Minutes of the 10 June 2001 Meeting

[Note: These submissions appear on the Nov 2001 LoAR]

Notes and Announcements

The meeting started at approximately 11:30. In order to become better acquainted with some of the new faces at the meeting, we began with a round of introductions. Crescent read the acceptances and Returns from the April LoAR and congratulated Martin de Thalassa, who was present, on his newly registered device. Crescent is looking for a volunteer to take over writing the CP article "The Trumpet's Voice" and another to take over writing the Laurel Letters. Sable Fret asked for help at CP Prize Tourney, which will be held July 7th. Golden Antelope asked for help with heraldry at Darkwell War, which will be held July 27-29. Crescent remarked that we had a heavy load to process and suggested that we get underway...so we did.

Caid, Kingdom of

Caid, Kingdom of: for the Company of Clothiers of Caid (New Badge)

Azure, issuant from a maunch, a hand maintaining a threaded needle argent.

Badge withdrawn by the submitting herald.

Altavia, Barony of

Dechtire ingen Ruairc (New Name)

Name:

Dechtire is a feminine Irish name found on http://britannica.com under the article Cú Chulainn. She is noted as the mother of the hero. In addition, the Táin Bó Cúalnge which dates to 1150, tells of the exploits of Cú Chulainn. A copy of the webpage http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/Cooley/Exploits.html page 2 is included, giving a side-by-side translation. Submitted with the patronymic prefix nic, we have replaced it with ingen, which we believe is more appropriate. Ruairc is found undated under the heading Ruarcc on page 158 of ÓC&M, which says "from this rare early name derives the surname Ó Ruairc."

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Jared Alexandre Blaydeaux (Kingdom Resub Badge)

[Fieldless] A raven striking sustaining a spur rowel of eight points sable

Name:

Registered in Dec. 1988

Device:

Badge returned for conflict Sep. 2000. No conflicts found.

BADGE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Lorcán mac Loinseach (New Name)

Name:

Lorcán is found under the heading Lorccán on page 124 of ÓC&M, dated in the latter spelling to the 10th C. Loinseach is under the heading Loingsech on page 124 of ÓC&M, and the latter spelling is dated to 989.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Calafia, Barony of

Abigail Chandler of Caithness (Laurel Resub Name (Returned Mar. 2001)

Name:

Abigail is a heading spelling on page 1 of Withycombe, which says: "It came into use in England in the 16th C..." Chandler is a heading spelling on page 90 of Reaney & Wilson, with dated examples le Candeler 1274 and le Chandeler 1285. Chandler is also a heading spelling on page 146 of Black, which says: "From ME chaundeler,...a maker of candles...The London Livery Company of Tallow Chandlers was incorporated in 1463." Caithness is a heading spelling on page 125 of Black. Dated spellings include Catnes 1454, Cathnes 1650 and Caithness 1669. Caithness is also a heading on page 121 in Johnston's "Place Names of Scotland," which includes Catness c.1150, Cathenes a.1130, and Cataneis c.1150.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Adelicia of Caithness (Laurel Resub Name; Returned Mar. 2001)

Name:

The documentation provided for the given name did not match the submitted spelling.

NAME RETURNED FOR LACK OF DOCUMENTATION

David of Caithness (Kingdom Resub Device)

Azure, a pall inverted Or between three beavers sejant, each maintaining an axe gules.

Name:

Registered in Oct. 2000

Device:

Device returned at Kingdom in Sep./Oct. 2000.

As the forms were not signed, we must RETURN this submission for lack of signature.

Geoffrey of Ormond (New Name and Device)

Per fess sable and azure, a [widget] argent

Name:

Geoffrey is dated to 1318-1325 in "Names from Fourteenth Century Foix", (Cateline de la Mor, Academy of St. Gabriel: http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/cateline/foix.html). Ormond is asserted to be an earldom in Ireland dating to the late 15th century, but the submitter has not provided substantive evidence supporting it and we were unable to document it. No copies of the documentation were provided with the submission.

Device:

We are unable to blazon the primary charge. It seems to be an attempt at a cross formy with five arms, but we cannot justify the use of a five-armed cross as a period charge. In addition, we found what would likely be a visual conflict with SCA armory [Titus of Wormwood - Feb '85: Purpure, a cinquefoil slipped and singly leaved argent].

NAME RETURNED FOR LACK OF DOCUMENTATION
DEVICE RETURNED FOR CONFLICT AND LACK OF NAME

Haukr Klængsson (New Name)

Name:

Submitted as Hauk Klaengsson, we are changing the name to be entirely Norse. Haukr is listed as a given name on page 11 of Geirr Bassi. Klæng(r) is listed as a given name on page 12 of Geirr Bassi. The CoH is adding the r to the given name and forming the patronymic, from Klængr to Klængsson, per Geirr Bassi's guidelines on page 17.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

John the Brittle (New Name)

Name:

John is a common English given name, found as a heading spelling on p. 178-9 of Withycombe and dated to the 12th century and earlier. Brittle is found as an entry in the OED, page 279, def. 2, with the meaning "That breaks faith; inconsistent, fickle". The OED cites "Hys bryttle nature, hys slypperness to waye", dated to 1539, and "Such brittle people as they bee...", dated 1521.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Ramon Allie del Diego (Kingdom Resub Name [Original return: "Rayith ? al-Badawee" June 1991])

Name:

Though the submitter alludes to a website on his submission form, no copies of the documentation were submitted with this name. Please advise the submitter to supply a printout of the applicable webpages.

NAME RETURNED FOR LACK OF DOCUMENTATION

Theophania d'Alexandre (New Name)

Name:

Theophania is a heading found on page 278 of Withycombe dated to 1205. Alexandre is found on page 6 of Dauzat as a baptismal name from the Renaissance. This is a patronymic in the same form as d'About, d'Achard, d'Ager, and d'Aymard, et al.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Violet of Caithness (New Name)

Name:

Violet is found as a heading spelling in Withycombe on page 290, which states: "In the 16th C it is fairly common in Scotland, doubtless through French influence, and it has continued to be used there." Caithness is a heading spelling on page 125 of Black. Dated spellings include Catnes 1454, Cathnes 1650 and Caithness 1669. Caithness is also a heading on page 121 in Johnston's "Place Names of Scotland," which includes Catness c.1150, Cathenes a.1130, and Cataneis c.1150.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Darach, Shire of

Irmele Schäfferin von Grunsberg (New Badge)

[Fieldless] A lion Or ermined azure

Name:

Registered in April 2001

Device:

No conflicts found.

BADGE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Dreiburgen, Barony of

Alix MacAlpine (New Device)

Per bend wavy Or and gules, a pomegranate slipped and leaved and a bee counterchanged.

Name:

Registered in March 1999

Device:

No conflicts found.

BADGE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Elaine of Elswicke (Name Change)

Name:

Registered as Elaine of Elswick in Dec. 1992. The submitter would like to add a terminal '-e' to the byname. Elleswyke is dated to 1254 under the heading spelling Elswick in Ekwall, page 165. Reaney & Wilson demonstrate the presence and absence of the terminal '-e' for a similar name: Ralph Elwyke 1512, John Ellyk 1569.

NAME CHANGE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Maria de Cinisi (New Name and Device)

Per chevron purpure and vert, two dogs heads erased respectant and a spiral hunting horn reversed Or.

Name:

Maria is found under the heading Mary on page 212 of Withycombe and dated to 1203-10. It is also found on page 251 of de Felice. According to CLG page 411, Cinisi is a village in Sicily and "has anc. castle".

Device:

No conflicts found.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Maykin Crofte (New Name and Device)

Per bend sinister vert and argent, a cross crosslet counterchanged.

Name:

Maykin is an undocumented variant of Maikin, found as a given name dated 1212-23 on pages 294-295 of Reaney & Wilson under the heading Makin, Makins, et al. We note that exchanging the letter i with y is well documented in English, e.g.: Bainard = Baynard, Deie = Deye, Fairer = Feyrere, Haie = Haye, May = Mai, etc. (R&W s.n. Baynard, Day, Fairer, Hay, May.) Croft is a heading spelling found on page 117 of Reaney & Wilson, dated to 1361; atta Crofte is dated to 1353 on the same page.

Device:

No armory conflicts found. Crescent and the College members present say "beautiful piece of armory."

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Vinzenz Bach (Laurel Resub Name, New Device)

Per bend azure and gules, an eagle's head erased and a horse's head erased contourny Or

Name:

Laurel returned the submitter's original name request Ricohard Bach in March 1999 for conflict with the name of author Richard Bach. Vinzenz is found as an undated heading spelling on page 581 of Bahlow. Various spellings are also found under the heading Fietz(e), a Silesian nickname for saint Vincent, on page 134. Dated spellings include Vicencz 1559, and Vieczegk 1594. Bach is found on page 26 of Bahlow, dating to the 1300's in such locative bynames as bi dem bach, an der bach, im bach, etc. We note that on page 84 of Webster's Biographical Dictionary, under the family name Bach, is listed Hans Bach, the great-grandfather of J.S. Bach, who died in 1626 when his eldest son Johannes was 22 years old. We therefore surmise that Hans was born in the 1500's.

Device:

No armory conflicts were found.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Wolfgang Neuschel der Grau (New Household Name: Neuschel Consort of Musicke, Change of Device)

Gules, two dragon's jambes erased in saltire argent

Name:

Registered in March 1999.

Neuschel is the submitter's registered surname, which is found in Bahlow, page 388 under the heading Nuschke, dated to 1370. The submitter documents the phrase Consort of Musicke from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Vol 6, Sadie ed., page 329. Under the heading "2. Mixed Consorts" the authors write:

Indeed, the earliest recorded example of the English word 'consort' in a musical sense is in George Gascoigne's description of a spectacle presented to Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth in July 1575...:'From thence her Majestie passing yet further on the brydge, Protheus appeared, sitting on a Dolphyns backe... With in the which Dolphyn a Consort of Musicke was secretely placed, the which sounded, and Protheus clearing his voyce, sang.'

The OED entry for consort on page 868 dates the meaning of a group of musicians playing together to 1587. In addition, the OED entry for music on page 783 dates the spelling of musicke to 1588 within a sonnet by Byrd.

Device:

If the new device is registered, the submitter requests that his previous device, Azure, three sackbuts inverted within a bordure argent, be transferred to a badge associated with this new household name. We note that the default orientation for a dragon's jambe is claws to chief. There is a close call in SCA armory, [Randwulf Widefarer, Jan '96, [Fieldless] Two dragon's jambes erased inverted in saltire argent], but the submitted arms are clear with 2 CDs by X.4.a - Field Difference and X.4.h. - Posture Changes. Crescent wishes to advise the submitter that he use caution to make the erasing at the lower ends of the jambes clearly distinguishable from the claws at the upper ends.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Gallavally, Canton of (Dreiburgen)

Mary Dedwydd verch Gwallter (Kingdom Resub Device)

Argent, a boar (posture?) azure, on a chief vert, 3 open books argent

Name:

Registered in Nov. 2000

Device:

This device was returned for redraw in June 2000. Unfortunately, the current submission has made no substantial changes from the submission returned last year. The posture of the boar must be made clearly passant, courant, or statant, and the books redrawn so that they are in the standard heraldic depiction and not in trian aspect.

DEVICE RETURNED FOR REDRAW

Sancti Geronimi, Pagus (Canton of Dreiburgen)

Sancti Geronimi, Collegium (New Badge)

Quaterly azure and argent, two crosses formy fitchy argent

Name:

Registered in Dec. 1996

Device:

No armory conflicts found. A petition from the populace is included.

BADGE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Dun Or, Barony of

Dun Or, Barony of (Kingdom Resub Badge)

Argent, a poppy gules, seeded Or

Name:

Registered in May 1986. Badge returned Oct. 2000.

Device:

This is essentially a four-petaled rose. This therefore conflicts with the House of Lancaster, [Fieldless] a rose gules. Da'ud Precedent 2.2: "As with garden roses, a 'rose is a rose', whether of five, six, or four petals." [Eleanor DeBroke 10/95, page 4]

BADGE RETURNED FOR CONFLICT

Harsha Varnum (Laurel Resub Name, New Device)

Sable, a saltire fleury Or between, in cross, an escallop argent and three bezants

Name:

Laurel returned the original submission of Harsha Aditya the Infidel for presumption in Sep.? 1980, citing conflict with the Indian emperor Harsha, documented by the submitter (from R.C. Majumdar, Advanced History of India, 1967, pages 148 and 154), where he cites a 7th C emperor Harsha, and later names one of Harsha's great-grandsons Jayadeva, who married the daughter of one Harshadeva, clearly not the same Harsha aforementioned. We note that -deva is a suffix meaning "giver", and Harsh means "happiness". The king is mentioned in Webster's Biographical on page 671, where his full name is listed as Harshavardhana. This clearly shows the use of the name Harsha as a prototheme, or a combination name. We assert that the name element Harsha as given later to Harshadeva clearly illustrates the use of the name by someone other than the king. The submitter asserts that Varnum is an epithet meaning "shield", and that such an epithet would be appropriate for an Indian warrior (he cites personal communication with Swami Atmajananda, Ramakrishna Order, Washington D.C.). We have no resources to verify the meaning of Varnum and appeal to the College for its aid in this effort.

Device:

We recommend to the submitter that he draw all of the charges bigger and bolder, especially the fleurs at the ends of the saltire. No armory conflicts found.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Lupus of Arundel (Kingdom Resub Badge)

Per chevron rayonny gules and Or, issuant from base two drakkar prows addorsed and conjoined proper

Name:

Registered in June 1994

Device:

Badge returned June 1999 for style.

No conflicts found.

BADGE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Wolfram von Dietzenbach (New Badge)

Argent, a seeblatt sable

Name:

Registered in Dec. 1989

Device:

There is no CD given between a seeblatt and a heart. Conflict with: Zinzia del Lupo - Argent, a heart fracted palewise sable, January 1999:

BADGE RETURNED FOR CONFLICT

Gyldenholt, Barony of

Anne Lyse Maria von Marburg (New Device)

Per bend azure and purpure, a bend argent between three bees Or and three gouttes argent

Name:

approved and forwarded to Laurel at the March 2001 meeting

Device:

No armory conflicts found.

DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Bríd uí Chon na Mara (New Badge)

[Fieldless] An open penannular brooch bendwise sinister Or

Name:

Registered in Sept. 1991

Device:

We have matched the blazon of her arms. No conflicts found.

BADGE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Cera in Luch (New Device)

Argent, in pale three horses passant azure

Name:

Registered in May 2000

Device:

No armory conflicts found.

DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Cyrus of Samarra (New Name)

Name:

Cyrus is found as a heading in Lempriere's Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. page 187, dated to 559-401 BC. It is also found on pages 77-8 of Withycombe, which says "The name of the great king of Persia occurs in the Old Testament." Samarra is an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris river, north of Baghdad (modern Iraq), documented from the National Geographic Atlas of World History, ©1997, Daniel J. Boorstin. Page 1657 of the CLG states "The ruins of the great anc. city of Samarra extend 20 mi. along the river. Abbasid caliphs from 836 to 876. The 17th-cent. mosque with its golden dome is sacred..."

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Gillian Kylpatrick (New Name and Device)

Argent, a cross crosslet fitchy between in base two fleurs-de-lis, a bordure azure

Name:

Gillian is dated to 1303, found as a given name in Reaney & Wilson under the heading Dowding on page 140. Kylpatrick is found under the heading Kilpatrick dated to 1486 in Black, page 398.

Device:

No armorial conflicts found. Submitter has granted permission to conflict to Iamys Huet, her husband.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Iamys Huet (New Name and Device)

Argent, a cross crosslet fitchy between in base two wheat stalks slipped, a bordure azure

Name:

Iamys is dated to 1533 in Withycombe on pages 170-172, under the heading James. Huet can be found in Black on page 358 under the heading Hewat, where "Meg Huet appears in Aberdeen, 1408."

Device:

No armorial conflicts found. Included with the submission is a signed letter of permission to conflict from Gillian Kylpatrick, the submitter's wife.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Ian MacKinnie (New Name)

Name:

Ian was determined SCA compatible per the precedents of Jaelle of Armida - [Ian McTavish, LoAR 4/97]. MacKinnie is documented under the heading spelling MacKenna and dated to 1609 in Black, page 525. This name conflicts with Iain MacCoinnich, registered in May 1989.

NAME RETURNED FOR CONFLICT

Stephania von Graz (New Name and Device)

Per fess gules and Or, a lion dormant and an eagle, head to sinister, counterchanged

Name:

Stephania is found as a heading spelling in Morlet on page 108. Graz is a city in Austria, found undated in CLG on page 712. The Encyclopædia Britannica (1955, vol. 10: "Game to Gunm", page 671) says that the town "was an important fortified stronghold from pre-Roman times" and that "it is first definitely mentioned in a document of A.D. 881..."

Device:

No armorial conflicts found.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Su of the Silver Horn (Release of badge and re-registration of badge)

Sable, a bat-winged cat rampant to sinister, wings addorsed vert, fimbriated Or, holding in its forepaws the strings of a drinking horn argent

Device:

When her current device was registered (Sable, in fess a drinking horn bendwise and a flower of four heart-shaped petals saltirewise argent, barbed vert, seeded sable, within a bordure argent surmounted by another vert - July '83), the submitter intended for her then current device to be released (Azure, in fess a drinking horn bendwise argent and a flower of four heart-shaped petals saltirewise Or, barbed vert, seeded argent, within a bordure Or surmounted by another sable). Instead, that device was retained as a badge, and her badge was released. The submitter would like to fix this error by releasing her current badge and re-registering the badge: Sable, a bat-winged cat rempant to sinister...

ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Heatherwyne, Shire of

Heatherwyne, Shire of (Name Correction Laurel)

Name:

Dame Elsbeth has checked Laurel records and all submitted forms from the shire have the -wyne spelling of the name. There is no indication of why the name was recorded in the Ordinary with the -wine spelling. In personal communication, Elsbeth Laurel advised that a formal request be submitted for correction. We note that exchanging the letter i with y is well documented in English, e.g.: Blacwin = Blakwyne, Gladewine = Gladewyne, Knihtwine = Knythewyn, Redwyne = Redwin, Wine = Wyne, etc. (R&W s.n. Blackwin, Gladwin, Knightwin, Readwin, Wine)

NAME CORRECTION APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Ariane le Vyolour (New Name)

Name:

Ariane is found undated under the heading Ariadne on page 31 of Withycombe, which says "used in Italy and France." No documentation was supplied with the name, and the College has no idea what the submitter intends the byname to mean. There is some concern that the byname is close to the French verb violer "to rape;" violeur means "the rapist," which would violate rule IV.1 - Offensive Names.

NAME RETURNED FOR LACK OF DOCUMENTATION

Ekaterina ów Pultusk (New Name)

Name:

Submitted with the given name spelled Ekatrina, the submitter cites Wickenden, but didn't include a page number, and we cannot find the desired spelling. We have substituted the heading spelling Ekaterina, which is dated to 1533 on page 80 of Wickenden, 3rd ed. Pultusk is a town in Warsaw province of Poland of medieval origin. Found on page 1531 of CLG: "Has old castle, once residence of bishops of Plock". The Caidan CoH was unable to document the Polish translation for the preposition "of" and would appreciate assistance with this from the CoA.

NAME APPROVED AS CHANGED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Jarucha Delamare (Laurel Resub Name)

Name:

The submitter's name was returned in the April 2001 LoI, with the comment:

While combining Russian with French is registerable, it is a weirdness. The use of double given names in Russian was also ruled a weirdness by Jaelle of Armida in June 1997. The name is therefore not registerable as it is. We would have dropped the second given name, but since the submitter does not accept major changes, we could not do this.

The submitter has therefore dropped the middle name per Laurel's suggestion. Jarucha is found on page 116 of Wickenden, 3rd ed. under the heading Iarukha, dated to 1553. Delamare is a French surname found as an undated heading in Dauzat, page 185.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Lassar Fhína ingen uí Ceallaigh (New Name)

Name:

Submitted as: Lasarfina nic Kelly. Lassar Fhína is found as a heading spelling in ÓC&M, page 121 and dated to the later middle ages. It is Anglicized as Lassarina and Lasrina. Submitted with the patronymic prefix nic, we have replaced it with ingen uí, which we believe is more appropriate. Ceallaigh is found in MacLysaght on page 175, and is undated in the ancient spelling. Lasarfina is asserted to be found dated to 1282 in O'Brien: "Feminine Given Names in the Annals of Connacht 1224-1544". The name Kelly is the Anglicized form of O' Ceallaigh, and is therefore incompatible with the Gaelic patronymic prefix.

NAME SUBMISSION WITHDRAWN BY THE SUBMITTER

Tigernach ÓCatháin (New Name and Device)

Per pale sable and azure, on a chief Or, a tiger's head erased contourny sable

Name:

Submitted as Tigernaig O'Cathain, but no documentation was provided with the submission. Tigernaig is found as a genitive spelling in "100 Most Popular Men's Names in Early Medieval Ireland" (Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, Academy of St. Gabriel: http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/irish100/) Tigernach is a heading spelling dated to 1088 on page 170 of ÓC&M. We have put the given name back into nominative case. Cathán is an undated heading spelling on page 47 of ÓC&M, which says "it gave the surname Ó Catháin (O Kane), the name of one of the most prominent Ulster families down to the plantation."

Device:

No armory conflicts found.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

V{o,}rsa-Ívarr mannvitsbrekka (New Name)

Name:

We have found all three name elements in Geirr Bassi. V{o,}rsa- is found as a prefix meaning "man from V{o,}rs (Norway)" on page 29. Ívarr is found on page 12. The epithet mannvitsbrekka, "hill of man's wit, paragon of wisdom," is found on page 25.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

William Kendrick (New Name)

Name:

William is found as a heading in Withycombe on page 293-4, and that spelling of the name is dated to the Middle Ages. Under the heading Williams, et al., on page 493 of Reaney & Wilson, Richard William is dated to 1279, and Rauf le fuiz William is dated to 1299, both obviously used as patronymics. Kendrick is dated to 1593 as a variant of the heading Kenrick, found in Reaney & Wilson, on page 263.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Lyondemere, Barony of

Caitlin Watkyns (New Name)

Name:

Caitlín is a heading on page 208 of Woulfe as "a variant of Caitrín". Under the heading Caitrín, Woulfe adds "the name of a celebrated virgin and martyr of Alexandria, brought into Europe by the crusaders." Caitlin is also found undated in Withycombe pages 186-187 under the heading Katharine, Katherine, Catharine, Catherine: "The Irish Caitlin, from Middle English Catlin, is now often used in England." Watkyns is found under the heading Watkins in Reaney & Wilson on page 478, dated to 1327.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Konrad von Falkenberg (Kingdom Resub Name, New Device [Released from Pend])

Gules, a wolf's head erased, on a chief argent three fleurs-de-lys sable

Name:

Konrad is found in Bahlow on page 308 and "is the Latin documentary form of the old German royal name Kunrad ...(from Middle High German Kuonrat, the popular form in the Middle Ages)." The German locative preposition is von. Falkenberg is a medieval German castle mentioned in the CLG on page 601, but not dated. However, it is dated to 1154 on the following website: http://www.roadstoruins.com/falkenberg.htm.

Device:

No armorial conflicts found.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Starkhafn, Barony of

Nemdaille Fholtchaem ingen Broin (New Device)

Vert, a serpent coiled erect within a bordure Or

Name:

registered in Jan. 2000

Device:

As submitted, the snake is not coiled erect as the submitter indicates, and is not in a blazonable posture. If drawn correctly, this would be in conflict: Gwynaeth Angharad of Glamorgan - April 1985: Vert, a cobra coiled erect affronty within an orle wavy Or. If redrawn, there is a potential conflict with Guillaume au Serpent d'Or - August 1981: Sable, a serpent coiled and nowed within a bordure Or.

DEVICE RETURNED FOR REDRAW

Western Seas, Barony of

Annora verch Llwyd Bryneirian (Kingdom Resub Device)

Azure, five crosses bottony two, two, and one, a bordure engrailed argent

Name:

registered March 2000

Device:

Device returned May 2001 for lack of signature. No armorial conflicts found.

DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Justin Eachus (Kingdom Resub Name)

Name:

This name was apparently returned in May 2001 for lack of documentation. The submitter provided a report from the Academy of St. Gabriel. Per their letter, Justin is documented to 1639. The earliest reference for Eachus is dated to 1672. It is the opinion of the Academy that this is a plausible period name, however we cannot accept the surname without evidence of period use.

NAME RETURNED FOR LACK OF DOCUMENTATION

Wintermist, Shire of

Catlin ÓCaffoe (New Name)

Name:

Catlin is found in Withycombe pages 186-187 under the heading Katharine, Katherine, Catharine, Catherine where she says it is a Middle English form. Reaney and Wilson have Catlin as a heading, and date William Catelin to 1198 and Robert Catyln to 1441, both obviously used as unmarked matronymics. O'Caffoe is an anglicized surname found on page 456 of Woulfe under the heading: O'Cat{b.}a{d.}a (O'Cathbhadha): "'des. of Cat{b.}a{d.}' (older Cat{b.}o{t.}, gen. Cat{b.}ota, battle-tent, an ancient Irish personal name.)"

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Guendolen Watkyns (New Name)

Name:

Guendolen is a Welsh name found undated in Withycombe on page 140. We note that there was a saint of this name. In his cover letter of August '95, Da'ud ruled that this name is SCA compatible. Watkyns is found under the heading Watkins in Reaney & Wilson on page 478, dated to 1327.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Katharyna Halem (New Name)

Name:

Katharyna is a feminine given name found in Seibicke page 660, listed as an alternate spelling under the heading Katharina, and dated to 1526. Halem is documented as a heading on page 206 of Bahlow as an undated locative surname.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Lili Manevy (New Name)

Name:

Lili is an undocumented spelling variation of Lily, found under the heading Liley in Reaney & Wilson on page 279. Unmarked patronymic forms include Alan Lilie 1247 and Hugh Lily 1275. Manevy is found as an undated heading on page 411 of Dauzat, derived from the ancient French manevi "alerte, ardent".

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Postmeeting

Though the meeting started with a large number in attendance, it finally ground to a halt at about 6:30 pm with but a hardy handful of harried heralds left to the bitter end. 63 actions were processed, which is probably a record. Ciar inghean ui Mhaoildeirg and Thomas Brownwell performed data entry. Compilation, additions, corrections and editing by Dietmar.

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