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Æthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent Æ89
October, 2005

Commentary on this letter will be due on November 1. Please post your commentary to aethel-heralds@lists.andrew.cmu.edu, or send it privately to: garnet [AT] aeheralds [DOT] net.

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. Sources are  cited in the submission.

1. Catherine Sheffield – Resubmitted device

Per chevron argent and gules, two sheafs of wheat and a cross bottony counterchanged.
 
Her name was registered in October 2004.
 
Her device, Argent, a chevron between two garbs and a cross bottony gules. was returned in October 2004. Garnet said: “Unfortunately, this device is being returned for conflict with Basileios Philanthropenos Philomathes (Argent, a chevron between three crosses of Jerusalem gules) and with Richard of Stokesley, (Argent, a chevron and three boars passant gules) whose device is on the Midrealm ELoI of July 2004 (Richard has a letter of permission to conflict with Basileios). In each case there is only one CD for changes to the type of secondary charges.”
 
Herald of Record: Dagonell Whitehorn
 

2. Marija Kotok – New name, new device

Azure, a lion-dragon passant Or, an open book argent
(Submitter notes that the flower and pen on the book’s pages are illustrations and not charges.)
 
Gender: Female
Major Changes: No
Minor Changes: No
Cares most about: meaning and language/culture
Authentic for: language/culture of Kievian area of Ukraine, near city of Skole. Submitter offers that Skole was founded prior to 1397.
 
Marija – http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/walraven/croat
Quoted from paperwork submitted,  “[b]elow are the women whose names actually appear in Gazi’s book. Some of these women are undoubtedly foreigners, but I have included them with explanatory notes to help expand an otherwise very short list. These women each played an important historical role in Croatia whether or not they were of Croat blood. Page numbers are those on which each woman is first mentioned in Gazi’s book.”  Stephen Gazi, A History of Croatia (New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993) originally published in 1973 by the Philosophical Library
 
Submitter highlights:
 
Marija (XIV) p. 58 – daughter of King Ljudevit I and (presumably) Elizabeth
 
Marija of Anjou(XIII) p. 51 – Queen of Naples; sister to Ladislav IV; mother of Charles Martel.
 
Also cited: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/ma.html
Paul Wickenden of Thanet, A Dictionary of Period Russian Names, dates Mariia to the later 12th Century
 
Kotok – submitter cites “Kotok (Kulik Kotok, peasant). 1495. [Tup 216]
Tup = Tupikov, N. M. Slovar’ drevne-russkikh lichnykh sobstvennykh imen. St. Petersburg: Tipografiia I.N. Skorokhodova, 1903. Also, see Paul Wickenden of Thanet, Dictionary of Period Russian Names – dates Kotok as a byname to 1495. http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/ko.html
 
Herald of Record: Gwilym ap Dafydd
 

3. Marija Kotok – New badge

(Fieldless) a catamount couchant argent
 
Herald of Record: Gwilym ap Dafydd





 

4. Mathias Kotok – New name, new device

Azure, on a plate embattled argent, a cross pointed between four Passion nails, heads to center, gules.
 
Gender: Male
Major Changes: No
Minor Changes: No
Cares most about: language/culture
Authentic for: language/culture of Kievian area of Ukraine, near city of Skole. Submitter offers that Skole was founded prior to 1397.
 
Mathias – dated to 1332, 1375, and 1388 in “Medieval German Given Names from Silesia”. Talan Gwynek, http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/bahlow_v.htm
 
Kotok – dated as a byname to 1495 in Paul Wickenden of Thanet, Dictionary of Period Russian Names. http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/ko.html
 
Herald of Record: Gwilym ap Dafydd
 

5. Morgen of Rye – New name

Gender: Female
Major Changes: No
Minor Changes: No
Cares most about: n/a
Authentic for: n/a
 
Morgen – submitter’s legal name. Photocopy of driver’s license confirms.
 
of Rye – submitter cites:
Bardsley s.n. Rye cites Philip de Rye, circa 1270; John de Rye, 1273.
Reaney & Wilson s.n. Rye cites William de Rye 1240.
Reaney & Wilson Rea cites Michael atte Rye1332; William ate Rye 1359.
Ekwall s.n. Rye cites Ria 1130, 1132; la Rye 1247; rie 1279.
 
Herald of Record Roana d’Evreux
 

6. Petr Kotok – New name

Gender: Male
Major Changes: No
Minor Changes: No
Cares most about: language/culture
Authentic for: language/culture of Kievian area of Ukraine, near city of Skole. Submitter offers that Skole was founded prior to 1397.
 
Petr – Russian for Peter, dated to the 12th Century in Paul Wickenden of Thanet, Dictionary of Period Russian Names. http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/ko.html
 
Kotok – dated as a byname to 1495 in Paul Wickenden of Thanet, Dictionary of Period Russian Names. http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/ko.html
 
Herald of Record: Gwilym ap Dafydd
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