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Letter of Intent #72
Heraldic Flying Circus Commenting Group


Herewith, comments on IloI #Æ72 from the Heraldic Flying Circus and Moving Company:



1. Aburgha Chaghadai

New device: No conflicts found. What is the current position on crescents gules on argent? Does it apply to crescents on charges?



2.Adam Enstone on Tyne

New name: Adam of Enstone on Tyne would be fine, but is there any evidence for retaining a prepositional phrase when a place-name becomes a locative surname?

New Device: No conflicts found. We thought the use of a half- human, half vegetable monster was odd, but the only other such registered (Eleri of Nefyn. 04/88 via East "Sable, a demi female affronty issuant from a stump eradicated argent, maintaining a leaved staff bendwise Or.") was registered without comment.



3. Aibell Shúlglas

Name registered 09/01 via Æthelmearc.

New device: No conflicts found



5. Aíne ingean Ruaidri

New device: No conflicts found



6. Alan the Strong

New device: No conflicts found. The blazon should specify the plow is fesswise.



7. Annanias Fenne

New badge:Clear of:

Anne of Caerdydd

January of 1993 (via An Tir):

(Fieldless) A butterfly argent, wings tipped gules.

Zen CVD plus addition of co-primary (or secondary)



8. Aurenca Mouly

New alternate name: Reaney and Wilson, p. 68, s.n. Brown gives William le Brun 1169, William Brun 1182.



9. Aurenca Mouly

New badge: Possible conflict with:

Haniya bat Baruch

June of 1985 (via Atenveldt):

Argent, mulletty azure, a horseshoe sable.

1 CVD for field vs. fieldless, 1 for removal of secondary charge group.



11. Bevis of Sunderoak

New name: Actually, what Withycombe says in the cited entry is that the name was "not uncommon".



12. Brian of Leichester

Name registered 03/88 via East.

New badge: No conflicts found. The roundels should be specified as in fess.



13. Bridget Walker

New name: Withycombe p. 54, s.n. Bridget-"...earliest occurence which has been noted as a christian name is the daughter of Edward IV.." (1480-1513). Reaney and Wilson, p.473, s.n. Walker gives Robert le Walker 1260.

New device: No conflicts found. This device is pictorial, but opinion was divided as to whether it was unregisterably so.



14. Carlo Garlucci

Name registered as "Carlo Gallucci", 08/02 via Æthelmearc

New badge: No conflicts found.



16. Dafydd MacNab

New name: Combining Welsh and Scots is a weirdness, but registerable (viz. Anton Cwith, 08/01 LoAR).

New device: No conflicts found.



17. Dafydd MacNab

New badge: No conflicts found.



18. Donnan the Solitary

New badge: No conflicts found.



19. Elizabeth Musard

New name: Reaney and Wilson. p. 318, s.n. Mussard gives Alfricus Musard 1134-1140, a bit closer to the 1205 date doc'ed for the given name, and the desired spelling, as well.

New device: No conflicts found. The tygers need Tyger Chow ™- please draw them larger. At this size, they are rather indistinct against the ermine.



20. Elizabeth Musard

New badge: Clear of:

David the Fretful

September of 1992 (via the West):

(Fieldless) A fret couped per pale sable and Or.

Zen CVD and change to tincture of half of primary.



21. Franz Belgraunde die Maus

New device: No conflicts found.



22. Ghalib al-Sami

New device: Chaussé drawn as in PicDic. No conflicts found.



23. Gideon Lydiard

Resub device: No conflicts found.



25. Jean-Phillipe Firmin d'Amiens

Name registered 10/81 via Outlands.

New device: No conflicts found.



27. Jochen Blitzger

New device: Conflict with:

Jochen of Nithgaard

February of 2000 (via Æthelmearc):

Azure, a helm argent between three lightning bolts in pall Or.

This is too much of a coincidence- are we sure this isn't a resub? "Jochen of Nithgaard" sure looks like a holding name.



28. John Ignaiszack

New name: English and Polish is an unregisterable combination (viz. Ladislaus de Brady, 09/95 LoAR).



29. Katherine Loch Duibh

New name: Does the submitter want Scots or English? Ekwall, p. 47, gives Blackwater 1576. Mills, p. 41, gives Blackpoole 1602, Black Pul 1260.

New device: the trident should be blazoned palewise, not in pale.

Clear of:

Eric von Strein

The following device associated with this name was registered in September of 1973 (via the West) and corrected

blazon in May of 1985 (via the West):

Gules, a Trident inverted transfixing a Rose argent.

1 CVD for change of tincture to field, 1 for inverting the trident, probably 1 for flame vs. rose.



Richard of Dunheved

The following badge associated with this name was registered in September of 1992 (via the West):

(Fieldless) A trident inverted, haft entwined with a chain argent.

1 CVD for field vs. fieldless, 1 for inverting the trident, probably 1 for flame vs. chain.



30. Khadel Kober

New name: Kober is the header form in the given citation, the spelling given for 1372 is Cober, with Hans Koberl dated to 1343.



32. Konstantinos Akropolites

New device: No conflicts found.



33. Lothar Hugelman

New device: No conflicts found.



34. Mailagnas Maqqas Dunaidonas

New device: Clear of the following:

Aonghas of Clan Campbell

March of 1997 (via the East):

Vert, a boar's head couped close and on a chief Or three thistles proper.

Eleanor la Maladroite

January of 1998 (via An Tir):

Vert, a boar's head erased close and on a chief argent three roundels vert.

Rhodri ap Rhydderch

July of 1997 (via the Middle):

Sable, a boar's head erased on a chief argent three escallops gules.

Richard Larmer

April of 1997 (via the Middle):

Gules, a boar's head couped Or, on a chief ermine three gouttes de larmes.



All by change of field tincture and addition of charges on the chief.



Clear of:

Robert of Coldcastle

The following device associated with this name was registered in January of 1988 (via the West):

Azure, a boar's head erased and on a chief embattled argent, a tower azure.

1 CVD for complex line, 1 for addition of charge on chief.



Erling of Æthelmearc

The following device associated with this name was registered in August of 1999 (via Æthelmearc):

Azure, a boar's head erased, in chief three annulets argent.

1 CVD each for type and number of secondaries.



35. May Wynn

New device: There should be more and deeper embattlements. Clear of:

Harold von Rheinfelden

January of 1987 (via the West):

Azure, on a fess embattled between three mullets of four points Or, three hurts.

1 CVD for change of tincture of charges on the field, 1 for changes to type and number of tertiaries.



This is probably clear of:

Corwyn O'Domhnaill

February of 1988 (via Atlantia):

Azure, on a fess embattled-counterembattled between two pairs of swords crossed in saltire and a mullet

argent, a barrulet azure.

1 CVD for counter-embattled, 1 for change to type of over half the secondaries.



36. Michelina da Trento

New device: The cups should have wider bases. We like the little sub-fleur-de-lys fiddly bits, but can this be documented as a period depiction? Clear of:

Alejandro del Águila

December of 1992 (via Trimaris):

Azure, three goblets and on a chief urdy argent, two annulets conjoined sable.

1 CVD for complex line, 1 for changes to number, type, and tincture of tertiaries.



37. Miguel Flores

New device: No conflicts found.



39. Odriana vander Brugghe

New badge: Clear of:

Harvey the Blind

January of 1986 (via the West):

(Fieldless) A furison sable charged with three hawk's bells in fess Or.

Zen CVD plus 1 for addition of tertiary group.



40. Óláfr Thorvardson

New device: Clear of:

Connor MacLean

December of 1993 (via the East):

Vert, a wolf statant contourny and on a chief indented argent three caltraps vert.

1 CVD for contourny, 1 for embattled vs. indented, 1 for changes of type and tincture of tertiaries.



41. Otelia d'Alsace

Resub badge: Possible conflict with:

Ottokar von dem Schwarzwald

August of 1997 (via the Middle):

Azure, on a cross formy Or a chalice gules.

1 CVD for fieldless vs. azure, none for change of type to tertiary. Is there a CVD for a cross patonce vs. formy?



42. Paul Spyke

New name: We feel that the reference to Withycombe does not tell the whole story. From Withycombe, s.n. Paul, pp.239-40:

"I have found the name Paul recorded only 4 times in the 13th C (probably the same man in three cases), and there can be no doubt that it was a very rare name in the Middle Ages. Bardsley, it is true, says that it was one of the favorite names in the 13th C, but though he derived from it many surnames (e.c. Paul, Pawl(e), Paulin, Pawley, Pawlet, Powell, Pollit), it is significant that he does not give a single example of it as a christan name, and he was certainly wrong about the origin of some of these names. It was not until the 17th c that Paul had a certain degree of popularity...."



43. Rhydderch ap Erwin

New device: There was a good bit of debate as to whether this was slot-machine heraldry. Although, with the sword as drawn, it looks like a primary between dissimilar secondaries, this is realyy, reconstructed from the blazon, three dissimilar charges in fess. Perhaps the sword should be on a pale?



45. Seth Mac Michael

Name registered 08/02 via Æthelmearc.

New badge: Gorillas are registerable. His device, "Per pale purpure and gules, two gorillas statant respectant argent", was registered 02/03 via Æthelmearc.

47. Sophie Davenport

Resubmitted device: Clear of:

Kelson de la Croix June of 1973:

Sable, a bend sinister gules fimbriated argent, between a Latin cross and an olive branch bendwise

sinister argent.

1 CVD for changing tincture of fimbriation, 1 for changes to secondaries.



48. Taileshithe of the Greenwood

New device: This is a pall inverted. No conflicts found.



52. Vlksha Iakoleva

New name: Submitter is mixing genders. If she wishes to use the masculine Vlksha, she needs a masculine patronymic (best guess: Iakolov).



53. Zoe Akropolitina

New device: Clear of:

Jean Claude Marcel

January of 1994 (via the Middle):

Gules, a griffin segreant contourny within an orle of fleurs-de-lis Or.

1 CVD for field, 1 for reversing the griffin, 1 for tincture of peripheral charges.



Until next month, we remain

Yours in heraldic Service,



Edmund Lambert Tregelles

Elizabeth Law, Icedragon Pursuivant

And

Otfrid Ammerthaler, reporting