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Letter of Intent #74
Heraldic Flying Circus Commenting Goup

Research for Æ74
 
1. Alaric of Mæidesstana
 
2. Aleyd von Kiel
New name:Bahlow, p. 265 s.n.Kiel dates von Kile to Lübeck c. 1300.
 New device: A crane in its vigilance should be holding a rock in its upraised foot.
Clear of:
Sentinels' Keep, Barony of, February of 1989 (via Atenveldt):
Azure, a crane in its vigilance argent, within a laurel wreath, a chief embattled Or.
1 CD for change of tincture of chief, 1 for complex line, 1 for addition of charges on chief, and (I think )1 for the laurel wreath.
 
3. Damian Kennison
New name: Damian is as cited, Withy,p.78.  As for Kennison, we found a number of examples of the elements Ken- and Kenn- being used in the same name. Specifically,
Reaney and Wilson. p.262:
s.n. Kennet Nicholas de Kenett 1175
                Thomas de Kenete 1270
                John Kennet 1525
s.n. Ken  Henry le Kenn 1337
                John de Ken 1170
Black, pp.292-3
s.n. Kennedy Gilbert Mac Kenedi 1180
 
4. Dmitirii Zhirov
New device:If the blazon a chevron quarterly is unclear, I suggest a chevron per pale and per chevron. No conflicts found.
 
5. Emma Idunn
 
6. Hrothgar Ivarson
New name: Ivarr is found as a masculine given name in Geir Bassi, p.12.  Based on the discussion of patronymic formation ibid., p.17,our best guess for the patronymic would be Ivarsson.
New device: Dovetails should be drawn larger, wolves should be specified in pale, and drawn more fiercely. No conflicts found.
 
7. James of Hartstone
New name: Withy, pp.170-1, s.n. James cites James de Houdernes and James de Bakepuz from “early 13th C”.
New device: Apples should be blazoned slipped and leaved.
Clear of:
Edgar the Unready, January of 1973:
Gules, a mouse rampant argent.
2 CDs for addition of a charged chief.
 
Ragnar Arason of Vinland, August of 1995 (via the Middle):
Gules, a rat sejant erect guardant maintaining a sword and on a chief argent two ravens close sable.
1 CD for complex line, 1 for changes of type, tincture, and number of tertiaries.
 
8. Klaus Eisenfaust -House Isenfaust
 
9. Marioun Yong
New name: From Black, p.828, s.n. Young: “John Yong de Dyngvale witnessed a charter by the earl of Ross to Reginald, son of Roderick of the Isles, in 1342 and a Symone Yong was burgess of Elgin in 1343.”
 
10. Morien ap Rhys of Cardiff
His name was registered 05/87.
11. Reynold Wolverton
New device: Wolves should be drawn more fiercely.
Clear of:
Marlo the Morose, June of 1983 (via the West):
Quarterly azure and gules, in fess two poodles rampant argent.
1 CD for field, 1 for arrangement of charges.
 
12. Wolgang von dem Schwatzwald
New device: No conflicts found.
 
13. Zara the Quiet-Plant Ddraig
We will leave this one for those better versed in Welsh.
 
Until the next letter, we remain
Yours in Heraldic Service,
 
Beatrice de Winter, Haelstone Pursuivant
Diane the Scrivener
Edmund Lambert Tregelles
Elizabeth Law, Icedragon Pursuivant
and
Otfrid Ammerthaler, reporting