Unto the Æthelmearc College of Heralds and all of our extra-Kingdom commenters, greetings once again from the Garnet Office. June brings us summery weather and an impressive new Internal Letter of Intent! In addition to all these submissions, we have several pieces of news for all of you.
First, by now everyone on the Æthelmearc roster should be in possession of master copies of a new set of Kingdom submissions forms. Please, help us make a swift and smooth transition and start using these new forms as soon as possible.
Second, from time to time we receive submissions mailed to the Garnet Office right around the last day of the month with notes such as "I hope this gets to you guys before the end of the month" attached to them. And it occurred to us that we've never actually published our policy about submissions deadlines, so here it is: Although the Letter of Intent is always dated on the first of the month, in order to give ourselves and Hrefna enough time to finalize the letter and prepare it for publication, the Garnet Office usually stops accepting new submissions for each new month's Internal Letter of Intent between the 20th and 25th of the previous month. For instance, on May 25th we stopped accepting new submissions for the June 1 ILoI. We're sorry if anyone was laboring under a misapprehension, and we hope that we've cleared up any lingering confusion.
Third, please make a note: There will be no Internal Letter of Intent for August 1! So if you're working on any consultations, please try to get them into our hands by June 22 (the date we plan to close the July 1 ILoI). Any submissions received by the Garnet Office after June 22 will appear on an Internal Letter on September 1.
Fourth ... Pennsic is coming! There will be many, many heraldic activities going on at the War. Consultations at Heralds' Point, Cries, classes, and Wreath and Pelican roadshows are all planned. You are all encouraged to participate. (We can use all the help we can get!)
Fifth ... Before Pennsic, there's the Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium! It's just a stone's throw away in Owl's Restse (York County, PA). Although the deadline for hotel reservations has passed, we encourage you all to think about day-tripping on Saturday. It's a rare treat to have KWHSS so close to home – don't miss the excitement! (Read more about KWHSS online at http://kwhss.sca.org)
And now, finally, on to the Letter of Intent! It is the intent of the Æthelmearc College of Heralds that the following items be considered for registration. All commentary on this letter is due by June 30. Please post it to aethel-heralds@lists.andrew.cmu.edu or, if you'd prefer to comment privately, to us directly at garnet@aethelmearc.org.
1. Adachi Masamori – Device resubmission
Azure, a torii Or and in base two katanas in saltire proper, a bordure Or. [color]
His name was registered in 08/02. A previous submission was returned in-Kingdom (AE56) for contrast problems. On the full-color forms, the "katanas proper" appear to be argent with sable wrappings on the hilt.
Herald of Record: Christopher Harper
2. Alheydis von Körckhingen – Device change
Azure, a chevron Or and a chief embattled ermine. [color]
Her name was registered in 08/02. If this device passes, she wishes to retain her old device (Or, a goblet azure within a bordure azure semy of decrescents argent – registered 08/02) as a badge.
Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen
3. Alheydis von Körckhingen – New badge
Azure, a decrescent argent within an orle Or. [color]
Her name was registered in 08/02.
Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen
4. Arik Woulfe – New name, New device
Per fess argent and sable, a moon in her plentitude azure and a wolf sejant ululant contourny argent, a bordure counterchanged. [color]
This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter accepts minor changes only and cares most about an unspecified language/culture.
Arik is noted only as "Registered several times, as recently as 1994. We cannot locate any documentation. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Other registrations include Aric Thomas Raven in 02/94 and Aric Pfeilschmidt in 04/93."
Woulfe can be found in MacLysaght (no header from supplied with the documentation) "p. 302 – County Kildare & Limerick."
Herald of Record: Christopher Harper
5. Arik Woulfe – New badge
Sable, three chevronels braced argent and in chief two eyes argent irised azure. [color]
Herald of Record: Christopher Harper
6. Boris Dragons Bane – New badge
Gules, two axes addorsed in saltire within an orle argent. [color]
His name was registered in 05/88.
Herald of Record: Christopher Harper
7. Dirk Bodkin the Sharp – New name, New device
Quarterly purpure and argent, a talbot's head erased contourny counterchanged argent and gules collared sable between 3 tygers rampant contourny counterchanged argent and gules. [color]
This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter accepts minor changes only and cares most about the sound.
Dirk is found in Aryanhwy's article, "Dutch Names 1358-1361."
The form states merely that Bodkin is a header form in Reaney & Wilson.
The form states merely that the Sharp is a descriptive byname found s.n. Sharp in Reaney & Wilson.
Heralds of Record: Caitriona inghean ui Bhraonain (name), Margaret Makafee (device)
8. Dirk Bodkin the Sharp – New badge
Quarterly purpure and argent, a talbot's head erased contourney counterchanged argent and gules. [color]
Herald of Record: Margaret Makafee
9. Étaín ingen Ruaidrí– Resubmitted name, Resubmitted device
Per bend sinister azure and vert, two frogs sejant Or. [color]
A previous name (Étaìn inghean Ruaidri) and this device were returned on the Æ77 Letter of Report for several reasons. The submitter has responded to our letter and is resubmitting at this time, with all the appropriate changes to accents &c.
This name is intended to be feminine. The submitter requests authenticity for 13th century Ireland time period and language/culture. She accepts any changes and cares most about the language/culture.
Étaín is found in Mari's "Index of Names in Irish Annals" as a feminine name; this is given as the c. 900 – c. 1200 form. There are instances of the name in 1104, 1188, 1225, 1243, 1263, 1328, 1392, 1393, and 1476.
ingen is the early form of the feminine patronymic marker.
Ruaidrí is found in Mari's "Index of Names in Irish Annals" as a masculine given name; this is listed as the early form. There are instances of the name from 785 to 1598. According to Tangwystyl's article, "100 Most Popular Men's Names in Early Medieval Ireland," this name does not change spelling when placed in the genitive form. Names beginning with R do not need to be lenited after ingen.
Herald of Record: Roana d'Evreux
10. Fenella McGill – New name, New device
Purpure, three fleurs-de-lys argent and a bordure ermine. [color]
This name is intended to be feminine. The submitter accepts any changes and cares most about the sound.
Fenella is a header form in Withycombe; there are no dated forms given and the entry merely says "Gaelic Fionnghuala, from fionn 'white' and guala 'shoulder.' In Ireland it has often been rendered Penelope (q.v.). The name was made generally known in England by Scott in Peveril of the Peak. Finola is the usual form in Ireland to-day." OC&M says that the Gaelic given name was "extremely popular in Ireland in the later middle ages." The submissions form states that the submitter will "Take any reasonable variant."
McGill may be in Black (no header form supplied with the documentation) with M'Gill or MakGill in 1572.
Heralds of Record: Daði Þorfinnsson, Christopher Harper
11. Finn of Thescorre – New name, New device
Sable, an anchor argent and in chief five mullets three and two Or. [color]
This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter requests authenticity for Irish language/culture, accepts any changes and cares most about the language/culture.
No documentation was included with this submission.
Herald of Record: Matilda Bosvyle
12. Gareth McGilchrist – New name, New device
Per fess rayonny gules and sable, a gauntleted fist argent. [color]
This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter accepts minor changes only and cares most about the meaning "son of Gilchrist."
Gareth is a header form in Withycombe, who says there was a child of this name baptized at Wigan in 1593.
Concerning McGilchrist, MacLysaght s.n. (Mac) Gilchrist says "Mac Giolla Chríost (devotee of Christ)." Ó Corráin & Maguire s.n. Gilla Críst : Giolla Chríost say "This name was widely used in Gaelic Ireland and, in the later Middle Ages, it was much favored by the Mac Dermotts."
The submitter is the teenaged son of Gilchrist MacNaughton.
Herald of Record: Drostan map Rioghnach
This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter accepts any changes and cares most about the sound. If this name is registered, the submitter wishes to release his old name (Tigernach Mag Samhradháin, registered 05/02).
Gaston is a header form in Morlet's Dictionnaire Etymologiques des Noms de Famille; the entry says that Gaston is found both as a baptismal name and as a patronym, popularized by the viscounts of Béarn and the counts of Foix in the Middle Ages.
Morlet's Noms de Famille gives Barre(s) as a header form; the entry says that it derives from anc. Fr. "bare" with several meanings. Morlet also gives the forms Labarre and Delabarre. Under the header Barrès Morlet says "Barrès a désigné la personne originaire de Barre (Lozèrne, Tarn)."
Dauzat & Rostaing's Dictionnaire Etymologique des noms de lieux, s.n. Bar, gives Barre as a standard modern spelling of a place in Tarn and cites it as Bar "vers (around) 972."
Herald of Record: Roana d'Evreux
14. Gyles de Blair – New badge
Gules, a fret couped argent within an orle Or. [color]
His name and device were forwarded to Laurel on XLoI Æ76 (April 26, 2004).
Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen
15. Hakim al-Dar el-Beïda – New name, New device
Per pale gules and azure, an orle of camels Or. [color]
This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter accepts any changes and cares most about the meaning "Hakim of Casablanca."
Hakim is found as a masculine ism (given name) in Da'ud's article, "Period Arabic Names & Naming Practices"
al- is a marker used in locative nisbas (bynames), according to the same article.
Dar el-Beïda appears, according to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, to be the Arabic name for Casablanca, which was established by the Portugese in 1515.
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du
Her name and device were registered in 01/04. If this name is registered, she wishes to release her old name.
The submitter has no gender preferences concerning this name. She accepts minor changes only and cares most about the sound.
Iona is a header form in Wickenden's "Dictionary of Period Russian Names." It is listed as a feminine given name and is dated in this spelling to 1356.
Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Fay, Faye, Fey, list one Richard de Fay in 1242.
The submitter would prefer the spelling de Fae, but this spelling seems to be a borrowed-into-Gaelic spelling of an Anglo-Norman surname and, as Russian-Gaelic combinations are unregisterable, we are dubious about the registerability of a hypothetical "Iona de Fae." Russian-English and Russian-French names are currently registerable as one step from period practice. If de Fae is grandfathered to the submitter, she would like to retain it; if not, she will accept de Fay.
Herald of Record: Roana d'Evreux
This name is intended to be feminine. The submitter accepts minor changes only and has no other preferences.
Isabella is listed in Talan Gwynek's article, "Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames" with numerous citations from 1201 to 1428.
FitzRandolph is listed in Foster's Dictionary of Heraldry on p. 89, s.n. FitzRandolph, John.
Herald of Record: Caitriona inghean ui Bhraonain
This name is intended to be feminine. The submitter is interested in but does not specifically request authenticity for "1400-1500's English," accepts minor changes only, and cares most about the sound.
Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Rocker, list one Juliana Rokster in 1388. The given name is also found in Mari's "Index to the 1332 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Lincolnshire, England."
The "Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions" from the Ashmolean Museum (http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ash/departments/antiquities/brass/Counties.html) include, in the Hertfordshire section, a "Thomas Delamere, abbot" in 1370.
Herald of Record: none
This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter accepts minor changes only and has no other preferences.
Morgan is found in Aryanhwy's article, "Names found in the Berkeley Hundred Court Rolls."
FitzRandolph is listed in Foster's Dictionary of Heraldry on p. 89, s.n. FitzRandolph, John.
Herald of Record: Caitriona inghean ui Bhraonain
20. Morgan of Caer Graeme – New badge
Azure, a fess embattled on the upper edge Or and overall a sword proper enflamed gules. [color]
His name was registered in 07/95.
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du
21. Mustafa the Red – Resubmitted device
Argent, a bend azure between an increscent gules and a sword, a bordure sable. [color]
His name was registered in 01/04. At that time, his device (Argent, a bend azure between an increscent gules and a sword sable) was returned by Laurel with the following comments:
"Conflict with Constance MacCallum of Hoghton, Argent, a bend azure between a jester's hat per pale gules and purpure, and a brimmed beret bendwise sinister sable, plumed purpure. There is one CD for changing the type of secondary charges. However, there is not a CD for changing the tincture of the secondary charges, as less than half the tincture of the secondary charge group has changed."
Adding the bordure should clear the conflict.
Herald of Record: Roana d'Evreux
22. Patrick Oleson – Resubmitted device
Azure, on a pile between two bees Or a bee inverted azure. [color]
His name was registered in 10/02. At that time, his device (Azure, three piles in point Or each charged in chief with a bee rising sable, the center bee contourny) was returned by Laurel with the following comments:
"Rising is not a defined posture for insects. These bees are seen in profile with their wings addorsed and their bodies hovering in intermediate postures between bendwise and palewise. Their posture cannot be blazoned, and therefore, this device must be returned.
Note that the SCA accepts bees in a statant posture (horizontal body, legs down, wings addorsed). The SCA also accepts bees which are statant in a clearly defined bendwise or bendwise sinister posture. However, it is not acceptable to rotate a statant bee 90 degrees to a "palewise" posture. The resulting posture, with a vertical body, and legs extended to dexter, is equivalent to the previously forbidden "rampant" posture for bees and similar insects."
This complete redesign addresses all of the original problems.
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du
23. Robert of Burnhouse – New name, New device
Azure, on a bend sinister argent between two eagles Or, three roses gules. [color]
This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter accepts any changes and cares most about the meaning ("Really wants 'Robert' as a given name") and the sound.
Robert is a header form in Withycombe, with Robert(us) dated from 1086.
Burnhouse is cited in Reaney & Wilson s.n. Burnes, Burness, Burns; the entry states "The forefathers of Robert Burns migrated from Burnhouse in Taynuilt to Forfarshire where they were called Campbells of Burnhouse..."
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du
24. Rosamund Peacock– New name, New device
Azure, in fess three peacocks close Or. [color]
This name is intended to be feminine. The submitter requests authenticity for the Tudor/Elizabethan time period and English language/culture, accepts any changes and cares most about the language/culture.
The submitter has submitted a letter (not a formal report) from the Academy of St. Gabriel which states the following:
"The name <Rosamund Peacock> is an excellent choice. The given name appeared as <Rosemunda> (possibly Latinized) in 1549 [1] and <Rosamond> in 1609 [2]; your spelling is perfectly reasonable. The surname <Peacock> was recorded in 1597 [3]." The footnotes are as follows:
[1] Feminine Given Names in _A Dictionary of English Surnames_ by Talan Gwynek (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Rosamund)
[2] Marriages from the Heighington Registers (1570-1837) (http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/Transcriptions/DUR/HEI.html)
[3] Names in Chesham, 1538-1600/1 (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/chesham/chesham-surnames.html)
Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd Du
25. Sylvan Glen, Shire of – New badge
Gules, three chevronels braced and in chief an apple argent. [color]
The group's name was registered in 12/93.
Herald of Record: Cormac O'Gadhra
26. Sylvan Glen, Shire of – New badge
Argent, three chevronels braced gules. [color]
The group's name was registered in 12/93.
Herald of Record: Cormac O'Gadhra
27. Sylvan Glen, Shire of – New badge
Gules, a stag's head cabossed and in chief a cinquefoil argent. [color]
The group's name was registered in 12/93.
Herald of Record: Cormac O'Gadhra
