Ansteorran Internal Letter of Decision June 2015 Unto the College of Heralds does Alisone McCay ...

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by  Little, Rachel A.

Ansteorran Internal Letter of Decision June 2015

Unto the College of Heralds does Alisone McCay, Bordure Herald, sends greetings. This letter includes
decisions made on the June 2015 ILoI.
Administrative Actions
None this month.

Forwarded to Laurel
Alexandre Crane - New Name
<Alexandre>: Dauzat p. 6 baptismal name from Greek history s.n. Alexandre
<Crane>: ibid p. 160 s.m. Crances Crane (Sarthe ...) name of locality of origin (Crane is also an English
name)
Additional documents from no-photocopy sources:

<Alexandre> is a French male given name found in "Names from Lallaing 1384 - 1600" by Domhnall na
Moicheirghe (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/lallaing/lallaing_names_masculine_given.html) dated
1499-1599.

<Crane> is an English surname found in Bardsley s.n. Crane dated in this spelling to 1379 and 1536.

English and French can be combined under Appendix C of SENA.

2: Aurélia Yverneau - New Name &
New Device
Purpure, two chevronels Or between in
chief three fleur de lis Or and in base an
owl Or.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
The above submission has images. To
view them, see the URLs below:
These images can be seen at
https://oscar.sca.org/kingdom/kingloi.php?kingdom=8&loi=2807 #2

<Yverneau> : Documentation finds evidence of Yverneaux and Iverneau. Submitter wishes to use
extrapolation of 'Yverneau' (Dictionnaire Des Noms. Paris : 1880)
<Aurélia> -- Academy of St. Gabriel. Copy of a report with no number included, see report below.
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Submitter will take Aurelia without the accents if necessary to register. She prefers the spelling of
the last name as submitted, but will accept Yveneau, Yverneaux, or Iverneau in order of preference.
Original commentary can be found here:
https://oscar.sca.org/kingdom/kingloi.php?kingdom=8&loi=2807#2

Brian Ó hUilliam - New Badge
<fieldless> A boar's head erased sable
within and conjoined to an annulet vert

Brian Ó hUilliam - New Badge
Azure crusilly Celtic and a bordure argent

Dmitrii Zvezdochet Mikhailovich - New
Name & New Device
Per chevron vert and Or, semy of mullets of
six points argent, a linden tree eradicated
proper.
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Language most important.
Culture most important.
Dmitrii : Paul Goldschmidt's Dictionary of Period Russian Names -- Section D
(http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/d.html)
Zvevdochet : http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/z.html
Mikhailovich : http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/mi.html
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Mikhovil (m) --
Pat Vars: Mihovilich [from Mihovil] (Bojvode Mihovilich). 1323. [Mor 19]

Edric Haldyn - New Name & New Device
Per chevron gules and sable, a gauntlet
aversant sustaining a crescent argent
Edric found from S-Gabriel
http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-
bin/showfinal.cgi?646+0
http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-
bin/showfinal.cgi?2712+0 - dates Edric to 1100-1130
<Edric(us)> appears in R&W s.n. Edrich dated to 1066
Haldyn found in the 1332 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Lincolnshire, England
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/LincLSR/BynH1.htm
S. Gabriel report 646 is citing R&W for Edricus. S. Gabriel report 2712 dates Edric c.1100-1130 in
Tengvik, Go"sta. Old English Bynames (Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri-A.-B., 1938) p. 122.

Elena Wyth - New Badge
(Fieldless) A stingray tergiant counter
ermine
Citations that list creatures with this shape
and name "ray":
Pierre Belon's 1553 De Aquatilibus Libri
Duo, "raia, raiæ"
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4770228#page/122/mode/1up
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4770228#page/124/mode/1up
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4770228#page/135/mode/1up
Pierre Belon La nature et diversité des poissons, "La Raye bouclee" Paris: Charles Estienne, 1555. As
found in the Glasgow Special Collections, 11 images down, sorry for the less than direct link:
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/Buchanan/Catalogue.html
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/images/exhibitions/Buchanan/Larger%20Images/BG54-l.13(stingray).jpg
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Gvlielmi Rondeletii ... Libri de piscibus marinis, in quibus veræ piscium effigies expressæ sunt .. by
Rondelet, Guillaume, 1507-1566. Published 1554 https://archive.org/details/gvlielmirondelet00rond
(pages 331, 334, 356 below)
as "Pastinaca". Pliny the Elder lists sting-rays as pastinaca in Natural History book 32, and Dasyatis
pastinaca is the scientific name for common stingray.
https://ia801704.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/22/items/gvlielmirondelet
00rond
/gvlielmirondelet00rond_jp2.zip&file=gvlielmirondelet00rond_jp2/gvlielmirondelet00rond_0351.jp2
&sca le=8&rotate=0
"De Raia læui"
https://ia801704.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/22/items/gvlielmirondelet
00rond
/gvlielmirondelet00rond_jp2.zip&file=gvlielmirondelet00rond_jp2/gvlielmirondelet00rond_0364.jp2
&sca le=8&rotate=0
"De Raia laspera, De Raia fullonica"
https://ia801704.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/22/items/gvlielmirondelet
00rond
/gvlielmirondelet00rond_jp2.zip&file=gvlielmirondelet00rond_jp2/gvlielmirondelet00rond_0376.jp2
&sca le=8&rotate=0
Administrative matter: This is intended to be a jointly held badge with Elena Wyth as primary owner
and Brian O'hUilliam as secondary owner.

Elena Wyth - New Badge
(Fieldless) A tiger lily affronty sable
John Gerard's Herbal (1597) includes
several lilies of this general shape:
http://caliban.mpipz.mpg.de/gerarde/high
/IMG_0572.html

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Hildegard Volkward - New Name & New
Device
Or, a dragon-headed drakkar prow and in
sinister canton a mullet of five greater and
five lesser points sable
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Culture (German, 12th-13th century) most
important.
<Hildegard> feminine name - Old German. Withycombe pg. 153; Bahlow pg. 224
Hildegard: Bahlow, s.n. Hildegard references the popularity of the name after Hildegard v. Bingen
circa 1150, and gives a dated metronymic of Hildegardis (with a Latin ending) in 1294.
Hildegard - Withycombe (s.n. Hildegarde, p. 153) cites St. Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen (died 1004)
which isn't support of Hildegard in German. Remember that Withycombe is not considered reliable
for non-English names. Bahlow/Gentry (s.n. Hildegard, p. 224) states "Hildegard was a noble fem.n. in
the Middle Ages (Charlemagne's second wife was called H., also Saint H. of Bingen around 1150).
<Volkward> - found in Bahlow pg. 527
Headwords - Volkwarth, Volquardt
Person - Volkward Tutike, Hamburg, 1268
Volkward: Bahlow, s.n. Volkmuth (p. 524, and neither Volkwarth nor Volquardt are headwords) gives
a Volkward Tutike in record, 1268. Unmarked/unmodified masculine names appear frequently as
patronymic surnames of German women, so this construction follows an attested pattern.
Volkward - Bahlow/Gentry (s.n. Volkwarth, Volquardt, p. 527) notes that the "names ending in -ward
are very old North Sea Germanic-Fris." and does include "Volkward Tutike, Hbg. 1268".
The prow should be centered - AN?

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John Radclyff - New Device
Argent, two bendlets azure, overall a
trefoil gules

Name can be found on this Ansteorran LoI
https://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=10
0&loi=3325#15

Maelgwyn Dda - New Badge
Vert, a braided cord palewise Or
throughout.

Maelgwyn Dda - New Blazon Change
Vert, a wolfhound's head erased, within a
border rayonny Or.
the submitter always intended the primary
charge to be a "wolfhound", but his
original submission was apparently
reblazoned (by Kingdom, he said) as a
"wolf".
He has a strong preference for "wolfhound" over "wolf" ("...the wolfhound, which hunts the wolf"). If
a reblazon is sufficient, that's all he wants. If a device change is required, the paperwork is here for it.
The most important thing to the submitter is that he have a wolfhound's head in the blazon. If it is
determined that his new drawing is registered to get that, then he wishes to release the old drawing.

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Muirenn ingen Chernaig - New Name &
New Device
Sable, a schnecke issuant from base
reversed maintaining on the outer swirl
three schneckes and in chief three
escallops inverted argent
Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Language most important.
Culture most important.
Muirenn is a feminine given name dating to 643-979, with the submitted spelling being the standard
Old Irish Gaelic and Middle Irish gaelic form of the name, found in "Index of Names in Irish Annals," by
Mari Elspeth nic Bryan http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/Muirenn.shtml
ingen is the pre-1200 form of "daughter of", per Sharon Krossa,"Quick and Easy Gaelic Names"
(http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/#simplepatronymicbyname and
http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/#spelling).
Charnaig is the genitive and lenited form of Cernach, which is found in
http://heraldry.sca.org/names/irish100.html, 100 Most Popular Men's Names in Early Medieval
Ireland by Tangwystyle verch Morgant Glasvryn.
The name is formed according to the rules for simple patronymic bynames found in
http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/#simplepatronymicbyname

Roger Aylward Bagley - New Alternate Name
Jon Gylbert
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Client requests authenticity for 11th-12th century England.
Sound (French-sounding) most important.
Language most important.
Culture most important.
Jon : Index of Names in the 1292 Subsidy Roll of London
http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/english/london1292.html
Gilbert (Herald's note : I could NOT find it spelled "GYLBERT") :
English Christian Names, by Withycombe, page 133 -- see Appendix (no photocopy source)
British Family Names, by Henry Barber, page 150
Alternate Name Comments:
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Gylbert - Names found in Charlton Kings, Glouchestershire Marriage, Masculine given names(listed
alphabetically), Gylbert 11-3-1551 http://heraldry.sca.org/names/english/kings.html
English Given Names from 16th and Early 17th C Marriage Records by Sara L. Uckelman, Men's Given
Names, Gylbert is dated to 1574; 1584; 1589; 1593; 1614.
http://heraldry.sca.org/names/english/parishes/parishes.html
Also Index of Names in the 1582 Subsidy Roll of London: Surnames of English men & women by Sara
L. Uckelman, Gylbert -1. http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/english/engsurlondon1582a-m.html
John Gilbert was a US actor who died in the 1930's. He's mentioned in an article at the Britannica
online http://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Gilbert-American-actor

Rois inghean Feardorcha - New Name &
New Device
Argent, on a saltire azure between four
roses gules an eagle displayed Or
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Client requests authenticity for 1450-1650
Gaelic Scottish. Cares most about the
given name Rois or a variation of it.
Language (1450-1650 Gaelic Scottish
female name) most important.
Rois : http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/Rois.shtml
inghean : http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/
Feardorcha : http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Feardorcha.shtml

Sabiha al-Zarqa' bint Hakim al-'Attar -
Resub Device
Per chevron rayonny argent semy of cherry
blossoms gules and sable in base an alphyn
passant Or.
This is a resubmission of a device that was
returned in June 2014.

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Sicillia Bielby - New Name & New Device
Purpure, a saltire sable fimbriated argent
between four roses argent
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Language most important.
Culture (English) most important.
http://heraldry.sca.org/names/reaneyAG.
html
Cecilia OFr Cecile < Lat Caecilia, fem. of
Caecilius, < caecus `blind'; the vern. form is Sisley, Cecily, etc. [Sisley, Siss, Sisterson]
Cecely 1296 Sisley
Cecelya 1303 (W)
Cecili* 1279 Sisley
Cecilia 1154-89 Sisley; 1194 Harwell; 1199 Kay; 1202 Floor; 1206 Brundell; 1219 Howgrave; 1228
Blanchflower; 1216-72 Charbuckle; 1254 Fairbody; 1275 Okey; 1279 Daniel; 1283-84 Lovey; 1286
Millward; 1296 Longliff; 1297 Lucy; 1298 Mungeam; 1301 Skin; 1327 Nicker; 1332 Buckhurst; 1354
Monkby; 1379
Darnbrook; 1381 li; 1395 Sillick; 1428 (W)
Cecilie 1450 (W); 1576 Harvest
Cecilie (g.) 1210 Sisley
Cecilie* 13° Sisley
Cecille 1273 (W)
Cecillia 1346 (W)
Cecily 1246 Gorrell; 1279 Will; 1523 Hutchin
Cicily 1413 Semple
Sisilla 1281 Creet
Sicillia 1464 Bielby
Sysley 1570 Henshall
Cisse 1309 Siss
Sisse (g.) 1297 Siss
Cissota 1298 Sisterson; 1307 Tout; 1309 Sisterson
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Sissota 1291 Grimston; 1309 Sisterson
Name Comments:
Simplifying the documentation: <Sicillia> is an English female given name dated to 1464 s.n. Cecilia in
Talan Gwynek's "Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames"
(http://heraldry.sca.org/names/reaneyAG.html)
<Bielby> is the header in R&W, not a dated form. However, I did find the submitted spelling <Bielby>
in 'Close Rolls, Henry VII: 1505-1507', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VII: Volume 2, 1500-1509, ed. R
A Latham (London, 1963), pp. 278-300https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-
rolls/hen7/vol2/pp278-300.

Takeyama Daitarou - New Name & New
Device
Argent, a bamboo stalk vert within and
conjoined to an annulet sable
No major changes.
Client requests authenticity for post 1000
AD Japan.
Culture most important.
Meaning most important.
<Take> : primarily 1st element meaning
bamboo Name Construction in Medieval Japan by Solveig Throndardottir, page 160
(http://potboilerpress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=25 -- no photocopies
included with submisstion)
<Yama> : seen as 1st or 2nd element meaning mountain (same source, p. 143)
<Dai> : "common first element in men's zokumyō" meaning big Online Japanese miscellany "Japanese
Names" by Anthony J. Bryant (http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/miscellany/miscellany.html)
<Tarou> : "Principle parts in men's zokumyō" meaning first son (Bryant)
<Takeyama> = surname
<Daitarou> = Yobina (see precedent set by name "Akechi Daitarou Katsuhiro"
Name Comments:
Take is found in NCMJ under Plants/Bamboo p. 160 as an element in surnames with examples
Takenaka dated to 1568 and Takexaki dated to 1332.
Yama is found in MCMJ under Works of Nature/Mountain p. 143 where is found as an element in
surnames. Examples that include plants as the first element: Kuwayama 1568 (kuwa = mulberry bush)
and Sakurayama 1600 (sakura = cherry). As bamboo can grow on mountains
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