1: Áed mac Seáin Ó Murchadha - New Name (NP)

Submitter desires a masculine name.
Language/Culture most important.

Áed is an Old and Middle Irish Gaelic name (700-1200 AD).Seáin is Early Modern Irish Gaelic patronymic form of Sean (1200-1700 AD). Murchadha is the patronymic form of Murchadh, an EMIG form (1200-1700 AD). The name elements are found in "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Masculine Given Names," Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/all.shtml).

The mac and Ó particles, denoting one's father and one's clan, are found in "Quick and Easy Gaelic Names," Sharon L. Krossa (http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/#simplepatronymicbyname).

2: Annaliese Schumacher - New Name (NP) & New Device

Or, a dragon sejant azure maintaining an open brown book proper and on a dexter tierce wavy azure three dogwood blossoms argent.

Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Sound most important.
Language/Culture (mid to late 16th C. Germany) most important.

Annaliese is a feminine German given name found in the Family Search Records as the christening of Annaliese Fromm, 21 Apr 1582, Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany, batch # C91613-1 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NHBK-8MR

Schumacher is a German surname found in the Family Search Records as the burial of Adam Schumacher, 11 Mar 1585, Lauterecken, Pfalz, Bavaria, batch # B03635-7 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWGX-3NB. It is also the client's legal surname.

3: Freydis Þistill - New Device

OSCAR finds the name on the Atenveldt LoI of September 30, 2023 as Freydis þistill.

Azure on a pile inverted throughout cotised argent, a thistle proper.

The name appears in the 30 Sep 2023 Atenveldt LoI.

When it appeared in the LoP, it was noted that the very wide pile inverted looked more like a Per chevron... division of the field When the client was consulted, she was happy to "narrow down" the charge to make it a true pile inverted.

In SCA armory, the tuft of the thistle tends to be gules, as is here.

4: Gaerhart Vromoeds - New Name (NP)

Submitter desires a masculine name.
Sound (to sound like "gare-heart") most important.

Gerart is a male give name found in Names in the Low Countries 1250-1300, in"High-medieval given names and bynames in The Netherlands and Flanders; Given names"(http://www.keesn.nl/name13/en4_list_m.htm). Alternate forms of this name are Geraerd, Geraert, Gerard, Gerhardus, Gheerard, Gheraert, Gherard, Gherart, Gherrart. The client really prefers the submitted spelling, so if it could be make or found possible, he would very much appreciate it.

Vromoeds, "high-spirited," is a byname also found in "High-medieval given names and bynames in The Netherlands and Flanders: Occupational names and nicknames" (http://www.keesn.nl/name13/en4_list_by.htm).

If the desired spelling is not possible, he would accept Gheraert (first choice) or Gherart (second choice). A similar German name Gaerhardus was found in 1409 in Erfurt, Germany, but it seems that the pronunciation is further from what the client would like, and he wants the name to stay as Dutch as possible!

5: Gwenhwyfar Simpson - New Name (NP) & New Device

Gules, on a mount vert a tree proper fructed gules, the trunk surmounted by a boar statant argent.

Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Spelling most important.

Gwenhwyfar is found in "Women's Names in the First Halr of 16th Century Wales: Given Names," Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/welshWomen16/given.html.

Simpson is found in "Index of Names in the 1582 Subsidy Roll of London: Surnames of English men & women," Sara L. Uckelman (https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/english/engsurlondon1582n-z.html).

Per SENA Appendix C, Welsh and English can be combined throughout period - https://heraldry.sca.org/sena.html#AppendixCEnglishWelsh.

And then we come to documenting an IAP, using period Italian armory:

Documenting the boar (pig). All related images in attached image #1.

Gules fretty sable, on a chief argent a boar statant sable - Insignia ... III. Insignia nobilium urbis Romae praecipuorum item Viterbiensium - BSB Cod.icon. 268, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 268], folio 92r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=13347 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Or (?), a boar rampant sable - Insignia ... XII. Insignia Florentinorum - BSB Cod.icon. 277, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 277], folio 114r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=13348 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Or, a boar rampant argent - Insignia ... XII. Insignia Florentinorum - BSB Cod.icon. 277, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 277], folio 81r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=13349 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Documenting a dark charge issuant from a dark mount on a dark field. All related images in attached image #2.

Gules, on mount vert a tree proper fruited <brown?> -Insignia ... XI. Insignia nobilium Veronensium, Vicentinorum - BSB Cod.icon. 276, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 276], folio 46r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=2922 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Azure, on a mount vert a tree proper - Insignia ... V. Insignia urbium Italiae septentrionalis: Nobilium Mediolanensium - BSB Cod.icon. 270, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 270], folio 291r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=2921 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Azure, on a mount vert a monk garbed sable and brown maintaining in his dexter hand a rosary and in his sinister hand a cross Or. (unsure how to blazon the base) - Insignia ... IX. Insignia Veneta, Mantuana, Bononiensia, Anconitana, Urbinatia, Perugiensia - BSB Cod.icon. 274, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 274], folio 232r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=2920 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Azure, on a mount vert a cock sable - Insignia ... III. Insignia nobilium urbis Romae praecipuorum item Viterbiensium - BSB Cod.icon. 268, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 268], folio 118r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=13353 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Azure, issuant from a mount vert a flame proper between two wings sable - Insignia ... III. Insignia nobilium urbis Romae praecipuorum item Viterbiensium - BSB Cod.icon. 268, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 268], folio 100r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=13354 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Azure, on a mount vert a helmet sable (?) (unsure how to blazon a helmeted head) - Insignia ... III. Insignia nobilium urbis Romae praecipuorum item Viterbiensium - BSB Cod.icon. 268, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 268], folio 66r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=13355 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Documenting dark tree or mount on dark field with a light charge, for complexity to match submission. All related images in attached image #3.

Azure, a mount vert and a sun in splendor gules, in chief a mullet of eight points Or and an increscent argent - Insignia ... XI. Insignia nobilium Veronensium, Vicentinorum - BSB Cod.icon. 276, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 276], folio 39r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=13356 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Per fess azure and bendy azure and vert, on a fess Or a mount vert, in chief three mullets of eight points Or - Insignia ... XI. Insignia nobilium Veronensium, Vicentinorum - BSB Cod.icon. 276, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 276], folio 39r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=13356 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Gules, a tree eradicated vert between two lions combattant or, on a chief azure between the points of a label gules three fleur-de-lys Or - Insignia ... IX. Insignia Veneta, Mantuana, Bononiensia, Anconitana, Urbinatia, Perugiensia - BSB Cod.icon. 274, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 274], folio 195r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=2925 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Azure, on a mount vert a cross formy, in chief three mullets of eight points Or - Insignia ... IX. Insignia Veneta, Mantuana, Bononiensia, Anconitana, Urbinatia, Perugiensia - BSB Cod.icon. 274, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 274], folio 232r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=2920 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Azure, on a mount a rose bush vert flowered gules surmounted by a bull, in dexter chief the rays of a demi sun Or Not sure the blazon is entirely correct. - Insignia ... III. Insignia nobilium urbis Romae praecipuorum item Viterbiensium - BSB Cod.icon. 268, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 268], folio 106r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=13360 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Azure, a chevron between two mullets of eight points Or and on a mount vert a tree proper - Insignia ... XI. Insignia nobilium Veronensium, Vicentinorum - BSB Cod.icon. 276, [S.l.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 276], folio 22r - https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=13361 [ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ] [daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ]

Azure, a tree vert surmounted by a horse passant argent - Insignia ... XIV. Insignia Neapolitanorum, Genuensium - BSB Cod.icon. 279, 1550-1555 (no folio number) - https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00001426?page=242,243

[ALL SORTS OF THANKS! to Tibor the Indecisive, Iago ab Adam and Gunnvor silfraharr for spending a great lot of work on this armory!]

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6: Halima bint Tariq al Ghassini - New Device Change

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

Argent, two badger hounds combattant purpure, each maintaining a scimitar Or, on a point pointed purpure a pawprint Or.

Old Item: Argent, two wolves combattant gules each maintaining a scimitar Or and on a point pointed gules a chalice Or., to be retained as a badge.

(The name was registered January 2015 as al-Ghassini.)

The use of a pawprint is a Step from Core Practice (SCP as opposed to SFPP?).

Orle comments: "...the dachshund is probably a period breed of dog. The dachshund is literally a badger-hound, bred to hunt badgers. The New Zealand Kennel Club (http://www.nzkc.org.nz/breeds/dacsh.htm) states that "Earliest records now available of dogs hunting badgers include several woodcuts in a book first published in 1560. These dogs had long bodies, short legs, medium length heads, pendant ears, short necks and sickle tails." This description matches the emblazon here. It seems reasonable to register dachshunds as period charges. If nothing else, the term for the breed is generic ("badger-hound") and closely resembles a period sort of dog used for hunting badgers." [Marie Boleyn, LOAR 11/2002, https://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2002/11/02-11lar.html#171]"

7: Iwaśko Różew Olszewski - New Name (NP)

Submitter desires a masculine name.

Iwaśko is a masculine given name dated to 1578, found in "a Preliminary Survey of Names from the Historical Dictionary of Personal Names in Białystok (https://st-walburga.aspiringluddite.com/docs/Bialystok.pdf).

Różew is the patronymic form of the male given name Róże ("Polish Given Names in Nazwiska Polaków," Walraven van Nijmegen, https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/walraven/polish/).

ffride wlffsdotter (Morelle) comments: I found an explanation that's in English (so is more accessible for SCA heralds):

Zofia Kaleta. 1997. The surname as a cultural value and an ethnic heritage: tracing your Polish roots. (Warszawa: Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy) pp. 25 says:

https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=19187

"Basic Polish surname patterns, their grammatical and pragmatic meanings.

By the end of the 15th century the basic types of Polish surnames had been established.... Among the basic types of Polish surnames, formed in the course of spontaneous evolution, are counted:

(1) Patronymic surnames; that is those formed from the father's first name, or less frequently, from his nickname or by-name. These originally suggested the filial relationship between father and son. In the period discussed here, they ended in -owic/-ewic or -ic. By the end of the 15th century over 1900 patronymics were found after the first name (Kaleta 1988, 210-213). After the 15th century the number of patronymic grew. They ended mainly in -ak and -czyk, and also, though less often, in -owic/-ewic, e.g. -ak: Adamiak, -czyk: Włodarczyk, and others (Borek, Szumska 1976)."

So I believe it'd be more likely fr the patronymic to be written as "Różewic" or "Różewicz."

Olszewski is a locative byname, "of Olsze," a town in northern Poland, the region of Pomerania.

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8: Kedivor Tal ap Cadugon - New Alternate Name (NP) & New Badge

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in December of 1999, via Atenveldt.

Giacomo Chiappinesi

Argent goutty de sang, on a tierce urdy gules a horse's head couped in chief argent.

Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes.
Sound ('chee-ah-peen-ee-see') most important.

The name is Italian. Giacomo is a male name from "Names from Sixteenth Century Venice," Juliana de Luna (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/16thcvenice.html).

Chiappini is an Italian byname found in La Historia di Vincenza on Google Books, published 1604. https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=500 [ www.google.com ] [www.google.com ] See attached image. Chiappini is also found in Statuta Notari de Collegio, Civitatis Vincentiae, books, Google.com.

Chiappinesi is a version of the above surname, using the ending -esi to indicate "descent". The use of -esi is found in Our Italian Surnames by Joseph G Fucilla ( Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1937).

This badge is to be associated with Giacomo Chiappinesi.

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9: Kedivor Tal ap Cadugon - New Badge

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in December of 1999, via Atenveldt.

Argent goutty de sang, a goose enraged azure.

The goose displayed comes from the Pennsic Traceable Art Project; the term

enraged (also from the same source) describes a goose rising, with neck outstretched, wings addorsed and elevated.

Gunnvor silfraharr (Orle): "I'd probably blazon this bird as rising, wings displayed."

10: Kedivor Tal ap Cadugon - New Badge

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in December of 1999, via Atenveldt.

Or goutty de sang, a goose enraged azure.

The goose displayed comes from the Pennsic Traceable Art Project; the term enraged describes a goose rising, with neck outstretched, wings addorsed and elevated. This term comes from the same source.

Gunnvor silfraharr: "I'd probably blazon this bird as rising, wings displayed."

11: Konrad Metzger - New Name (NP) & New Device

Argent, a sickle vert, on a bordure sable three sickles argent.

Submitter desires a masculine name.
Client requests authenticity for Germanid for language/culture and time period.
Language/Culture (German) most important.

Konrad is a male given name from the region around Plauen , 1451-1500, found in "Late Period German Masculine Given Names," Talan Gwynek (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/germmasc/).

Metzger is found in "German Names from Nürnberg, 1497: A - M>German Names from Nürnberg, 1497: A - M," Aryanhwy merch Catmael (https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/surnamesnurna-m.html)

12: Luisa de la Luz - New Device

OSCAR finds the name on the Atenveldt LoI of September 30, 2023 as submitted.

Per pale azure and vert, within a schnecke issuant from base argent a Caucasian hand couped proper and in chief a a feather fesswise reversed argent.

The name appears in the 30 September 2023 Atenveldt LoI.

The device was held, as there was much discussion of the charges on the field, other than the charges (not the schnecke) being there. The Mistholme Pictorial Dictionary comments there are no period examples of a schnecke being used with other charges on the field, such that a secondary or a tertiary charge would be a Step from Period Practice.

Having consulted with the client, she wishes to send the submission onward and get a decision as to the possibility of a schnecke-and-another charge (only one? None at all?).

13: Michael Kiel of Kilkenny - New Name Change (NP)

OSCAR NOTE: the old name was registered in July of 2009, via Atenveldt.

Old Item: Michel von Kiel, to be released.
Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes.
Language/Culture most important.
Spelling most important.

The client's name is (registered July 2009).

Michael is the client's legal given name.

Kiel is found for Elizabeth Kiel, with the christening date of 21 Oct 1635 in Arrl, Warwickshire, England (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHX6-KBR).

Kilkenny is a city in Ireland, founded as a monastic settlement. William the Earl Marshall built the first stone castle on the site, which was completed in 1213. ( http://www.kilkenny.ie/eng/About_Kilkenny/History/ ).

14: Tariq ibn Yusuf ibn 'Askari al Ghassani - New Badge

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

Per fess indented sable and gules, a sun issuant from the line of division and two pickaxes in saltire argent.

OSCAR thinks the name is registered as Tariq ibn Yusuf ibn 'Askari al-Ghassani (January 2015).

15: Twin Moons, Barony of - New Order Name & New Badge

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in April of 1993, via Atenveldt.

Aure, a pall inverted bretessed between two moons in their plenitude and a Corinthian helmet argent.

This is for association with the "Order of Athena of Twin Moons."

Athena is a Greek deity associated with wisdom, Agriculture and the protection of the state. ( https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=501 [ www.perseus.tufts.edu ] [www.perseus.tufts.edu ] ).

Per the July 2023 LoAR Cover Letter, the pattern "Order of <deity> is an allowed generic passed for order names, allowing Order of Athena." The addition of the branch name, registered in April 1993, allows it to avoid conflict with the Barony of Angels' Order of Athena (Kingdom of Caid).

While I'd guess that a Corinthian helmet would look like this (and something that Athena would wear), there are only two Corinthian helmets listed in the Armorial and Ordinary.

16: Verity Fynamore - New Device Change

OSCAR finds the name on the Atenveldt LoI of July 31, 2023 as submitted.

Argent, a beehive gules beset by bees proper, on a gore azure, a badger's head erased facing to sinister argent, marked sable.

Old Item: Per saltire Or and gules, in pale two lotus blossoms in profile and in fess two dragonflies counterchanged., to be retained as a badge.

The use of a charged gore carries a Step from Core Practice.