ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 15 November 2011, A.S. XLVI

Letter of Intent Kingdom of Atenveldt

Unto Gabriel Laurel; Juliana Pelican; Emma Wreath; and the commenting Members of the College of Arms,

Greetings from Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy, Brickbat Herald and Parhelium Herald for the Kingdom of Atenveldt!

The Atenveldt College of Heralds requests the consideration and registration of the following names and armory with the College of Arms.

Unless specifically stated, the submitter will accept any spelling and grammar corrections; all assistance is appreciated.

1. Dominic Coltbayne: NEW NAME and DEVICE

Per pale vert and sable, a chamfron argent charged with a cross formy sable, a bordure embattled argent.

The name is English.

Dominic(k) came into fashion for both men and women in honor of St. Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers (d. 1221), according to Withycombe, 3^rd edition, p. 85 s.n. Dominic(k).

Coltbayn is found dated to 1256 in “"Misplaced" Names in Reaney & Wilson - Sorted By Name,” Jeanne Marie Lacroix

( http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/misplacednamesbyname.htm ), but not this specific spelling. No sources of the byname (Brown, William, ed. Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III and Edward I. Vol. 1. The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association Record Series XII. 1892. Worksop, UK: Robert White. p. 205. http://books.google.com/books?id=vuZVAAAAYAAJ&q=Coltbayn ; Page, William, ed. "Assize Roll, Northumberland, 40 Henry III, A.D. 1256". Three Early Assize Rolls for the County of Northumberland, Sæc. XIII. Durham: Andrews & Co. 1891. http://books.google.com/books?id=jGFHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46 ; Raine, James, ed. Testamenta Eboracensia: or, Wills Registered at York from the Year MCCC. Part 1. Publications of the Surtees Society. London: J.B. Nichols and Son. 1836. p. 5. http://books.google.com/books?id=t-suAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA5&q=Coltebay ; Thomson, Thomas, ed. "The Accounts of the Great Chamberlains of Scotland, and Some Other Officers of the Crown, Now Remaining in His Majesty's General register House, Arranged in the Order of Time, from the Twentieth Year of the Reign of Robert, A.D. M.CCC.XXVI, to the Death of David II, A.D. M.CCC.LXX.". The Accounts of the Great Chamberlains of Scotland, and Some Other Officers of the Crown, Rendered at the Exchequer. 1326-1370. Vol. 1. Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club. 1817. p. 25. http://books.google.com/books?id=P6QgAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA25&q=Coltebayn ) demonstrated the terminal -e.

This is clear of Caid, Kingdom of Azure, a chamfron and a bordure embattled argent., with a CD for the field and one for adding the tertiary.

2. Hopkyn Blaidd Du: NEW NAME and DEVICE

(device) Sable, a chevron Or charged with three crosses formy sable and in chief a vol Or charged with a cross formy sable.

The name is Welsh.

Hopkin is a masculine given name dated to 1601 and 1606 in “Some 16th & 17th C Welsh Masculine Names,” Sara L. Friedemann ( http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/welsh/welsh.htm ). The names Hopkinus 1224 and Hopkyn 1324 demonstrate the interchangability of -y- and -i- (Reaney and Wilson, 3^rd edition, p. 238 s.n. Hopkin).

The byname means “black wolf.” Du, “black, dark,” is seen as a byname in “Snapshot of a Cantref: The Names and Naming Practices in a Mawddwy Court Roll of 1415-16,” Heather Rose Jones ( http://www.heatherrosejones.com/names/welsh/mawddwy1415.html ). Blaidd is seen as a byname in a number of SCA names, registered as recently as 2000 (Idris Blaidd) and 2002 (Cynan Blaidd ap Iago). Cadell Blaidd Du was registered in 1997.

The client desires a male name and is most interested in the spelling of the name.

3. Hopkyn Blaidd Du: NEW BADGE

(badge) (Fieldless) A winged card-pique per pale sable and gules.

4. Isabella Çapata de la Mar: NEW NAME CHANGE from Isabella Ponce

The name is Spanish.

Isabella is the English form of the Spanish feminine given name Isabel, found in “Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century,” Juliana de Luna ( http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/ ).

Çapata is an “other” byname in late 15^th C Spain, found in the same source, meaning “shoe” ( http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/surnames-other.html ).

de la Mar is a locative byname in late 15^th C Spain, found in the same source ( http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/locative.html ).

This source demonstrates women of the period using double surnames ( http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/WomenFullNames.html ) such as Catalina Rodriguez Corvacha, Catalina Lopes de Mata.

There is one step from period practice for the combination of English and Spanish name elements.

The client desires a female name and is most interested in the language/culture of the name (15^th C. Spanish). She will not accept Major changes to the name.

5. Kiera ferch Dafydd: NEW NAME AND DEVICE

Per fess argent and checky purpure and argent, in chief a dragon segreant coward sable.

According to Butler's Lives of the Saints, St. Kiara was a female Irish saint, c. 680. “St. Kiara was a female Irish saint, c.680, according to Butler's Lives of the Saints. Kiera has been accepted as a variant spelling (Kiera nic an Bhaird, April 92). (Kiera Lye d'Alessandria, July, 1992, pg. 13, Bruce Draconarium Precedent) Ciar is a feminine given name in Ó Corráin and Macguire, p. 51, s.n. Ciar.

The byname is a Welsh patronym, “daughter of David.” Dafydd is found in “Snapshot of a Cantref: The Names and Naming Practices in a Mawddwy Court Roll of 1415-16,” Heather Rose Jones ( http://www.heatherrosejones.com/names/welsh/mawddwy1415.html ).

The combination of Welsh and Irish Gaelic name elements has been addressed: "The name was submitted as <Cáelán ap Llwyd>, in which <Cáelán> is Irish, and the rest, Welsh. There is a reasonable amount of evidence for Welsh/Irish combinations in names, but they should still follow one spelling convention or the other, so we have removed the distinctively Irish accents to produce what Harpy calls a 'plausible Welsh borrowing of an Irish given name'." [Caelan ap Llwyd, LOAR 10/1995, http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/1995/10/lar.html]

The client desires a female name and is most interested in he sound of the name. She will not accept Major changes to the name.

6. Matthew of the Forest : NEW NAME and DEVICE

Quarterly gules and sable, on a bend Or, three dragons segreant contourny palewise gules, winged and bellied vert.

The name is English. The given name was introduced into England by the Normans. There are a number of spelling variations throughout period for the name, although Matthew is the spelling usually associated with the Biblical Evangelist (Withycombe, 3^rd edition, pp. 231-214 s.n. Matthew).

<of the Forest> is a reasonable lingua anglica rendering of the documented <ate Forest> and <del fforest>, 1354, both in Reaney and Wilson, 3^rd edition, p. 174 s.n. Forrest.

Matthew Forrester (registered November 1989) and Mattheus Forrestor (registered May 1989) were registered within six months of one another, and there is no indication on the respective LoARs that there was an issue with potential conflict or one (Mattheus) giving the other (Matthew) permission to conflict. I'm assuming that there is sufficient sound and meaning difference (locative vs. occupational) in the bynames to avoid conflict.

7. Petronia Lupa: NEW NAME and DEVICE

Per fess sable and azure, a wolf sejant ululant and in dexter chief a roundel argent.

The name is Latin/Roman. Submitted as Petronius Lupa with the client desiring a female name, women were simply given their father's nomen, feminized, and sometimes a cognomen or a nickname such as a diminutive of her father's nomen or cognomen. ( LEGIO XX--The Twentieth Legion: Roman Names, http://www.larp.com/legioxx/nomina.html ).

This source demonstrates Petronius as a known Latin cognomen, so this is easily feminized to Petronia, and the cognomen can stay as Lupa, the feminine form of the cognomen Lupus, “wolf.”

The client desires a female name and is most interested in the meaning of the name (“wolf” or “Lupa”). She is most interested in having an authentic Roman name/culture match.

It is a step from period practice to have a wolf ululant: "While we allow wolves and foxes to be <ululant>, the head posture is an SCA invention. It is possible that had the head posture been introduced today we would not allow it. Allowing ululant wolves is a step beyond period practice..." [Andela Romier, LOAR 12/2000, http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2000/12/00-12lar.html]

8. Ulrich von Dresden: NEW NAME and DEVICE

Azure, in pale two double-bladed axes in saltire and a unicorn couchant argent, armed, mane and tailed Or.

The name is German.

Ulrich is a popular masculine given name found in “German Names from Nürnberg, 1497,” Sara L. Uckelman, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/nurnberg1497.html .

Dresden is a city in Saxony, recognized as a city in 1206 and home to many Saxon princes and kings ( http://wikitravel.org/en/Dresden ).

Bastian Moller von Dresden is dated to 1469 (Gersdorf p. 184, Gersdorf, Ernst Gotthelf, ed. Urkundenbuch des Hochstifts Meissen. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Geisecke & Devrient. 1864, http://books.google.com/books?id=5aIKAAAAIAAJ ; Gersdorf, Ernst Gotthelf, ed. Urkundenbuch des Hochstifts Meissen. Vol. 2. Leipzig: Geisecke & Devrient. 1865, http://books.google.com/books?id=nHHTAAAAMAAJ; Gersdorf, Ernst Gotthelf, ed. Urkundenbuch des Hochstifts Meissen. Vol. 3. Leipzig: Geisecke & Devrient. 1867, http://books.google.com/books?id=8nHTAAAAMAAJ

The client desires a male name and is most interested in the language/culture of the name. Originally submitted as Ulrich of Dresden, he requested authenticity for 13th-16^th C. Germany (he has seen this form and likes von).

In the 11/2009 LoAR: "The submitter has documented that the unicorn without a beard, as seen in this submission, is a standard period depiction of unicorns in Germany. Unicorns, in the future, may be registered either with or without beards. The requirement for cloven hooves and tufts of fur on the legs remains. We will not distinguish between beardless and bearded unicorns in our blazon." [Lachlan of Cromarty, Caid-A]

The client was consulted about these beardless German unicorns and prefers those forms.

9. Valdís Álarsdóttir: NEW NAME AND DEVICE

Per bend vert and sable, a dragonfly and a lotus flower in profile argent.

The name is Old Norse.

The feminine given name Valdís is found n “Viking Names found in Landnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html.

The masculine given name Álarr is found in Geirr Bassi's The Old Norse Name, p. 8, which would change its terminal ending -rr to -rs to form the patronym, Álarsdóttir.

10. William mac Coluim: DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, September 2011

Sable, in cross three compass stars and a phoenix, a bordure rayonny argent.

The name was registered September 2011.

This device was returned for being computer color-corrected on the Letter of Intent (I don't believe that it was, but it was only one of several issues,) which has been cause for return since the March 2009 Laurel meetings; and it was also returned for redraw of the bordure, as there were far too many repeats of the rayonny, and some look too close to the long-forbidden "wavy-crested". It was suggested that the compass stars be drawn the better match the size of the phoenix in the group. This has all be taken into account, using a kind scribe's drawing of the redesign as a template.

The use of compass stars is one step from period practice.

11. Wolff Schultz: NEW NAME and DEVICE

Quarterly gules and sable, a double-headed eagle within an orle Or.

The name is German. Wolff is a masculine given name found in “German Names from Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg, 1441,” Sara L. Uckelman, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/rottweil1441.html .

The byname appears to be a contraction or short form from the occupational byname schulheize, “tax collector; village headman, alderman.” Latinized names have Scultetus representing some vernacular form. Bahlow s.n. Schul(t)ze says that this is "contracted from Schulthei{sz} (village mayor), as early as about 1400. Occurrences are given under Scholz". S.n. Scholz, he says "the forms Schultes, Scholtes occurred as early as 1300, Schulcz and Scholcz as early as 1400." Bartholdus Hieronymus Schultz / Bartholomäus Schultz, a German astronomer, is dated to 1540 (Schultz; Thomas, Joseph. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co. 1870); he died in 1614.

The client desires a male name and is most interested in the language/culture of the name. He wishes it to be authentic for 12th-15^th C. Germany.

I was assisted in the preparation of the Letter of Intent by Aryanhwy merch Catmael, Gunnvör silfrahárr and Helena de Argentoune.

This letter contains 8 new names, 1 new name change, 8 new devices, and 1 new badge. There is 1 device resubmission. This is a total of 19 items, 18 of them new.

Thank you again for your great indulgence and patience, your expertise and your willingness to share it.

I remain,

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

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