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Lochac Kingdom ILoI dated 2023-09-25 Greetings unto the Lochac College of Heralds and to all our fellows across the Known World who see this missive, from Sigrith Rocket, submissions deputy to Isabella Crux Australis Principal Herald. This letter will open for commentary by heralds from outside of Lochac on the 2nd of October. Thank you for your patience. Our monthly commentary meeting will be held on Thursday 5th of October at 7pm Innilgard Time (4:30pm in Aneala, 6:30pm in River Haven, 7:30pm in Stormhold, 9:30pm in Southron Gaard) in the Lochac Discord chat. All are welcome.
 1: Aífe ingen Cathail -New Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 2023, via Lochac.
A dove striking affronty azure.
Consulting Herald Wahriia of St Christina. Submitter is from St Christina the Astonishing.
The striking affronty posture for doves is found in grey-period sources such as the Chronicle of St. Katharinental, Töss and Berenberg Abbey, 1614-1638, Page 4 (https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/kbt/y105/4), and Insegne di vari prencipi et case illustri d'Italia, by Giacomo Fontana, 1605 Italian (Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alfa. t. 4. 12), f. 55r (https://edl.beniculturali.it/beu/850010911).
This is a direct portion of the submitters current recently registered device (note from LOaR registration of device - https://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2023/01/23-01lar.html#184).
The striking affronty posture is not a DC from displayed.
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 2: Bjorn Sæmundarson -Resub Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in August of 2019, via Lochac.
Azure, on a sun Or an oak tree eradicated gules, a bordure Or
This submission is to be associated with Eldsstaðir
Consulting Herald Ollivier Le Floch. Submitter is from Mordenvale.
The previous submission, Azure, on a sun Or an oak tree eradicated gules, was returned from the January KLoI for conflict with the following armory:
Paul of Sunriver, August of 1982 (via the West): Azure, a compass star Or.
Wendryn Townsend, January of 1973: Azure, a sun in glory Or.
The addition of the bordure clears these conflicts.
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 3: Gaspar Falch de Cantoria -New Device
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in October of 2018, via Lochac.
Argent, a brown falcon close proper, on a bordure gules eight bezants
Consulting Herald Isabella de Bordeaux. Submitter is from Politarchopolis.
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 4: Gwen verch David -New Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in October of 2016, via Lochac.
(Fieldless) An oak leaf within and conjoined to an annulet vert.
Consulting Herald Amanda Martel. Submitter is from Politarchopolis.
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5: Gwen verch David -New Release of Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in October of 2016, via Lochac.
(Fieldless) On a sheep statant argent, an oak leaf vert
I, (name redacted), known in the SCA as Gwen verch David, hereby release my registered armory, "(Fieldless) On a sheep statant argent, an oak leaf vert." I understand that release of registration is permanent.
19 Sept. 2023
(signature)
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 6: Jayne Hunter -New Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in June of 2016, via Lochac.
(fieldless) two lightning bolts in saltire argent, overall a mouse rampant contourny Or
Consulting Herald Isabella de Bordeaux. Submitter is from River Haven.
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 7: Johannes van Aemstel -New Name (NP) & New Device
Per pale argent and gules, a crow rising sable and a lion contourney, counterchanged and on a chief sable three saltorels lozengy argent and gules.
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Consulting Herald Wahriia of St Christina. Submitter is from St Christina the Astonishing.
Johannes - Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources
Johannes m. (gen) ● Latin. Deventer, The Netherlands . 1387. GesOIJ-1 p. 304 ~ John https://dmnes.org/cite/Johannes/1387/GesOIJ-1
Johannes m. (n/a) ● Dutch. Middelburg, The Netherlands . 1575. NHG-Middelburg p. 40 ~ John
https://dmnes.org/cite/Johannes/1575/NHG-Middelburg
van Aemstel -Names from Antwerp, 1443-1550: Surnames
by Sara L. Uckelman and Kym Banoczi
known in the SCA as Aryanhwy merch Catmael and Kymma Godric
instances from 1459, 1463, 1465, 1536, 1543
https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/dutch/surnamesplaiser.html
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 8: Lilavati of Lochac -New Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in July of 2018, via Lochac.
(Fieldless) On a lozenge quarterly Or and purpure, a lozenge countercharged.
Consulting Herald Gabriel Ziegler. Submitter is from Blessed Herman the Cripple.
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9: Morgan of Ashley -New Acceptance of Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in February of 2021, via Lochac.
(Fieldless) On a sun Or a hawk's head erased gules
I, (name redacted), known in the SCA as Morgan of Ashley, do accept the transfer from my parents (name redacted) and (name redacted), known in the SCA as Sorle Maknicoll and Emelyn ffayrhome, the following badge: "(Fieldless) On a sun Or a hawk's head erased gules" as a badge. I understand that this transfer cannot be withdrawn once made.
20 September 2023
(Signature)
Signed (name redacted) for (name redacted)
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 10: Nest Brenhowel -New Name (NP) & New Device
argent, a griffin sable maintaining a heart enflamed gules.
Submitter desires a gender-neutral name.
Client requests authenticity for Neutral or feminine preferred. Language/Culture (Welsh location most preferred) most important. Meaning most important.
Consulting Herald Wahriia of St Christina. Submitter is from St Christina the Astonishing.
Nest is a Welsh feminine given name found in 1292-3 in A Simple Guide to Constructing 13th Century Welsh Names
by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/welsh13.html)
Brenhowel is a locative meaning "Hywel's Hill" found in this spelling in the Dyffryn Clwyd Court Roll Database Manual, p73, in 1344-45
Unmarked locative bynames are found in Welsh per SENA Appendix A.
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 11: Oddr Mánaskeggr -New Name (NP) & New Device
vert, between two chalices or an apple tree eradicated argent fructed proper
Submitter desires a masculine name.
The following changes are allowed: Corrections to spelling if any Client requests authenticity for 12th to 15th C Nordic. Language/Culture (Old Norse up until 15th century) most important. Meaning most important.
Consulting Herald Oddr Mánaskeggr. Submitter is from St Florians.
English: Odd <the> moon bearded
Ǫrvar-Oddr (Old Norse: Ǫrvar-Oddr, "Arrow-Odd" or "Arrow's Point") is a legendary hero about whom an anonymous Icelander wrote a fornaldarsaga in the latter part of the 13th century (Pálsson and Edwards, 1985). It is important to note that there are multiple versions of Örvar-Oddr's Saga, each with its own variations and additions. The oldest surviving manuscript containing parts of the saga is known as AM 343a 4to and dates back to the 14th century (Thorsson, 2000)
The manuscript AM 343a 4to is located in the Arnamagnæan Institute, which is part of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. The manuscript AM 343a 4to specifically refers to a specific item within the Arnamagnæan Collection. The "AM" stands for Árni Magnússon, while "343a" indicates its unique identifier within the collection. The "4to" refers to its format as a quarto-sized manuscript. (https://onp.ku.dk/onp/onp.php?)
The byname I have chosen, "Mánaskeggr", is of the form used is Old Norse in all major manuscripts of the period. The individual words "Máni" meaning moon and "skegg" meaning beard, when used together as a byname becomes "Mánaskeggr" using Old Norse grammatic form (Cleasby & Vigfusson, 1874). Both words are common and appear in a range of period texts from the 13th Century and earlier. Refer to the links below to the icelandic-english dictionary by Cleasby & Vigfusson (1874).
Finally, these sagas were written in Iceland in the 13th and 14th century, recording the stories being passed down verbally through the generations. These stories were a large part of the contemporary cultural heritage of Scandinavians of the time who all shared the old Norse language. As a result, the use of bynames was endemic and the name Odd(r) was common and is still common to this day.
Oddr
https://cleasby-vigfusson-dictionary.vercel.app/word/oddr
Mána
https://cleasby-vigfusson-dictionary.vercel.app/word/mani
Skegg
https://cleasby-vigfusson-dictionary.vercel.app/word/skegg
References
Pálsson, H., & Edwards, P. (1985). Arrow-Odd. Seven Viking Romances, 25-137.
Cleasby, R., & Vigfusson, G. (1874). An [old] icelandic-english dictionary. Clarendon Press.
Thorsson, Ö. (2000). The Sagas of the Icelanders. Viking Penguin Pub.
Submitter's note for device: if needed add a base barry wavy argent and azure
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 13: Olivia la Halconera -New Name (NP) & New Device
Azure a peacock close to sinister Or, between three increscent moons argent.
Consulting Herald ffride wlffsdotter. Submitter is from Saint Monica.
Olivia
"Names from Sixteenth Century Venice" by Juliana de Luna (https://s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/16thcvenice.html)
has the feminine name Olivia.
la Halconera
The constructed byname "la Halconera," uses the Castellano noun for a (feminine) falconer as an occupational byname.
Corpus Diacrónico del Español (CORDE) shows that the masculine form of the word, "halconero" is attested in period, with four documents before 1600, including:
" la qual ovo a Pedro Gonçález Carrillo de Mendoça, Halconero mayor del rrey don Juan" 1535 - c 1552 [which he owed to Pedro Gonçález Carrillo de Mendoça, Major Falconer to the King Don Juan]
SENA Appendix A notes that the pattern of using Castellano occupational bynames requires no further documenation, and Appendix C notes that Iberian and Italian languages can be mixed.
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14: Primislava of Rowany -New Name Change (NP)
OSCAR NOTE: the old name was registered in July of 2019, via Lochac.
Old Item: Primislava Wandrownyczka, to be retained as an alternate name.
The following changes are allowed: Any other basic change removes the individual byname
No consulting herald.
Primislava is already registered to the submitter, so the Existing Registration Allowance applies.
The Barony of Rowany was registered in May of 1983 (via the West).
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15: Sorle Maknicoll and Emelyn ffayrhome -New Transfer of Badge
OSCAR finds the name (Sorle Maknicoll) registered exactly as it appears in December of 2011, via Lochac. OSCAR finds the name (Emelyn ffayrhome) registered exactly as it appears in December of 2013, via Lochac.
(Fieldless) On a sun Or a hawk's head erased gules
I, (name redacted), known in the SCA as Sorle Maknicoll, do tranfer to my son (name redacted), known in the SCA as Morgan of Ashley, the following badge: "(Fieldless) On a sun Or a hawk's head erased gules". I understand that this transfer cannot be withdrawn once made.
20 September 2023
(signature)
I, (name redacted), known in the SCA as Emelyn ffayrhome, do tranfer to my son (name redacted), known in the SCA as Morgan of Ashley, the following badge: "(Fieldless) On a sun Or a hawk's head erased gules". I understand that this transfer cannot be withdrawn once made.
20 September 2023
(signature)
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16: Thomas Boardmakere -New Alternate Name (NP)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in July of 2017, via Lochac.
Oddr of Mordenvale
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Sound most important.
Consulting Herald Bjorn Saemundarson. Submitter is from Mordenvale.
Oddr is documented in the no-copy article Viking Names found in Landnámabók by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Uckelman) available at https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html
The Barony of Mordenvale was registered in October of 2012 (via Lochac).
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 17: Tomás de Calatrava -New Name (NP) & New Device
Azure a Paschal lamb argent reguardant and haloed Or, maintaining an argent banner with a cross of Calatrava gules, and on a chief gules three Maltese crosses Or.
Consulting Herald ffride wlffsdotter. Submitter is from Saint Monica.
Tomás
"Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century: Men's Names in Alphabetical Order" by Juliana de Luna
https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/MensGivenAlpha.html lists Tomás.
de Calatrava
"Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century: Locative Surnames" by Juliana de Luna
https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/locative.html lists de Calatrava.
These are non-photocopy sources.
Individually Attested Pattern for French-style heraldry with an azure field and gules chief.
Sources used:
Armorial de Gilles Le Bouvier,
It was the work of a 15th century French herald, Gilles le Bouvier, and today is at the Bibliothèque
nationale de France, inventory number
Français 4985.
URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85285803/f140.item.zoom#
Armoiries, pour la plupart coloriées, de la noblesse de France du temps de François Ier.
Publication date:1501-1600
URL: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53023933v/f35.planchecontact
Livre de armoisies de la cronique du très crestien roy de France, Françoys de Valloys, premier de
ce nom et de ses très haultz nobles barons et libéraulx chevalliers.
Publication date: 1501-1600
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53038279k/f104.item.r=25183
Examples of an azure field and gules chief: see image #1
Bracketing examples of charged azure chiefs on a gules field (and a Paschal lamb): see image #2
Example of Maltese Crosses:
Heraldic Maltese crosses decorate the tomb of Pierre d'Aubusson, the Grand Master of the Knights
of Rhodes.
Vaivre Jean-Bernard de. 2011. "L'enfeu du tombeau de Pierre d'Aubusson, grand maître de
Rhodes." [The funereal recess of the tomb of Pierre d'Aubusson, grand master of Rhodes.] In:
Monuments et mémoires de la Fondation Eugène Piot, tome 90, pp. 143-173.
DOI : https://doi.org/10.3406/piot.2011.1736
Firstly shows a 15th century depiction of Pierre d'Aubusson wearing the robes of the knightly order,
featuring the Maltese cross. Taken from Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 6067: image #3
And the carvings surrounding his funereal recess includes a trumpet decorated with a flag bearing
a Maltese cross: image #4
The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
#1 
#2 
#3 
#4 
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 18: Wulfric hȳregilda -New Name (NP) & New Device
Per pale sable and argent, two wolves combatant regardant within an orle of ravens rising displayed counterchanged
Meaning (the Mercenary) most important.
Consulting Herald Isabella de Bordeaux. Submitter is from Ynys Fawr.
Wulfric - Anglo-Saxon masculine given name. Dated to 901, 931, 986, and 1065 in The Names of Testators in the Cartularium Saxonicum Malmesburiensem by Aryanhwy merch Catmael: https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/english/malmesbury-oe.html
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by John R Clark Hall
hȳregilda m. mercenary, hired servant, WW 11111. (WW=Old English Vocabularies, ed. By T. Wright and R. P. Wülker. London 1884. Cols 1-54=Cp; 55-88=KGI; pp.89-103= Colloq. Monast. In NED
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31543/old/files/dict_hn.html
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I remain, Sigrith parði Rocket Herald
OSCAR counts 6 Names, 2 Name Changes, 1 Alternate Name, 7 Devices and 5 Badges. There is 1 transfer.There is 1 acceptance.There is 1 release. There are a total of 24 items submitted on this letter.Site News
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