Lillia de Vaux
eastern.crown@eastkingdom.org

09 November 2011

Greetings to the East Kingdom College of Heralds! Here is the Letter of Decisions for the September 16, 2011 Internal Letter of Intent. There is also one item that had been pended previously. The original text from the iLoI is bolded, and is followed by my comments in unbolded text.

Thank you to the following commenters: Alys Mackyntoich, Gawain of Miskbridge, Brunissende Dragonette, Tanczos Istvan, Rohese de Dinan, Aritê gunê Akasa, Abdullah ibn Harun, Robert Fairfax, Aryanhwy merch Catmael, Francesco Gaetano Greco d'Edessa, and Kihou.

Yours in Service,
Lillia de Vaux Eastern Crown Herald

1: Alaric Godricson - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Argent, a saltire sable between four badger's paw prints, claws outward, gules

No major changes. Sound (unspecified) most important. Alaric is the expected vernacular of Alaricus, found in Morlet I, s.n. Alaricus, dated a. 875-12th C. According to Withycombe, s.n. Alaric, Alaricus is an Old German name, and was the name of several West Gothic kings. Godricson is the submitter's preferred spelling for Godricsone, which is found in the introduction to R&W, "Surnames of Relationships: Johnson, Williamson, etc Distribution and Origin", dated 1066. The submitter's preferred -son ending is dated 1332 (ibid.). If Godricson cannot be registered, the submitter specifically allows the change to Godricsone. The combination of either Frankish and English, or German and English is a SFPP. The submitter allows intermediate changes.

The 12th century occurrence of Alaricus in Morlet I was in a Latin document, so it is possible that it is found in Old French as well, and that Alaric is a vernacular form. However, the name Alaricus is also found in the MED:

?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261) 5.221: Attulfus kynge, cosyn [Trev.: alye; L affinem] to the seide Alaricus.
(a1387) Trev. Higd.(StJ-C H.1) 5.221: Oon Athulphus, kyng Alaricus his alye [Higd.(2): cosyn; L affinem].

Bardsley, s.n. Godrich gives <Robert fil. Godric>, dated 1273, putting this spelling closer in time to the submitter's desired spelling of the patronymic marker. A likely inflected form, <Godrici> is dated 1133-60 in the MED. There is also a 12th century saint, Godric of Finchale, who was the namesake of <Ralph Godric> in the 12th century [Dave Postles, "Resistant, Diffused, or Peripheral? Northern Personal Names to ca. 1250" (In: Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales, ed. D. Postles, J.T. Roenthal, Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, 2006, pp. 280-4)]. This saint was the subject of the 1175 text Libellus de vita et miraculis S. Godrici, heremitae de Finchale by Reginald of Durham. Lastly, a <Godric Lefled> appears in 'Regesta 47: 1295', Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: 1198-1304 (1893), pp. 558-563 (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=96041&strquery=Godric).

There is a step from period practice for the use of pawprints.

2: Albert Villon - New Alternate Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Bilal al-Andalusi

Per fess gules and azure, three pomegranates argent seeded gules and a horse statant argent

No major changes. His current name was registered Aug. 2002 via the East. Bilal is an ism found in "Period Arabic Names & Naming Practices" by Da'ud ibn Auda (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/arabic-naming2.htm). al-Andalusi is a locative byname found in "Andalusian Names: Arabs in Spain" by Juliana de Luna (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/andalusia.html#locative).

3: Alexander le Goth - New Name forwarded

No major changes. Alexander is found in "An Index to the 1296 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Rutland, England" by Karen Harris (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/Rutland/given-masc-alpha.htm). le Goth is grandfathered to the submitter via the name of his father, Gaston le Goth, registered Feb. 2008 via the East. Documentation of the relationship has been provided:

I, <name>, known in the SCA as Gaston Le Goth, attest that <name>, known in the SCA as Alexander Le Goth, is my legal son. <Signed with legal name>, date: 8/5/11

The submitter will accept intermediate changes.

Alexander can also be documented to the 16th century, in "Late Sixteenth Century English Given Names" by Talan Gwynek (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/eng16/eng16alpha.html).

The original documentation for the father's name included the following: the online French dictionary at "Le Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé" (TLFi, http://atilf.atilf.fr/) identifies goth as a 16th century adjective derived from the Latin Gothi 'the Goths.' The entry dates two (apparently plural) spellings to period: <Gotz> (1521) and <Gothz> (1532). The term gothes is also a header in the MED. An example from the MED is "(a1387) Trev. Higd.(StJ-C H.1) 1.151: &Thorn;he firste Amazones were þe wyfes of Gothes [L Gothorum]." As such, it is thought that name was a plausible vernacular French or English form, and there should be no problems with using the grandfather clause to register the byname.

4: Alexandra Pavone - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Purpure, a triangle argent masoned sable between in chief a capital letter A and a unicorn's head erased argent.

Submitter desires a female name. No changes. This submission was dropped off at Heralds Point already completed; however, the documentation summary was almost entirely in French (summarized below) and no sources or copies were included. Assistance adding this information is appreciated. Alexandra is from Alexa or Alexandrea, whose feast day is Mar. 20. The French text provided basically stated that the name has been used by numerous queens and empresses, and was the name of two Jewish princesses in the 1st century. Saint Alexandra was a young Christian from Asia Minor who was martyred at the start of the 4th century. Pavone is a locative from the Italian town of Pavone Canavese. The castle in Pavone was built starting in the 9th century. The town also includes a church containing 4th and 5th century Roman ancestral tombs.

Commenters could not show that the surname was found in period. A similar name, Pavoni, appears as a family name in "Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532," edited by David Herlihy, R. Burr Litchfield, and Anthony Molho (http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/tratte/doc/SURNAM1.html). However, it was noted that pavone means 'peacock' in both period and modern Italian. It is found as part of the title of one of Æsop's fables (confirmed in a 1542 edition), and is in Dioscorides. Secondly, there is a Venetian publisher known at least modernly as <Nicòlo de' Bascarini da Pavone di Brescia>. He published an edition of Dioscorides ("Di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo libri cinque dell'istoria e materia medicinale (radono in lingua volgare italiana da M. P. Andrea Matthiolo sanese medico: con amplissime annotalioni et censure del medesimo interpelre") in 1544 (see http://books.google.com/books?id=acOk-oCuuMsC&pg=PA397, for example). Unfortunately, none of the editions that were found included the locative with his name. However, there are several examples of surnames that were the names of animals in Italian, at least two of which were types of bird. "Fourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names" by Arval Benicoeur and Talan Gwynek (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/venice14/venice14sur.html#table) gives the examples <Galinarion>, a Venetian form of a dialect word, Gallinaro 'chicken', and <Stornello>, from a form of storno 'starling'. We are giving the submitter the benefit of the doubt that this name is plausible based on this pattern.

Submitters were split as to whether the charges in the device were a primary and two secondaries, or a group of three primaries. As the charges in chief are not as large vertically as the bottommost charge, our usual standard, this device is being forwarded.

5: Alysaundre Sherre de Saford - New Name forwarded

No major changes. Alysaundre is an undocumented variant of the surname Alisaundre, found in Bardsley, s.n. Alexander, dated 1379. The i/y swap is unremarkable in English, so this spelling should be reasonable. Sherre is a surname dated to 1353 in "Freebridge Hundred and Half: West Lynn," An Essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk, vol. 8, pp. 533-7 (http://www.british-history.ac/report.aspx?compid=78495&strquery=Sherre). The bynames in this source do not appear to have been normalized. Saford is a place name found in Ekwall, s.n. Seaford. The submitted spelling is dated 1150.

Alysaundre appears many times in the MED, both as the name of the herb and the given name Alexander. Examples include the following:

c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson) 1026: She wolde not..sende men into Walakye, to Pruyse, and into Tartarye, To Alysaundre, ne into Turkye.
a1500(?a1400) Chestre Launfal (Clg A.2) 276: Vppon þe toppe an ern þer stod Of bournede golde..Alysaundre þe conqueroure..Ne hadde noon scwych iuell.
(a1460) DSPhilos.(Helm) 191/35: He ... seid that he wolde put him to the wille of kinge Alysaundre.

Withycombe, s.n. Alexandra, also mentions that Alisaundre is a feminine name, e.g., the mother of St. Thomas of Canterbury in early 14th century English legendary histories.

Saford is also found in the Close Rolls of Henry III from 1263, where the original Latin text refers to <Samuele de Saford'> and <Samuel de Saford> in the same document ['Close Rolls, February 1263', Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry III: volume 12: 1261-1264 (1936), pp. 203-216. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=94010&strquery=Saford].

6: Angelina Capasso - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Gules, a passion cross ermine between in base two daisies slipped and leaved proper and on a chief invected argent three wings in lure gules.

Submitter desires a female name. No major changes. Client requests authenticity for Italian, as close as possible to submission.
Sound (unspecified) most important. Angelina is a 16th century feminine given name found in Juliana de Luna's article in progress, "Late Period Italian Women's Names". A copy was not provided at the Point. Capasso is the surname of two men knighted by King Carlo I in 1271, <Giovanni and Roberta Capasso> (http://www.capasso.org/history.html). The submitter appeals to the College to provide better documentation for the surname.

Butler's Lives of the Saints gives the history of Blessed Angelina di Marsciano (1377-1435), Italian founder of a Franciscan order (http://books.google.com/books?id=fuH5Uka64MUC&pg=PA266). An image of a 1626 woodcut bearing the legend "B.ANGELINA DE CORBARIA COMITISSA" is found with other renaissance depictions at "La Beata Angelina dei Conti di Marsciano" (http://www.beatangelinadimarsciano.it/iconografia.htm).

Capasso appears in a list of family names in Francesco de Pietri, Dell'historia Napoletana scritta dal signor Francesco de' Pietri libri due. Oue la primiera antichissima origine dell'alma citta di Napoli, il famosissimo culto, ... nouellamente si spiegano (http://books.google.com/books?id=m9_j8R02ux8C&pg=PA83, p. 83), published by Nella Stampa di Gio and Domenico Montanaro in 1634.

The device has a complexity count of nine, just over the rule-of-thumb limit. Therefore, we are forwarding it so that the College of Arms can discuss whether it has good enough period heraldic style to surpass the limit.

7: Archebios Achaios - New Name forwarded & New Device pended

Argent, a thunderbolt vert enflamed proper.

Sound (Sounds as much as possible like Archubeas) most important. Archebios appears 34 times in the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, across all volumes, according to the Complex Search Form (http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/database/lgpn.php). Archaios 'the Achaean' is a header form in Liddell and Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon. It was used by classical authors, including Homer and Thucydides.

The spelling of the byname in the documentation summary on the form was apparently incorrect. It should have read Achaios.

The device conflicts with Endless Hills, Barony of (August 1999, AEthelmearc), Argent, a thunderbolt gules. The device has been pended while we await the letter of permission to conflict that has been promised.

Edit: The device was forwarded on the Jan. 2012 Letter of Decision.

8: Armand Giovanni - New Name forwarded

No major changes. Armand is the submitter's legal middle name, as attested by the consulting herald and Istvan. Armand is also the expected vernacular form of Armandus, a Latinized French given name found in Aryanhwy merch Catmael, "Names from 13th and 14th-century Latin Records from Gascony" (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/earlygasconlatin.html), dated 1283-6, 1310, and 1310/1. It is a given name by type, so can be used as a given name via the legal name allowance. Giovanni is found with a count of 2 in "Family Names Appearing in the Catasto of 1427" by Ferrante LaVolpe (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ferrante/catasto/family_names.html).

Armand is a given name found in the IGI parish extracts:

ARMAND <CHAIGNAT> Male Christening 15 February 1636 Gimouille, Nievre, France JEAN CHAIGNAT MARYE BARREAU Batch: C810541
ARMAND <FALIZE> Male Christening March 1644 Saint Michel, Namur, Namur, Belgium ... FALIZE MARIE ... Batch: C870283

The instance from Belgium is likely to be French as well. The combination of French and Italian would normally be a step from period practice [Tessa Cheval, 11/00].

9: Avraham ben Zebulun - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Purpure, a cockatrice erect Or.

Client requests authenticity for the Khazar tribe. Avraham and Zebulon are masculine given names found in Christian Settipani and Kevin Alan Brook, "Khazarian Names" (http://www.khazaria.com/khazar-names.html). ben is the patronymic particle.

The device conflicts with that of Huette Aliza von und zu Ährens und Mechthildberg, Purpure, a dragon with the head and wings of an eagle couchant, wings addorsed, Or. A letter of permission to conflict has been granted, and should be on its way from Caid. [It was received.]

10: Bianca di Alessandro - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Azure, a chalice and on a chief engrailed argent three roses azure barbed and seeded proper.

No major changes. Language (Venetian) most important. Culture (Venetian) most important. All elements and the name pattern <given> di <father's given name> are found in Arval Benicoeur and Talan Gwynek, "Fourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names" (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/venice14/venice14given.html#table and http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/venice14/).

11: Bianca di Alessandro - New Badge forwarded

(Fieldless) On a chalice argent a rose azure, barbed and seeded proper.

12: Bridgit Katherine Fitzgerald - New Device forwarded

Vert, a feather between three cats sejant argent.

Her name was registered Mar. 1997 via the East.

13: Bronwyn of the Kings Field - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Vert, an eagle and on a chief indented argent three escarbuncles azure.

The name was submitted as Bronwyn of the King's Field. No major changes. Meaning (spelling: surname changed to single word is acceptable) most important. Bronwyn is a feminine given name found in extracted IGI Parish Records from England, dated 1620 (batch #M012881). King's Field is a constructed locative for the submitter's residence. is it is constructed according to the following examples:

Although commenters questioned the construction of the byname, further research showed that it's not completely out of the realm of possibility. A <Christ Kingsfield> is found as a resident of London in 1638. 'Inhabitants of London in 1638: St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London', The inhabitants of London in 1638 (1931), pp. 203-209 (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=32075&strquery=Kingsfield). Watts gave the following:

Kings sand, 'king's beach', 1602 (s.n. Kingsand)
Kinges delfe 'the king's channel', [1020x23]12th; Kinges delfe, [c. 1050]14th; Ki- Kyngesdelf, c. 1223-1390 (s.n. King's Delph)
Kinge moore, the Kyngmoore, 1589-90; the king(e)s moor(e), 1619-58 (s.n. Kingstown)
The Towne of the Abbey, Abbey Towne, 1649 (s.n. Abbeytown)
by the water, dated 1493. (s.n Allerton ~Bywater)
Kynges Wode, 1268 (s.n. Kingswood ~H&W)

Whereas Ekwall, s.n. Bishops Castle, gave <Bissopes Castell>, 1269. Interestingly, Mills' A Dictionary of London Place Names, s.n. King's Road included <The King's High Way from Chelsea to London> in 1620. However, it couldn't be determined if this was a modernized form and precedent states that apostrophes in such a place name weren't used until after our period. As a result, the apostrophe has been removed in order to forward on the name.

14: Buyan Delger - Resub Device forwarded

Or, a sun per pale gules and sable within a Chinese dragon in annulo contourny sable.

His name was registered Mar. 2007 via the East. This is a resubmission of Or, a sun gules within a Chinese dragon in annulo contourny sable, returned on the same letter:

15: Christoff le Goth - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Argent, two swords inverted in saltire sable and overall a sea-turtle tergiant, a bordure azure.

No major changes. Christoff is a masculine given name (and as a feminine name!) found in the Netherlands and Switzerland in the IGI Parish Extracts:

The submitter will allow intermediate changes.

The original documentation for the father's name included the following: the online French dictionary at "Le Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé" (TLFi, http://atilf.atilf.fr/) identifies goth as a 16th century adjective derived from the Latin Gothi 'the Goths.' The entry dates two (apparently plural) spellings to period: <Gotz> (1521) and <Gothz> (1532). The term gothes is also a header in the MED. An example from the MED is "(a1387) Trev. Higd.(StJ-C H.1) 1.151: &Thorn;he firste Amazones were þe wyfes of Gothes [L Gothorum]." As such, it is thought that name was a plausible vernacular French or English form, and that there should be no problems with using the grandfather clause to register the name.

16: Crispin MacCoy - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Argent, a cross fourchetty and on a chief sable an eye argent irised azure.

No major changes. Sound (pronunciation) most important. Crispin is a given name dated 1336 in R&W, s.n. Crispin. MacCoy is taken from the surname McCoy (with scribal abbreviation expanded), found in the IGI Parish Extracts from Scotland, dated 1613 (batch #M114662). This is the defining instance of a cross fourchetty. A copy of a device bearing this charge from a period armorial was provided, but the source was not identified. The paperwork states to contact Jeanne Marie or Bruce Draconarius for documentation.

The given name is also found in the IGI parish extracts:

CRISPIN BARNES Male; Christening ;2 December 1563; Alcester, Warwick, England Batch: C035451
CRISPIN CRISPE Male; Christening; 25 October 1573; Ubbeston, Suffolk, England Batch: C133911
CRISPIN NORRIS OR HEWES Male; Marriage; 22 September 1577; Terling, Essex, England; Batch: M015051
CRISPIN PURGALL Male; Marriage; 27 June 1563; Heigham, Norfolk, England Batch: M133411
CRISPIN STANLEY Male; Marriage; 26 April 1592; Claxby Near Normanby, Lincoln, England; Batch: M027491
and so forth.

The full information for the surname (from the IGI, cited in the LoI) is the following:

KATHERING MCCOY Female Marriage November 1613 Clackmannan, Clackmannan, Scotland DONALD MCCAPIE Batch: M114662

This is the defining instance for the cross fourchetty. Bruce Draconarius provided documentation for this cross, both to show that it is a period charge and to show that it is distinct from the cross moline. It is a continental charge found in the The Armorial de Gelre (c. 1370), Wapenboek Beyeren (c. 1405), Siebmacher's Wappenbuch of 1605, Codex Ingeram (c. 1450), and Anto Tirol's Armorial (c. 1540), among others.

17: Crispin MacCoy - New Badge forwarded

(Fieldless) A cross fourchetty sable.

Bruce Draconarius provided documentation for this cross, both to show that it is a period charge and to show that it is distinct from the cross moline and cross fourchy. It is a continental charge found in the The Armorial de Gelre (c. 1370), Wapenboek Beyeren (c. 1405), Siebmacher's Wappenbuch of 1605, Codex Ingeram (c. 1450), and Anto Tirol's Armorial (c. 1540), among others.

Commenters were not sure if this conflicts with Michel de Groot (November 2004, Ansteorra), Quarterly argent and gules, a cross fleury sable. There is a CD for fieldlessness, but the second CD needs to come from the type of cross. Two other possible conflicts were called: Allyn Samildanach (August of 1979, West), (Tinctureless) A cross of Samildanach, and Juan Santiago (December of 2003, West), (Fieldless) A cross of Santiago sable. There would be one CD for fieldlessness, but the second CD needs to come from the type of cross.

18: Doroga Voronin - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Per pale purpure and vert, on a chief argent a raven displayed sable.

No major changes.

If the name must be changed, the submitter wishes to be contacted in advance. Both elements are from Wickenden, 3rd edn. Doroga, s.n. Doroga, is a masculine given name dated to 1555. Voronin, s.n. Vorona, is a patronymic form dated to c. 1495. There is a step from period practice for the use of a bird displayed that is not an eagle.

19: Drake MacGregor - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Per fess gules and sable, on a roundel engrailed Or a dragon passant sable.

No major changes. Meaning (spelling: Drake as given name) most important. Drake is a surname found in Aryanhwy merch Catmael, "Index of Names in the 1582 Subsidy Roll of London" (http://www.medievalscotland.org/~liana/names/english/englishsurlondon1582-m.html). MacGregor is a surname found in Black, s.n. MacGregor, dated 1603. Aryanhwy merch Catmael, "Index of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue" (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/scots/dost/macgregor.html) dates the spelling <Macgregour> to 1541 and <McGregour> to 1594. Assistance finding the submitted spelling in a non-normalized source is appreciated. Late-period English surnames are registerable as given names [Alton of Grimfells 4/2010 LoAR A-East]. The submitter allows intermediate changes.

Drake is also an attested given name, found in the IGI parish extracts:

DRAKE DUNINGTON Male Christening 6 October 1625 Settrington, Yorkshire, England LAURENTII DUNINGTON Batch: P007771
DRAKE FRIER Male Christening 5 September 1591 Saint Dunstan, Canterbury, Kent, England Batch: P015151
DRAKE FRYAR Male Christening 21 April 1587 Saint Dunstan, Canterbury, Kent, England THO. FRYAR Batch: P015151
DRAKE RALEGH Male Christening 5 May 1608 Withycombe Raleigh, Devon, England GEORGE RALEGH Batch: C052171

<Gregor MacGregor vic Jeane> is found in "Names from Papers Relating to the Murder of the Laird of Calder" by Margaret Makafee (http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~grm/calder.html). The names in this article have not been normalized. In addition, <Denesoun M'Gregor> appears in Black s.n. Denson dated to 1589.

The device is clear of the badge of Myron Duxippus Draco (September 1994, East), (Fieldless) On a bezant invected a wyvern displayed sable. There is a CD for comparing engrailed and invected, and another for changing the field. It was also noted that there is a CD between a roundel engrailed and a sun [Iain Monlach, LoAR 04/1991], so this is not a conflict with, for example, Stefan of Seawood (January 1973), Azure, upon a sun Or an eagle displayed sable.

20: Elena Hylton - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Azure, a chevron throughout between three needles bendwise sinister argent.

Submitter desires a female name. No major changes. Sound (Hill-ton) most important. Elena is found in Aryanhwy merch Catmael, "Feminine Names from 14th C Exeter" (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/english/exeterfem14thc.html). Hylton is found in Karen Larsdatter, "Surnames in 15th Century York" (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/york15/surnames-alphabetical.htm#H).

The above article cited for Elena used a source that sometimes modernized given names. However, Elena is found in Talan Gwynek's "Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames", s.n. Ellen, dated betweem 1187 and 1381. Watts, s.n. Hilton gives the spelling Hylton(e) dated 1250-1495, and Hil- Hylton' dated 1256, and 1539-1664.

21: Ermengarde Constant - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Azure, a ferret rampant and in sinister chief a mullet of eight points argent.

No major changes. Sound (submitter prefers changes to first name rather than last name if necessary) most important. Ermengarde is a female given name dated to 12th to 13th century in Withycombe, s.n. Ermyntrude. Constant is an undated header form in R&W, with the spelling <le Costent'> dated 1194 and 1197, and <le Constent'> dated 1196. The submitted spelling is plausible, as R&W, s.n. Constantine, shows a likely common derivation from the Latin constans 'steadfast, resolute'; therefore, the submitted spelling (using 'a' rather than 'e') can be interpolated from the byname Constantin (1272). Although the typed form states that the submitter allows intermediate changes, this may have been added by a bug in the submission database at Heralds Point. As the worksheet was missing from the packet, if could not be confirmed if the submitter allowed such changes or not.

Both the submitted spelling Ermengarde and the spelling <Ermengard'> are found in a Latin in 'Close Rolls, July 1250', Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry III: volume 6: 1247-1251 (1922), pp. 299-309 (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=93172&strquery=Ermengarde). Constant is found as a given name in the MED (it seems to be short for Constantyn in this source):

a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131) 6974: Syre Guncelyn aryued at Toteneys & sire Constant wyþ his harneys. þat herde þe Bretons alle aboute..To Constant come þen men ynowe.
a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131) 7045: Constant was eldest & mere, & was a monk, a man of lere.

This could be seen as either a descriptive byname or an unmarked patronym, and that the spelling is plausible.

22: Fionn mac Con Dhuibh - New Name forwarded

No major changes. Meaning (spelling of Fionn most important) most important. Fionn is found in "Index of Names in Irish Annals" by Mari neyn Bryan (http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/masculine/Finn.shtml), dated to 1209. It is the standard Early Modern Irish Gaelic nominative spelling of the name. Con Dhuibh is the genitive form of Cú Dhubh, dated to 1201 in Early Modern Irish Gaelic (ibid., http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/masculine/CuDub.shtml). It is the standard Early Modern Irish Gaelic genitive spelling of the name. The submitter allows intermediate changes.

23: Gaius Claudius Valerianus - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Per chevron inverted argent and vert, a stag's head caboshed sable and two lightning bolts in saltire Or

No changes.

All elements are found in "Roman Names" (http://www.personal.kent.edu/~bkharvey/roman/sources/names.htm). Note that this URL is no longer correct, but Heralds Point had a printout of the article. Copies were not provided by the Point, however, so the information cannot be verified from the original source. Assistance finding a new source is appreciated. Gaius is a praenomen, Claudius a nomen, and Valerianus a cognomen. The latter is intended to indicate that he was adopted into this family.

The article cited above can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20070622102631/http://www.personal.kent.edu/~bkharvey/roman/sources/names.htm. Valerianus does not appear to be in that version. However, Lindley Richard Dean, "A Study of the Cognomina of Soldiers in the Roman Legions" (http://books.google.com/books?id=MF0KAAAAIAAJ) includes all three elements: evidence of Gaius as a praenomen (p. 78), Claudius as a nomen (p. 320), and Valerianus as a cognomen (pp. 56, 84-5, 106, 118, and 306).

There is a step from period practice for the use of lightning bolts not in conjunction with a thunderbolt.

24: Gamli tottr - Resub Device forwarded

Sable semy of lozenges ployé argent, a man statant affronty argent kilted vert, maintaining in his hands two maces argent.

His name was registered Feb. 2008 via the East. His prior device submission, Sable, a man statant affronty argent crined and bearded Or maintaining in each hand a flanged mace argent, was returned on the same letter:

25: Godric FitzEdmond - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Vert semy of arrows bendwise, a boar's head erased argent.

No major changes. Godric is found in Withycombe, s.n. Godric, who says, "It is very common in England before the Norman Conquest" and "It seems to have died out in the course of the 13th and 14th century". Godric(us) is dated 1086. Edmond found in Withycombe, s.n. Edmond, who says, "Edmund was often written in the French form Edmond in the latter Middle Ages. It was less common after the 15th C, but continued to be used in certain families..." The pattern <Fitz+given name> is found in R&W, for example FitzSymond (s.n. FitzSimon), dated to 1387.

Bardsley, s.n. Godrich gives <Robert fil. Godric>, dated 1273, putting this spelling closer in time to the submitter's desired spelling of the patronymic marker. A likely inflected form, <Godrici> is dated 1133-60 in the MED. There is also a 12th century saint, Godric of Finchale, who was the namesake of <Ralph Godric> in the 12th century [Dave Postles, "Resistant, Diffused, or Peripheral? Northern Personal Names to ca. 1250" (In: Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales, ed. D. Postles, J.T. Roenthal, Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, 2006, pp. 280-4)]. This saint was the subject of the 1175 text Libellus de vita et miraculis S. Godrici, heremitae de Finchale by Reginald of Durham. Lastly, a <Godric Lefled> appears in 'Regesta 47: 1295', Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: 1198-1304 (1893), pp. 558-563 (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=96041&strquery=Godric).

Edmond is also found in the MED, with examples listed below:

(1419) *Will Bury 155: I be qweþe to þe sexteyn of seynt Edmond xx s. for tythys for3etyn.
(1467) Acc.Howard in RC 57 421: A peyre of close hosen for m. Edmond Gorge..and a peyr close hosen for lytelle Edmond.
(1430) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk. 86: Nicholas Edmond hath lete certayn landis and tenementis in ffeltham to John Shepherd and Agnes, his wiff, for terme of her lyuys.

Even if the surname could not be constructed in a time compatible with the given name, a number of late-period instances of FitzEdmond (in some spelling) were found at British History Online, with <John Fitz Edmond Gerrauld> dated to 1592 ["Calendar of the manuscripts of the Most Honourable the Marquess of Salisbury" (http://books.google.com/books?id=YJ8KAAAAYAAJ), p. 220] and <Piers Butler FitzEdmonde, of Roskrea> dated 1592 ['Cecil Papers: November 1592', Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House, Volume 4: 1590-1594 (1892), pp. 242-249 (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=111587&strquery=FitzEdmond)]. Since Godric is a saint's name, there would be no step from period practice for the temporal disparity.

26: Jahh{a-}f ibn-'Aw{a-}nah - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Per bend sinister Or and azure, a rose gules bendwise sinister slipped and leaved vert and a scimitar bendwise sinister proper.

The name was submitted as Jahh{a-}f ibn-'Aw{a-}nah. No major changes. Jahh{a-}f is an ism found in "Arabic Names from the al-Andalus" by Juliana de Luna (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/alandalus/mascism.html). 'Aw{a-}nah is found in The Fihrist of al-Nadim, a 10th century handbook on Arabic literature (Bayard Dodge, ed.; vol 2, p. 966). A copy of this source was not provided by Heralds Point, so this element could not be confirmed. The typed form used a normal apostrophe; however, the worksheet appears to use a hamza. ibn is the Arabic patronymic particle, found abbreviated (b.) in Juliana's article (op. cit.,http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/alandalus/complete.html). Retaining Jahh{a-}f is most important to the submitter. The submitter allows intermediate changes.

Although the patronym could not be confirmed from the source used at Heralds Point, it was also found in the name of an Arabic ruler of India, <Al-Hakim bin 'Aw{a-}nah Al-Kalbi>, dated to 725-726 AD in Records of the Gupta Dynasty by Edward Thomas (Oxford University, 1876, http://books.google.com/books?id=X1YIAAAAQAAJ, p. 56). We are giving the submitter the benefit to the doubt and forwarding the name.

27: Jehanne de Troyes - New Badge pended

Sable, between the attires of a stag's head caboshed a Mogen David all within a bordure Or.

His name and device, Per bend sinister purpure and vert, a Star of David argent and a lion's head erased quarterly argent and sable, were registered Aug. 1994, via the East. Although voided charges are typically not permitted anywhere but the center of the design, this does not apply to charges for which the voiding is part of the definition, as we have here.

If the Mogen David is considered to be the primary charge, and not a secondary charge, and if there is no CD for the voiding and interlacing of the mullet (precedent could not be found for this), this badge conflicts with Bergental, Barony of (April 1987, East), Sable, a mullet of six points within a laurel wreath, all within a bordure Or. The badge is being pended while we attempt to obtain a letter of permission to conflict.

Edit: The badge was forwarded without the Letter of Permission to conflict on the Jan. 2012 Letter of Decision.

28: Katerina Zubovoloka - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Argent, on flaunches azure two horses combattant argent.

No major changes. Language (Russian) most important. Culture (Russian) most important. Katerina is a variant of the Russian feminine name Ekaterina, interpolated from <Koterina> (1588-9) and <Katryna> (1591), both found in Wickenden, 3rd edn. Zubovoloka is a feminized form of the byname Zubovolok. The masculine form is dated 1569 (ibid.). Feminization rules are discussed in the same source.

Wickenden s.n. Ekaterina also has <Katerinka> dated to 1538-9.

29: Kayle of the White Horse - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Vert, a bend sinister between a ferret and a horse combattant argent.

Kayle is a male given name found in "Names Found in Anglicized Irish Documents" by Mari neyn Bryan, s.n. Callogh dated to 1602 (http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnglicizedIrish/masculine.shtml). of the White Horse is a Lingua Anglica translation of the Irish Gaelic in Eich Gil '[of] the White Horse', found in Mari neyn Bryan's "Index of Names in Irish Annals" dated to 1014, 1023, 1030, 1036, 1067, 1097, 1118 (http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/inEichGil.shtml). It can also be an English inn-sign name. Bardsley, s.n. Whitehorse has Whithors, Edw. I, Whytehors, 1285, Whytehorse, 1312, Whithors, 1358. The pattern <color + animal> is also found in "English Sign Names" by Mari ingen Briain (http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/inn/#ColorAnimal). The given name is most important to the submitter.

One commenter questioned whether the device conflicts with Wilhelm der Krieger (November 1993, An Tir), Vert, a bend sinister between two foxes heads erased argent. There is a CD for the change in type of secondary charge, but whether the change in orientation of half of the charge group is enough for a second CD was not discussed.

30: Matsumoto Kiku - New Name forwarded

No major changes. Language (Japan) most important. Culture (Japan) most important. Both elements are from NCMJ (revised edn.). Matsumoto is a surname dated to 1468 (p. 322). Kiku is a feminine given name dating to 1572 (p. 378).

31: Meara of Havre de Glace - New Name Change forwarded & New Device forwarded

Per pale azure and argent, a rose gules and a chief Or.

Old Item: Máire inghean uí Mheardha, to be released. Her current name was registered Feb. 2009 via the East. Meara is found in Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada, "Names Found in Anglicized Irish Documents" (http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnglicizedIrish/Feminine.shtml), dated 1602. Havre de Glace, Barony of is a branch name registered Oct. 2002, via the East. The spelling of Meara is most important to the submitter.

The instance of Meara, <Giles ny Meara>, in the cited article was thought to show that this is a masculine given name. As the submitter gave no preference as to gender, the name is being forwarded without changes.

32: Melina al-Andalusiyya - New Name Change forwarded

Old Item: Melina Delabarge, to be retained. Submitter desires a female name. No changes. Her current name, Melina Delabarge, was registered 04/2010 via the East. Melina occurs once in Juliana de Luna, "A Listing of All Women's Given Names From the Condado Section of the Florence Caslato of 1427" (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/condado/womens/pc.html). It is also grandfathered to the submitter. al-Andalusiyya is the documented feminine form of the locative al-Andalus, found in Juliana de Luna, "Andalusian Names: Arabs in Spain" (http://heradry.sca.org/laurel/names/andalusia.html#Locative). The combination of Italian and Arabic is a step from period practice [Amat al-Shakoor di Riccardo, 10/2004].

33: Milka Vydrin - New Name forwarded & New Device returned

Gules, an otter rampant argent maintaining dependant from a collar azure a book, an orle wavy argent

No major changes. Language (unspecified) most important. Culture (unspecified) most important. Meaning (last name means 'otter', wants a short given name) most important. Milka is found in Wickenden (2000), on p. 213, where it is stated to be a diminutive of Mil (p.212). Milka is dated 1088. Vydrin is derived from the masculine name Vydra, meaning 'otter'. (ibid., p. 405). An example is <Ivanko Vydrin>, 881. The submitter allows intermediate changes.

Milka is found in Alexander Beider, A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names (Bergenfeld, NJ: Avotaynu, 2001), s.n. Milke. It is stated to be a Biblical name, found in Genesis 11:29 (the wife of Abraham's brother Nachor), and is also used by Czech Christians and, uncommonly, by German Jews. It is stated to be derived from the root mil- 'nice', and the diminutive suffix -ka. The submitted spelling is found in 1334 (Czech), and in 1364 and 1487 (Germany).

The byname is also found in "Zoological Bynames in Medieval Russia" by Paul Wickenden of Thanet (http://www.goldschp.net/archive/zoonames.html#mammals), dated to 1564.

Although the artwork was lovely, none of the commenters could identify the otter. In addition, the argent book was not identifiable because it was almost entirely on the argent body of the otter. As such, this device runs afoul of RfS VIII.2, Armorial Contrast, and VIII.3, Armorial Identifiability. It was also questioned if the book would be considered to be barely overall.

34: Moire MacGraha - New Device forwarded

Vert, three quavers in bend sinister argent.

Her name was registered Apr. 2010 via the East.

35: Muirenn ingen Dúnadaig - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Argent, three fox's masks and a chief indented vert.

Language (9th Century Irish) most important. Culture (9th Century Irish) most important. All elements are from "Index of Names in Irish Annals" by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/). Muirenn is a feminine given name dating to 643-979, with the submitted spelling being the standard Old Irish Gaelic and Middle Irish Gaelic form of the name (http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/feminine/muirenn.shtml). ingen is the pre-1200 form of 'daughter', per Sharon Krossa, "Quick and Easy Gaelic Names" (http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/#simplepatronymicbyname and http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/#spelling). Dúnadaig is the standard Old Irish Gaelic genitive form of Dúnadach, dated to 873 (http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Dunadach.shtml). In patronymic bynames, the father's name does not need to be lenited if it starts with "D". If this name is deemed to be a conflict with Muirenn ingen Donndubáin, the submitter authorizes the change to Muirenn Ruad ingen Dúnadaig. Ruaid 'red' is a descriptive byname dated to 1039 (http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/Ruadh.shtml). The spelling Ruad is the standard Middle Irish Gaelic (c900-c1200) nominative form, and does not need to be lenited.

36: Oguri Tatsuko - New Name forwarded

No major changes. Language (Japan) most important. Culture (Japan) most important. Both elements are from NCMJ (revised edn.). Oguri is a historical surname dating to 1572 (p. 324). Tatsuko is a historical feminine given name date to 1572 (p. 385).

37: Ose Silverhair - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Quarterly argent and gules, a wool comb bendwise tines up sable.

Ose is interpolated from the following: Lind, Norsk-Isländska Dapnamn, pp. 60-62, s.n. Asa, includes the spellings <Ase> (1384); <Âsa>, <Ôsa>, <Osa>, and <Aasu> (1329); <Aasa> (1495 and 1484); and <Oosa> (1394). Silverhair is the lingua anglica form of a byname, constructed using the pattern of names <gullbrá> 'golden-brow' and <svartkollr> 'black-pate', both found in Geirr Bassi (pp. 22 and 28, respectively). The worksheet indicated that the submitter wants a Danish name; however, this was not stated on the typed form. The submitter will allow the attested spelling Osa if necessary. No other changes are authorized.

Geirr Bassi includes a number of nicknames comprised of [color] + [hair/facial hair]: gullskeggr 'gold-beard', inn granrauði 'red-beard', grabárðr 'gray-beard', inn hárfagri 'fair-hair', bláskegg 'black-beard', refskegg 'fox-beard', hærukollr 'hoary-head', hæulangr 'one with long white hair', etc. In addition, Geirr Bassi also includes the nickname sílfri 'silver'. Cleasby & Vigfusson page b0205, entry 17 includes the adjective gló-bjartr, adj. light blond, of hair, and s.n. SILFR (p. 528) has the following: "Fms. vi. 243. II. as a nickname, silfri, silfra, Vd., Vápn. 12; whence Silfra-staðir, Silfr-toppr (or Silfrin-toppr), 'Silver-forelock,' Silver-top, the name of a mythical horse, Gm." Secondly, the entry for HADDR (ibid., p. 60227, entry 7), states the following:

HADDR, m. [Goth. hazds; A. S. prob. heard, v. infra], hair, only in poetry a lady's hair; haddr Sifjar, the gold-hair of the goddess Sif., Edda 69, 70; hár heitir lá, haddr þat er konur hafa, 109; bleikja hadda, to bleach, dress the hair, 75, Korm. 26, Gkv. 1. 15; bleikir haddar, Fas. i. 478; grass is called haddr jarðar, Bm.; hadds höll is the head, Eb. (in a verse). haddaðr, part. hairy, Lat. crinitus; barr-h., barley-haired, an epithet of the earth; bjart-h., bright-haired; bleik-h., blond-haired; hvít-h., white-haired, Lex. Poët. hadd-bjartr, adj. bright-haired, blond, Hornklofi. hadd-blik, n. bleaching the hair, Edda 77.

The wool comb appears to be a charge that must be in trian aspect, and is found this way in the PicDic.

38: Ose Silverhair - New Badge forwarded

(Fieldless) A wool comb bendwise tines up sable.

39: Phebee Fayrhehe - New Device forwarded

Bendy argent and sable, a dog sejant guardant and on a chief gules three escarbuncles argent.

Her name was registered Feb. 2008 via the East.

40: Raina Iskremorova - Resub Device forwarded

Argent, on a phoenix facing sinister, incensed azure, issuant from flames proper issuant from base, a sun Or and in chief seven roundels gules.

This is a resubmission of Argent, on a phoenix displayed contourny incensed azure issuant from flames issuant from base proper a sun Or and in chief seven torteaux in fess., returned in kingdom on the April 2004 Internal Letter of Report:

41: Raina Iskremorova - New Badge forwarded

Per fess purpure and argent, three sets of testicles counterchanged.

Her name was registered Dec. 2004 via the East.

The testicle is a period charge, used in the arms of Bartolomeo Colleoni (c. 1395/1400-1475) and has previously been registered as a heart inverted. Whether this badge runs afoul of RfS IX.1, Vulgar Armory, is up for Wreath to decide.

42: Raina Iskremorova - New Badge forwarded

(Fieldless) A pair of testicles Or.

The testicle is a period charge, used in the arms of Bartolomeo Colleoni (c. 1395/1400-1475) and has previously been registered as a heart inverted. Whether this badge runs afoul of RfS IX.1, Vulgar Armory, is up for Wreath to decide.

43: Sabina Iulia Metella - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Argent, a pomegranate slipped and leaved vert seeded gules within a bordure purpure estencelly argent.

No major changes. Sound (Sabina) most important. Sabina is the name of a Roman saint, martyred c. 126, who was the widow of Valentinus and daughter of Herod Metallarius (Catholic Encyclopedia, http://www.newdvent.org/cathen/13290a.htm). Iulia is the expected feminine form of Iulius, a nomen found in Nova Roma, "Roman Names" (http://novaroma.org/via_romana/names2.html). Metella is the expected feminine form of Metellus, a cognomen found in the same article. According to Aryanhwy merch Catmael, "A Simple Guide to Classical Roman Naming Practices" (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/other/sg-roman.html), women didn't use praenomina with the classical naming system, but "something more like true given names" were used by the imperial period. As such, it is considered that this name would be plausibe at that later time.

Lindley Richard Dean, A study of the cognomina of soldiers in the Roman legion (http://books.google.com/books?id=MF0KAAAAIAAJ, p. 88) gives evidence of Iulius as a nomen. Metellus is mentioned in Plutarch's Lives (e.g., http://books.google.com/books?id=JiUJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA366).

44: Samuel Spede Bumpus - New Name forwarded

Submitter desires a male name. Sound ('speed bump') most important. Samuel is dated to 1604-1616 in "English Given Names from 16th Century and Early 17th Century Marriage Records" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/english/parishes/parishes.html). Spede is dated to 1277 in R&W s.n. Speed. Bardsley, s.n. Speed dates <John Speede> to 1555-6. The submitted spelling is also found in the IGI Parish Extracts:

ANNE SPEDE Female Christening 9 May 1624 Shelton, Nottingham, England JEROME SPEDE Batch: P011321
EDWARD SPEDE Male Marriage 10 October 1595 East Horndon, Essex, England Batch: M041961
EDWARD SPEDE Male Christening 9 July 1609 Saint Mary, Aylesbury, Buckingham, England HENRY SPEDE Batch: C073641
ELIZABETH SPEDE Female Christening 29 March 1573 Baldock, Hertford, England SPEDE Batch: C072101
ELIZABETH SPEDE Female Christening 4 April 1596 Saint Mary, Aylesbury, Buckingham, England HENRY SPEDE Batch: C073641
GEORGE SPEDE Male Christening January 1575 Baldock, Hertford, England ROBT. SPEDE Batch: C072101
JOANNES SPEDE Male Christening 31 August 1544 Saint John The Baptist, Croydon, Surrey, England Batch: C098652
JOHANE SPEDE Female Christening 1564 Layston, Hertford, England RICHARD SPEDE Batch: C072581
...and so forth.

Although commenters thought that this name was obtrusively modern, joke names in and of themselves are not necessarily unregisterable:

The fact that this is a "joke name" is not, in and of itself, a problem. The College has registered a number of names, perfectly period in formation, that embodied humor: Drew Steele, Miles Long, and John of Somme Whyre spring to mind as examples. They may elicit chuckles (or groans) from the listener, but no more. Intrusively modern names grab the listener by the scruff of the neck and haul him, will he or nill he, back into the 20th Century. A name that, by its very presence, destroys any medieval ambience is not a name we should register. [Porsche Audi, August, 1992, pg. 28]

The name is being forwarded to the College of Arms for further discussion of this issue.

45: Sarra Daykin - Resub Device forwarded

Gules, on a sun between six roses slipped and leaved in annulo Or two lions combattant gules.

Her name was registered Jan. 2011 via the East. This is a resubmission of Gules, on a sun between six roses slipped and leaved in annulo Or, a lion contourny gules, returned on the same letter:

This device is returned for conflict with the badge of the Royal University of Ithra, Gules, on a sun Or eclipsed gules, an Arabian lamp flammant Or. Eclipsing of suns, in the SCA, is considered a tertiary charge. There is a single CD for the addition of the secondary charge group, but no difference is granted for the change of only the type of the single charge on the sun, nor do we grant difference for quaternary charges (the lamp).

While the Cover Letter to the June 2004 LoAR limited the case in which conflicts will be called under unregisterable alternate blazons, this device does conflict because it is the old device with the unregisterable alternate blazon.

46: Scandlán mac Tigernáin - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Per pale azure and sable, a wolf's head couped close ululant contourney and in chief three towers argent.

No major changes. Client requests authenticity for 9-10th century Irish Gaelic. All elements are found in Mari Elsbeth nic Bryan's "Index of Names in Irish Annals" (http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/annalsindex/) and all elements are in Middle Irish Gaelic. Scandlán is dated to 882, 913, and 974. Tigernáin is the genitive form of Tigernan, which is dated to 980. mac is the patronymic particle meaning 'son'. The name is constructed according to Sharon Krossa, "Quick and Easy Gaelic Names" (http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/#simplepatronymicbyname).

The wolf's head is couped, but not couped close, as there is still some of the neck visible. Commenters couldn't tell if the wolf was supposed to be ululant or just bendwise sinister. Further, the relative sizes of the charges also made this device blur the line between one co-primary charge group and a primary charge with three secondary charges in chielf. The latter is how it is blazoned, but it is the emblazon, or the picture that matters most, not the blazon. The device has been redrawn with the submitter's permission.

47: Scarlactus Salvanus de Solario - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Or, a standing balance between three fleurs-de-lys purpure

No major changes. Scarlactus and Solvanus are both masculine given names in "Masculine Names from 13th Century Pisa" by Juliana de Luna (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/pisa/pisa.html). de Solario is a byname from "Masculine Names from 13th Century Pisa" by Juliana de Luna (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/pisa/pisa.html). The client wants to keep Scarlactus and de Solario. Salvanus can be changed as needed. The submitter allows intermediate changes.

We don't have evidence of double given names in Italy during the 13th century [Angelo d'Amico, 02/2003 LoAR, A-West], but they are found later. Since the submitter did not request authenticity for the earlier time period, the name is being forwarded unchanged.

48: Shyvan Floyd - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Argent, a dragonfly bendwise sinister purpure winged sable.

Sound most important. Shyvan is the Anglicized Irish form of Siobhan, dated 1600-01 in Mari ingen Brian meic Donnchada, "Names Found in Anglicized Irish Documents"(http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnglicizedIrish/Feminine.shtml). Floyd is an English surname found in Bardsley, s.n. Floyd, dated 1510 and 1570.

49: Spvrivs Ivlivs Flavvs - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Gyronny of sixteen Or and gules, and on a chief sable a bee Or.

Spurius is a praenomen, Iulius is a nomen, and Flavus is a cognomen (and Flavius a nomen) in "Roman Name" by Nova Roma (http://novaroma.org/nr/Roman_name). The submitter would prefer to use Flavius over Flavus for the cognomen. The submitter has substituted all of the u's in the name with v's. Examples of this convention are found in the photo of a 1st century CE urn at http://www.vroma.org/images/raia_images/urn2b.jpg (description at http://www.vroma.org/images/raia_images/index3.html), which states, "DIS MANIBVS C IVLIVS HERMES VIX[IT] ANN[IS] XXXIIII M[ENSIBUS]V DIEB[US] XIIII C IVLIVS ANDRONICVS CONLIBERTVS FEC[IT] BENE MERENTI DE SE".

50: Svanhildr Karlsdottir - New Device Change forwarded

Per fess embattled azure and gules, a demi-swan rising from the line of the division, wings displayed, and a cross formy argent.

Old Item: Per chevron sable and gules, a chevron ermine cotised between two swans naiant respectant wings elevated and addorsed and a vol argent, to be released. Her name and current device were registered in Nov. 1990 via the East.

51: Thomas MacCay of Castle Campbell - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Per chevron sable and vert, on a chevron between a wolf's head erased ululant contourny and a raven's head erased argent, a pair of compasses azure.

His name was submitted as Thomas McCay of Castle Campbell. No major changes. Language/culture (Scots) most important. Thomas is a common Anglo-Norman personal male name found in Black. The header was not provided. McCay is found in Black, s.n. MacKay in Black. <Gilnew McCay> was a tenant of Arskynnel Beg in Kintyre, 1506. [The scribal abbreviation will need to be expanded to MacCay.] Castle Campbell, formerly Castle Gloume, is a header in Johnston. The name was changed to this form in 1489, named after its owner, the first Duke of Argyll.

Thomas is dated 1324-1648, and M^cCay is dated 1606 in found in "Index of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/scots/dost/thomas.html). The act of parliament that changed the name of the castle reads as follows:

Oure souerane lord, of his riale autorite, at the desire and supplicacioune of his cousing and traist consalour Coline, erle of Ergile, lord Campbele and Lorne, his chancellare, has chengeit the name of the castell and place quhilk wes callit the Glovme pertenyng to his said cousing, and in this his present parliament makis mutacioune and chengeing of the said name and ordinis the sammyn castell to be callit in tyme tocum Campbele [The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2011), 1490/2/28. (http://www.rps.ac.uk/mss/1490/2/28)].

Examples of castles named after the surname or clan name of the owners are found in Timothy Pont's 16th century maps of Scotland, e.g., <Dowglas Castel>, <Sempil Castel> (http://maps.nls.uk/pont/texts/transcripts/ponttext153v-154r.html). The same maps also give examples of Castel(l) + place name: <Castell Nagair> and <Castell Megarie> (http://maps.nls.uk/pont/texts/transcripts/ponttext86v-87r.html). A period Scots form of the locative would be Castel(l) Campbele or Campbele Castel(l). Therefore, a reasonable lingua anglica form would be Castle Campbell. However, the spelling Campbell is found in Scots, dated 1492-1650 in Aryanhwy merch Catmael, "Index of Scots names found in Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue" (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/scots/dost/campbell.html). Furthermore, the spelling castle is found in 1640 in the RPS:

..as may appeir by the garisone, armes and ammunitione in the castell of Edinburghe and by materiellis furnished thame be the toune, and one the other pairt scandalous relationis of our parliamentarie proceedingis have beene mad at the counsall table of England, and the benefiet of heiring befoir the counsall denyit to our commissioneris, great violence and outrage done by the castle of Edinburghe, not onlie against men and buildingis bot weomen and childrine, our shipis and goodis takine at sea, and the owneris stryped naked and barbarouslie usit, a commissione givine for subdeweing and destroying of this whole kingdome, all thingis devysed and done that may make a rupture and irreconcilable warre betuixt the tuo kingdomes... [The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2011), 1640/6/6; http://www.rps.ac.uk/mss/1640/6/6].

As such, the locative is also plausible in period Scots, so the lingua anglica allowance need not be used. The scribal abbreviation has been expanded, so the first byname is now MacCay.

52: Tristan le Goth - New Name forwarded

No major changes. Tristan is found in Dauzat as a header form, where it is described as an ancient baptismal name that became fashionable through the Breton romances (frequent at end of 13th Century, Paris Rôles de taille). It is also the name of multiple men in Jean Froissart's Chroniques (written 1373-1400), such as <Tristan de la Gaille>, found in M.S. Berlin Rehdiger 3, fol. 120v (http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/onlinefroissart/browsey.jsp?AbsDiv=ms.f.transc.Bre-3&AbsPb=Bre-3_120v). The French transcriptions at the Online Froissart do not appear to have been normalized (the English translations are normalized). le Goth is grandfathered to the submitter via the name of his father, Gaston le Goth, registered Feb. 2008 via the East. Documentation of the relationship has been provided:

I, <name>, known in the SCA as Gaston Le Goth, attest that <name>, known in the SCA as Tristan Le Goth, is my legal son. <Signed with legal name>, date: 8/5/11

The submitter will accept intermediate changes.

The original documentation for the father's name included the following: the online French dictionary at "Le Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé" (TLFi, http://atilf.atilf.fr/) identifies goth as a 16th century adjective derived from the Latin Gothi 'the Goths.' The entry dates two (apparently plural) spellings to period: <Gotz> (1521) and <Gothz> (1532). The term gothes is also a header in the MED. An example from the MED is "(a1387) Trev. Higd.(StJ-C H.1) 1.151: &Thorn;he firste Amazones were þe wyfes of Gothes [L Gothorum]." As such, it is thought that name was a plausible vernacular French or English form, and that there should be no problems with using the grandfather clause to register the name.

53: Ysabella de Conventre - New Name forwarded & New Device forwarded

Per fess sable and vert, an increscent and a pawprint argent.

Language (Scottish, 14th century) most important. Culture (Scottish, 14th century) most important. Ysabella is found in Talan Gwynek, "A list of feminine personal names found in Scottish Records; part two: pre-1400 Names", s.n. Isabel. The submitted spelling is dated to 1365. de Conventre Black, s.n. Coventry, lists a <Thomas de Conventre> who was canon of Caithness, 1348. There is a step from period practice for the use of a pawprint.

54: Ghita da Solari - New Resub Device returned

Per pale Or and gules, a sun and a chief rayonny counterchanged.

Ghita's name was registered on the Aug. 2010 LoAR (East). Her device resubmission was pended in order to give time to obtain a letter of permission to conflict with the device of Liudmila Vladimirova doch' (April 2004, Caid), Per pale Or and gules, a sun in splendour counterchanged. Sadly, the letter could not be obtained, although permission had been tentatively granted. As a result, the device is being returned. It should also be noted that, although it was blazoned on the form as a sun in splendor, the sun in the submission was the generic kind. A sun in splendor has a face.

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