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Æthelmearc Letter of Intent #54
November 1, 2001 A.D. / A.S. XXXVI

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I have received the following submissions for consideration:

"(Fieldless) A lozenge within and conjoined to an annulet sable."

Herald of Record: Juliana de Luna

"Argent estencilly, a crescent azure."

Herald of Record: Juliana de Luna

"(Fieldless) A crescent argent estencilly azure."

Herald of Record: Juliana de Luna

"(Fieldless) Three pheons conjoined in pall points outward per pale sable and Or."

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du

She intends her name to be feminine. She wants her name to be authentic for French language.

An earlier name change, Marie d'Avignon, was returned by Atlantia; she was notified in November of 2000.

Herald of Record: Juliana de Luna

"Argent, three chevronels braced and on a chief azure three roses argent."

He intends his name to be masculine. He wants his name to be authentic for 9th century Ireland.

Anlon is found in the Annals of Connacht, where Anlon m. Concobair is dated to 810 http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/kilkenny/2/conkings.htm or http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/G100011/header.html

Find is found as a descriptive masculine byname in Tangwystyl "Early Irish Feminine Names from the Index to O'Brien's 'Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae'" http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/obrien/.

OC&M (s.n. Robertach) date Robertach as a male name in 836. Robertaigh is a guess at the genitive form.

Herald of Record: Elsbeth Anne Roth

He intends his name to be masculine. He will not accept major changes.

OC&M (s.n. Anmchaid) dates Anmchaid mac Murchada to 1017.

Woulfe gives Ó Mórdha as a header form and says "Rory O'More [was] a celebrated chieftain in the reigns of Henry and Elizabeth."

Herald of Record: Hilda Hugelmann

"Per pale gules and sable, an eagle displayed maintaining a sword fesswise counterchanged."

This badge must be submitted as a documented exception, as it violates the rule of tincture. Field research found six examples of the motif "a field divided gules and sable with a complex charge counterchanged across it" in Siebmacher.

However, more examples will be necessary if this is to be registered. I would appreciate any help I can get.

Herald of Record: Juliana de Luna

"Per chevron rayonny sable and Or, two caravels and a sword counterchanged."

He wants a masculine name and will accept any changes.

Morgan and Morgan (s.n. Cadwgan) list Cadogan as a header spelling and date it to the time of Edward I and also to 1556.

Reaney and Wilson (s.n. Blades) date James Blaydes to 1506.

Herald of Record: Elsbeth Anne Roth/Cadell Blaidd Du

"Per pale sable and argent, three towers within a bordure counterchanged."

He wants a masculine name. He wants it to be authentic for Welsh, but will not accept major changes.

Caradawc is given as an alternate spelling of Caradog (under that heading) in Morgan and Morgan.

Mendwr is an occupational byname in thirteenth century Wales (meaning 'mender') found in "Names and Naming Practice in the Merioneth Lay Subsidy Roll 1292-3" (by Keridwen ferch Morgan Glasvryn, now Tangwystl, 1991 KWHS Proceedings, p. 102). Herald of Record: Bruce (Bressal MacCulloch)

"Per pale sable and argent, a lozenge fesswise gules."

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du

"Gules, on a tower argent within an orle of chamomile flowers argent seeded Or a heart gules."

She wants a feminine name, and will not accept major changes.

Withycombe (s.n. Cynthia) gives this as a header form and says that Cynthia was first used as a form of Sanchia (for the Spanish princess who came to England), and that "the name was not used until the Renaissance." Reaney and Wilson (s.n. Love) derive Love from a given name and date Peter Love to 1255. Reaney and Wilson (s.n. Tower) dates William de la Tur to 1260 and Theobald atte Tur to 1296.

Herald of Record: Edmund Tregelles

"(Fieldless) A hedgehog statant per pale or and azure."

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du

"Argent, a kraken vert, a bordure sable semy of acorns argent."

His name is intended to be masculine. He accepts all changes.

Duarcán is a header form in OC&M, who say that the name "occursŠin the later middle ages."

Black (s.n. Maccrackan) dates Michael Makcraken to 1526.

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du

The submitter does not care about the gender of the name. He will only accept the following changes: Durr can be changed to Dur (which would be grandfathered from his currently registered name) and capitalization can be changed.

Durr is a word meaning 'pearls' which has been used in bynames; he is willing to accept the use of Dur, which is grandfathered to him and was justified originally as a hypochoristic form of names with the prototheme <Dur-> (such as Durand). There is substantial evidence of contact between Arabs and Romance speakers in Spain and Sicily, including French speakers.

Min is a particle meaning "of"; it is grammatically necessary here because of the complex byname.

The byname al-Jabal al-Mukhfi is intended to mean "of the hidden mountain." While one set of commentary suggests that the construction may not be the best translation of "of hidden mountain" (meaning something more like "the mountain that hides [itself]" or "mountain of the concealer" it still suggests that the construction is at least plausible.

William Seibert (wajdi) says:

"So the grammatically correct form of the name with the meaning yhou want would be Durr Min Jabal al-MuchfiŠ" (ch and kh are transcriptions of the same letter).

Sion Andreas says:

"'Mukhfii' is the active participle of the Form IV verb "akhfaa" Root (Kh-F-Y) meaning 'to hide or conceal." The active participle means "one who or that which hides or conceals." The name as stands means "from the mountain of the concealer." (I believe that his -ii is a long marker, that can also be written -i).

Herald of Record: Juliana de Luna

"Argent, an acorn vert, a bordure wavy sable semy of oak leaves argent."

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du

"(Fieldless) On an oak leaf argent an acorn vert."

Herald of Record: Juliana de Luna

His name is intended to be masculine. He will not accept major changes. He is interested in having his name be authentic for "Scottish."

Ihon is found in Symon Freser of Lovat "13th and 14th Century Scottish Names"

Edmiston is intended to be a variant of Edmeston; Black (s.n. Edmeston) date variants to 13th century. It is also the spelling of his surname.

Herald of Record: Cigfran o Gaer Walch

"Sable, a rose slipped and leaved argent in chief two suns Or."

Herald of Record: Dagonell of Collingwood

"Argent, a two-headed eagle displayed and on a chief sable a lion passant argent."

The name is intended to be masculine. He wants it to be authentic for 12th-13th century English, and will accept any changes.

John is a header form in Withycombe who says it is "a fairly common English name in the 12th-15th cŠ."

Douglas is a header form in Reaney and Wilson, and William de Duglas is dated to 1175-99.

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du

"Per pale gules and Or, a wyvern counterchanged a chief embattled sable."

The name is intended to be masculine. He wants it to be authentic for "Norman" culture. He will accept any changes.

Herald of Record: Graidhne ni Ruaidh

"(Fieldless) A daffodil Or and another gules crossed at the stems in saltire."

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du

"(Fieldless) An equal-armed Celtic cross per pale purpure and argent."

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du

"Vert, on a bend argent three wolf paw prints vert, in sinister chief an increscent argent."

Herald of Record: Cormac O'Gadhra

"(Fieldless) A crotral bell Or."

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du

The name is intended to be feminine. She will accept all changes.

Rubina is a header form in de Felice Nomi.

Da Cimento is a locative surname in 14th century Venice (Arval Benicouer and Talan Gwynek "Fourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names")

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du

"Argent, two lions combattant guardant sable, on a chief azure three lillies argent."

The name is intended to be feminine. She wants her name to be authentic for Scots, and will allow all changes.

Sabina is dated to 1199-1265 in Withycombe (s.n. Sabina).

Borthwick Castle was constructed in 1430-2, according to Castles of Britain and Ireland (Plantagenet Somerset Fry) (s.n. Borthwick).

Herald of Record: Otfrid Ammerthaler

"Per chevon rayonny purpure and Or, two moons in their plenitude and a willow tree counterchanged."

The name is intended to be feminine. She will accept all changes.

Tedesca is a variant of Tedeska, found in Arval Benicouer, "Feminine Given Names from Thirteenth Century Perugia."

Niccola is found as a family name in 1427 Florence (Anonymous, "Family Names Appearing in the Catasto of 1427")

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du

This is the canton which has submitted Orion's Gate and Og. They care most about the sound of the name. Wynterset is found in Reaney and Wilson (s.n. Wintersett). Hugh de Wynterset is dated to 1379.

Herald of Record: Auvere de Ver

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