lord Dagonell Collingwood, Garnet Herald for the Sylvan Kingdom of AEthelmearc.

This letter is being sent by e-mail to those who have requested it, and by regular mail to those who have not. It is also available via the Internet at http://www-cs.canisius.edu/~salley/Letters/AE40/xloi.html or by logging onto the AEthelmearc Heralds web-site at http://www-cs.canisius.edu/~salley/heralds.html and following the appropriate links. I can be reached at: David P. Salley, 5294 Webster Road, Fredonia N.Y. 14063 or at salley@klaatu.canisius.edu.

It is the intention of the Kingdom of AEthelmearc to register the following arms:



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

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

2.) Alastar Scott MacCrummin - new device, 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, name registered Dec. 1995

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

4.) Angus Olyver - new device, 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

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

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

7.) Duncan MacAngus (M) - new name and device

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.

8.) Eleanor Vaughan (F) - new name

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.

9.) Graidhne ni Ruaidh - change of device, 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.

10.) Hildarun Hugelmann - new device, name in process

"Sable, a crampon or."

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

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". :-)

12.) Richenda du Jardin - change of name and device

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.

13.) 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."
-- Myfanwy

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

14. ) Roana d'Evreux - new badge

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

15.) 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."