Kingdom of Atenveldt
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Unto Their Royal Majesties Ivan and Ian'ka; Master Seamus, Aten Principal Herald; the Heralds in the Atenveldt College of Heralds; and to All Whom These Presents Come, Greetings of from Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy, Brickbat Herald and Parhelium Herald for the Kingdom of Atenveldt!
Let's see...this supposedly early September Letter of Presentation didn't get off the ground until the last third of the month, since I was hoping for submissions (which, of course, showed up at Heraldry Hut). So, the submissions here for consideration will be for the October 2013 Letter of Intent. That being said...
This is the September 2013 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation; it precedes the Letter of Intent with submissions considered for the next Letter of Intent. Please have commentary to me by 10 October 2013. Thank you!
Heraldry Hut: The next Heraldry Hut will be Friday, 18 October, beginning at 7:30 PM. Please contact me for directions or if you have questions.
College of Arms News: Both the “first half” and the “second half” of Estrella War submissions have been ruled on and appear at the end of this letter. ALSO! Effectively immediately (about a month ago), the SCA College of Arms changed paperwork requirements, and we're passing it on here: For a name submission: THREE completed name submission copies (and any necessary documentation). For a device or badge submission: THREE completed, colored submission copies + ONE line drawing submission copy. This is a reduction of one colored copy (hey, that's a 25% decrease!).
Please consider the following submissions for the October 2013 Atenveldt Letter of Intent:
Arren verch Elyan ap Pwyl (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE Per chevron inverted ploye argent and azure, three owls affronty one and two counterchanged. The name is Welsh. All elements are found in Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts, P.C. Bartum, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1966. Arren is a female given name dated 1527-1586, p. 69, paragraph 5. Elyan and Pywl are male given names, p. 145 paragraph 87 and p. 66 paragraph 84 respectively. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the sound and the language/culture of the name (Welsh).
Celestina Winterborne (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE Argent, a seeblatt and on a chief sable two mullets argent. The name is English. Celestina is dated 1349-1350 in “Feminine Given Names from Kent, 1302-1363,” AElfwyn aet Gyrwum, http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/aelfwyn/kentfemnames.html. Winterborne is dated to 1175 in Reaney and Wilson, 3rd edition, p. 496, s.n. Winterborn, Winterborne. The client desires a female name and will not accept major changes to the name.
Cera Bhradach (Tir Ysgithr): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, March 2013 Per fess Or and checky argent and vert, in chief a ferret courant purpure. The name was registered March 2013. The previous submission, Per fess argent and checky vert and argent, in chief a ferret courant purpure., was returned for redraw, “for violating SENA A2C2 which states "Elements must be drawn to be identifiable." Commenters had difficulty identifying the ferret or weasel here. The head in particular seems to have a beak, and the tail is too thick. There is also be an identifiability issue with the field under SENA A3B3a: as the checky portion shares the argent tincture with the plain portion, the line of division is obscured and difficult to tell if it is plain or embattled. It was also returned for conflict with the badge of Aryanhwy merch Catmael, (Fieldless) An ermine statant purpure. There is one DC for fieldlessness, but no difference granted for the change in position on the field, nor is there a difference between statant and courant. If the submitter wishes to resubmit this design redrawn to solve the identification problem, Aryanhwy is willing to grant permission to conflict with her badge.” The ferret has been redrawn to be more ferret-y. The field tincture has also been modified (Or now appears in the upper compartment), although in the client's original submission (which was returned for conflict but also used “Per fess argent and checky vert and argent...”), nothing was mentioned about the issue of the field/line of division. We ask that this Araynhwy lady might provide a letter of permission to conflict.
Draulfr Bǫsull (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE Per bend sinister sable and vert, a triple-towered castle and a wolf rampant contourny argent. The name is Old Norse. Draulf is a coined name comprised of the male given name Drafli and Ulfr; these are found in “The Old Norse Nam, Geirr Bassi Haraldsson, p. 9 and p. 21 respectively. According to the Viking Answer Lady, this variation from a standard name comes from using part of the father's name and another element; if she could corroborate this, we'd appreciate it very much. The byname bǫsull, “troublesome person, bother,” is found on p. 20 of Geirr Bassi. The client desires a male name and is most interested in the sound of the name. He will not accept major changes to the name.
Fergus Mór mac Seáin (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE Per bend sinister argent and vert, a shamrock and a harp counterchanged. The name is Irish Gaelic. Fergus is a popular male given name found in “100 Most Popular Men's Names in Early Medieval Ireland,”compiled by Heather Rose Jones, http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/irish100/. Mór is a descriptive byname, “big, great,” in “Index of Names in Irish Annals: Masculine Descriptive Bynames,” Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/. Seáin is the genitive form of the name given name Seán dated 1316-1602 in “ Index of Names in Irish Annals: Seán (Seóan),” Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Sean.shtml.
Gret Búrstlinin (Twin Moons): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Kingdom, April 2012 Or, a pansy purpure and a bordure purpure semy of church bells Or.
The original submission, Sable, semy of church bells Or, a pansy purpure., was returned because the overall charge violated the Rule of Tincture (purpure on sable). The name was registered July 2012.
Styrbiǫrn inn Rauði (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE Sable, a chevron inverted and in chief three roundels two and one argent. The name is Old Norse. Styrbiǫrn is found as a male given name in “Viking Names found in Landnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html. The byname, inn Rauði, “the red,” is found in “Viking Bynames found in the Landnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/vikbynames.html/. The client desires a male name.
Varinn inn Spaki (Tir Ysgithr): NEW BADGE Per pale sable and gules, a sword between two wolf's heads erased respectant Or. The name was registered January 2013.
Volchekh Karsakov (Tir Ygithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE Gules, a tower argent and a bordure wavy Or. The name is Russian. Volchekh is dated to 1283 and is a variant of Velchek, a male given name. Karsakov is the patronymic form of Karsak, a male given name dated to 1592. Both are found in “A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (and some of their Slavic roots),” Paul Wickenden of Thanet, http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/. The client desires a male name, is most interested in the sound of the name, and will not accept major changes.
The following submissions appear in the August 2013 Atenveldt Letter of Intent: (note that there are two August Letters of Intent for Atenveldt, posted on OSCAR)
Alexander Smyth (Sundragon): Joint BADGE RESUBMISSION from July 2013, with Flore de le Court: (Fieldless) A gauntleted fist argent, charged with a musical note azure, within and conjoined to an annulet argent, semy of ladybugs proper. We can simplify the blazon somewhat: "(Fieldless) On a gauntlet clenched argent within and conjoined to an annulet argent semy of ladybugs proper, a musical note azure". [AmC] Nice solution! [MMM]
Aysun al-Andalusi (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per pale embattled argent and gules, a fox rampant sable and three hearts in pale Or. The name is Arabic, “Aysun of Andalus.” Aysun is a male given name/'ism; he was the son of Sulayman al-Arabi, governor of Barcelona and Girona, c. 775-780 (“Rebel Without a Pension: The Mystery of Aizo”, A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe, a blog by Jonathan Jarrett, http://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com/2009/OG/25/rebel-without-a-pension-the-mystery-of-aiz/). al-Andalusi is a geographical nisba, demonstrating the individual's ancestral or recent place of origin. Gender doesn't matter to the client. The client is most interested in the sound of the name. The name is correctly constructed. I found no conficts. [AmC] The embattled line removes the appearance of marshalling. No conflicts found. [AmC]
Bébinn ingen Domnaill (Brymstone): BADGE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, September 2010: Per pale argent and azure, a heart per pale vert and argent. This is not an appeal, because the submission has changed. It's a plain old resubmission. [AmC] Yeah...hit the wrong button. [MMM]
Ciarán Colquhoun (Sundragon): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Or, an open book and on a chief purpure an increscent and and a decrescent Or. No conflicts found. Typo: "an increscent and a decrescent Or". No conflicts found. [AmC]
Demetrios of Crete (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Argent, a roundel gules charged with a bull's head cabossed argent, a bordure gules. This
is from my Word doc of Names of Lay Proprietors in Thessaloniki and
Strymon in the 2nd Half of the 13th and 14th Century by Maridonna
Benvenuti ©2001 Andrea Hicks from Peasant Society in the Late
Byzantine Empire by Angeliki E. Laiou-Thomadakis, Princeton
University Press, 1977, ISBN 0-691-95252-2, Appendix I. Here's the
list of Demetrios men and the dates: Demetrios Asan 1349; Demetrios
Doukopoulos 1300; Demetrios Farmakes 1347; Demetrios Isauros
1317-1334; Demetrios Kavasilas 1347; Demetrios Philanthropenos 1304.
[MB] Douglas Rowan MacCallum (Sundragon): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Or, on a bend sinister cotised between two roundels vert, three dice argent, spotted sable.
Eyvor Halldórsdóttir (Tir Ysgithr): NEW JOINT BADGE with Domnall mac Faíltigeirn: [Fieldless] Two serpents glissant erect respectant sable maintaining between them in their mouths a gemstone azure. When I first looked at this, I saw an odd wig. I think the gemstone should be blazoned as "a hexagonal gemstone". [ELM] The gem in the line vs. color versions is significantly different.[Gs] I never quite manage mirror images (particularly at Consultation Tables), hence the very wonky gemstone. [MMM]
Giles Chadwik Richardson (Barony of Atenveldt): BADGE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, October 2009: [Fieldless] A tower per pale azure and argent charged with three bezants in pale. Does this look like a clown tunic to anyone? This looks like a clown tunic to me. :) [AvM] The client is fine with the design (I noticed this as I was drawing it and mentioned it to him -- HE saw the tower and the three bezants from his arms, so good for him! I feel like such a Bozo!). [MMM]
Ivar of Elsinore (Ered Sul): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, June 2013: Per pale gules and argent, a cross couped fitchy counterchanged and a chief sable. The name was registered May 2013. The original submission, Per pale gules and argent, a cross throughout barbed at the foot counterchanged, a chief sable., was returned June 2013 for providing no evidence of the motif of barbing a cross only at the foot. We contemplated considering this as a modification of a cross barby and calling it a step from period practice, but we also have no evidence of crosses barby in period heraldry at all. The client has chosen another style of cross.
Jennifer de Trethewy (Twin Moons): NEW NAME CHANGE, from Jeneuer de Trethewy The original name was registered July 2006. She wishes to register the spelling of her legal given name, Jennifer; a copy of her driver's license is provided to Laurel. She desires a female name, and the old name should be retained as an alternate.
Pelleas of Crete (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Sable, on a fess ermine a ram's head cabossed gules. We don't allow chiefs and bases of the same tincture to be combined: * Wolf de la Wode. Device. Argent, a wolf's head cabossed and a base indented sable, a chief indented gules. This device is returned for redraw, for using a chief and a base together. Precedent says "[w]e leave open the possibility that there might be designs with a chief and a base together, which would not blur the distinction from a charged fess: if the chief and base were different tinctures, for instance, or if they had different lines of division. But these will have to be considered case-by-case; we'd love to see some period examples of them." [Cynwrig de Montain, R-Artemisia, Nov 2006 LoAR] In this case, while the chief and the base are different tinctures, they have the same complex line. This still blurs the distinction between this blazon, with a primary wolf's head, and Per fess argent and sable, on a fess indented argent a wolf's head cabossed sable, with a charged fess. [LoAR 05/2013] This is likewise ambiguous between the submitted blazon and "Sable, on a fess ermine, a ram's head cabossed gules". [AmC] I agree with Schwarzdrachen, this just looks like a very butch fess. However, there do not appear to be any conflicts with <Sable, on a fess ermine a ram's head cabossed gules>. [AvM] I have spoken with the client and he is perfectly on-board with shrinking the ermine area to a fess.[SmR]
Zoe of Alexandria (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME AND DEVICE: Lozengy sable and argent, a phoenix gules. Wow.
I think this is clear. [AmC] The following submissions appear in the September 2013 Atenveldt Letter of Intent:
Beverly FitzAlan de Stirkelaunde: BADGE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, June 2013: [Fieldless] A pigeon maintaining a lily slipped argent. The name was registered August 2010. This badge was returned for conflict with the badge of Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, Per chevron argent and vert, in base a falcon close argent. (DC for fieldlessness, but nothing for the maintained lily, the change in placement upon the field, or the type of bird). It was also returned for conflict with the badge of Branwen le Baxtere, (Fieldless) A raven argent maintaining a stalk of wheat fesswise Or. (DC for fieldlessness, but nothing for the change in type of maintained charge, or for the type of bird). The client has obtained permission to conflict from both Branwen and Tangwystyl, with letters provided to Laurel.
Duncan Saint Claire of Atenveldt: CHANGE of HOLDING NAME from James of Atenveldt The original name submission, Duncan Saint Claire, was returned by Laurel June 2013 for conflict “with the registered Phillip MacDuncan Sinclair, as it makes a claim to be his father. The names do not conflict in appearance, but they do conflict in sound. While Sinclair is different in appearance from Saint Claire, their pronunciation by many people in modern England is identical, as \sin-CLAIR\; they are understood to be two spellings of the same name. Thus, they must conflict. We note that this name could be registered with Phillip's permission. While we do not allow the registration of identical names, we allow people to make the claim of relationship with a registered person with their permission. His device has been registered under the holding name James of Atenveldt.” The addition of the client's barony (and kingdom) should clear the conflict. The following submissions appear in the August 2013 Atenveldt Letter of Intent (Part 2):
Atenveldt, Kingdom of: NEW ORDER NAME, “Order of the Golden Sun of Atenveldt” The Kingdom name was registered “at some point.” Golden is a frequently-used descriptive in SCA Order names; golden, “made of gold, consisting of gold,” is seen from c. 1275, although the identical spelling is just post-period. This particular spelling for the brightest celestial object in the sky is dated to 1634. (Both citations come from the COED.) The is clear of the Order of the Golden Sun in Splendor, registered to the Kingdom of Artemisia. The name is to be associated with the registered badge, Azure, a demi-sun issuant from base Or and a bordure embattled argent. It is presented to those who have served as Kingdom of Atenveldt Arts and Sciences Champions.
Baldwin of Acre (Barony of Atenvelt): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Argent, semy of Latin crosses formy, a bull's head cabossed gules armed and ringed Or, a bordure dovetailed per saltire sable and gules. Okay,
it may be only me who thinks so...but this name comes close to
presuming on referring to a Royal name. The kingdom of Jerusalem
lasted from 1099 to 1291. Acre was the last remaining part before its
destruction by the Mamluks. This kingdom's history is divided by
historians into two distinct periods. The "First Kingdom"
was from 1099 to 1187. The "Second Kingdom" was from 1192
to 1291. When it was re-established in the "Second Kingdom"
era, it was centered in Acre and the kingdom was many times referred
to as the Kingdom of Acre. This kingdom had five rulers by the name
of Baldwin, including: Baldwin I (1100-1118), Baldwin II (1118-1131),
Baldwin III (1143-1162), Baldwin IV (1174-1185) and Baldwin V
(1185-1186). Now all of these folk ruled in the "First Kingdom"
period before the 'Kingdom of Acre' name was in reference, as far as
I know, but Acre was an important part of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
throughout all of its history. It was the forces of King Baldwin I
during the First Crusade (1104) who first captured Acre after roughly
four years of siege. The crusaders made Acre their chief port in
Palestine. I agree that this is presumptuous of the many kings of that name.[AmC] That was my feeling as well. [SmR] The blazon can be simplified to "crusilly Latin formy". [AmC]
Leonore Aid-an (Barony of Atenveldt): NEW BADGE: [Fieldless] Issuant from an iron cooking pot a yellow garden rose, slipped and leaved, all proper. Reblazon:
"(Fieldless) In pale a rose Or slipped vert issuant from a _____
sable". Shauna has graciously provided the Laurel copy of the badge emblazon, and the vessel appears to be a cauldron. [MMM]
Rodney Jean Dozier (Tir Ysgithr): PERMISSION TO CONFLICT (ARMORY): Per pale dovetailed Or and gules, a wood axe bendwise sinister argent, hafted sable. Rodney grants permission to any future submitter to register armory that is at least one countable step different from his.
Siobhan Eibhlin ni Mhathghamhna: PERMISSION TO CONFLICT (ARMORY) (device) Per bend sinister Or and azure, a brown bear statant erect proper and an Irish harp Or. [Ursus arctos] (badge) Azure, a bear's head erased within a bordure O Siobhan grants permission to any future submitter to register armory that is at least one countable step different from hers.
Vanora O'Davorean (Sundragon): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per pall inverted Or, gules and sable, two bears combattant counterchanged and an artist's paint brush Or. (This was a heinous delay from March.) I
haven't found any evidence for <Vanora> as a period form of
<Guenevere>. The earliest instances in the IGI are from the
19th C. The most similar name that I can find is <Phenara>, the
name of an English woman who was married in 1625
(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NVP6-2J7). [AmC] The original submissions were colored in wax crayons; that was rectified to send on to Laurel. [MMM]
The following submissions were registered by the SCA College of Arms, June 2013: (Yay! This is the “first batch” of the Estrella XXXIX submissions!) Aelia Musa. Name change from Annora Wallace. Commenters observed that Musa (as opposed to Mus) was not documented on the Letter of Intent. Green Staff was able to identify several men with the cognomen Musa in early Imperial times, allowing the name to be registered as submitted. The submitter's previous name, Annora Wallace, is retained as an alternate name. Alaric Schweickell. Name change from holding name Aodhan of Twin Moons and device change. Quarterly argent and vert, a smith's hammer surmounted by a key bendwise wards to base sable. Submitted as Alaric Schweikle, this name combines a Frankish (French) given name and a German byname. While this is an allowable lingual mix under Appendix C, the elements must be dated to within 300 years of one another. As submitted, the given name is 12th century (that is 1199 or older) while the byname is dated to no earlier than 1541. Thus, they cannot be combined in a name submission. Luckily, a different spelling of the byname is dated to an earlier time: Sans Repose found Schweickell dated to 1497 in Aryanhwy merch Catmael, "German Names from Nürnberg, 1497" (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/nurnberg1497.html). In this spelling, the names are (barely) registerable together. We have changed the name to that form in order to register the name. The submitter indicated that he wanted to retain his name as an alternate name. However, this is a change from a holding name. Precedent says: [Isabeau d'Orange. Name change from holding name Isabeau of Kaldor Ness, 08/2012, A-An Tir] The Letter of Intent indicates that the old item is to be retained as an alternate name. This is not possible, as it is a holding name. We do not charge for a change from a holding name. Therefore, we do not allow the name to be retained. To do otherwise would effectively allow the submitter to register two names for a single fee. If the submitter wants to keep the holding name, she may submit it as an alternate name. The same is true here; to keep this name, he would need to submit is as an alternate name. His
previous device, Lozengy gules and Or, a smith's hammer surmounted
by a key bendwise wards to base sable, is retained as a
badge. Submitted as Alysaundre de Bordeaux, the submitter requested authenticity for the 12th century. The authentic form for that period would be Alexander de Burdegala. The submitter indicated that the authentic form was the one he preferred, so we have changed it to that form in order to meet his request. Amaris le Fey. Name. Amaris is the submitter's legal given name. It is also a grey period English feminine name, dated to 1641 in the IGI Parish Records extracts (found by Rouge Scarpe). That makes this name fully English. Annabell Riant. Name and device. Per chevron throughout sable and azure, two fleurs-de-lys inverted and a butterfly argent. This
name mixes an English given name and a French byname; this is an
allowable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA. Her
previous device, Per chevron vert and sable, on a chevron
throughout per pale Or and argent three cinquefoils gules, is
retained as a badge. Arianwen
is a much later spelling of the name of a woman who lived in either
the 5th or 8th century. We allow later spellings of the name because
we do not have any contemporaneous spellings of the name. However,
any elements mixed with those later spellings must also be temporally
compatible with the dates of the woman (5th or 8th century). In this
case, commenters were able to date swete as a feminine Old
English byname; this is compatible with an 8th century name. Sweet,
the modern spelling of the name, is allowable under the lingua
Anglica allowance. However, that simply makes the name a late period
spelling of an 8th century mixed Welsh/Old English name. This device was pended from the May 2013 LoAR, until the discussion on how to treat sheaves of charges for purposes of arrangement was completed. As set forth on the Cover Letter, there is no unity of posture/orientation issue under SENA A3D2c with this design. There is a step from period practice for the use of an Oriental abacus. Arnóra hnappraz. Name and device. Argent, an acorn vert and on a chief double-arched purpure two pretzels argent. There
is a step from period practice for the use of a chief
double-arched. Please advise the submitter to draw the pithon with a more substantial body. Caell Robertson. Name and device. Per pale argent and sable, a dolmen counterchanged. Submitted as Cael Robertson, Cael was documented as an early Gaelic name found only in poetic contexts. As such, it cannot be registered with Robertson. Luckily, Eastern Crown was able to find Caell as an Anglicized Irish form of Cathal dated to 1601 in Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada's "Names Found in Anglicized Irish Documents" (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnglicizedIrish/Masculine.shtml). This name is registerable with the late period English Robertson. We have made that change in order to register the name. Ceridwen verch Deykin. Name and device. Per pall inverted vert, azure and argent, in base a frog sable. Submitted
as Ceridwen merch
Deykin, the byname is
not temporally compatible. The particle merch
is an early form, that is not compatible with the later
medieval Deykin.
The medieval form is verch.
We have made that change in order to register the name. Ceridwen
is the submitter's legal given name. This
name does not conflict with the registered Cristiane
Woayde. The end of the
given names and the addition of atte
create at least two syllables difference
in sound and appearance. The submitter's previous name, Þórdís
Hrefnudóttir, is
retained as an alternate name. Nice 16th century English name! Clara Makkynnay. Name (see RETURNS for device). Nice
16th century Scots name! Nice
12th century English name! There is a step from period practice for
the use of the "phases of the moon" motif. Nice
10th or 11th century Gaelic name! The citation from the Letter of Intent for the byname is for a "community contributed" IGI record. These are contributed by amateur genealogists, and are often not reliable. Names are normalized and standardized without notation; sometimes information is based on family stories rather than documents. As such, they should not be relied upon as documentation. A name documented only from such a source is not registerable. Luckily, Sans Repose pointed out that dictus Savoir was dated as a byname to 1277 in her "Latinized French Names from 12th and 13th C Parisian Cartularies." Thus, this can be registered as submitted. This
name mixes an English given name and a French byname; this is an
allowable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA. Nice
16th century English name! Nice 14th century (or later) English name! Gwenfrewi of Abergavenny. Name and device. Argent, in pale three arrows bendwise inverted sable and on a chief azure three hearts argent. The documentation for the spelling Gwenfrewi is based on an assertion in Withycombe that it is a Welsh name. Withycombe is not dependable for non-English names. The spelling Gwen vrewy is dated to 1527 in Sabine Baring-Gould and John Fisher,The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales, Cornwall and Irish Saints. They also assert that the spelling Gwenfrewi is found in the 15th or 16th century Peniarth manuscripts; commenters were able to confirm that spelling was found there. Thus it can be registered as submitted. This name does not conflict with the registered Gwenhwyvar of Abergavenny; the last two syllables of the given names are quite different in sound and appearance. Please
advise the submitter to draw the arrows more clearly in pale with the
tips of the barbs aligned vertically. Submitted
under the name Duncan Saint Claire. Blazoned
when registered in December 2005 as Per pales gules and Or, a
lymphad under sail between three mullets of six points, a bordure all
counterchanged, the field division was misspelled. The submitter requested authenticity for 9th to 10th century Viking. This name does not meet that request. First, we have no evidence Katrín was used before the 12th century. Second, the patronymic form is typical of Sweden, not places like Iceland, where we'd expect {O,}zurrdóttir. But the name is registerable as submitted. Nice
device! Submitted as Layla bint Suleiman al-Nahral-Urduni, the name Suleiman was misspelled on the Letter of Intent as Sulieman. We have corrected that error in order to register that name. The name al-Nahral-Urduni is intended to indicate a connection to the Jordan River today known as Nahr al-Urdun. Unfortunately, locative bynames are not created in Arabic from compounded phrases like this. Instead, we'd expect a name like al-Urduni "of Jordan," which could refer either to the river itself, or to the region, as Wikipedia notes that al-Urdun was used to refer to the area as early as the 8th century. Thus, we have changed the byname to the constructible al-Urduni in order to register it. The
submitter's previous name, Genevieve
Gabrielle Plubel d'Avon,
is retained an alternate name. Nice 13th century English name! Mathghamhain Drake. Name. This name mixes a Gaelic given name and an English byname; this is an allowable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA. Mathias MacCooel. Device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, in saltire three hearts in bend sinister between two tygers combattant in bend argent. Morgan Fabell. Name and device. Argent, in saltire two axes azure and in base a gunstone, a chief azure. Mstislav syn Volui. Name and device. Argent, a bat-winged manticore segreant gules, headed and winged sable. Qara Keirije. Name change from Hrefna Gandalfsdottir. Appearing on the Letter of Intent as Qara Keiije, the spelling on the forms (and the documented form) is Qara Keirije. The submitter's previous name, Hrefna Gandalfsdottir, is retained as an alternate name. Raimundus Castellano. Name and device. Gules, a cross of Santiago and a bordure denticulada Or. The
submitter expressed interest in a form suitable for the 12th century.
In 12th century Castilian, the byname form that commenters could find
is el Castellano (from El Mio Cid in CORDE). But the
name is registerable as is. Nice 15th century French name! Robert MacNair. Name and device. Erminois, three rams rampant sable. Nice 15th century Scots name! Nice device! Rosa Duvanova doch' Sychevna. Name change from Rose Ella Duvanovicha doch' Sychevna and device. Per pale argent and sable, two harpies addorsed counterchanged. Submitted as Rosa Duvanova 'doch Sychevna, the correct form of the word for "daughter" is doch' (this is also the form grandfathered to her). We have made that change in order to register it. This name mixes a Hungarian given name with Russian bynames; this combination is grandfathered to the submitter. The submitter's previous name, Rose Ella Duvanovicha doch' Sychevna, is released. Rosa
Duvanova doch' Sychevna. Badge.
Per fess argent and
azure, three trees blasted sable and an owl argent. This
badge is not in conflict with the badge of Juhana Maununpoika
Kivisuo, (Fieldless) A demi-maiden representing Saint Agatha
proper, crined and haloed Or, vested per pale sable and Or,
maintaining on a tray gules her severed breasts proper. Juhana's
demi-maiden is considered Or, and so there is no DC for change of
tincture, but there is a DC for fieldlessness and another DC for the
addition of the sustained lyre. Submitted
as Tirion syn Khorliazh, the given name
was hypothesized as a variant of the late period Tirun and
Tiron. However, the submitter gave no reason that he believed
this to be a plausible variant, and commenters could find no evidence
for an additional vowel to be inserted in a Russian name. Barring
such evidence, this hypothetical form cannot be registered. We have
changed the name to the documented Tiron. The submitter requested authenticity for the 12th to the 15th century. As this name mixes a French element (Navarre) in an otherwise Italian name, this cannot be made authentic for either French or Italian. However the name is registerable. While the Letter of Intent hypothesizes de Verdello as a mixed language element, it is completely (Latinized) Italian. This name mixes French and Italian; this is an allowable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA. Wade Greenwall. Name and device. Per pale vert masoned Or and argent masoned sable, a tower counterchanged argent and vert. Eastern Crown was able to date the byname to 1628 England in the FamilySearch Historical Records. Zoryna Venitsa. Name and device. Purpure, a sickle between three mullets Or. Please advise the submitter to draw a thicker blade on the sickle.
The following have been returned by the College of Arms for further work, June 2013: Beverly FitzAlan de Stirkelaunde. Badge. (Fieldless) A pigeon maintaining a lily slipped argent. This badge is returned for conflict with the badge of Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, Per chevron argent and vert, in base a falcon close argent. There is a DC for fieldlessness, but nothing for the maintained lily, the change in placement upon the field, or the type of bird. This
badge is also returned for conflict with the badge of Branwen le
Baxtere, (Fieldless) A raven argent maintaining a stalk of wheat
fesswise Or. There is a DC for fieldlessness, but nothing for the
change in type of maintained charge, or for the type of bird. This
device is returned for redraw, for violating SENA A2C2 which states
"Elements must be drawn to be identifiable." Commenters
were unable to identify the pansies as anything other than
oddly-colored blobs. The term pansy in period referred to
heartsease, not the modern pansy that is a hybridized species, shown
in this depiction. Pansies should be drawn with five distinct petals,
not four. A period depiction of a pansy can be seen at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Embroidered_bookbinding_Elizabeth_I.jpg This device is returned for conflict with the device of Da'oud al-Dimashqi, Per chevron sable and vert, a chevron between a decrescent and an increscent and an oak leaf argent, and with the device of Eithne ingen Fhaelain Duib, Per chevron sable and vert, a chevron between an increscent, a decrescent, and a wolf rampant argent. In both cases there is a DC for change in type of the secondary charges, but nothing else. There is a step from period practice for the use of compass stars. Duncan Saint Claire. Name. Unfortunately, this name conflicts with the registered Phillip MacDuncan Sinclair, as it makes a claim to be his father. The names do not conflict in appearance, but they do conflict in sound. While Sinclair is different in appearance from Saint Claire, their pronunciation by many people in modern England is identical, as \sin-CLAIR\; they are understood to be two spellings of the same name. Thus, they must conflict. We note that this name could be registered with Phillip's permission. While we do not allow the registration of identical names, we allow people to make the claim of relationship with a registered person with their permission. His device has been registered under the holding name James of Atenveldt. Ivar of Elsinore. Device. Per pale gules and argent, a cross throughout barbed at the foot counterchanged, a chief sable. This device is returned for providing no evidence of the motif of barbing a cross only at the foot. We contemplated considering this as a modification of a cross barby and calling it a step from period practice, but we also have no evidence of crosses barby in period heraldry at all. Livid le Coi. Device. Azure, a koi haurient argent marked Or and a base wavy argent. This device is returned for using a charge which has not been demonstrated to have been known to Europeans in period, and may itself be post-period. Precedent says: This
device must be returned for using a charge which has not been
demonstrated to have been known to Europeans in period. Goldfish have
long been bred as pets in China, but the fantail goldfish appears to
have originated during the Ming dynasty. They do not appear to have
been known to Western Europe until the 19th century. This places them
outside the domain of the Society, making them unsuitable as heraldic
charges, barring evidence that they were known to Western Europeans
in period. Lacking such evidence, we must return the device. [Elinor
Strangewayes of Dorset, R-East, July 2007 LoAR] Blazoned on the Letter of Intent as annulety, the annulets are not distinguishable from the rings and other markings expected as artistic detail on a polypus. Therefore, they are not considered as tertiary charges. This badge is returned for conflict with the badge of Isabel de Kelsey, (Fieldless) A polypus Or, and with the device of Bridget Popham, Per pale purpure and sable, a polypus Or. In both cases there is a DC for fieldlessness, but nothing else. Morgan MacDuff. Device. Sable, a death's head within a dragon in annulo vorant of its tail argent. This device is returned for redraw, for blurring the distinction between the primary and secondary charge groups. Here the centermost charge, the death's head, is not drawn sufficiently large to be obviously the primary charge. The surrounding dragon is itself rather anemic, and so is not obviously the primary charge either. The dragon is also nearly indistinguishable from a pithon, something which may also be cause for return.
The following submissions were registered by the SCA College of Arms, July 2013: (Yay! This is the “second batch” of the Estrella XXXIX submissions!) Aetia of Atenveldt. Name and device. Argent, a brown owl displayed proper, on a chief triangular azure a demi-sun issuant from the line of division Or. Atenveldt is the registered name of an SCA branch. There is a step from period practice for the use of a non-eagle displayed. Alesia Thompson. Device. Quarterly counter-ermine and gules, on a plate a wolf's head erased contourny gules. Please advise the submitter to draw more prominent erasing on the wolf's head. Anny More O'Brien. Name and device. Purpure, a Celtic cross argent within an orle of ivy leaves Or. Nice 16th century Anglicized Irish name! Chaninai al-Zarqa' bint Ibrahim ibn Rashid. Reblazon of device. Per fess argent and sable, on a fess gules a scimitar blade to chief and in base a snake contourny in annulo vorant of its own tail argent. Blazoned when registered in August 2002 as Per fess argent and sable, on a fess gules a scimitar blade to chief and in base a snake involved argent, we are clarifying the posture of the snake.Christopher Ravenhill. Device. Per bend sinister argent and vert, a raven sable and a bordure counterchanged. Please advise the submitter to draw the raven with internal detailing. Dante Hollow Heart. Name. Submitted as Dante Hollowheart, the evidence for the construction Hollowheart was not convincing. While both elements exist as words and in bynames, no evidence was presented nor could any be found that the combination was plausible. Luckily, each can be documented separately, and this can be registered as Dante Hollow Heart. We have made that change in order to register the name. Dominic de la Mer. Device. Or, a fox sejant guardant queue-forchy proper maintaining in its mouth a feather purpure, all between three roundels vert. Blazoned on the Letter of Intent as a peacock feather, the feather here is too small to reliably identify it as a peacock feather, as opposed to a generic feather. We have thus reblazoned it. Commenters discussed whether or not this device exceeds the complexity count of SENA A3E2, which states that complexity of a design is "measured by adding the number of types of charges to the number of tinctures. Items with a complexity count of eight or less receive no penalty for complexity from this rule....All charges, including maintained charges, are counted, though objects worn by an animal or person do not. All tinctures are counted except those used only for normally unblazoned artistic details like teeth, claws, and eyes. Proper is not a tincture, but a description of a group of tinctures, each of which is counted separately." Here we have three charges (fox, feather, roundel) and six tinctures (Or, gules, sable, argent, purpure, vert), for a total complexity count of nine. (The blue eyes on the fox are normally unblazoned artistic detail and therefore do not require inclusion in the complexity count, which is fortunate.) Items with a complexity count of nine of higher may be registered if they follow period style, or can be documented as an Individually Attested Pattern. In this case, despite the variety of tinctures here, this fox is not any more complex than a proper rose, which likewise has three tinctures. The pattern of a single primary charge maintaining a charge between three identical charges is a period one, and so this design is registerable. Draco Rivenoak. Reblazon of device. Per bend gules and Or, a bend wavy pean between two dragons in annulo counterchanged. Blazoned when registered in September 1999 as Per bend gules and Or, a bend wavy pean between two dragons involved counterchanged, we are clarifying the posture of the dragons. Gabriella Tigre. Name and device. Per pale purpure and azure, a natural tiger rampant argent marked sable and a bordure rayonny argent. The name was documented as a mix of Italian and Spanish elements; Eastern Crown was able to document it as a completely late period Spanish name. There is a step from period practice for the use of a natural tiger. Nice cant! Gottfried von Rothenberg ob der Tauber. Name (see RETURNS for device). Ælfwynn Leoflæde dohtor provided a great deal of help with the byname. She was able to date the place name Rothenburg ob der Tauber to 1527 in Reitzenstein Lexikon Fränkischer Ortsnamen, s.n. Rothenburg ob der Tauber. The same source notes variation between -berg and -burg in period forms of Callenberg/Kallenburg and Kuberg/Koburg. Finally, there are examples of complex locative bynames in personal names: Socin, p. 274, gives 13th century vro Beantrix von dem welschen Niuwenburg and Theobaldus dominus de Novo castro in Burgundia. This is together sufficient to allow the registration of this byname.
Iosif Volkov. Device change. Per bend sinister embattled azure and argent, a shooting star Or and a double-bitted axe argent, both bendwise sinister. His previous device, Per chevron argent and azure, two wolves combatant each maintaining a Latin cross azure and in base a double-bitted axe argent, is released. Irisko Aranyas. Name and device. Argent, on a chevron between three hexagonal gemstones sable two hexagonal gemstones argent. Hungarian names may be registered in either order; in this case, Irisko is the given name. Iuliana of the Unicorn. Name change from Iuliana inghean Phadraig. March of the Unicorn is the registered name of an SCA branch. The byname could also be constructed as an inn-sign based byname. The submitter's previous name, Iuliana inghean Phadraig, is retained as an alternate name. James of Acre. Name and device. Vert, two winged mastiffs combattant argent and a chief ermine. The byname of Acre is a lingua Anglica form of the period byname d'Acre or de Acre. Jenny Wren. Name. The phrase Jenny Wren as a name for the bird is dated to 1648 in the OED; thus, the reference is not obtrusively modern. Jocelyn le Coi. Name change from Jocelyn Playndeamours. Nice name for England around 1200! The submitter's previous name, Jocelyn Playndeamours, is released. Juliette Dashwood. Name and device. Per chevron throughout Or and purpure, two balls of yarn azure and a Lacy knot argent. This name mixes a French given name with an English byname; this is an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA. Commenters were unable to confirm the documentation for the given name provided on the Letter of Intent; however, they were able to find different documentation for the given name. Please advise the submitter to draw the per chevron line of division better balanced across the middle of the field; in this case, that would require making the line of division steeper. This would also give more room for the balls of yarn to be drawn larger, to better match the Lacy knot. Please see the May 2011 Cover Letter for further discussion and details of how to proper draw per chevron lines of division. Layla bint Suleiman al-Urduni. Device change. Purpure, a pall inverted raguly between two lotus flowers in profile and a peacock in his pride argent. Her previous 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, is retained as a badge. Liadan of Lochlainn. Name and device. Per chevron azure and vert, in base a hurst of pine trees argent. Submitted as Liadan of Laithlind, the byname is a proposed lingua Anglica form of a locative byname derived from an unclear area in Viking controlled areas. This form only appears early; by the 11th century it is displaced by the equivalent Lochlainn. That later form must be used in any lingua Anglica form. We have therefore made that change in order to register the name. Robert MacNair. Badge. Erminois, a ram's head cabossed sable and a bordure pean. Sveinbi{o,}rn Halbiornson. Device. Per pale azure and gules, a triquetra interlaced with an annulet argent and a bordure argent semy of increscents sable. Tir Ysgithr, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) A boar statant argent within and conjoined to an annulet sable. Tir Ysgithr, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) A boar statant Or within and conjoined to an annulet sable. Tir Ysgithr, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) A boar statant purpure within and conjoined to an annulet sable. Tir Ysgithr, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) A boar statant vert within and conjoined to an annulet sable. Tir Ysgithr, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) A boar statant azure within and conjoined to an annulet sable. Tir Ysgithr, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) A boar counter-ermine statant within and conjoined to an annulet sable. Valdisa Álarsdóttir. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). (Fieldless) A cross flory Or within and conjoined to an annulet sable. Wolff Belar der Koch. Name (see RETURNS for device).
The following have been returned by the College of Arms for further work, July 2013: Gottfried von Rothenberg ob der Tauber. Device. Per pale argent and azure, two bendlets and in sinister chief a Latin cross crosslet between four crosses potent counterchanged. This device is returned for blurring the difference between charge groups. As blazoned, the Latin cross crosslet is a secondary charge, itself surrounded by further charges. While we would allow a Jerusalem cross, a defined singular charge consisting of a central cross potent surrounded by four crosses couped, as a secondary charge, this is not a Jerusalem cross. Furthermore, this depiction has the two bendlets shifted down slightly, leading to the impression of combining ordinaries and non-ordinary charges in the same charge group, a violation of SENA A3D2b. Úlfr vafri. Device. Argent, a wolf passant guardant and maintaining in its mouth a sword gules. Blazoned on the Letter of Intent as sustaining, the sword here is less than half the visual weight of the wolf, and so it is a maintained charge. This device is returned for conflict with the badge of Katerine atte Wyshe de la Rye, Argent, a fox passant gules within a bordure per saltire sable and gules, and with the device of Anne of Foxwold, Argent, a fox passant proper within a bordure engrailed vert. [Vulpes fulva]. In both cases, there is a DC for the removal of the bordure, but nothing for the difference between a fox and a wolf, nor anything for the maintained sword. Valdisa Álarsdóttir. Household name House Flöry. No evidence was presented nor could any be found for House/Haus surname as a pattern in period German. Barring that evidence, this household name cannot be registered. Wolff Belar der Koch. Device. Barry pily sable and gules, a mastiff statant contourny Or. This device is returned for conflict with the device of Berthold Wolfer, Per fess azure and vert, a wolf passant contourny Or. There is only one DC for the change in field, but no difference granted for the type of canine. This device is also returned for lack of documentation for this low-contrast divided field. Thank you all for your continuing hard work for the Atenveldt College of Heralds and the people of Atenveldt!
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