Æthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent Æ69
June 1, 2003

Unto our College of Heralds, greetings from Ailis Garnet and Roana Cornelian! We hope that everyone had recent holidays as fine as ours, and that you're now fresh and ready to tackle this latest Letter of Intent! As ever, thank you to the many gentles who comment every month ... this month, commentary is due on June 30. We ask you to continue to post your comments on the aethel-heralds distribution list, as this seems to be working well. And now, on to the letter! It is the intent of the Æthelmearc College of Heralds that the following items be considered for registration. Unless otherwise noted, submitters will accept any changes.

Per bend sinister sable and purpure, a wyvern sejant Or.

His name was registered in 10/02. His previous device (Sable, a wyvern sejant Or, on a chief purpure three drakkars Or) was returned at Kingdom for tincture problems; he is just barely within his 1 year post-notification for a free resubmission.

Herald of Record: Roana d'Evreux

(Fieldless) An amaryllis flower Or seeded sable.

Her name was registered in 08/90.

Herald of Record: none

The submitter will accept no changes (except as noted below).

Her previously submitted name Aminah bint Mujallid al-Kutub was returned by Laurel in 03/02. The return stated that "this name is registerable as Aminah bint al-Megal'lid. [Aminah, bookbinder's-daughter] We would have made this change. However, the submitter did not allow major changes, and changing the byname from Mujallid al-Kutub to al-Megal'lid is dramatic enough that it is a major change." She is therefore submitting Aminah bint al-Megal'lid. Since it is how she originally submitted it, she would be willing to accept a change to Aminah bint Mujallid al-Kutub if the situation arises.

Herald of Record: Aurenca Mouly

(Fieldless) A demi-escarbuncle argent.

Her name was registered in 01/98.

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du

Per bend sinister azure and sable, an armadillo rampant argent.

The submitter desires a male name and will accept minor changes only.

Drogo is found in "The Two Lives of Charlemagne" according to Nicolaa de Bracton of Leicester's article "Early Germanic Names from Primary Sources." Drogo is also the name of a saint who died in 1186 in Sebourg, France, according to the Catholic Online website.

Rabenwald is a constructed surname. It is intended to mean "wood or forest frequented by ravens." The German name elements "raben" and "wald" mean "raven" and "forest or woods" respectively. Raben is found as a header form in Bahlow, with Joh. Raven dated to 1270. The header form Rabenstein is a locative byname dated to 1381, giving evidence of Raben's use as a name element. Wald(e) is also a header form, dated to 1361. That entry also sites Finsterwalder and Hinterwaldner, providing evidence of wald as a second element.

The submitter has provided documentation (including accounts from two different places in two different languages) which support the notion that armadillos were known to Europeans in period, making the armadillo registerable as an heraldic charge.

Herald of Record: Edmund Tregelles

Elina's name was registered in 05/99.

House is a household designator.

Lindau is a header form in Brechenmacher, who cites a Conr. Lindowensis in 1251 and a Hermann Lindowe in 1316.

Concerning the construction of household names, we find the following precedent from Bruce, which seems to be uncontested:

House names in period don't seem to have been overly fantastic. For the most part, they come from the same linguistic well as period bynames. In particular, since a period house name was so often simply the surname, byname, or epithet of its founder, any such epithet that is acceptable in a Society personal name should be acceptable as a Society household name. This is the rule of thumb I've formulated for determining the acceptability of household names henceforth. If we would register John X, we should register House X as well. We would not permit John Starwalker, so we should not permit House Starwalker. We would register John of the Red Sickles (wincing, perhaps, but we would), so we should register House of the Red Sickles. (2 July, 1992 Cover Letter (June, 1992 LoAR), pg. 3)

As such, a household name following the pattern "House <surname>" should be registerable.

Herald of Record: Edmund Tregelles

Ermine, a cross formy gules and a chief embattled sable.

This badge is to be associated with House Lindau. Elina's name was registered in 05/99.

Herald of Record: Edmund Tregelles

(Fieldless) A comedy mask per pale ermine and gules.

His name was submitted on Æthelmearc's External Letter of Intent dated December 19, 2002 (Æ63).

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du

Gules, a rose Or between three rabbits courant in annulo argent.

This name is intended to be feminine. The submitter cares most about language/culture (presumably French).

Geneviève is a header form in Withycombe, who says that the "name is a favorite one in France."

Beauchamps is found in Larousse (a dictionary?) s.n. beau. The submission form says "Aspects of location as <Beauchamp>." Input, anyone?

Herald of Record: Ennoguent filia Bronmael

Or, on a mountain issuant from base purpure a donkey passant contourny Or.

This badge is to be associated with the household name Casa Valdés, which was registered in 01/97. Juan Miguel's own name was registered in 08/95.

Herald of Record: Geoffrey de Montgomery

The submitter appears to have no preferences of any kind concerning her name.

Kateline is dated to 1273 in Withycombe s.n. Katharine.

Well is a header form in Mills, with Welle dated to 1086.

Herald of Record: Aurenca Mouly

(Fieldless) A demi-sun gules within and issuant from a mascle argent.

His name was registered in 04/02.

Herald of Record: Roana d'Evreux

This name is intended to be masculine.

Pádraig is found in Ó Corráin & Maguire under the header Pátraic: Pádraig. It is unclear as to whether variations of "Patrick" were in use in period, but Gilla Pátraic and Máel Pátraic are early devotional forms. Ó Corráin & Maguire also says "Patrick came into use as a personal name among the colonists in Ireland before it became common among the native Irish."

Ó Cillín is listed as a Gaelic form in MacLysaght s.n. (O) Killeen, which says that the name belongs to the western seaboard counties.

The submitting herald cites Padraig O'Ceallachain as a potential conflict, but states that the derivational and aural differences between the names should be sufficient to make them clear of one another.

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du

Per pale sable and argent, a dragon rampant counterchanged maintaining a flame Or.

This name is intended to be feminine. The submitter cares most about the sound.

This name and device first appeared on ILoI Æ56, but then disappeared from the face of the earth; we have no record of any decision regarding this submission, and it is absent from both the letter of report and the external letter. So, here it is again!

Ríona is found in Ó Corráin & Maguire s.n. Caiterína, listed as "a common abbreviation." Ó Corráin & Maguire date the name to the Crusades and state that it was "well established among the Irish aristocracy by the 15th century." Does this information refer to Caiterína or specifically to Ríona?

de Fae is a header form in Woulfe, which says that the de Fae family was "of considerable importance in the 16th and 17th century."

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du

Sable, on a bend wavy between two stag's massacres argent two rowan branches conjoined at the stems fructed vert.

The submitter has no gender preferences concerning this name and cares most about the sound.

Rowan has been ruled SCA compatible.

Blackthorne is an alternate header form in Reaney & Wilson s.n. Blackthorn, with William Blackthorn dated to 1442.

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du

Argent, a domestic cat's head cabossed and on a chief azure three fleurs-de-lys argent.

The submitter has no preferences of any kind concerning her name.

Tatyana is a proposed spelling variant of Tatiana, which is found in 3rd Edition Wickenden s.n. Tat'iana with Tatiana Mikitina Zhena Korytkova dated to 1500. The substitution of y for i seems reasonable based on other y/i substitutions found in Wickenden: examples include Tatishce/Tatysch, Rozroi/Rozroy, and Kur'ian/Kuryan.

Kushina is "a feminized patronymic of Kusha, found as a header form in Wickenden and dated to 1545."

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du

Quarterly gules and sable, three bendlets argent.

His name was registered in 05/02.

Herald of Record: Roana d'Evreux