Alys Mackyntoich
eastern.crown@eastkingdom.org

6 December 2012

Unto to East Kingdom College of Heralds, upon the Feast of Saint Nicholas, greetings and every good thing! Here is the Letter of Decisions for the October, 2012 Internal Letter of Intent. The original text from the iLoI is bolded, and is followed by my comments in unbolded text. Note that the submissions are being evaluated under the new Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory (SENA).

Thank you to the following commenters: Abdullah ibn Harun, Aritê gunê Akasa, Aryanhwy merch Catmael, Ásfríðr Úlfvíðardóttir, Brunissende Dragonette, Domhnall na Moicheirghe, Eldrich Gaiman, Etienne Le Mons, Gawain of Miskbridge, Gisela vom Kreuzbach, Gunnvor silfraharr, Gwenlliana Clutterbooke, Jeanne Marie Lacroix, Joscelin le esqurel, Juetta Copin, Katerinka Lvovicha of the Two Kingdoms, Kolosvari Arpadne Julia, Lillia de Vaux, Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada, Marie de Blois, Marietta da Firenze, Martyn de Halliwell, Magnus von Lubeck, Palotzi Marta, Solveig Throndardottir, Tanczos Istvan, Ursula Georges and Yehuda ben Moshe. Your work is invaluable.

I would also like to thank Asa in svarta who has served as Blue Tyger for several years. Asa has stepped down in order to deal with the damage to her home from Hurricane Sandy (fortunately Asa herself is just fine). Istvan is taking on the role of Blue Tyger temporarily in order to train Joscelin le esqurel to take up the job on a permanent basis. My deepest thanks to Asa, Istvan and Joscelin for their service.

Your servant,
Alys Mackyntoich
Eastern Crown Herald

1: Christoffel d'Allaines-le-Comte - New Device Pended

Azure semy of ears of wheat, on a pale Or a sword azure.

Commenters were nearly unanimous in their inability to identify the ears of wheat. Period examples of ears of wheat, such as those found in the 15th cen. Armorial de Gilles le Bouvier, have more prominent circular heads. SENA A.1.D states "depictions which are ambiguous as to tincture, the identity of a charge, the posture or orientation of an element, the arrangement of a group, etc. cannot be reliably blazoned and will be returned for a redraw." Since this was a Pennic submission, rather than a drawing by the submitter, I will attempt to find someone who can perform a re-draw as a courtesy to the submitter.

2: Christoffel d'Allaines-le-Comte - New Badge Pended

Azure, an ear of wheat and a sword in saltire Or.

Commenters were nearly unanimous in their inability to identify the ears of wheat. Period examples of ears of wheat, such as those found in the 15th cen. Armorial de Gilles le Bouvier, have more prominent circular heads. SENA A.1.D states "depictions which are ambiguous as to tincture, the identity of a charge, the posture or orientation of an element, the arrangement of a group, etc. cannot be reliably blazoned and will be returned for a redraw." Since this was a Pennic submission, rather than a drawing by the submitter, I will attempt to find someone who can perform a re-draw as a courtesy to the submitter.

3: Eibhlín an Fraoich - Resub Device Forwarded

Per chevron azure and argent, a sewing needle azure.

This device is a resubmission of a device returned by the East Kingdom on the October 2006 LoD. The submitter's original device, Azure, a chevron between two sewing needles and thistle argent, was returned for conflicts with Angela of the Stoney Oak Forest (Jun. 1984 via the Middle), Azure, a chevron between two acorns and an oak leaf argent; Beorn Collenferth (Oct. 1982 via Meridies), Azure, a chevron between a harp, an axe reversed and a sabre-toothed tiger statant argent; and Rannveigr Haakonardottir (Dec. 1983 via the East), Azure, a chevron between two falcons close respectant and a drakkar's prow reversed argent. This is a complete redesign.

4: Hartman Foscari da Ferrara - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Azure, a lion contourny and an orle embattled on the inner edge Or.

Hartman is found in Talan Gwyneck's article "Medieval German Given Names from Silesia" (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/bahlow_v.htm).

Appendix C of SENA permits names combining Italian and German. (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/sena.html#AppendixC).

Italian and German can be combined under Appendix C of SENA as long as the name elements are within 300 years of each other. Talan's article dates Hartman to 1281, which is within 300 years of Italian names documented to the fourteenth century. The device should be clear of Connor Buchanan (September 1995, Middle): Azure, a bicorporate lion within a bordure dovetailed Or, with one DC for the difference between a bordure dovetailed and an orle embattled on the inner edge, and a second DC for the difference between a bicorporate lion and a lion with a single body.

5: Isabele de Guildeford - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Quarterly Or and azure, four roses counterchanged overall a fox sejant contourny argent.

Isabele is found as a given name in Withycombe under the heading Isabel(la) with the submitted spelling dated to 1196.

de Guildeford is found s.n. Guildford in Reaney & Wilson with this spelling dated to 1275.

The majority of commenters had no difficulty identifying the argent fox on the multi-colored field.

6: Isabella d'Allaines-le-Comte - Resub Device Returned

Vert, a cauldron and in chief two ladles in saltire, bowls to base, a flame issuant from base Or.

The submitter's original device was returned on the June 2003 LoAR for the following reason:

Isabella d'Allaines-le-Comte. Device. Vert, three seeblatter Or. The device conflicts with Annabella of Lochwinnoch, registered January 2003, Purpure, three hearts Or. There is one CD for changing the field. Prior precedent gives no difference between a heart and a seeblatt: "[Quarterly azure and vert, a heart Or] Conflict with ... A seeblatt Or. There is a CD for the fieldlessness, but by current precedent none for the change in type of the charges. There are period arms that are blazoned both as having hearts and as having seeblatter (see the May 1993 LoAR pg. 17 for the full discussion)" (LoAR of May 2000).

Unfortunately, this device must be returned for violating SENA A.3.D.2.c, which states: "A charge group in which postures for different charges must be blazoned individually will not be allowed without period examples of that combination of postures." The ladles and the flame are in the same charge group, but "two in saltire and one" is not a single unified arrangement because its elements must be blazoned separately. The May 2012 Cover letter gives the following example, which is directly applicable:

For example, two swords in saltire and a lion is a mixed-type charge group consisting of inanimate charges and animate charges, which do not have comparable postures. However, the entire group is not in a single unified arrangement, but instead has the swords and the lion arranged separately. This is not an allowable arrangement under A3D2c, without further documentation of its use in period.

7: Isabella d'Allaines-le-Comte - New Badge Returned

Vert, two ladles in saltire, bowls to base, and a flame issuant from base Or.

Unfortunately, this badge must be returned for violating SENA A.3.D.2.c, which states: "A charge group in which postures for different charges must be blazoned individually will not be allowed without period examples of that combination of postures." The ladles and the flame are in the same charge group, but "two in saltire and one" is not a single unified arrangement because its elements must be blazoned separately. The May 2012 Cover letter gives the following example, which is directly applicable:

For example, two swords in saltire and a lion is a mixed-type charge group consisting of inanimate charges and animate charges, which do not have comparable postures. However, the entire group is not in a single unified arrangement, but instead has the swords and the lion arranged separately. This is not an allowable arrangement under A3D2c, without further documentation of its use in period.

8: Iuliana Rossini da Palermo - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Per chevron sable and azure, two sea-horses argent and an anchor Or.

Juliana appears in "Italian names from Imola, 1312" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/italian/imolafemalph.html). The submitter would prefer the spelling Iuliana if it can be documented.

Rossini appears as a family name in "Family Names Appearing in the Catasto of 1427" (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ferrante/catasto/family_names.html). The submitter would like the spelling Rossani if it can be documented.

The submitter allows adding/deleting a word like "de" or "the" or changing language when the change is small.

Commenters were unable to find the requested spelling Rossani; however, they were able to support the requested spelling of Iuliana. Two examples of Iuliana appear in Aryanhwy merch Catmael's "Names from an Early 16th C Census of Rome" (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/italian/leox-census.html). In addition,"Italian names from Imola, 1312" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/italian/imolafemalph.html) shows evidence of 'I' and 'J' being used interchangeably in Latinized contexts, in Imigla and Jmigla, and Jacobina and Iacobina. Since the cited Juliana is also in a Latinized context, the evidence also supports Iuliana. I have made the submitter's requested change.

9: Kamejima Saburou Takauji - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Vert, three laths fretted in triangle within an annulet argent.

Kamejima a constructed locative family name: Kame- (turtle) as in Kameyama (turtle-mountain) NCMJ 2ed p. 175 -shima (island) as in Kawashima (river-island) NCMJ 2ed p. 146 Kame (turtle) + shima (island) SH -> J is a regular phonetic transformation in Japanese involving voicing the SH sound.

Taka'uji is found as a masculine nanori dating to 1332 in NCMJ 2ed page 359.

Rocket noted that -Shima is found as the second element in names from 1183 onwards and Kame- as first element from 1332. Saburou is dated 1572. Taka'uji means "Tall Family". An example of the SHI->JI transformation after 'e' is found in NCMJ, Samejima on p. 146.

The device was originally blazoned as Vert, a three-sided Japanese well frame within an annulet argent. Japanese well frames, however, uniformly have four sides. Istvan Non Scripta suggested the new blazon Vert, three laths fretted in triangle within an annulet argent, which I have adopted as a better description of the submitted image. This would not be the first registration of a lath, the defining instance being the device of Takahara Otoshi (August 1997, Calontir): Sable, five roundels in annulo within four lathes fretted as on a mascle Or. A lath is a period charge: Parker mentions the blazon of the arms of the Bricklayer's and Tiler's company, incorporated 1508 (sic): Azure, a chevron or; in chief a fleur-de-lis argent, between two brick axes paleways of the second, in base a bunch of laths of the last. The livery company's website (http://www.tylersandbricklayers.co.uk/) says they were chartered in 1568. Istvan Non Scripta also noted that "four lathes fretted as on a mascle" is an alternate blazon for a "Japanese well-frame".

10: Kara Saruca bint Abdullah - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Azure, on a fess or between two crescents argent an Arabic penbox sable.

All elements and the name structure are found in "Sixteenth-Century Turkish Names" by Ursula Georges (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ursula/ottoman/). The structure [descriptive byname] + [given name] + [patronymic] is described in Ursula's article (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ursula/ottoman/).

bint Abdullah - daughter of Abdullah (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ursula/ottoman/turkishnames.html).

11: Krystina Nikolaeva Vladimirova - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Purpure, two ermines passant reguardant proper.

Krystina is dated to 1595 s.n. Khristina in "A Dictionary of Period Russian Names" by Paul Wickenden of Thanet, Third Edition, p. 143.

Vladimirova is a patronymic formed from Vladimir, dated to 1053 in Wickenden.

Lillia Diademe noted that double patronymics in Russian are permitted by Appendix A of SENA. The low contrast between the black tail tip of the ermines and the purple field is not an issue. The July 2010 Cover Letter states: "As long as the charge maintains its identifiability, minor details, even minor details which are identifying characteristics, may have no contrast with the underlying tinctures."

12: Mlada Monguligin - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Gules, a tamga consisting of a pallet couped crossed with a sans-serif letter "M" inverted argent, issuant from a trimount vert.

Lada is found listed as a masculine name in Wickenden p. 180, glossed as "Beloved" and lists Erema Lada, recorded in 1616.

Please discuss a possible conflict with the modern arms of Hungary: Gules, a cross of Lorraine argent issuant from a trimount vert.

No documentation was provided for the assertion that Mongulig was a period tribal name comparable to the Tatars. However, since the Eastern College's Mongolian resources are limited, I have opted to send this name up for more commentary.

Some question was raised about whether Lada was a given name or a byname. I find Wickenden's entry unclear on this point. The female given name Mlada appears in Wickenden (http://heraldry.sca.org/paul/mi.html) dated to 971; I have changed the given name to match this definitive documentation for a given name. Although the submitter permits no major changes, I consider the addition of one letter to be a minor change.

Commenters generally agreed that this device conflicts with the modern arms of Hungary. However, Wreath and Laurel have requested that this device be sent up as a test case. The device was originally blazoned as Gules, a tamga consisting of a pallet couped crossed with an Uncial sans-serif letter "M" inverted argent, issuant from a trimount vert. I have removed the reference to Uncial since that part of the image in no way matches an Uncial letter M. There was some debate as to whether the white object was properly blazoned as a tamga, but I leave that for further commentary.

13: Le{o'} Finnason - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Or, a monkey rampant contourny sable capped gules maintaining a grenade azure.

Le{o'} is a masculine given name appearing in Geirr Bassi at p. 13.

Finni likewise appears in Geirr Bassi at p. 9. According to the rules for forming a patronymic set out in Geirr-Bassi, -i becomes -a, then add -son.

Commenters questioned whether the fez-like hat of the monkey was obtrusively modern. However, evidence was provided of several similar-looking caps being worn (even in one case by some sort of animal) in period manuscripts. Therefore I am forwarding this device.

14: Madok Arwe - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Per bend sinister gules and azure, in bend sinister two arrows bendwise inverted Or.

Madok is found in Tangwystl's "A Simple Guide to Constructing 13th Century Welsh Names" (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/welsh13.html), under Madog.

Welsh and Middle English are within a single regional naming group in Appendix C.

Commenters were universally of the opinion that the arrows need to be more prominently drawn. However, because the arrows are still identifiable as arrows, this issue can be addressed with an artist's note.

15: Matthäus Kettner - New Name Forwarded and New Device Pended

Argent, a chevron azure surmounted by a brown weasel rampant regardant proper, in chief two borage flowers azure.

Matthäus - "Late Period German Masculine Given Names", by Talan Gwynek (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/germmasc.html#plauen14) gives Matthäus from 1301 - 1350 as a Christian origin name from Plauen.

Kettner - Barlow p. 64 has Kettner as byname for "Chainmaker" with Conrad der Ketner dated to 1340 in Eger. The submitter would like "Kettenmacher", if that form can be documented.

Commenters were unable to find evidence to support the requested Kettenmacher. Kettner, however, appears in the IGI Parish Records Extracts from Germany:

Balthus Kettner Male Marriage 17 Sep 1570 Evangelisch, Esslingen, Neckarkreis, Wuerttemberg Batch: M94136-2
Joannes Kettner Male Christening 21 May 1584 Evangelisch, Rietenau, Neckarkreis, Wuerttemberg Batch: C92296-1
Martin Kettner Male Christening 29 Jun 1578 Evangelisch, Rietenau, Neckarkreis, Wuerttemberg Batch: C92296-1

16: Melesina of Quintavia - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Azure, a monster with the body of a woman, the tail of a serpent, and the wings of a dragon, erect to dexter Or.

Melesina is found in the IGI Extracted Parish Records:

Melesina Koenig Female 16 Jan 1591 EVANGELISCH, EHNINGEN, NECKARKREIS, WUERTTEMBERG Batch C95960-1
Melesina Schueelin Female Apr 1569 EVANGELISCH, BOPFINGEN, JAGSTKREIS, WUERTTEMBERG Batch C92388-1

The constructed monster charge is unproblematic. SENA A.2.b.2.c. Constructed Monsters states: "There is a pattern of creating monsters by combining elements from different animals and monsters used in heraldry. Thus, a new monster that follows these patterns is registerable. Items which can be constructed using this rule are registerable, even if it recreates a named heraldic monster which is demonstrated to be a wholly post-period invention in real-world heraldry." However, there are several possible conflicts that require a ruling on whether this constructed monster is sufficiently different from the heraldic pithon:

Windhaven, Barony of, (July 1994, Middle): Azure, a sea-pithon within a laurel wreath Or.
Windhaven, Barony of (April 2006, Northshield): Azure, a sea-pithon between in fess two acorns and in chief another Or.
Windhaven, Barony of (April 2006, Northshield): Azure, a sea-pithon between four mullets in cross Or.
Windhaven, Barony of (April 2006, Northshield): Azure, a sea-pithon between in fess two suns in their splendor and in chief another Or.
Ruslan Kievskii (January 1999, Caid): Per pale gules and azure, a pithon erect Or.

17: Michael Wernsdorf - New Name Forwarded and New Device Returned

Sable, a mount of five peaks issuant from base argent and on a chief Or a double headed eagle sable.

Michael is found in Brechenmacher (volume K-Z), page 266, under the header Michael or under the header Michel, which dates this spelling to 1340.

Given plus byname is listed as a pattern for German names in Appendix A of SENA.

Unfortunately, this device must be returned for a redraw because, as drawn, it blurs the line between a chief and a per fess division.

18: Orso Tano da Firenze - New Name Forwarded

Orso is a given name found in "Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532" (http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/tratte/doc/name1.html).

da Firenze appears as a surname in "Fourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names," by Arval Benicoeur and Talan Gwynek (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/venice14/venice14sur.html#table).

19: Peternella von Mümpf - New Name Forwarded and New Device Pended

Azure, on a chevron between three oak leaves argent three borage flowers azure.

Peternella is a German feminine given name dated to 1497 in Aryanhwy merch Catmael's "German Names from Nürnberg, 1497" (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/nurnberg1497.html)

von Mümpf - Mümpf shown on a map (southwest of Basel) dated to 1550 which can be seen at: http://www.zumbo.ch/maps/navigate/navigate.php?map_nr=68 The same town can be found in Bahlow and Brechenmacher: Bahlow (Gentry translation ed.), p. 338 s.n. Mumph, dates Peter Mumphe to 1290. Brechenmacher (p. 294 s.n. Mumpf) dates Peter gen. Munphe to 1290. The submitter will accept the documented spelling Mumphe if the submitted spelling is not registerable.

With respect to the device, the flowers were originally blazoned as larkspur. Larkspur is a common name shared between perennial Delphinium species and annual species of the genus Consolida. Lillia Diademe posted several images of larkspur from period herbals and they do not resemble the flowers in this device. They are more accurately blazoned as borage flowers, and I would make that change (as reflected in the revised blazon above). However, since Gisela Triton indicated that the reference to larkspur is important to the submitter, I will contact the submitter about whether she would prefer a return and redraw to make these flowers more recognizably larkspur.

20: Raziya bint Rusa - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Purpure, a serpent involved Or and on a chief argent three ravens sable.

All elements are found in "Arabic Naming Practices and Period Names List" by Da'ud ibn Auda (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/arabic-naming2.htm).

The submitter allows adding/deleting a word like "de" or "the" or changing language when the change is small.

21: Richard of Smoking Rocks - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Or, an anvil within a serpent in annulo and on a chief sable two mullets of four points elongated to base argent.

Richard found in "Late 16th Century English Names" by Talan Gwynek (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/eng16/eng16mfreq.html), where it is the fourth most popular masculine given name.

Smoking Rocks, Barony of was registered in February of 2005 via the East.

22: Roseia Bendyn Weyr - New Name Change Forwarded and Resub Device Returned

Argent, a lighthouse gules.

Roseia is grandfathered to the submitter.

Bendyn appears in the IGI Parish Records (extracts):

Alyce Bendyn Female Christening 03 Jan 1579 Cranbook, Kent England Batch: C02159-6

Commenters were divided on whether the name was an obtrusively modern or presumptive reference to Benden Weyr a significant place in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern book series. SENA: III.A.6. states:

6. Names of Significant Geographical Locations from Literary Sources - Locations in period or modern literary works of all genres and media (including visual, aural, and written works) may be protected on a case by case basis. Such protection will be afforded if the College of Arms deems them worthy of protection. In general terms, major locations from important literary works are likely to be deemed worthy of protection. These names will not be listed in the Society Armorial, but are still protected.

Unfortunately, this device has multiple conflicts:

John of Manchester (Dec. 1971): Argent, a tower gules and in base a pheon inverted sable; there is a single DC for the pheon. There is no difference between a tower and a lighthouse. [Ysende Herberiour, 01/2007; Oldenfeld, Barony of, 05/2007].
Rudolf der Schütze (Jan. 2005, Atlantia): Argent, a tower gules within a bordure quarterly sable and vert; there is only a single DC for the bordure.
Isles, Shire of the (Nov. 1989, Caid): Barry wavy argent and azure, a tower gules; there is only a single DC for the field.
Edwin FitzLloyd (Sept. 1983, Ansteorra): Ermine, chaussé raguly vert, a tower gules; there is only a single DC for the changes to the field.

23: Séamus mac Neachtain - New Household Name Returned

Gleipnirvirki

Gleipnir, m. the Lissom, name of the mythol. fetter in Edda 19. An Icelandic-English Dictionary by Cleasby/Vigfusson page 203 http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/html/oi_cleasbyvigfusson/b0203.html

Virki, n. = verk, Anecd. 8 new Ed.: esp. in compds, íll-virki, stór-v., þrek-v., mann-v., qq.v. II. a work (= wark in bulwark, Southwark, etc.), wall, stronghold, castle, Bs. i. 672, Landn. 69; hann lét göra kirkju á Agðanesi, ok þar virki ok höfn, Fms. vii. 100; virki þat er heitir Skarðaborg, the work that is called Scarborough, Korm. 24, Stj. 509, O.H.L. 10; virkis-armr, the wing of a castle, Nj. 247; virkis-dyrr, -garðr, -horn, -hurð, -veggr, -stokkr, Fms. iii. 148, Sturl. i. 31, Krók. 56, Bs. i. 672, Eb. 310, Gullþ. 10; virkis-maðr, a defender in a work, Eb. 310

This household name must be returned due to several problems: (1) The name is lacking a household designator as required by SENA NPN.1.B. NPN.1.B.3 states "The designators for household names must be documented as a form describing a group of people in a particular culture." This submission appears to be a place name without any accompanying designator. The documentation does not show that the element -virki was used to describe a group of people. (2) Gleipnir was the mythological fetter used to bind the Fenris Wolf; no evidence was provided showing that mythological artifacts were used to create Scandinavian place names or household names. (3) The construction of the name is not grammatically correct. The first element would need to be genitive, which Gunnvor Orle advises would be Gleipnis-.

24: Séamus mac Neachtain - New Badge Returned

(Fieldless) In pale four valknuts, upright, inverted, upright, inverted all conjoined gules.

This badge must be returned for violating SENA A.3.D.2.c Unity of Posture and Orientation, which states: "The charges within a charge group should be in either identical postures/orientations or an arrangement that includes posture/orientation (in cross, combatant, or in pall points outward, for example). A charge group in which postures for different charges must be blazoned individually will not be allowed without period examples of that combination of postures. " The valknuts here run afoul of SENA because they need to be blazoned individually to reproduce the emblazon. Commenters also found that the alternating orientations of the valknuts made them difficult to identify.

25: Sephare Dryden - New Device Forwarded

Argent, in pale a raven volant wings addorsed sable sustaining an apple gules.

The raven and apple are co-primary charges.

26: Sergei Rozvad syn - New Name Forwarded and New Device Pended

Argent, a domestic cat courant sable and on a chief embattled azure a shepherd's crook fesswise Or.

Sergei is found in Wickenden 3rd ed. p. 313 as a masculine given name dated to 1456.

syn is used to mark a patronymic, per pg. xxii of Wickenden 3rd. ed.

The cat as drawn was far closer to passant than courant. Communication with the submitter confirmed that he wished the cat to be courant. As an artist volunteered to handle the redraw, I am pending rather than returning the device.

27: Stæina knýtir - New Name Change Forwarded

Stæina is from Lind Supplement, col 954 s.n Steini, -a, the entry says "Stæina, g. -ae DN III 109(24), 111(17) (1317-18).

The submitter allows adding/deleting a word like "de" or "the" or changing language when the change is small.

28: Suuder Saran - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Per chevron inverted sable and purpure, in pale a crescent argent and a flame Or.

Suunder - translates at freelang.net/online/mongolian as shadow.

The submitter desires a name meaning shadow of the moon, as in eclipse.

I would prefer better documentation for the name, but the Eastern College's Mongolian resources are limited, so I am forwarding this for more informed commentary.

29: Thomas of Smoking Rocks - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Per pale vert and gules, two goats rampant addorsed Or.

Thomas is found in Withycombe under that header spelling which states the name was found in England before the Norman Conquest and continues, "In the later Middle Ages Thomas was one of the commonest men's names...". It further cites Thomas to 1086.

Smoking Rocks, Barony of was registered in February of 2005 via the East.

This device appears clear of Christophe de Lorraine (11/2003, Atenveldt), Per pale azure and sable, two goats clymant Or, with a DC for the field and a second DC for the orientation of half the charges.

30: Tiago Raposa Santos - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Or, a fox's mask and on a chief sable three hawks bells Or.

Tiago - The submitter asserts that Tiago is a diminutive of Santiago, found in "16th Century Spanish Names Masculine Given Names" by Elisabeth Anne Roth (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/spanish/male-given-alpha.html), but provides no support for this assertion. The submitter will accept Santiago if Tiago cannot be documented.

Spanish and Portuguese are part of the same language group under Appendix C of SENA (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/sena.html#AppendixC).

Lillia Diademe found evidence supporting Tiago as a given name in CORDE:

1 a Sant Illifonso, cuyo nombre abemos, & a Sant Tiago, que es Nuestro Sennor & Nuestro Padrón, & cuyo ** a 1284
2 Castela Ferrer en la Historia de la venida de San Tiago a España lib. 1, cap. 21 diçe ser el lugar que ** c 1611
9 r cavallero de la milicia y orden del apóstol san Tiago, como por ser tan amador y estudioso de la mili ** 1536
10 imonio contra él. E por ende dize el apóstol Sant Tiago en la su canónica, Jacobi quinto cao: "Agitte n ** a 1400 - a 1500
11 ar sus Magestades; dio buelta por la calle de San-Tiago, por donde vino a recogerse a su Casa. Iba dela ** 1640