1: Ashling MacKynnand - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Azure, in bend sinister three owls argent and in canton an increscent Or

Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Sound (surname sounds like MacKinnon) most important.
Spelling (as submitted) most important.

Ashling is a late 16th century English surname that can be used as a given name per Appendix A. It is found in the FamilySearch Historical Records as follows:

Jhane Ashling; Female; Burial; 20 Feb 1569; Lincoln, England; Batch: B00404-2 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J8R8-BZ9)
Alice Ashling; Female; Christening; 17 Apr 1587; Thornton, Lincoln, England; Batch: C03241-3 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQMG-TMB)
Robertus Ashling; Male; Marriage; 22 Nov 1590; Westborough Cum Doddington, Lincoln, England; Batch: M03372-2 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVR7-WLX)

McKynnand is a Scots surname found in Black s.n. Mackinnon dated to 1586. This surname expands to MacKynnand per the Sept. 2013 Cover Letter.

2: Bran mac Cianain - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Quarterly sable and argent, two suns Or and two stags rampant gules, a chief checky sable and argent

Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes.
Spelling (as submitted) most important.

Bran is a Middle Irish masculine given name found in Mari inghean Briain meic Donnchada's "Index of Names in Irish Annals" (http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/...) with relevant Annals dates of 948, 954, 961, among many others.

mac is the Gaelic patronymic marker for "son."

Cianáin is the genitive form of the Middle Irish masculine given name Cianán, also found in Mari's "Index" with an Annals date of 952 (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/...). The submitter has chosen to drop the diacritical mark.

Kingdom commenters questioned whether this design presents the appearance of marshalling. We believe that it does not. A6F3b states that "In many cases, a design with a charge or charges that cross the quarterly lines of division does not create the appearance of marshalling" and includes in its examples "For example, Quarterly Or and vert semy-de-lys Or, two millrinds vert, a chief gules does not have the appearance of marshalling." That is analogous to this design.

The argument was presented that adding a chief was used in period as a mark of cadency, citing Gayre's Heraldic Cadency (London: Faber & Faber. 1961.) p. 40:

Figures 282 to 287 indicate the use of the chief as a difference which was imposed as late as the latter half of the 16th century, in 1573, at the Visitation of Cornwall, on the arms of the Gayres of Trembrase, a cadet branch of their house, and which was from that precedent gradually spread throughout the other cadet branches at that time.

However, Gayre notes in the footnotes to that section:

In this particular case the difference appears to have been imposed as much to difference from the arms of Fishburne, of Durham, as for purely cadency reasons, as we shall see later when we come to discuss differences of this nature, and make reference to the Scrope, Grosvenor and Carminow cases.

Regardless of whether Wreath determines that chiefs should be included in the category "bordures, labels, or other charges used for cadency in period," as noted by A6F3b, our rules as they currently stand are fairly clear that a chief on a quarterly field does not present the appearance of marshalling, and so we forward this design for Wreath's consideration.

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3: Céline Elisabeth de Meaux - New Badge (KLoI)

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in December of 1992, via the East.

(Fieldless) A decrescent argent within and conjoined to a masculyn vert

4: Cuilén mac Fionnlaigh - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Per chevron vert and argent, a Wake knot and a holly leaf counterchanged

Submitter desires a masculine name.
The following changes are allowed: all changes needed to be grammatically correct
Language/Culture (Gaelic language) most important.

Cuilén is a Gaelic male given name found in "Index of Names in Irish Annals" by Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada (https://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/...) with relevant Annals dates of 1324, 1327, 1455, 1463.

mac is the Gaelic patronymic marker for "son."

Fionnlaigh is the likely genitive form of Fionnlagh, a Gaelic male given name dated to 1500-1600 in "Scottish Gaelic Given Names" by Effric Neyn Ken3ocht Mcherrald (Sharon Krossa) (http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/gaelicgiven/men....). mac Fionnlaigh also appears as an option for a Scottish man's Gaelic patronymic byname in Effric's "Historical Name Generator: Sixteenth Century Irish and Scottish Gaelic Names" (https://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/hng16gaelic/scot...).

5: Danimacus filius Denbecan - New Name (KLoI) (NP)

Submitter desires a masculine name.
The following changes are allowed: all changes needed to be gramatically correct and registerable
Language/Culture (5-6th century British Culture) most important.

Danimacus is a male personal name found in the Celtic Personal Names of Roman Britain (CPNRB) database (https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/personalnames/). No specific dates are given for this name, but the CPNRB generally covers names dated between the 1st and 5th centuries. Additionally, L'Année épigraphique, 1978, Année 1975 (1978) (https://www.jstor.org/stable/25607071) at p. 142 gives the reading of the same inscription found in CPNRB as Danimacus (image below).

filius - the use of filius to form patronymics for early British names recorded in Latin is discussed in Appendix I of "The First Thousand Years of British Names," by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/british10...#...) and in Section 3.C.3 of "A Consideration of Pictish Names" by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames...#...).

Denbecan is a male given name found in "A Consideration of Pictish Names" by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames...#...) as the name of a pre-Brude King in the Pictish Chronicle dated to the 6th century (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames...#...).

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6: Danimacus filius Denbecan - New Household Name (KLoI)

OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted.

Oakmont House

The following changes are allowed: any changes necessary to be grammatically correct
Sound (oak-mont) most important.
Spelling (as submitted if possible) most important.

The submitter's primary name appears elsewhere on this letter.

House is a designator for households per Appendix E, section 4 of SENA. The spelling House is dated to 1500 in the Middle English Dictionary s.v. delen.

The pattern Place Name + House/Hall for English household names is found in "Alys's Simple Guide to Household Names" by Alys Mackyntoich (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/households.html).

Oakmont is a constructed English place name.

Oak- is a common prototheme in English place names, referring to oak trees. For example:

Okeham' (1190-1610) - Watts s.n. Oakham
Okerigge (1459) - Watts s.n. Oakridge
Okelondemade (1393) - MED s.v. ōk(e)

Although the spelling Oke- is most common, the requested spelling Oak- or Oake- also sometimes appears:

Oakefeld (1273) - Bardsley s.n. Oakenfull
Oakenyates -yeates (17th C) - Watts, s.n. Oakengates
Oakes (1565-1702) - Watts, s.n. Oaks

Oak also appears generally as a spelling in English as early as 1381 in the MED s.v. lif-lat.

-mont is one of the alternate spellings of mount, a generic toponym meaning a mountain or hill, listed in the MED s.v. mǒunt n.(1), with examples of the use of this spelling dated to circa 1225 and circa 1393. The spelling -mont is found in period English place names, including:

Beamont (1576) - Watts s.n. Beaumont (Cumbr)
Beaumont (from 1263) - Watts s.n. Beaumont (Essex)
Grosmont (1540) - Watts s.n. Grosmont
Grandimont(e) (13th cen.) - Watts s.n. Grosmont
Grauntmont (1301) - Watts s.n. Grosmont
Rougemont (14th cen.) - Watts s.n. Ridgmont

Accordingly, Oakmont is a reasonable constructed English place name, particularly for later in period, and Oakmont House is a plausible English household name.

7: East, Kingdom of the - New Heraldic Title (KLoI)

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 1973, .

Esteem Herald

Per NPN1B4, "[i]n English, the standard lingua Societatis terms for heraldic titles for kingdoms and local branches are Herald and Pursuivant."

This heraldic title follows the pattern of creating titles from order names, as discussed in "Heraldic Titles from the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Overview," by Juliana de Luna (http://medievalscotland.org/jes/HeraldicTitles/). The East Kingdom previously registered the following order names:

King's Award of Esteem
This order name was registered to East, Kingdom of the in June of 2015 (via the East).

Queen's Award of Esteem
This order name was registered to East, Kingdom of the in June of 2015 (via the East).

Therefore, Esteem Herald is a title based on an order name already in use by the East, and no further documentation should be required under NPN1C2g, the Existing Registration Allowance.

This title is intended for use by the sign language deputy to the office of Brigantia Herald.

8: Giric Mór mac Duibne - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Argent estencelly purpure, a pithon erect wings addorsed and a bordure sable

Submitter desires a masculine name.
Language/Culture (Scottish Gaelic) most important.

The name pattern Given Name + Descriptive Byname + Patronymic Byname for Gaelic is found in "Quick and Easy Gaelic Names," by Sharon Krossa (http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/#...).

Giric is a Gaelic masculine given name found in "A Simple Guide to Constructing 12th Century Scottish Gaelic Names" by Sharon Krossa (https://heraldry.sca.org/names/simplescotgaelicname...).

Mór is a Gaelic descriptive byname meaning "large" or "great," found in "Index of Names in Irish Annals" by Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Descriptiv...) with relevant Annals dates of 1231, 1241, 1244, 1282, 1289, 1292 and later.

mac is the Gaelic patronymic marker for "son."

Duibne is the genitive form of Dubne, which is a Gaelic masculine given name also found in "A Simple Guide to Constructing 12th Century Scottish Gaelic Names." Brían dorcha ua Conaill provided assistance in documenting the genitive form Duibne in Rawlinson B 502, via the CELT database (https://celt.ucc.ie/published/G105003/text003....):

¶176 Óengus Nic a quo Úi Nicc. Mac Locc immorro m. Cathaír, m. dó Tuathal a quo Úi Théig ut aliis placet, Fergus Áed a quo Úi Áeda, Céthech m. Cathaír a quo Crích na Cétach, Cuirrech m. Cathaír, díbad a chland ar non habuit nisi unus filius Slechtaire qui cecidit la Find ⁊ una filia id est Cochrann máthair Diarmata m. Duib m. Duibne ⁊rl., ...

[Óengus Nic, from whom the O'Niccs. Mac Locc moreover son of Cathar, son to him (being) Tuathal from whom the O'Teagues as it please others; Fergus Áed from whom the O'Hughs; Cethach mac Cathair from whom the Territory of Cethach; Cuirrech mac Cathair: his line was extinguished: he only had one son Slechtaire who was killed by Finn, and one daughter who is Cochrann mother of Diarmait son of Dubh son of Dubhne, etc., ...]

Correction to Name (2023-Sep-14 13:09:55): The name was originally submitted as Giric Mór mac Dubne, but was changed at Kingdom to Giric Mór mac Duibne to reflect the correct genitive form of the father's name as documented in commentary by Brían dorcha ua Conaill.

Correction to Name (2023-Sep-14 13:09:47): The name was originally submitted as Giric Mór mac Dubne, but was changed at Kingdom to Giric Mór mac Duibne to reflect the correct genitive form of the father's name as documented in commentary by Brían dorcha ua Conaill.

Kingdom commenters noted that the sparks appear fairly sable in the thumbnail version of the emblazon; expanding to the full version makes it sufficiently clear that they are in fact purpure that Kingdom prefers to forward this as-is.

9: Gráinne inghean Uí Néill - New Badge (KLoI)

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in April of 2023, via the East.

(Fieldless) An hourglass per pale sable and gules

10: Imigla Venture - New Badge (KLoI)

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in October of 2021, via the East.

(Fieldless) Three columbines conjoined in pall slipped and leaved argent

11: Ishikawa Yuki'o - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Badge (KLoI)

(Fieldless) A Japanese well frame azure

Submitter desires a masculine name.

Ishikawa is a Japanese clan name dated to 1147 found under Historical Surnames in "Name Construction in Mediaeval Japan" by Solveig Throndardottir.

Yuki'o is a male Japanese nanori dated to 1332 found under Historical Masculine Nanori in NCMJ.

The pattern family name/surname + nanori is found in SENA Appendix A.

The submitter's primary name appears elsewhere on this letter.

12: Kay Leigh Mac Whyte - New Blanket Permission to Conflict (KLoI)

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in August of 2013, via the East.

I, [redacted], known in the SCA as Kay Leigh Mac Whyte, waive the full protection of my registered armory listed below. I grant permission to any future submitter to register armory that is at least one countable step different from my registered armory. I understand that this permission can be withdrawn by written notice to the Laurel Sovereign of Arms, but that conflicting items registered while it is in force will remain registered.

• Sable, three quill pens in pile argent and a bordure rayonny gyronny Or and gules.

• Sable, three quill pens in pile argent and a bordure rayonny gyronny Or and gules, for augmentation in base on an escutcheon argent a hummingbird rising azure gorged of a coronet Or.

[electronically dated and signed with legal name]

13: Maol Mhuire inghean Ghiolla Chríost Uí hAirt - New Name Change (KLoI) (NP)

OSCAR NOTE: the old name was registered in May of 2003, via the East.

Old Item: Rhieinwylydd verch Gwasdewi Goch, to be released.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
The following changes are allowed: period correct Irish Gaelic form of Maol-Muire daughter of Giolla-Criost, grandson of Art
Client requests authenticity for 14th Century Irish Gaelic.
Spelling (as given) most important.

Maol Mhuire is a plausible post-1200 orthographic reading of the attested pre-1200 Gaelic feminine name Máel Muire, found in Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada's "Index of Names in Irish Annals" (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/M...) with Annals dates of 905, 913, 923, 964, 1014, 1021. Maol Mhuire is additionally found as a post-1200 masculine Gaelic name, further supporting this spelling. See Mari's "Index" (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/...).

inghean Ghiolla Chríost is the post-1200 construction for a Gaelic patronymic byname formed from the masculine name Giolla Chríost, found in Mari's "Index" (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/...) with Annals dates including 1324 and 1325, among others.

Uí hAirt is a Gaelic clan name formed from Airt as the genitive form of the Gaelic masculine given name Art, found in Mari's "Index" ( http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/...), with no Annals dates in the 14th century, but several in the 15th.

Alys Ogress provided additional options for the submitter in Kingdom commentary; the submitter has chosen this form.

Correction to Name (2023-Sep-14 13:09:13): Originally submitted as Maol-Muire inghean Giolla-Criost ua hAirt, the name was corrected at Kingdom with the submitter's permission to Maol Mhuire inghean Giolla Criost Uí hAirt, to match Gaelic grammar and orthography and to best match the submitter's intended meaning.

Correction to Name (2023-Sep-14 13:09:18): Originally submitted as Maol-Muire inghean Giolla-Criost ua hAirt, the name was corrected at Kingdom with the submitter's permission to Maol Mhuire inghean Giolla Criost Uí hAirt, to match Gaelic grammar and orthography and to best match the submitter's intended meaning.

14: Sabina Coffyn - New Name (KLoI) (NP)

Submitter desires a feminine name.
Language/Culture (English) most important.
Spelling (Coffyn with a y) most important.

Sabina is an English feminine given name found in Talan Gwynek's "Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames" (https://heraldry.sca.org/names/reaneyHZ.html) s.n. Sabina dated to 1186-1210, 1220, 1295 and 1303.

Coffyn is an English surname found in Barsley s.n. Coffin dated to 1273 in this spelling.

15: Tófa geit - New Device (KLoI)

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in October of 2020, via the East.

Azure, a goat's head erased and a chief argent

16: Tófa geit - New Badge (KLoI)

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in October of 2020, via the East.

Azure, a goat's head erased argent

We believe this item to be clear of conflict with Gleann Abhann's standard augmentations, (Fieldless) A ram's head erased argent armed Or collared gules and (Fieldless) A ram's head erased argent armed Or collared sable, with a DC for fieldlessness and another for removing the ram's collar, without considering whether or not there is difference for the tincture of the goat's horns. See precedent: "collars on (non-canine) heads are worth a difference, and are treated as equivalent to tertiary charges." [Tariq ibn Yusuf ibn 'Askari al-Ghassani, 04/2023, A-Atenveldt].

17: Una del Unicorn - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Per pale Or and azure, a unicorn passant counterchanged

Submitter desires a feminine name.
The following changes are allowed: any changes needed to make it grammatically correct
Spelling (as submitted, if possible) most important.

Una is an English female given name found in the FamilySearch Historical Records as follows:

Una Grindall; Female; Male; Christening; 29 Jan 1588; Saint Bees, Cumberland, England; Batch: C03686-2 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J33C-QVZ)

del Unicorn is an English byname based on an inn-sign. Juliana de Luna's "Dictionary of Inn Signs in Medieval and Renaissance England" (https://heraldry.sca.org/kwhss/2017/inn%20signs%20d...) contains multiple examples of inns named for the unicorn, including: le Unicorne (1318-1320), the Unicorn (1424-30) and the Unicorn (1636).

Bardsley p. 8-9 has examples of del + inn-sign bynames:

del Whithors (1273)
del Hat (1273)

Also in Bardsley:

del Hog (1313) - s.n. Hogg
del Heued (1379) - s.n. Head

18: Varvara Kosa Evelana doch' Krasnaia - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Varvara Kosa Evelana doch' Krasnaia

Per chevron gules and sable, a chevron rompu and in base a wyvern passant regardant contourny vorant of its own wyvern-headed tail within and conjoined to an annulet Or

Submitter desires a feminine name.
Language/Culture (Russian/Slavic) most important.

Varvara is a Slavic Christian feminine name found in Wickenden dated to 1438 (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/va.html), noted as being the Russianization of the saint's name Barbara.

Kosa is a Slavic feminine name found in Wickenden dated to 1136 (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/ko.html). The masculine equivalent of this name is dated in the same source to 1574.

Evlana doch' is a Russian patronymic byname constructed from the masculine given name Evlan according to the guidelines in the "Feminine Patronymics" section of Wickenden (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/zgrammar.html). Evlan is a masculine name found in Wickenden dated to 1618 (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/e-f.html).

Krasnaia is a Russian descriptive surname meaning red, found as an example in the "Possessive and Descriptive Bynames" section of Wickenden (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/zgrammar.html). The related byname Krasnoi is also found in Wickenden dated to 1434 (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/kp.html).

The name pattern double given (Christian then Slavic) + patronymic + surname is found in SENA Appendix A and in Wickenden.

The wyvern in this submission appears to be based on the amphisbaena in the Aberdeen Bestiary, 68v (https://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/ms24/f68v).

Heralds at the Kingdom decision meeting considered whether there are charge-group issues with this design; precedent on items within annulets being considered as part of the same charge group was set in March 2009 and reaffirmed as recently as August 2021 [Alana Eleonora Aurora de Amelia, 08/2021, A-Middle]. As the wyvern and annulet are part of a single secondary charge group, there are only two charge groups on the field and this does not present Appendix J issues.