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

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.

Consulting Herald: Alys Mackyntoich

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 (NP) & New Device

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.

Consulting Herald: Alys Mackyntoich

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 particle 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.

3: Céline Elisabeth de Meaux -New Badge

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

Consulting Herald: Donnchadh Mac Lochlainn

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

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.

Consulting Herald: Alys Mackyntoich

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 (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.

Consulting Herald: Alys Mackyntoich

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.

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

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.

Consulting Herald: Alys Mackyntoich

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

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

Esteem Herald

Consulting Herald: Alys Mackyntoich

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 Dubne -New Name (NP) & New Device

Argent estencelly purpure, a pithon and a bordure sable

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

Consulting Herald: Lijsbet van Catwiic

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 - patronymic marker for Gaelic men's names.

Dubne is a Gaelic masculine given name also found in "A Simple Guide to Constructing 12th Century Scottish Gaelic Names." It is listed as the nominative form; no genitive form is given. As the genitive (possessive) form of the father's name is required for a Gaelic patronymic byname, assistance is requested to construct or document the genitive form.

9: Gráinne inghean Uí Néill -New Badge

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

(Fieldless) An hourglass per pale sable and gules

Consulting Herald: Alys Mackyntoich

10: Imigla Venture -New Badge

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 (NP) & New Device

Azure, a Japanese well frame argent

Submitter desires a masculine name.

Consulting Herald: Richard Heyworth

Ishikawa is a Japanese clan name dated to 1147 found in "Name Construction in Mediaeval Japan" by Solveig Throndardottir at pp. 319, 392.

Yuki'o is a male Japanese nanori dated to 1332 found in NCMJ at pp. 303, 369.

Clan Name + Nanori is an acceptable pattern of Japanese names per NCMJ.

12: Ishikawa Yuki'o -New Badge

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

(Fieldless) A Japanese well frame azure

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

13: Kay Leigh Mac Whyte -New Blanket Permission to Conflict

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]

14: Maol-Muire inghean Giolla-Criost ua hAirt -New Name Change (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.

Consulting Herald: Donnchadh Mac Lochlainn

Maol-Muire is an Irish given name found in "Names and Naming Practices in the Red Book of Ormond (Ireland 14th century)" by Tangwystl verch Morgant Glasvryn (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/lateirish...), where it is listed under Men's Names with the notation:

"Molmory 1; the name appears with no other context and could, conceivably, be feminine, as feminine examples of this name occur. Irish context."

inghean Giolla-Criost is a constructed Irish byname meaning "daughter of Giolla-Criost." Giolla-Criost is an Irish masculine given name also from "Names and Naming Practices in the Red Book of Ormond (Ireland 14th century)" under the notation:

Gilcrist1 , Gillecrist 2; Irish context.

ua hAirt is a constructed Irish byname meaning "grandson/descendent of Art," using the genitive form of the given name Art, which is found in "Index of Names in Irish Annals" by Mari inghean Briain meic Donnchada (http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/...) with relevant Annals dates of 1414, 1458, 1473, and 1478.

15: Sabina Coffyn -New Name (NP)

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

Consulting Herald: Alys Mackyntoich

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.

16: Tófa geit -New Device

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

17: Tófa geit -New Badge

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

Azure, a goat's head erased argent.

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

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.

Consulting Herald: Alys Mackyntoich

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

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

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.

Consulting Herald: Lijsbet van Catwiic

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.