[ANSTHRLD] February 2007 LOAR for Ansteorra

doug bell magnus77840 at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 12 22:08:10 PDT 2007


ANSTEORRA

Catrin verch Reis Of. Name.

    Submitted as Catrin verch Reis Gof, the submitter requested an authentic 
13th-14th C Welsh name. Of the byname Gof, Harpy notes:

        The occupational byname "gof" normally appears lenited when used 
alone after a given name, as it is here...While this lenition rule isn't 
universal for occupational bynames, it does appear to be extremely 
consistant for "gof". In Anglo-Welsh legal records of the 13-14th century, 
the most common spelling on the submission context is "Of" (6 of 7 examples) 
as in "Kediuor Of" (Merioneth Lay Subsidy Roll 1292).

    The given name Catrin was documented to the middle 16th C. None of the 
commenters found an earlier example. Without examples of this name in a 
Welsh context in the desired time period, we are unable to declare the name 
authentic. However, we have changed the name to Catrin verch Reis Of to 
partially comply with her request for an authentic 13th-14th C Welsh name.

Cristyne Lambrechtin. Name.

    Originally submitted as Cristyna Lambrecht_, the name was changed at 
kingdom to Cristyne Lamprecht to match the available documentation. For the 
byname, the letter shift from p to b and back is well documented; Lambrecht 
would be an unremarkable variant for this name. However, current precedent 
holds that patronymic and descriptive bynames in German feminine names 
should be in the possessive or feminine form. Albion notes that the name 
Lambrecht/Lamprecht are from Arnsburg, and that Talan Gwynek's examination 
of feminine names in Arnsburg records indicates that the feminine form of 
bynames is much more common than the possessive form. We have changed the 
spelling of the byname back to the originally submitted form and added the 
feminine ending, registering it as Cristyne Lambrechtin.

Danielle de Marseille. Name and device. Per bend sinister argent and azure, 
a dragonfly vert and a honeysuckle blossom Or.

Davinus de Mare. Name.

    The submitter requested an authentic name for Italy. The names are both 
from the same source, a treaty signed in Pisa in the 14th C. However, the 
names as recorded in this document are Latin. Therefore, this is an 
authentic Latin form of an Italian name. The most likely Italian form is 
Davino del Mare; de Felice, Dizionario dei nomi italiani s.n Davino, notes 
that "nome medievale Davino frequente in Toscana già dall'XI secolo" (the 
medieval name Davino is frequent in Tuscany from the 11th C). The byname del 
Mare is found in the Herlihy, David, R. Burr Litchfield, and Anthony Molho, 
"Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Tratte of Office Holders 
1282-1532" (http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/tratte/ ), dated to the last 
half of the 15th C.

Deanna della Penna. Name and device. Bendy sinister Or and sable estencely 
Or, a winged lion rampant argent.

    Deanna is the submitter's legal given name.

    This device could have been blazoned as Or, three scarpes sable 
estencely Or, overall a winged lion rampant argent; but that would have 
contrast problems between the overall argent lion and the Or field. While 
you can't blazon yourself out of a conflict, you can blazon your way out of 
style problems. There is no heraldic difference between Or, three scarpes 
sable estencelly and Bendy sinister Or and sable estencely Or. Laurel has 
previously noted:

        [Purpure, three palets Or, overall two flaunches] We were tempted to 
blazon this as Paly purpure and Or, two flaunches That's the visual effect 
of the traits' regular widths and the overall charges. There are instances 
of period arms blazoned and emblazoned, interchangeably, as paly and three 
palets: cf. the armory of Valoines found in Foster, p.196. Certainly, we 
grant no heraldic difference between the two renditions. The above blazon 
does more accurately describe the submitted emblazon, however. (Eleonora 
Vittoria Alberti di Calabria, December, 1992, pg. 8)

    Baring evidence to the contrary, we will grant submitters the benefit of 
the doubt and will treat multiply divided fields/multiple ordinaries the 
same way we treat paly and three pallets. This applies to chevronelly/three 
chevrons, chevronlly inverted/three chevrons inverted, barry/three bars, 
bendy/three bends, and bendy sinister/three scarpes. That is, the two 
blazons are interchangeable as are the corresponding emblazons. As such, 
this submission can be blazoned as Bendy sinister Or and sable estencely Or, 
a winged lion rampant argent. As a neutral field, there is no longer a 
contrast problem between the lion and the field.

Ercc hua Cuiléin. Name and device. Or, a dragon passant gules and on a chief 
vert two triquetrae Or.

    Submitted as Ercc an Gleanna _Ua Chuilén, the submitter requested an 
authentic 10th C Irish name. As submitted, the name is two steps from period 
practice. First, it mixes Middle Irish with Early Modern Irish. Second, 
there is a more than 300 year gap between the lastest dates for Ercc 
(pre-12th C) and an Gleanna (in the form an Glenna in a 1524 entry of the 
Annála Connacht). To make the name registerable, we must drop the element an 
Gleanna. Furthermore, the grammar of the patronymic is incorrect. The 
patronym was changed from Cuilén to Chuilén at kingdom in order to put it 
into the genitive case. While changing the name from the nominative Cuilén 
is necessary, the change at kingdom is merely the lenited nominative form of 
the name, not the genitive form. The expected genitive form for this 
patronym is Cuiléin; several examples of this form appear in both the Annals 
of Ulster, whose orthography is largely Middle Irish, and the Annals of the 
Four Masters, whose orthography is largely Early Modern Irish. In addition, 
the standard Middle Irish form of the patronymic particle used in this name 
is hua. We have changed the name to Ercc_hua Cuiléin, a fully Middle Irish 
form, in order to register it, to correct the grammar, and to comply with 
the submitter's request for authenticity.

Fadl bint Asad. Name.

Gunthar Waldmann. Device. Per bend sinister vert and sable, a bear's head 
caboshed argent.

    The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Ursula 
Messerschmitt, Vert, a bear's head cabossed argent.

Isabel Hawksworth. Name.

    Nice late 16th C English name.

Keterlyn von Eltz. Name and device. Or, a bend argent fimbriated azure 
between two mullets of four points sable.

Larisa Kievicha. Name.

Muirenn ingen Senáin uí Dúnlaing. Device. Per chevron inverted Or and sable, 
three wolf's heads erased one and two counterchanged.

    Please advise the submitter to draw the wolf's heads larger.

Óláfr silfrt{o,}nn. Name and device. Per fess argent and vert, a sword 
fesswise and a wolf passant counterchanged.

    There was some question whether the word silfrt{o,}nn was well formed. 
Cleasby/Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, s.v. Silfr, shows 
several examples of words formed by combining the full silfr with a 
modifying word. This name follows that pattern.

Raven's Fort, Barony of. Order name Order of the Raven's Wings and badge. 
(Fieldless) A vol sable.

    By precedent, apostrophes indicating possession are no longer 
registerable, as this usage is post period. However, the formation Raven's 
is grandfathered to this barony. RfS II.5 says "Once a name has been 
registered to an individual or group, the College of Arms may permit that 
particular individual or group to register elements of that name again, even 
if it is no longer permissible under the rules in effect at the time the 
later submission is made." Therefore, this group may use the element 
Raven's.

    The barony has permission to conflict with the device of Balduin Valke, 
Or, a pair of wings sable.

Rondinella dal Tirolo. Badge. (Fieldless) A wooden lace bobbin proper.

Sebastian de Hythe. Name and device. Checky azure and argent, a sea serpent 
ondoyant sable.
    The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Ulric 
Velkener, Lozengy gules and Or, a sea serpent ondoyant sable.

Ulrich Velkener. Name and device. Lozengy gules and Or, a sea serpent 
ondoyant sable.
    Nice 14th C German name.
    The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Sebastian de 
Hythe, Checky azure and argent, a sea serpent ondoyant sable.

Wolfgang von Sachsenhausen. Name.


RETURNS: None!

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