Unto Ailis Linne, Garent Herald, and Roana d’Evreux, Cornelian Herald, and the College of Heralds of Æthelmearc, greetings from Elsbeth Anne Roth, Clarion Herald.

Included are my comments on the Æthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent #63. All the armory was conflict checked.

2. Assad de Barcelona: Sable, three mullets in bend sinister Or
Device: The device is clear of Kate Wood (February 1975), Sable, six mullets in bend, three and three, Or, with a CD for the number of primary charges and another for the independent change in the arrangement.

3. Catarina di Zaneto Rizo: Gules, a bend ermine between two dragonflies argent
Name: Her name was registered as Catarina de Zaneto Rizo in March, 2002.

4. Colin MacWilliams: A thistle per pale vert and argent
Name: His name was registered in April, 2000.

6. Finn Marland O'Shannon: Pean, a wolf rampant contourny between three fleurs-de-lys Or
Name: His name was registered in January, 1996.

7. Katerina y Ty Isaf:
Name Change: Her name was registered (in July 2000) as Kateryna Ty Isaf. We will have to include documentation on the use of y. In fact, I seriously doubt that y is appropriate. Ty Isaf was documented as a place name, which does not use any preposition. Y means “the” and is particularly inappropriate for use with a locative byname. (I got most of this from Tangwystyl’s CA article).

9. Rhiannon y Bwa: Azure, two chicken’s legs inverted issuant from base embowed to center Or feathered argent
Name: I, too, could find no record of the name, although I remember conversations about it. Juliana may know about it.
Device: This may violate the ban on inverted beasts, although it is not a clear cut example of such (which would be something like a chicken close inverted). I cannot guarantee that this is registerable barring examples of such being done in period.

10. Robert MacMahon: Or, in pale a wyvern sejant sable and a wyvern sejant gules
Name: I do not see how to make this name authentic for 13th-14th century Scotland, as the bynames is an Irish patronymic. The closest I could find for the byname in Scotland is M’Math, from Black, pg. 41, s.n. MacMath, where it dates it to 1468. Thus Robert M’Math is a reasonable 15th century Scots form of a Gaelic name (the article “A Simple Guide to Constructing 12th Century Scottish Gaelic Names” indicates that some form of Robert may have been used by Scottish Gaels). It would have been better, however, if the submitter had chosen a byname from the list of bynames in the article “13th & 14th Century Scottish Names.” The name, however, is registerable: Ó Corráin and Maguire, pg. 135, s.n. Mathgamain, dates the given name to 1019 and states that the surname MacMahon is derived from it.
Device: This is in conflict with Tobyn Kembold, Or, a dragon sejant gules wings elevated and addorsed; however, this is only on the East internal letter of August, 2002, and it is currently scheduled to go out after December (as there still is a bottleneck in the external process). Therefore this submission should get priority. In any case, Tobyn’s submission has some other possible conflict issues that do not apply to Robert’s.

11. Rosalinda of Castille: Per pale purpure and sable, a triple-towered castle between three arrows argent
Name: Her name was registered in February, 2002.

13. Valentine Graye: Argent, a chalice purpure and a tierce embattled vert
Name: The source is an index similar to may index done at the S. Gabriel site, except aimed at geneaology. Nevertheless it looks like that at least the surnames were not normalized, and the citations look could. Also, to use a standard source, Withycombe, s.n. Valentine, dates Valentine to 1553.

In service,

Elsbeth Anne Roth
Clarion Herald, Æthelmearc

References
Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning and History, (New York: The New York Public Library, 1986).
Jones, Heather Rose (aka Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn), “A Welsh Miscellany”, Compleat Anachronist #66 (Milpitas,CA: SCA, Inc.).
Krossa, Sharon L. (Effric neyn Kenyeoch vc Ralte), “A Simple Guide to Constructing 12th Century Scottish Gaelic Names”, (WWW: Privately published, 18 June 1997) http://www.MedievalScotland.org/scotnames/simplescotgaelicnames12.shtml
Ó Corráin, Donnchadh and Fidelma Maguire, Irish Names (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1990).
Symon Freser of Lovat, “13th & 14th Century Scottish Names” (WWW: J. Mittleman, 1996) http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/scottish14/.
Withycombe, E.G., The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).