Æthelmearc Letter of Intent Æ90/91
December 18, 2005 (AS 40)

It is the intent of the Æthelmearc College of Heralds that the following items be considered for registration. Unless noted otherwise, submitters will accept any changes.

1.  Éadaoin inghean Chanagáin – new name, new device

Or, in pale two otters statant purpure.

The name is intended to be feminine. The submitter will accept any changes and cares most about the sound of the name. The submitter is not requesting authenticity. No change was made to the submitted form by the Æthelemearc College of Heralds.

Éadaoin – OCM, p. 90, s.n. Étaín, gives <Éadaoin> as the later (post-1200) form.

inghean – later (post-1200) form of the Gaelic meaning “daughter”

Chanagáin – OCM, p. 45, s.n. Canacán, gives <Canagán> as the later (post-1200) form. <Chanagáin > should be the lenited genitive form.

2.  Marguerite de Neufchâteau – new name, new device

Azure, two chevronels, that to chief embattled, between three wolf heads erased argent.

The name intended to feminine. The submitter will accept any changes and cares most about the meaning “Margaret from a place meaning ‘new castle’”. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Marguerite – Dauzat, Albert. Dictionnaire Etymologique des Noms de Famille et des Prenoms de France, p. 416 s.n. Marguerite, gives this as the header form. Dauzat describes it as a baptismal name that gave rise to a sizable number of matronyms, an example of which he gives as:

Margarie (latinisé en Margeria, Marguerite, XIIe s., Bourgogne) […12^th century, Burgundy.]

Note that the submitted spelling is referenced here, but we are uncertain whether Dauzat is documenting the submitted spelling to the 12^th century, or simply translating and normalizing the Latin.

Additionally, “Sixteenth Century Norman Names,” by Cateline de la Mor (Triste Elliot) at http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/cateline/norman16.html dates the submitted spelling to the 16^th century.

de – French preposition meaning “of” or “from”

Neufchâteau – Dauzat & Rostaing, Dictionnaire Etymologique de Noms de Lieux en France, p. 493, s.n. Neufchâteau, gives this as the header form, describing it as a variant of <Neuchâtel>

Ibid, p. 493, s.n. Neufchâtel-Urtiere, dates the locality of Neufchâteau to 1094 (latinized as Novum Castrum).

Commentary raised the question of whether it is good period style to combine the embattled chevronel with a plain-line chevronel. We would request further research by the College of Arms on this issue.

3.  Michael Gladewyne – new name, new device

Argent, in bend two hawks rising, wings inverted and addorsed gules.

The submitter’s name was originally presented to the Æthelmearc College of Heralds as <Micheal Gladwyne>, accepted and subsequently pended so that his device submission could catch up to it and accompany it to Laurel. The spelling <Gladwyne>, however, had been introduced as a typographical error on our Internal Letter. The name was then republished to the Æthelmearc College with the spelling corrected to the submitted form, <Gladewyne>, along with his device submission.

This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter accepts minor changes only, and cares most about authenticity for late 1500s English language/culture. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Michael – Withycombe, 3^rd ed., p. 218, s.n. Michael gives this header spelling dated to 1196-1215, 1218, 1303, 1346 and 1279.

Gladewyne – Bardsley, p. 320, s.n. Gladwin, dates <Gladewyne> to 1273. Also included is a copy of Report 2960 from the Academy of Saint Gabriel that dates <Gladewyne> to 1273, 1279x1290, 1327.

4.  Tancred of Thescorre – New Name

The name is intended to be masculine. The submitter will accept all changes, and cares most about sound and Norman language and culture of the 11^th-13^th century. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Tancred - Withycombe, 3^rd ed., p. 275, s.n. Tancred, describes <Tancred> as the Norman French spelling.

Dauzat, Dictionnaire des Noms de Famille et Prenoms de France, p. 562, s.n. Tancrède, describes the name as an ancient baptismal name of German origin, a Norman name (11^th c.).

Thescorre – SCA group name registered as the Barony of Thescorre “at some point”, according to the online Armorial.

5.  Wilhelm Smydele von Soelinge – Resubmitted Device

Argent, a double-horned anvil sable within a bordure vert.

His name was registered in April of 2004.

His previous device submission, Argent, a griffin segreant gules haloed Or maintaining a rapier all within a bordure sable, was returned by Laurel on LoAR of April 2004. A subsequently resubmitted device, Argent, a griffin sergeant gules, winged sable, haloed Or, maintaining a rapier, a bordure sable, was returned at kingdom for conflict on Æthelmearc Letter of Report Æ87.

This concludes our December 2005 letter. We count four new names, three new devices, and one Laurel-level device resubmission. A check for $28.00 will be sent separately.