Kingdom of Atenveldt
Heraldic Submissions Page
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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. Most of the submissions are the “rest” of the Estrella War Consultation Table. Many thanks to those who spent all sorts of time at the Table – withourt your help, these recent LoIs would be much shorter and Atenveldt much less colorful.
1. Aetia of Atenveldt: NEW NAME and DEVICE Argent, a brown owl displayed proper, on a chief triangular azure a demi-sun issuant from the line of division Or.
Aetia is a female given name found in “Common Names of the Aristocracy in the Roman Empire During the 6th and 7th Centuries, “ Berret Chavez, http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/byzantine/PLRE_fem_names.html. Atenveldt is the name of the client's home barony and kingdom. She desires a female name.
There was a great deal of discussion about “brown owls proper” with Sage MacLeod of Canna's submission in the An Tir August 2011, Argent, a brown owl proper perched upon and maintaining a threaded needle sable and in chief three hursts of pine trees vert., https://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=145&id=17736 . (The owl there is uniformly brown, with no indication of it being a specific genus or species, either in the blazon or the emblazon); this device was ultimately registered in November 2011. Other “brown owls proper” have been registered as brown birds without a Linnaean name, suggesting they are not the Tawny Owl (which is sometimes referred to as the “Brown Owl”): Leofwynn kyndheir (May 2002), Argent, a brown owl displayed proper and on a chief triangular vert three oak leaves conjoined at their stems Or., and Heinrich vom Schwarzwald (November 2003), Per bend sinister counterermine and ermine, a decrescent argent and a brown owl contourny proper.
Additionally, a new precedent in the cover letter of July 2012 says:
“While many brown animals
proper in period heraldry are indeed tinctured solidly brown, others
have minor details tinctured differently. We see no reason that minor
artistic details of a brown proper charge may not be tinctured
differently in the same manner as details on a non-proper charge
would be. For example, a brown bear proper may be armed and langued
gules, just as a bear sable might be.
This bird retains excellent contrast and identifiability against the argent field and the only “fault” is that an owl displayed is a Step from Period Practice.
2. Alesia Thompson: NEW DEVICE Quarterly counter-ermine and gules, on a plate a wolf's head erased contourny gules.
The name appears in the 25 March 2013 Atenveldt Letter of Intent.
3. Anny More O'Brien: NEW NAME and DEVICE Purpure, a Celtic cross argent within an orle of ivy leaves Or.
The name was originally submitted as Anny Mor O'Brien, a Gaelic name. However, a small bit of tweaking by Sans Repose Herald solved the language origin issues and rendered it into Anglicized English. Anny is a female given name found in “Names Found in Anglicized Irish Documents,” Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada, http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnglicizedIrish/, with Anny ny Waghyre 1585. The same source demonstrates the byname More (“big, great”) with Onore nyn Dermot O'Rian More Voy of Tolleraght 1603-04. The same source's Alexander m'Brien M'Donill 1598; Aulowne O Brien m'Therrelogh 1601' Rosa O Neale 1602; Owny O Toole, his wife 1598; and Art O'Neale 1628 show the relevant elements of the family name, with the inclusion of the apostrophe, to justify the name as: Anny More O'Brien.
It appears that Celtic crosses are latinate (with a longer base leg than the other legs) by default.
4. Christopher Ravenhill: NEW DEVICE Per bend sinister argent and vert, a raven sable and a bordure per bend sinister vert and argent.
The name appears in the 25 March 2013 Atenveldt Letter of Intent.
Consider Ciothruadh Dubh: (Fieldless) A raven maintaining a spear bendwise sable. There is 1 DC for the field and 1 DC for the addition of the bordure, clearing any conflict.
5. Dante Hollowheart : NEW NAME Dante is an Italian male given name dated 1293 through 1365 and found in “Italian Names from the Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/italian/tratte/index.html. And although SENA does not include Italian/English name mixes, Dolphin Herald believes that Dante can be documented as an English given name based on a late period surname. Examples from the IGI: William Dante, chr. 1580, Huntingdon, batch C16857-1 John Dante, chr. 1589, Oxford, batch C02639-1 John Dante, married 1588, Hampshire, batch M16655-1 Joane Dante, married 1584, Gloucester, batch M04937-2 If the hand is deciphered correctly, it can be documented as a given name from ancestry.com, the 12 May 1625 marria/e of Humphrey Millet and Danta Bowham, https://oscar.sca.org/cImages/6/2013-03-10/23-12-55_dante1.JPG . Many thanks to Dolphin presenting these. The byname is a an English constructed name. Goudhert 1327, Reaney and Wilson 3rd edition, s.n. Goodheart. Although “hollow” names tend to refer to hollows/sunken areas of land, Hollowbread's early forms Halibred 1309 and Hollibred 1678 reference “holy bread” (the Eucharist), p. 213 s.n. Hallowbread, Hollowbread. The client might not have so much an empty, sad heart as a holy one. The client desires a male name and is most interested in the spelling of the name. He will not accept Major changes to the name.
6. Dominic de la Mer: DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, July 2009 Or, a red fox proper sejant gardant queue-forché proper maintaining in its mouth a peacock feather purpure, all between three roundels vert.
The name was registered August 2008.
The original submission, Argent, in saltire a peacock feather proper and a rose azure slipped and leaved vert, a bordure embattled purpure., was returned for a redraw. “Blazoned on the LoI as a rose, commenters and proofreaders were unable to decide what this flower actually is. A rose would have the flower facing the viewer. The depicted flower is very close to the now-banned rose bud. Additionally, the feather, blazoned on the LoI as a peacock feather proper is not recognizable as a peacock feather. Section VII.7.a of the Rules for Submission requires that "Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance." This is a complete redesign. The registered device for Giuliana Francesca Bellini, Per saltire sable and vert, on a saltire Or a brown fox courant regardant proper maintaining in its mouth a torteau., has a fox with the same coloration aside from the red/brown portions), and proper allows the beasts their black fees and white tail tips. The
plumules of a peacock feather are almost always difficult to draw so
that the only “solid” portion of the feather is at the are where
the eye appears (the rest tends to be wispy streaks along the shaft
of the feather).
7. Gabriella Tigre: NEW NAME and DEVICE Per pale purpure and azure, a natural tiger rampant argent marked sable and a bordure rayonny argent.
The name is Italian and Spanish. Gabriella is cited as a female given name dated to 1427 in Academy of St. Gabriel report, www.s-gabriel.org/3225. <Andres Tigre> was married 03 Feb 1639 in San Juan Bautista,Apatzeo El Grande,Guanajuato,Mexico, per IGI batch M60578-5 (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JC3S-895). Spanish and Italian are an allowable combination per SENA. The client desires a female name.
8. Gottfried von Rothenberg ob der Tauber: NEW NAME and DEVICE Per pale argent and azure, two bendlets and in sinister chief a Latin cross crosslet between four crosses potent counterchanged.
Submitted originally as Godfrey von Rothenbert ob der Tauber, English and German are not an allowable combination per SENA Appendix C. The client was contacted and has reluctantly allowed his given name to be Gottfried. This is found as a masculine given name up to 1300 in “Late Period German Masculine Given Names: Names from 14th Century Plauen,” Talan Gwynek, http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/germmasc/plauen14.html. (If there were any chance of it happening, he would be very, very happy to reclaim Godfrey. ) The city of Rothenberg ob der Tauber was awarded its charter and declared a Free Imperial City by Emperor Rudolph I in 1274. The first city wall dates as early as the 12th C. The outer town wall with its towers, gates, and battlements dates to the 14th C. (http://www.spangdahlem.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123117035).
The charge in sinister chief is the client's own modification of a Cross of Jerusalem, using a Latin cross crosslet rather than the standard equal-armed cross crosslet.
9. Iosif Volkov: NEW DEVICE CHANGE Per bend sinister embattled azure and argent, a comet inverted Or and a double-bitted axe argent, both bendwise sinister.
The name was registered November 2011.
If this is registered, the client wishes to release his current device, Per chevron argent and azure, two wolves combatant each maintaining a Latin cross azure and in base a double-bitted axe argent.
10. Irisko Aranyas: NEW NAME and DEVICE Argent, on a chevron between three gemstones sable two gemstones argent.
Irisko is a female 15th C. Hungarian given name, found in “Hungarian Feminine Names,” Walraven van Nijmegen, http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/magfem2.html. Submitted as Irisko the Jeweler, we'd hoped this could be usedas a Lingua Anglica-type byname. Kolosvari Arpadne Julia couldn't find evidence for a word meaning specifically "jeweler" in period Hungarian. The modern word is ékszerész, but neither Kázmér nor Szamota/Zolnai have entries for it. She did find some close surnames in Kázmér: Gyűrű "ring -- prob. shortened from ring-maker", Gyűrűs "with ring: ring-maker", Arany "gold -- shortened from goldsmith, goldminer, gilder, etc.", and Aranyas "with gold: goldsmith or goldminer". These are the modern header spellings, which are the same as or similar to the period cites for the "gold" names, but not so much for the "ring" ones. The clien was contacted about her submission and is absolutely fine with the surname Aranyas. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the meaning of the name.
11. Iuliana of the Unicorn: NEW NAME CHANGE, from Iuliana inghean Phadraig The client's currently registered name was registered July 2007. If the new name is registered, the old one should be retained as an alternate. Iuliana has been previously registered to the client. It is a feminine given name from the Anglo-Norman Juliana, found in “Index of Names in Irish Annals: Iuliana,” Mari Elspeth nic Bryan ( http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/1201-1600.shtml ); it appears 1251-1300. of the Unicorn comes from the branch-name March of the Unicorn in the Midrealm, registered October 1982. The client can use it via SENA PN1.B.2.f. Branch Name Allowance. She is interested in a female name.
12. James of Acre: NEW NAME and DEVICE Vert, two winged mastiffs combattant argent and a chief ermine.
The name is English. James is a male given name; this spelling is dated to c. 1240 (Withycombev3rd edition, s.n. James). <Gilbert de Acre> and <Boland de Acre> appear in A Calendar of the Feet of Fines of of Suffolk (http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029784992), dated to 17-18 Edward I and 3 Edward II, respectively.
Originally submitted as James de Acr', Acr' is a scribal abbreviation that the College of Arms doesn't register. He is amenable to Acre. He would also prefer James of Acre. d'Acre is found in “An Index to the Given Names in the 1292 Census of Paris,”Scott Catledge (http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/paris.html#jewish)
He desires a male name and is most interested in the sound of the name (“James”).
13. Jenny Wren: NEW NAME The name is English Jenny is a female given name. It is found in familysearch.org prior to 1600:
The submitted spelling of Wren is found in "Surnames in Durham and Northumberland, 1521-1615," Julie Stampnitzky (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juetta/parish/surnames_wy.html) dated to 1562, 1585, 1591, 1594, 1596 and later. Chreitian Wren is dated 1552 christening-1552 death batch C03021-3, in https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JQ98-Z29
The client desires a female name; she will not accept Major or Minor changes to the name.
Although my biggest concern is the sound of the name Jenny Wren, since it's the common name for several types of brown wrens, and it's a pretty famous character in Dickens' Our Mutual Friend ("the doll's dressmaker"), and it's a song (not a huge one, but one nonetheless) by the Beatles, those commenting didn't find it intrusively modern or jarring. It is probably clear of Jeanne de Rennes, registered March 1993.
14. Jocelyn le Coi: NEW NAME CHANGE from Jocelyn Playndeamours The current name was registered August 2012; if the new name is registered, the old one is to be released.
Jocelyn is a male English name dated to 1199 with the spelling Jocelin (Withycombe, 3rd edition, pp. 177-178 s.n. Jocelyn). The Suffolk Feet of Fines (http://archive.org/details/cu31924029784992) dates <Robert de broc v. Jocelyn of All Saints in Cheventon> to 4-5 John (~1203-04). le Coi is a surname dated to 1203 in Reaney and Wilson 3rd edition, p. 114 s.n. Coy.
The client doesn't care about the gender of the name and is most interested in the sound and the spelling (le Coi) of the name. She will not accept Major or Minor changes to the name.
15. Juliette Dashwood: NEW NAME and DEVICE Per chevron throughout Or and purpure, two balls of yarn azure and a Lacy knot argent.
Juliette is a French female name, seen as a christening name 27 AUG 1602 St-Medard, Verdun-Sur-Meuse, Meuse, France Batch: C826021. Dashwood is seen in a death record: <Henry Dashwood> died 14 April 1639; his father was Richard Dashwood, Batch number C02243-4 (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NLNT-NLQ). The client desires a female name.
16. Layla bint Sulieman al-Nahral-Urduni: NEW DEVICE CHANGE Purpure, a pale inverted raguly between two lotus flowers in profile and a peacock in his pride argent.
If the new submission is registered, the current device, Purpure, a unicorn doubly queued rampant regardant argent armed and gorged of a collar Or within a bordure Or semy of bunches of grapes purpure slipped and leaved vert., should be retained as a badge. Orle Herald provides a lovely emblazon that makes a clear distinction between a lotus in profile and a peacock in his pride.
17. Liadan of Laithlind: NEW NAME and DEVICE Per chevron azure and vert, in base a hurst of pine trees argent.
St Gabriel reports 1665 (www.s-gabriel.org/1665) and 3112 (www.s-gabriel.org/3112) "found references to four early or semi-legendary women named <Líadan>: two saints, the mother of a different saint, and a poet. [1,2] The poem 'Cenáinius' ('Without pleasure, joyless') from the viewpoint of the poet Líadan has been dated to c. 875, though the poet herself may have lived earlier. [3] We have not found any evidence that the name <Líadan> was used after the ninth century." [1] Ó Corráin, Donnchadh and Fidelma Maguire, Irish Names (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1990), s.n. Li/adan. [2] Ó Riain, Pádraig, ed., Corpus Genealogiarum Sanctorum Hiberniae (Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1985). [3] Murphy, Gerard, ed., Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century, (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956, pp. 82-84, published by CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork, Ireland, 1996) http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G400035/ (Documentation for the name provided in the February 2012 Lochac LoI). Both Líadan and Liadan have been registered by the College of Arms. Laithlind appears to be an early form of Lochlann, a reference by the Irish to their Nordic invaders, specifically Norway (Norsemen in the Viking Age, Eric Christiansen, Googlebooks search, p. 117, books.google.com/books?isbn=0470692766), or Laithinn being that portion of Viking Scotland, according to Ó Corráin and Maguire. The client might even consider a standard patronymic name formation, such as inghean Lochlainn, a Middle Irish Gaelic male name. This follows an in-kingdom return from January 2013. Having met and consulted with the the lady face-to-face, the one element that she is absolutely firm about is the given name Lia/ádan. She primarily settled on Laithland for the alliteration, so that element can be worked on/tossed out/modified. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the element Liadan and the meaning of the name.
18. Robert MacNair: NEW BADGE Erminois, a ram's head cabossed sable and a bordure pean.
The name appears on the 25 March 2013 Atenveldt Letter of Intent.
Consider Magnus Jager, Or, a ram's head cabossed sable enflamed gules. There is one DC for the field and one DC for the bordure.
19. Sveinbiorn Halbiornson: NEW DEVICE Per pale azure and gules, a triquetra interlaced with an annulet argent and a bordure argent semy of increscents sable.
The name was registered August 2012.
20. Tir Ysgithr, Barony of: BADGE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, January 2013 (Fieldless) A boar statant argent within and conjoined to an annulet sable.
This badge was returned for violating SENA A3C, which states that "Voiding and fimbriation may only be used with ordinaries or simple geometric charges when they are part of a primary charge group." Here, the voided billet is a secondary charge, not a primary charge. We could not reblazon the billet as an orle or a bordure, as both charges are defined by the shape of their field, and thus cannot be used in a fieldless design.”
The voided billet has been replaced by an annulet sable, which is a charge unique to itself and can be used as a secondary charge. The branch-name was registered January 1973. The award associated with this badge was created in A.S. XXVI; in A.S. XXXVI, the Charter was changed to elevate this to a precedence-bearing award. The badge with the argent boar is associated with demonstrated excellence in the fighting arts, both in teaching and in the use of traditional SCA-style weaponry.
21. Tir Ysgithr, Barony of: BADGE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, January 2013 (Fieldless) A boar statant Or within and conjoined to an annulet sable.
This badge was returned for violating SENA A3C, which states that "Voiding and fimbriation may only be used with ordinaries or simple geometric charges when they are part of a primary charge group." Here, the voided billet is a secondary charge, not a primary charge. We could not reblazon the billet as an orle or a bordure, as both charges are defined by the shape of their field, and thus cannot be used in a fieldless design.”
The voided billet has been replaced by an annulet sable, which is a charge that can be used as a secondary charge. The branch-name was registered January 1973. The award associated with this badge was created in A.S. XXVI; in A.S. XXXVI, the Charter was changed to elevate this to a precedence-bearing award. The badge with the Or boar is associated with outstanding service to the Barony.
22. Tir Ysgithr, Barony of: BADGE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, January 2013 (Fieldless) A boar statant purpure within and conjoined to an annulet sable.
This badge was returned for violating SENA A3C, which states that "Voiding and fimbriation may only be used with ordinaries or simple geometric charges when they are part of a primary charge group." Here, the voided billet is a secondary charge, not a primary charge. We could not reblazon the billet as an orle or a bordure, as both charges are defined by the shape of their field, and thus cannot be used in a fieldless design.”
The voided billet has been replaced by an annulet sable, which is a charge unique to itself and can be used as a secondary charge. The branch-name was registered January 1973. The award associated with this badge was created in A.S. XXVI; in A.S. XXXVI, the Charter was changed to elevate this to a precedence-bearing award. The badge with the purpure boar is associated with continued service, great knowledge, and courteous behavior they feel demonstrates the highest ideals and values of the Current Middle Ages .
23. Tir Ysgithr, Barony of: BADGE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, January 2013 (Fieldless) A boar statant vert within and conjoined to an annulet sable.
This badge was returned by Laurel January 2013 for violating SENA A3C, which states that "Voiding and fimbriation may only be used with ordinaries or simple geometric charges when they are part of a primary charge group." Here, the voided billet is a secondary charge, not a primary charge. We could not reblazon the billet as an orle or a bordure, as both charges are defined by the shape of their field, and thus cannot be used in a fieldless design.”
The voided billet has been replaced by an annulet sable, which is a charge that can be used as a secondary charge. The branch-name was registered January 1973. The award associated with this badge was created in A.S. XXVI; in A.S. XXXVI, the Charter was changed to elevate this to a precedence-bearing award. The badge with the vert boar is associated with demonstrated excellence in the teaching and practice of the Arts and Sciences.
24. Tir Ysgithr, Barony of: BADGE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, January 2013 (Fieldless) A boar statant azure within and conjoined to an annulet sable.
This badge was returned for violating SENA A3C, which states that "Voiding and fimbriation may only be used with ordinaries or simple geometric charges when they are part of a primary charge group." Here, the voided billet is a secondary charge, not a primary charge. We could not reblazon the billet as an orle or a bordure, as both charges are defined by the shape of their field, and thus cannot be used in a fieldless design.”
The voided billet has been replaced by an annulet sable, which is a charge unique to itself and can be used as a secondary charge. The branch-name was registered January 1973. The award associated with the counter-ermine boar was created in A.S. XXXVI and recognizes excellence in archery.
25. Tir Ysgithr, Barony of: BADGE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, January 2013 (Fieldless) A boar counter-ermine statant within and conjoined to an annulet sable.
This badge was returned for violating SENA A3C, which states that "Voiding and fimbriation may only be used with ordinaries or simple geometric charges when they are part of a primary charge group." Here, the voided billet is a secondary charge, not a primary charge. We could not reblazon the billet as an orle or a bordure, as both charges are defined by the shape of their field, and thus cannot be used in a fieldless design. The voided billet has been replaced by an annulet sable, which is a charge that can be used as a secondary charge.
26. Úlfr vafri: DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, May 2012 Argent, a wolf passant gardant and sustaining in its mouth a sword bendwise sinister gules.
The name was registered May 2012.
The previous submission, Sable, a wolf passant contourny sustaining in its mouth a sword argent., was returned for conflict with the device of Guillaume, le Chien Blanc, Sable, a Samoyed dog counter-statant proper and a chief argent. Under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation, there is one CD/DC for changing the type of the secondary charge, but nothing else. This is a redesign.
27. Valdisa Álarsdóttir (Sundragon): NEW HOUSEHOLD NAME, House Flöry, and BADGE (Fieldless) A cross flory Or within and conjoined to an annulet sable.
The personal name was registered July 2012. Flöry is found in Bahlow, German Names, p. 127, dated to the German Peasants' War (1524-1525). It is also found in Bahlow, Duetsches Namen-Lexicon, p. 145
28. Wolff Belar der Koch: NEW NAME and DEVICE Barry pily sale and gules, a mastiff statant contourny Or.
The name is German. Wolff is a male given name in “German Names from Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg, 1441,” Sara L. Uckelman, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/rottweil1441.html. Belar is a surname from the same source. Koch is a surname from the same source, too; it should be acceptable as an occupational byname der Koch, “the cook.” The client desires a male name and will not accept Major changes to the name.
Commentary on German field divisions is found in Academy of St. Gabriel Report 2448, http://www.s-gabriel.org/2448. The article goes back to 2002, and evidence of using a pily field of two low-contrast tinctures found since then would be very much appreciated (hope springs eternal!).
I was assisted in the preparation of the Letter of Intent by Aryanhwy merch Catmael, Brenna Lowri o Ruthin, Etienne Le Mons, ffride wlffsdotter, Gunnvor silfraharr, Helena de Argentoune, Kolosvari Arpadne Julia [and Taran Wayward. There are 11 new names, 1 new household name, 12 new devices, 2 new device changes, 2 new name changes, 2 new badges, 2 device resubmissions and 6 badge resubmissions. This is a total of 38 items, 30 of them new.
Thank you again for your great indulgence and patience, your expertise and your willingness to share it.
Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy
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