June 2013 East Kingdom Internal Letter of Decisions

Alys Mackyntoich
eastern.crown@eastkingdom.org

27 July 2013

Unto to the East Kingdom College of Heralds, upon the Feast of the Transfiguration, greetings and every good thing! Here is the Letter of Decisions for both June 2013 Internal Letters of Intent. The original text from the iLoI is bolded, and is followed by my comments in unbolded text.

Thank you to the following commenters: Abdullah ibn Harun (Sinking Tower); Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Schwarzdrachen); Brunissende Dragonette; Eleazar ha-Levi; Etienne Le Mons (Vexillum); ffride wlffsdotter (Goutte d'Eau); Gunnvor silfraharr (Orle); Joscelin le esqurel (Blue Tyger); Kiho; Lillia de Vaux (Diademe); Maridonna Benvenuti; Marie de Blois (Palimpsest); Martyn de Halliwell; Modar Neznanich (Volk); Ryan McWhyte (Brigantia); Simeon ben Iucef de Alcacar; Tanczos Istvan (Non Scripta); and Yehuda ben Moshe (Elmet). My work would be impossible without your valuable help. Special thanks to Istvan Non Scripta for his help with this month's decisions.

Your servant,
Alys Mackyntoich
Eastern Crown Herald

1: Anlon Find mac Robartaigh - Resub Badge Forwarded

(Fieldless) Three chevronels couped and braced azure.

This is a resubmission. The identical design was pended for a redraw on the East's 15 September 2012 LoD to address the following issue identified by commenters:

The badge as drawn couped the outer edge of the chevronels along the edge of the fieldless badge form. Commenters uniformly advised that the badge should be redrawn to depict all three chevrons in full. Eastern Crown will arrange for a re-draw to address this issue.

The redraw addresses the problems with the original submission.

2: Arnbi{o,}rg Niálsdóttir - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Purpure, on a bend engrailed between two axes bendwise argent an arrow inverted purpure.

Arnbi{o,}rg is a female given name found in "Viking Names found in the Landnámabók," by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html).

The same name, spelled Arnbjorg, is also found at p. 7 in Geirr Bassi. The submitter prefers whichever spelling is more authentic for Viking Age Sweden.

Njálsdóttir - Geirr Bassi p. 13 lists Njáll as a masculine given name of Celtic origin. According to p. 17 of Geirr Bassi on the formation of patronymics, the proper genitive form of Njáll is Njáls, yielding Njálsdóttir.

The patronymic was submitted as Njálsdóttir but I have changed it to Niálsdóttir to meet the submitter's request for authenticity for Viking Age Sweden. Aryanhwy Sans Repose noted that the use of j in Norse transcriptions developed in the 18th century. Commentary suggested that the spelling Arnborg might be more appropriate for Sweden; however, because I think this suggestion would benefit from more commentary I have not changed the given name.

3: Aurelia di Giovanni Bedic - New Name Forwarded

Aurelia is the subject of Academy of St. Gabriel Report 3230, which states: There are two 16th century Italian women writers, and . [3] We also found a woman from Palermo named who was baptised sometime between 1561 and 1563 [4], and in a book from the end of the 16th century/beginning of the 17th century we find and .[5] The cited footnotes are:

[3] Ockerbloom, Mary Mark, ed., "A Celebration of Women Writers: Writers from Italy" (WWW: University of Pennsylvania, no date) http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/ITALY.html
[4] Lyneya Fairbowe, unpublished research based on a baptismal register from Palermo 1561-3 that is available from the research library of the Church of the Latter Day Saints.
[5] "Cesare Negri's Le Gratie d'Amore / Nuove Inventioni Di Balli (1602/1604)" (WWW: Gregory Blount of Isenfir). http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/negri/ (http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/negri/transcription/0006.clean.html)

Giovanni is a male given name found in "Names from Sixteenth Century Venice" by Juliana de Luna (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/16thcvenice.html). di Giovanni follows the standard pattern for forming Italian patronymics set out in Appendix A of SENA.

Appendix A of SENA states that the pattern [given] + [patronymic] + [family name] is found in Italian, and that "patronymic bynames in these patterns are generally marked with di."

Bedic is the submitter's legal surname, as confirmed by Yehuda Elmet and Alys Eastern Crown. She is using it in the position of the family name in the naming pattern; this should be well within the scope of the Legal Name Allowance.

The submitter would like the family name Bedicci or Bedici if it can be documented.

So far, we have had no luck documenting Bedicci or Bedici, so the name is being forwarded as submitted.

4: Avonmore, Shire of - New Branch Name Forwarded and New Device Returned

Per chevron inverted purpure and sable, in pale a lighthouse and a laurel wreath Or.

The Shire's name is based on the name of a river in Ireland, recorded in the Annals of the Four Masters in entry dated 1578 in Gaelic as Abhainn Mhóir, translated into English as Avonmore:

M1578.7: O Ceallacháin do bhathadh i n-Abhainn Mhóir . . . (http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100005E/index.html).
M1578.7: O'Callaghan, i.e. Callaghan, the son of Conor, son of Donough, son of Teige Roe, was drowned in the River Avonmore . . . (http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/T100005E.html).

SENA NPN 1.C.2.c on the Lingua Anglica rule in non-personal names states:
c. Lingua Anglica Allowance: We also allow the registration of translations of attested and constructed household names, heraldic titles, and order names into standard modern English, which we call the lingua Anglica rule. We allow this because the meanings of these names would have been clear to the speakers of these languages, but may be unclear to modern speakers. The translation must be a literal, plausible and complete translation. Under no circumstances will translations of the meanings of given names or placenames be registerable under this rule.
Note that SENA does not expressly allow for the Lingua Anglica forms of branch names. Please discuss.

I received no commentary on whether the Lingua Anglica allowance should be applied for branch names. However, with assistance from Aryanhwy Sans Repose, we were able to document Avonmore as a constructed English name. Avon is dated to c.1540 in Watts s.n. Avon. Ekwall p. 330 s.n. mor gives the element mor as a place name element meaning "moor, waste upland; fen." Ekwall p. 331 s.n. More gives the period spelling la More dated to 1198. Use of this element as the second element in place names is found in Exmoor -- Ekwall p. 171 s.n. Exe, with the dated spelling Exemora (1204) -- and Dartmoor -- Ekwall p. 139 s.n. Dart, with the dated spelling Dertemora (1182). This evidence suggests Avonmore as a plausible constructed place name.

Unfortunately, this device must be returned because the line of division is not correctly drawn as per chevron inverted. Per chevron inverted issues from the side of the field, not the top corners. Nor could the purpure portion of the field be considered a pile or a chief triangular, as purpure charges cannot be placed on sable fields.

5: Bhakail, Barony of - New Order Name Forwarded and New Badge Forwarded

Order of the Pasguarde

Gules, a sword bendwise sinister proper sustained by an armored arm embowed argent issuant from a demi-sun issuant from sinister Or.

This order name follows the pattern of naming orders after objects or heraldic charges found in "Medieval Secular Order Names" by Juliana de Luna (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/order/new/).

A pasguarde is a plate reinforcement for the left elbow used in jousting, discussed in "A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries" by Guy Francis Laking (1921) (http://www.archive.org/stream/recordofeuropean04lakiuoft/recordofeuropean04lakiuoft_djvu.txt).

The relevant section of Laking's book quotes a 1629 Greenwich inventory of "the greate chamber late Mr. Pickerings," which contains the item: "Diverse parcell of the Earl of Pembrokes armo'viz. one Tilte headpeece one Grandguard one Pasguarde one Mainefree one Turning Gauntlett and one Shafforne." The OED s.n. pass-guard gives the spelling pace guarde (a1548).

The blazon was changed to clarify the relative positions of all of the charges.

6: Bhakail, Barony of - New Order Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Order of the Eft

Vert, in pale a lotus blossom in profile and a natural salamander tergiant Or.

Evete is a Middle English term for a newt, lizard or salamander, found in the Middle English Dictionary:

c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174) 544/8: Lacerta: evete. a1225(?c1175) PMor.(Trin-C B.14.52) 277: þar beð naddren and snaken, eueten [vrr. euete, euethen] and fruden. a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1) 531: Crapaude e lezart [glossed: tode..hevete]. a1350 SLeg.Patr.(Ashm 43) 12: No foul worm in Irlond..bbote alute schort euete; & 3ut heo is tailes. (a1387) Trev. Higd.(StJ-C H.1) 1.335: Enettes [read: Euettes; L lacertas]. (a1398) * Trev. Barth.(Add 27944) 59a/a: þe kynde of euetis [genus lacertarum]. (a1398) * Trev. Barth.(Add 27944) 268b/b: þe tail of þe serpent groweþ eft if it is y kutte a way as þe tayl of an euete. (a1398) * Trev. Barth.(Add 27944) 297b/a: Salamandra is a manere kynde of ewte ouþer of leesarde and is a pestilence beste and most venemous. (a1398) * Trev. Barth.(Add 27944) 297b/b: þe lusard is a manere kynde of euete and crepeþ and is foure footed and cloue foted. (a1398) * Trev. Barth.(Add 27944) 324b/b: Evete eiren beþ liche to serpentes eiren. c1400(?a1300) *KAlex.(LdMisc 622) 6110: Eueten, snaken & paddes brood. ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16) 40/22: In þat abbeye ne entreth not no flye, ne todes, ne ewtes. (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221) 355: Newte or ewte, wyrme: Lacertus.

The Barony believes that eft is the Lingua Anglica form of evete and therefore registerable.

The OED entry for eft has the following:

Forms: 1. efeta, -e, 2-4 euete, 2-7 evete, 4 auete, 4-6 ewt(e, (5 eefte, 6 ewft, euit), 6-8 euet, (8 eff, 9 dial. effet, evvet), 7 - eft. See also NEWT. [OE efeta, of unknown origin. The form NEWT (a newt corruptly for an ewt) is more frequent in literary use, and in some dialects has superceded the older form.] A small lizard or lizard-like animal. Now (like NEWT) chiefly applied to the Greater Water-Newt (Triton cristatus) and to the Smooth Newt (Lophinus punctatus), of the order Salamandridæ.

This seems to me to be reasonable support for Order of the Eft as a Lingua Anglica form.

7: Bhakail, Barony of - New Order Name Forwarded and New Badge Forwarded

Order of the Tear of Bhakail

(Fieldless) On a goutte de larmes, a natural salamander tergiant Or.

The term "goutty de larmes" (goutty azure), representing tears, appears in Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry (http://karlwilcox.com/parker/?page_id=1721). The OED entry on "goutte" has the following definition: A small drop-shaped figure (of specified tincture), used as a charge". The first dated instance is a1400 Morte Arth. 3759: "That bare of gowles fulle gaye, with gowces (?read gowtes) of syluere.

One of the definitions of "gout" is the following: "A drop of liquid, esp. of blood. In the later use, after Shakespeare, it tends to mean: A large splash or clot." An example is 1503 Art Good Living & Dying X iiij: "The ewyl rich the qwich may not haue 3yt oon gowt of Watyr..."

In the OED under "tear", we have a number of meanings relating to drops of liquid. Some examples:
a1340 Hampole Psalter cxxv: 6 þa &thonr;at dos goed werkis in terys of penaunce.
1388 Wyclif Ps. cxxv[i] 5 Thei that sowen in teeris: schulen repe in ful out ioiyng.
1560 Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 18 The people...are all in teares and mournyng.
1637 Milton Lycidas 14 He must not flote upon his watry bear...WIthout the meed of som melodious tear.
The French term "larmes" is also found in period: for example, in the title of the book _Les larmes de S. Pierre et autres vers sur la Passion..._ (The tears of St. Peter and other verses on the Passion) by Robert Estienne. A 1606 edition can be seen at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5543092g/f2.image.

Based on the above, one could argue that "tear" is just a Lingua Anglica form of either the Middle English "gowt(e)" or the French "larme". The College sometimes use synonyms in blazon for the purposes of a cant - a synonym could be used for a hypothetical award/inn-sign name based on such a charge.

8: Bhakail, Barony of - Resub Badge Forwarded

(Fieldless) A human head erased proper attired of a jester's cap gules.

This badge is a resubmission of the identical badge, which was returned for redrawing on the East's June 2013 LoD. The redrawing has addressed the issues by putting the head in profile. The jester's cap is based on models found in period artwork.

This badge should be associated with the Barony's Order of the Harlequin, which appeared on the May 3, 2013 ILoI.

The Barony provided evidence that this is a period style of jester's cap. It is clearly visually different from the cap in the armory of Gautier d'Isigny-sur-Mer (Aug. 1994, Caid): Ermine, a jester's cap gules. I am forwarding it and leaving the question of how to blazon this style of jester's cap to Wreath.

9: Bhakail, Barony of - Resub Badge Forwarded

(Fieldless) Three rapiers inverted proper conjoined in pile and overall a salamander tergiant fesswise sable enflamed proper.

This identical badge was returned for a redrawing on the East's June 2013 LoD due to the improper depiction of the flames as Or voided gules. The flames on this resubmission are correctly proper, as they are colored to have alternating Or and gules tongues.

This badge should be associated with the Barony's Company of the Flame and Salamander, which appeared on the May 3, 2013 ILoI.

I have changed the blazon to more accurately reflect the orientation fo the rapiers and the salamander.

10: Black Icorndall, Canton of - New Heraldic Title Forwarded

Black Squirrell Pursuivant

This heraldic title follows the pattern of [color] + [charge] found in "Heraldic Titles from the Middle Ages and Renaissance" by Juliana de Luna (http://medievalscotland.org/jes/HeraldicTitles/heraldic_titles_by_type.shtml#CHARGES), which gives the examples of:

Blanc Sanglier Pursuivant
Blanch Lyon Pursuivant
Blanch Lyverer Pursuivant
Blanche Rose Pursuivant

Although it is not required, a petition of support from the Canton was included for this heraldic title.

The spelling black can be found in the Middle English Dictionary s.n. blak with the following dated examples:

a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10) 44a/a: Niger: blacke. c1440(?a1400) Perceval (Thrn) 774: þer brent of birke and of ake Gret brandes and blake [rime: make, ake]. a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131) 7073: þy blake cloþes schalt þou loþe. (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15 154: Item, one sewte of black vestementes. (a1475) Recipe Painting(2) in Archaeol.J.1 (Sln 73)

No support was provided for the spelling squirrel in period but the spelling squirrell appears in 'Middlesex Sessions Rolls: 1630', Middlesex county records: Volume 3: 1625-67 (1888), pp. 30-37. (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66022&strquery=Squirrell). I have changed the name to the documented spelling.

11: Black Icorndall, Canton of - New Badge Returned

(Fieldless) A squirrel sejant erect maintaining an acorn sable.

The submitted badge is intended for use as the Canton populace badge. Although it is not required, a petition of support from the Canton was included for this populace badge.

Unfortunately, this badge must be returned for conflict with the device of Dieter des Schwarzen Eichkätchens (June 1985, Middle): Per pale gules and argent, a squirrel sejant erect sable maintaining a sword inverted argent. There is a DC for comparing a fieldless design to a fielded one, but none of the maintained charges count for difference.

12: Carillion, Barony of - Resub Order Name Forwarded

Order of Bellina

This is a resubmission of the Order name Order of the Cokebelle which was returned on the March LoAR for not following a period pattern of constructing order names. This resubmission completely changes the name.

This order name follows the pattern of Orders named after a person, identified in "Medieval Secular Order Names" by Juliana de Luna (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/order/new/). The May 2011 LoAR states that "[a] given name can be used to create an order name (one named after a founder or inspiration)." [Order of Taillefer, 5/2011 LoAR, A-Lochac].

Bellina is a female given name found once in "Feminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427" by Arval Benicoeur (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/catasto/#alpha).

If this Order name is registered, it should be associated with the badge (Fieldless) A hawk's bell per pale Or and sable, registered to the Barony of Carillion in October 2012 via the East.

SENA NPN.1.B.2 permits the Lingua Anglica "Order of" to be combined with the Italian "Bellina."

13: Conall Ó Cellaigh - New Badge Forwarded

(Fieldless) On a Celtic cross azure a wolf rampant argent.

This badge is a resubmission of the badge of Conall mac Muirnigh, (Fieldless) a wolf rampant regardant argent charged with a Celtic cross gules, which appeared on the Feb. 21, 2013 Eastern LoI but was withdrawn by the submitter.

Conall Ó Ceallaigh is the same submitter as Conall mac Muirnigh. After his first name, device and badge were already passed by the East and up at Society, he withdrew all three and resubmitted new ones. There was discussion in commentary of whether or not the wolf was large enough to be recognized. It is clearly a dog of some kind. I am forwarding this badge because I feel it would benefit from additional commentary.

14: Constança Navarra - New Name Forwarded and New Device Withdrawn

Per pall Or, sable and argent, a bunch of grapes leaved proper, a gray wolf sejant ululant and a chalice sable.

Constança is a Spanish female given name found in "Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century" by Juliana de Luna (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/isabella/WomensGivenAlpha.html).

Navarra is an unmarked byname believed to mean "of Navarre" or "from Navarre" found s.n. Cristina in "16th Century Spanish Names" by Elspeth Ann Roth (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/spanish/fem-given-alpha.html). Cristina Navarra is dated to 1574. The submitter prefers Navarra over the marked locative de Navarra.

The submitter withdrew the device during commentary.

15: East, Kingdom of the - New Heraldic Title Forwarded

Blue Talbot Herald

This heraldic title is intended to be used by a Deputy to the Brigantia Herald's Office. SENA NPN 1.B.4 states that the standard heraldic designators for heraldic titles for Kingdoms are Herald and Pursuivant.

Evidence of titles named in the pattern [color] + [charge] is found in "Heraldic Titles from the Middle Ages and Renaissance" by Juliana de Luna (http://medievalscotland.org/jes/HeraldicTitles/heraldic_titles_by_type.shtml#ENGLISH_CHARGES).

The spelling blue for the color is found in the Middle English Dictionary s.n. bleu dated to 1455: "(1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15 149: A part of a blue chesyple."

The spelling talbot referring to a dog is found in in the Middle English Dictionary s.n. talbot dated to c. 1460: "c1460 Of alle mennys (Dub 432) 33: Talbot ontrewe was þe oon dogges name, Bauling bewmond anodre..þe thrid..was called bolde egremonde." The use of a talbot as a heraldic charge is found in Parker's A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry s.n. dog: "Azure, a talbot seiant within a bordure engrailed azure--Simon SUDBURY, Bp. of London, 1362; afterwards Abp. of Cant., 1375-81."

16: East, Kingdom of the - New Heraldic Title Forwarded

Chamfron Herald

This title is intended to be used by a Deputy to the Brigantia Herald's office. SENA NPN 1.B.4 states that the standard heraldic designators for heraldic titles for Kingdoms are Herald and Pursuivant.

"Heraldic Titles from the Middle Ages and Renaissance" by Juliana de Luna (http://medievalscotland.org/jes/HeraldicTitles/) provides evidence of heraldic titles based on heraldic charges.

A chamfron is a piece of equestrian armor and has been used as a heraldic charge. The Middle English Dictionary s.n. percer(e) dates this spelling to 1467: "(1467) Doc.in Bentley Excerpta Hist. 209: Lorde Scales..rode streight and light before the Kyng and made take of his trapper, shewyng that his hors had no chamfron nor peser [read: perser] of steele."

SENA NPN 3.C states "The Order of the Whistle does not conflict with the Order of the Whistle of Drachenwald, because the substantive elements being compared are Whistle and Whistle of Drachenwald." Therefore, Chamfron Herald should not conflict with the Order of the Chamfron of Caid (June 2009 via Caid).

17: East, Kingdom of the - New Heraldic Title Forwarded

Jogelour Herald

This title is intended to be used by a Deputy to the Brigantia Herald's office in charge of tournament-related heraldic display.

SENA NPN 1.B.4 states that the standard heraldic designators for heraldic titles for Kingdoms are Herald and Pursuivant.

"Heraldic Titles from the Middle Ages and Renaissance" by Juliana de Luna (http://medievalscotland.org/jes/HeraldicTitles/) provides evidence of heraldic titles based on surnames.

Jogelour is a surname dated to 1348 in the Middle English Dictionary s.n. jogelour (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/med_ent_search.html).

Question was raised in commentary whether Jogelour was too generic a term to be used for a heraldic title. The precedents concerning generic identifiers do not seem to me to apply here. To resolve the question, I am forwarding this title for Pelican's input.

18: Elisabetta Lucia Portinari - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Gules, a rose argent barbed and seeded proper and on a chief invected argent three arches sable.

Client requests authenticity for 15th-16th cen. Italy.

The submitter is willing to drop the "Lucia" if necessary for authenticity.

Elisabetta is a female given name recorded before 1600 found in "Names from Sixteenth Century Venice," by Juliana de Luna (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/16thcvenice.html).

Lucia appears as a female given name recorded before 1600 in Juliana's article, as well as in "Feminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427," by Arval Benicoeur (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/catasto/#alpha).

Portinari is a family name found 116 times 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) and also once in "Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Catasto of 1427," edited by David Herlihy, R. Burr Litchfield, and Anthony Molho (http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/catasto/newsearch/family_names.html).

The device is clear of the device of Arbella Symson (March 2013, Atlantia), Purpure, a rose and on a chief invected argent three greyhounds passant sable. There is a DC for the field and a DC for the change of type of the tertiary charges.

19: Elisabetta Lucia Portinari - New Badge Forwardedd

(Fieldless) A rose argent barbed and seeded proper within and conjoined to an arch sable.

20: Ellen Hughes - New Badge Forwarded

(Fieldless) Within and conjoined to an annulet azure three holly leaves conjoined in pall inverted vert fructed gules.

The motif of "three holly leaves conjoined in pall inverted vert fructed gules" is grandfathered to the submitter because it is part of her registered device (Feb. 2009, East): Azure, on a pale between two domestic cats combatant argent, three holly leaves conjoined in pall inverted vert fructed gules.

21: Endeweard, Barony of - Resub Badge Forwarded

Per chevron Or and sable, in base a portcullis, an orle argent.

This submission is to be associated with Order of the Portcullis of Endeweard. The name Order of the Portcullis of Endeweard appeared on the May 3, 2013 ILoI.

This is a resubmission of a badge that appeared on the May 2013 Eastern ILoI. On May 24, 2013, the Barony withdrew all of its badges on the then-pending letter in order to resubmit them with a different design.

The badge is clear of England, Badge for Parliament: (Tinctureless) A portcullis (sometimes crowned) (important non-SCA armory). There is one DC for the field, and another for the addition of the orle.

Commenters questioned whether the motif "...in base a X, an orle..." was period. However, SENA Appendix J does not list this motif as one of the disallowed layouts of two charge groups on the field. Accordingly, since the motif can be blazoned and the charges are identifiable, we are sending it on for further commentary.

22: Endeweard, Barony of - Resub Badge Forwarded

Per chevron Or and sable, in base a keystone, an orle argent.

This submission is to be associated with Order of the Keystone of Endeweard. The name Order of the Keystone of Endeweard appeared on the May 3, 2013 ILoI.

This design uses a period image of a keystone as seen in the arms of Cunha, found in 1440-1550 Armas de los Condes, Vescondes etc. de Cataluña, de Castilla, de Portugal [BSB Cod.icon. 290] (http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00001370/image_247).

23: Endeweard, Barony of - Resub Badge Forwarded

Per chevron Or and sable, in base a beacon, an orle argent.

This submission is to be associated with Order of the Beacon of Endeweard. The name Order of the Beacon of Endeweard appeared on the May 3, 2013 ILoI.

24: Endeweard, Barony of - Resub Badge Forwarded

Per chevron Or and sable, in base a tower, an orle argent.

This badge is clear of the device of Iohanna filia Iacobi (Jan. 2006, Atlantia): Sable, on a tower within an orle argent a decrescent gules, with one DC For field and a second DC for adding a tertiary charge.

25: Geneviève Lucrezia Bonaventure D'Este - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Purpure, an eagle argent armed and on a chief Or a lion passant purpure between two roses gules.

French and Italian can be combined under Appendix C of SENA as long as the name elements are within 300 years of each other.

Genevieve is found s.n. Geneviève in "Late Period French Feminine Names" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/latefrench.html) dated to 1477, 1478, 1498, 1501, 1524, 1537 (2), 1552, 1553, 1564, 1585, 1586, 1588, 1608, 1619. The submitter would very much like the accent grave over the next to last 'e' if that can be documented to period.

Lucrezia appears as a female given name in "Names from Sixteenth Century Venice" by Juliana de Luna (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/16thcvenice.html).

Bonaventuri is a family name found 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). The submitter would prefer the spelling Bonaventure if it can be documented in Italian or French.

D'Este is a locative byname meaning "from Este" found in "Fourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names," by Arval Benicoeur and Talan Gwynek (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/venice14/venice14sur.html#table).

According to Appendix A of SENA, double given names are found in both French and Italian. In addition, both French and Italian use the pattern [given name] + [byname/family name] + [locative].

Submitted as Geneviève Lucrezia Bonaventuri D'Este, the submitter requested that the third name element be chaged to Bonaventure if that spelling could be documented. Bonaventure appears as the given name of an Italian man in "Names Found in Commercial Documents from Bordeaux, 1470-1520," by Aryanhwy merch Catmael and Talan Gwynek (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/bordeaux.html). Bonaventure also appears as a French given name dated to 1546 at p. 179 s.n. Bonaventure in "Dictionnaire des noms de famille en Wallonie et à Bruxelles" by Jean Germain, Jules Herbillon (Lannoo Uitgeverij, Jan 1, 2007) (http://books.google.com/books?id=4bYErd60g3YC). Unmarked patronymics are permitted under Appendix A of SENA in both Italian and French. I therefore have changed Bonaventuri to Bonaventure to meet the submitter's request.

I have simplified the blazon to reflect that displayed is the default posture of an eagle and that "armed" refers to both beak and feet.

26: Gillian de Whittemere - Resub Device Returned

Checky azure and argent, a fox courant proper, on a chief argent three martlets sable and on a point pointed azure a rose argent seeded and leaved proper.

This is a resubmission of a device that appeared on the East's May 2013 ILoI, but was withdrawn by the submitter. The resubmission changes the field and places the rose on a point pointed.

This device is returned for complexity and identifiability issues. SENA A.3.E.2 requires that armorial submissions have a "complexity count" of eight or less. Complexity is the number of tinctures plus the number of types of charges and ordinaries. In this device, this count is 11 (Azure, argent, gules, sable, vert, Or, fox, chief, base, rose, martlet).

In addition, the azure point pointed lies nearly entirely against the azure portions of the field. While ordinaries can share a tincture with a multiply-divided field, identifiability must be maintained [Philipp Hartrat, Nov. 2011 LoAR, A-Atlantia]. Commenters were divided on whether or not the point maintained its identifiability in this design. Combined with the excessive complexity of the design, the difficult identifying the point pointed requires this device to be returned.

27: Havre de Glace, Barony of - Resub Badge Forwarded

Azure, on a lily argent seeded Or between a chief embattled argent and a ford proper.

This is a resubmission that was pended for a redrawing on the 15 May 2013 East Kingdom LoD. Please discuss whether this redrawing makes the chief sufficiently large.

The Barony submitted this badge under the name Havre des Glaces; this is not the Barony's registered name. I have correct the forms to the registered name, Havre de Glace.

28: Katerina de Faie - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Azure, a catamount passant argent, on a chief Or three roses azure.

Katerina is a feminine given name dated to 1560-65 in "Names and Naming Practices in the Fitzwilliam Accounts from 16th century Ireland" by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/lateirish/fitzwilliam.html).

de Faie is an Anglicized Irish surname found as an italicized 16th or early 17th cen. form in Woulfe p. 257 s.n. de Fae.

29: Liesl Lüder - Resub Device Forwarded

Counter-ermine, on a chevron argent three roses proper.

This is a resubmission under SENA of an identical device that was returned on the 10/2011 LoAR with the following comment:

Liesl Lüder. Device. Counter-ermine, on a chevron argent three roses proper.
Unfortunately, this lovely device is returned for conflict with the device of Fiona Clare O Doinn, reblazoned elsewhere on this letter as Counter-ermine, on a chevron gules a poppy affronty argent between two poppies affronty Or. There is a CD for the change in tincture of the chevron, but no CD for the change in tincture only of the tertiary charges, as poppies affronty are not significantly different from roses.
It should be noted that under the proposed new rules, this would not be a conflict.

Under SENA there are now two DCs from Fiona's device -- one for the tincture of the chevron and another for the tincture of the tertiary roses.

30: Mongu Chinua - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Purpure, in pale two wolves statant and on a chief argent three sheaves of arrows sable.

Mongu appears in "Mongolian Naming Practices" by Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/mongolian_names_marta.html) as a variant of Mongke, with the meaning "silver."

Chinua appears in "Documentation and Construction of Period Mongolian Names" by Baras-aghur Naran (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/mongol.html) as a name element meaning "wolf."

31: Stoldo Venturini - New Name Forwarded and New Device Returned

Per bend rayonny argent and gules, three grenades gules and a tower argent enflamed Or, on a chief gules a double-headed phoenix displayed Or.

Stoldo is a masculine given name found in Catasto of Florence (1427), summarized in "Italian Renaissance Men's Names," by Ferrante LaVolpe (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ferrante/catasto/names.txt).

Venturini is a family name appearing in "Names in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado," by Juliana de Luna (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/condado/familyalpha.html), which also uses data from the 1427 Catasto.

This device must be returned for violating the "unity of posture and arrangement" requirement of SENA A.3.D.2.c. Under the current interpretation of that section, if any part of a charge group needs to be blazoned separately, the armory violates period style and is not registerable. The grenades and tower are in the same charge group. Since the arrangement of the grenades must be blazoned separately from that of the tower, this device must be returned.

On resubmission, the submitter should attempt to make the double-headed phoenix larger and more identifiable.

32: Sweyn Mac Awliffe - New Name Forwarded and New Device Returned

Gyronny gules and ermine, a bear rampant and on a chief argent a dagger fesswise gules.

Sweyn is a 16th century English surname found in the IGI Parish Records:

Roger Sweyn; Male; Marriage; 08 Dec 1572; Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London, England; Batch: M05576-1

Such surnames can be used as given names by precedent. [Alton of Grimfells, 4/2010 LoAR, A-East].

McAwliffe appears in "The council book of the Corporation of Youghal: from 1610 to 1659" p. 27 dated to 1613 (http://books.google.com/books?id=RAYwAAAAMAAJ). It appears to be Anglicized Irish. Mc is a scribal abbreviation that must be expanded to Mac for registration.

Lillia Diademe noted that Awliffe is an Anglicized Irish masculine given name from 1601-3 in Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada, "Names Found in Anglicized Irish Documents" (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnglicizedIrish/Masculine.shtml), with examples of Awliffe m'Mahone I Leyne and Awliffe M'Shiary. The name itself pre-dates 1600, as the variant spelling Awlliffe is dated to 1597-8 in Mari's article. This data further supports the submitted byname.

SENA A.3.B.1 states that " A charge may only share a tincture with the field when both the charge and the field maintain identifiability." Technically, the bear does not share a tincture with the field, as ermine and argent are independent tinctures. However, commenters universally found the bear unidentifiable. Unfortunately, therefore, I must return this device.

33: Taldo Venturini - New Name Forwarded and New Device Returned

Per bend sinister wavy argent and gules, a hammer bendwise and a crescent counterchanged, on a chief gules a double-headed phoenix displayed Or.

Taldo is a masculine given name found "Names in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado," by Juliana de Luna (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/condado/mensalpha.html).

Venturini is a family name appearing in the same article. (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/condado/familyalpha.html).

This device is being returned for a redraw as the double-headed phoenix on the chief is effectively unidentifiable. This design does not suffer from "unity of posture and arrangement" problems, as the hammer and the crescent are considered to be non-comparable types of charges and thus an be in different postures.

34: Valentina Amore - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Per pale argent and gules, a three-towered castle counterchanged and on a chief Or three hearts gules.

Valentina is a female given name found in "Names from Sixteenth Century Venice" by Juliana de Luna (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/16thcvenice.html) as the name of a Venetian woman recorded before 1600.

Amore is an Italian surname found in "1800 Surnames Recorded in 1447" by N.F. Faraglia (http://www.abruzzoheritage.com/magazine/2002_06/d.htm).

35: Wolfaert van Utrecht - New Name Forwarded and New Device Forwarded

Wolfaert is a masculine given name found in "15th Century Dutch Names" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/dutch/dutch15.html) with the submitted spelling dated to 1478-81.

van Utrecht is a Dutch locative byname based on the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. "Names from Antwerp, 1443-1561" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael and Kymma Godric (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/dutch/plaiser.html) has van Utrecht dated to 1547.

The motif of a roundel between an increscent and a decrescent is a Step from Period Practice under Appendix G of SENA.

SENA Appendix A notes that locatives for Dutch are formed as van X and lists given + byname as a pattern of construction.

This device is clear of the device of Nadezhda Volyn'skaia (Nov. 2004, An Tir): Vert, a ram's head affronty erased, on a chief argent three increscents sable. There is one DC for the change in tincture of the field, a second DC for the change in the tincture of the charges on the chief, and probably a third DC for the change in the type of the tertiaries.

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