Feast of St. Eligius
1 December SA XL
Greetings from Myfanwy!
Herein pray find commentary of Æ LoI #90. The armory was conflict
checked up
through the LoAR for August 2005 (the most recent published online).
I remain your servant and the Society’s.
Lady Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
Ruth Morrisson
myfanwy@nauticom.net
1. Éadaoin inghean Chanagáin -- Or, two otters statant
purpure in pale.
The ÓC&M docs for both name elements are more or less as
given (note that
in each case, these are header forms given after the colon, and that
there is
no specific documentation for the spellings).
According to the Krossa article “The Spelling of Lenited Consonants in
Gaelic”[URL: http://medievalscotland.org/scotlang/lenition.shtml]
<c> is
indeed lenited to <ch> in post-1200 forms (but does not always
appear as
such -- some transcriptions give a dot over the letter, called a punctum
delens [sic] in Latin. According to Krossa:
I am unsure what the correct form of the
patronymic indicator (whether
<inghen>, <inghean, or <inghean uí>) would be.
Hopefully,
someone with a better understanding of Gaelic, or Old/Middle Irish will
weigh
in, either at this level or the Laurel level.
Reblazon: Or, in pale two otters statant purpure.
no conflicts found
2. Marguerite de Neufchâteau -- Azure, two chevronels, that to
chief embattled,
between three wolf [sic] heads erased argent.
I don’t have that edition of Dauzat. Dauzat and Rostaing [p. 435, sn
Margerides] says:
Corr; Margerie-Chantagret, [sic], Loire (Margeriam
[sic],
1250); Marguerittes, [sic]
cant. Gard (Margarita, [sic] 979. Nom de femme Marguerite
[sic]
(lat. margarita
[sic], perle), avec p.-ê. disparition de Sainte- [sic],
comme dans Margerie-
Hancourt, [sic] Marne (Sancta Margareta, [sic]
1119).
Morlet [p. 664, sn Marguerite, -itte] says:
Various forms of the name are given, although none
of them have dated
citations. The online docs for the given name are as cited, but
admission is
made in the Introduction that the author is unsure as to whether or not
the
cited names have been normalized in the source document.
The Dauzat and Rostaing docs for the byname are as cited.
The chevronels seem somewhat small, as compared to the size of the
secondary
charges.
I checked to see if the upper chevron was blazoned correctly. Parker [p
222, sn
Embattled] says: “When a fesse [sic] or bend [sic] or chevron
[sic] is said to be embattled, it implies that it is so upon the upper
side
only, though sometimes this is mentioned....” Likewise, Brooke-Little
[p. 158,
sn Partitions, Lines of] says: “When an ordinary is described as
‘embattled’
[sic] only the top edge is crenellated.”
There is the question of whether it is good period practice to have one
ordinary with a plain line and another with a complex line. A quick
skim of
Papworth [pp. 540-554], for two, three, four, five, and six chevrons --
as well
as chevronelly -- shows very few complex line chevrons at all (mostly
engrailed), and none with both plain and complex line chevrons
together. The
only one remotely close is: “Argent, three chevrons, the uppermost
couped in
the centre [sic] chief sable”, said to be a quartering of Goldesburgh,
county
York; it is not dated, but said to be found in Harl. MS 1487, fo. 125.
There
are a few pieces of armory that have chevrons of more than one
tincture, a
couple of which are dated: one has both azure and gules chevrons, and
is dated
to 1641 (which is grey area); the other, with the chevrons per pale
azure and
gules together with chevrons per pale gules and azure, is the arms of
Merton
College Oxford, and said to be from the arms of its founder, Walter de
Merton,
Bishop of Rochester 1274-7 (although it isn’t clear when the college’s
arms
were adopted). There is also some evidence in Foster for complex line
cotises
with plain ordinaries, as well as the reverse [notably p. 70, in which
the arms
of Hugo Dod has a plain gules fess with sable cotises that are wavy;
and p. 91,
in which the arms of Adam Fortescue have an engrailed argent bend with
plain
cotises that are Or], but this is not evidence of usage for full-sized
ordinaries, nor for chevrons in particular. I recommend that this be
sent up to
Laurel with a request for further research of period armory style
Possible reblazon: Azure, two chevronels, that to chief embattled,
between
three wolf’s heads erased argent.
Possible reblazon: Azure, two chevronels, that to chief embattled,
between
three wolves’ heads erased argent.
Possible reblazon (based on looking at the color copy online [URL:
http://www.
aeheralds.net/Letters/AE9-/iloi-CLR.html]): Azure, on a chevron
embattled
between three wolf’s heads erased argent, a chevron{el} azure.
no conflicts found
3. Michael Gladewyne -- Argent, two hawks
rising, wings
inverted and addorsed, in bend gules.
The Withycombe docs are as cited.
I don’t have Bardsley. Reaney and Wilson [p. 192, sn Gladwin] does not
give the
submitted spelling, but has other variants including
<Glad(e)wine>, dated
to about 1113, and <Gledewyne>, dated to 1317; this suggests that
the
submitted form is reasonable. The St. Gabriel Report #2960 is as cited
[http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi?2960+0].
Reblazon: Argent, in bend two hawks rising, wings inverted and
addorsed, gules.
probably clear of: Hastini Chandra (badge, 8/83 Atenveldt) -- Argent, a
Bharat
peacock passant gules. [for Sikhijvala Gehe Candrasya]
There is a CD for changing the number of charges, and probably at least
one for
the type and posture of the bird.
possibly Karena del Falco (badge, 2.88 An Tir) -- Argent, a falcon
close gules.
possibly clear of: John Milton (12/94 Laurel) -- Argent, a
double-headed eagle
displayed gules. [important non-SCA arms]
possibly clear of: Brandenberg (12/94 Laurel) -- Argent, an eagle
displayed
gules crowned Or. [important non-SCA arms]
In each case, there is a CD for changing the number of birds. There is
probably
also a CD for changing the wing position.
probably clear of: Malcolm MacRuairidh of Blackoak (3/87 West) --
Argent, a
raven striking to sinister gules.
There is a CD for changing the number of birds, and probably also one
for
change of orientation (i.e., from dexter to sinister). There may not be
one,
otherwise, for the posture.
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