Unto Shauna Laurel, Margaret Pelican, Evan Wreath, and the commenting members of the College of Arms do Ailis Garnet and Roana Cornelian send greetings once again! It is the desire of the Æthelmearc College of Heralds that the following items be considered for registration. Unless otherwise noted, submitters will accept any changes.
1. Ældric of Logan– New name, New device
Sable, a griffin couchant contourny wings inverted and addorsed and on a chief indented argent three roses sable barbed and seeded vert.
This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter accepts minor changes only and cares most about sound. He would especially like to keep the spelling Ældric.
Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Aldrich, list one Ældricus de Burc in 1066. We believe that Ældric is plausible as a vernacular form of the Latinized Ældricus.
Logan is a header form in Reaney & Wilson, with Robert Logan dated to 1204 and Thurbrand de Logan to 1230. Logan is also a header form in Black with one Adam de Logan cited in 1226.
2. Ældric of Logan– New badge
(Fieldless) A griffin couchant contourny wings inverted and addorsed argent.
3. Aidan Ransford – New name, New device
Argent goutty, on a fess azure a bridge of two spans argent.
This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter cares most about sound.
Aidan is a header from in Withycombe, who states that it was the name of a 7th century Irish monk. Precedent from the September 2000 LoAR (Aidan of Aran) supports registration of Aidan, as an Anglicized form of the Irish given name Áedán (as reiterated in the August 2001 LoAR).
Ransford is a header form in Reaney & Wilson, with one John de Rammesford cited in 1327.
This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter requests authenticity for 9th – 11th century Norse/Viking and cares most about the language/culture.
Kj{o,}tvi is found in Geirr Bassi on page 12.
Thorgrimsson is suggested as an alternate transliteration of the patronymic Þorgrimsson formed from Þorgrimr, which is found on page 16 ibid. The patronym was formed according to the rules on page 17.
5. Simon Savastian Caminante – New name, New device
Quarterly argent and sable, a Latin cross bottony throughout gules and overall a weasel statant erect contourny Or.
This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter cares most about the late 15th century Spain language/culture.
Simon is listed with three occurrences in the 'Men's Names' section of Juliana's "Names from the Late 15th Century".
Savastian is a proposed patronymic based on information from the same article. Sabastian/Sebastian is listed in the 'Patronymic Surnames' section of the article. Savastian is listed in the 'Men's Names' section as a variation of Sabastian or Sebastian. Therefore, we suggest that it would also be a reasonable variation of the surname as well.
Caminante is listed in the 'Other Surnames' section of the same article as meaning "walker, traveler".
Double bynames appear to be somewhat rare, but do exist, in 15th Century Spain. Juliana's same article lists Alsonso Garcia Carrasco, Garçia Alvarez Osorio, García Fernandes Cano, Pedro Gutierres Carral, Rodrigo Arias Maldonado, Ruy Sanches Capata, and Sancho Garica Çorrilla in the 'full names' section. All of these examples have second bynames from the "Other Surnames" section of the article.