1: Finch Featherstone - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Per bend sinister gules and sable, a bird (finch) close Or

Sound most important.

Finch is an English surname found at Family Search - "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J85Z-J3T : 13 April 2023), William Finch, 1614, Indexing Batch B02840-3 and also at http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/Tokens/XandY_unrelated...#... in English Sign Names From 17th Century Tradesman's Tokens by Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada (Kathleen M. O'Brien).

Per SENA Appendix A/English/Welsh (http://heraldry.sca.org/sena.html#...) Notes: Surnames from the second half of the 16th C and early 17th C may be used as given names; they are treated as any other 16th C given name [Alton of Grimfells, 04/2010, A-East].

Featherstone - English surname found in _Surnames in Durham and Northumberland, 1521-1615_ by Julie Kahan. Featherstone at Chester-le-Street in 1598, and Heighington in 1614. https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juetta/parish/surnam...

Also _Dictionary of Tudor London Names_ PDF by Sara L. Uckelman, 2014, p.155. Fetherstone, loc. from Featherstone (Staf, WRY). (1) Castle Baynard, 1582. www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/english/tudorlondon.pdf

Consulting herald Aletheia Northclyf

Consulting herald Aletheia Northclyf

2: Piera Mancini - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Argent vêtu ployé purpure with a monkey's head cabossed, gules

Submitter desires a feminine name.
The following changes are allowed: spelling
Language/Culture (Late Italian Renesance) most important.

Piera is a feminine given Italian name found in Feminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427, by Arval Benicoeur. https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/catasto/

Mancini is an Italian surname found in Surnames from a 16th-Century Italian Armorial, website created by Coblaith Muimnech. The submitted surname is found in Cortona and Florence. https://www.coblaith.net/Names/ItSur/MAN.html

Consulting herald Petronella Stan Wyrm

Consulting herald Petronella Stan Wyrm

3: Ryuu'zou'ji Musashi - New Name Change From Holding Name (KLoI) (NP)

OSCAR NOTE: Filing name should match submitted item for a primary name change. It should be the new name.

Ryuu'zou'ji Musashi

Old Item: Santiago of the Angels, to be released.
Submitter desires a masculine name.
The following changes are allowed: spelling
Language/Culture (Japanese) most important.

Ryuu'zou'ji is dated to 1392 under Historical Surnames and under Dragon (New kanji) in NCMJ (Revised Edition 2017) p.174.

Musashi is found as a nanori in the name Miyamoto Musashi (1584-165) under Names of Other Important Figures in NCMJ (Revised Edition 2017) p.404.

Consulting herald Petronella Stan Wyrm

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