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Lochac LoI dated 2023-10-26

Greetings unto Emma Laurel, Elisabetta Pelican, Iago Wreath, and all the College of Arms, from Lady Sigrith parði, Rocket Herald, deputy to Baroness Isabella de Bordeaux, Crux Australis Principal Herald of the Kingdom of Lochac.

It is our intent to register the following names and armorials which appeared on the September Lochac KLoI (https://oscar.sca.org/kingdom/kingloi.php?kingdom=18&loi=8374).


1: Aífe ingen Cathail - New Badge (KLoI)

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 2023, via Lochac.

(Fieldless) 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.

Kingdom Device Notes

- A potential conflict was noted with Alexi Gensel, February of 2014 (via the East): (Fieldless) A goose displayed head to sinister azure. If displayed is a period posture for geese, there should be an SC for the change in bird type.

The evidence supporting the rule change that removed the SFCP from non-eagles displayed (http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2020/09/20-09cl.html#6) included a goose-like bird in a rising, wings displayed posture. This was apparently considered close enough to displayed to remove the SFCP, but it's unclear whether it qualifies as displayed for the purposes of determining conflict.

The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
#1 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2411/2023-10-26/04-16-49_Aife_ingen_Cathail_Badge_Docs1.jpg


2: Bjorn Sæmundarson - New Badge (KLoI)

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.

Kingdom Badge Notes

- Two commenters found no conflicts.


3: Gaspar Falch de Cantoria - New Device (KLoI)

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.

Kingdom Device Notes

- Two commenters found no conflicts.


4: Gwen verch David - New Badge (KLoI)

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.

Kingdom Badge Notes

- Two commenters found no conflicts.


5: Gwen verch David - New Release of Badge (KLoI)

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)


6: Jayne Hunter - New Badge (KLoI)

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.

Kingdom Badge Notes

- There is a step from core practice for lightning bolts not used as part of a thunderbolt.

- One commenter found no conflicts.


7: Johannes van Aemstel - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Per pale argent and gules, a crow rising sable and a lion contourney argent 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

Kingdom Device Notes

- The charged chief is believed to remove the appearance of marshalling.

- One commenter found no conflicts.


8: Lilavati of Lochac - New Badge (KLoI)

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in July of 2018, via Lochac.

Quarterly Or and purpure, a lozenge countercharged

Consulting Herald Gabriel Ziegler.
Submitter is from Blessed Herman the Cripple.

Kingdom Badge Notes

- Emblazon changed at Kingdom with submitter's approval from (Fieldless) On a lozenge quarterly Or and purpure, a lozenge countercharged (image #1) as charged lozenges are not permitted on a fieldless badge (SENA A3A2).

- Two commenters found no conflicts for the new design.

The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
#1 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2411/2023-10-26/04-25-41_Lilavati_of_Lochac_Badge_Image.jpg


9: Morgan of Ashley - New Acceptance of Badge (KLoI)

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)


10: Nest Brenhowel - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Argent, a griffin sable maintaining a heart enflamed to chief gules

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.
https://sp.ukdataservice.ac.uk/doc/3679/mrdoc/pdf/3679userguide.pdf

Unmarked locative bynames are found in Welsh per SENA Appendix A.

Kingdom Name Notes

- One commenter found no conflicts

Kingdom Device Notes

- One commenter found no conflicts

The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
#1 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2411/2023-10-26/04-36-01_Nest_Brenhowel_Name_Docs1.jpg
#2 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2411/2023-10-26/04-36-01_Nest_Brenhowel_Name_Docs2.jpg


11: Oddr Mánaskeggr - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Vert, an apple tree eradicated argent fructed proper between two chalices Or, a ford 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.

Geirr Bassi has a number of bynames with the pattern (thing with distinct colour)-beard, including "kolskeggr" (coal-beard), "refskegg" (fox-beard), "gullskeggr" (gold-beard) and possibly "tréskegg" (wood-beard), although the last may refer to a property of wood other than its colour.

Kingdom Name Notes

- It was suggested during commentary that three period examples of "moon" being used in reference to its colour may be required. However a previous registration of the constructed byname "jarnskeggr" (iron-beard, https://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=145&id=86503) largely referenced names where "iron" was used in reference to its strength or hardness, not its colour. I am therefore sending this up for further discussion.

Comment from submitter after further consultation about the byname:

"I can build a strong argument for moon beard based on the practice of kennings in old norse. Snorri himself commented on the structure of kennings tailored for individuals in his translation of the Havamal and there is plenty of evidence for the practice. The catch is mainly on which old norse word for "Moon" is most applicable. The word I chose is more poetic (and includes the humour of being old (white beard) and the moon being a dreamer or storyteller). I am arguing that the keening for my persona is based on the fact that I have been with the SCA since 1994 and my beard has faded but my dreams of creative anachronism live on."

Kingdom Device Notes

- Emblazon changed at Kingdom with submitter's approval from Vert, an apple tree eradicated argent fructed proper between two chalices Or (image #1) due to a conflict with Ioseph of Locksley, the Rhymer, registered in January of 1973: Vert, a tree eradicated argent.

- Two commenters found no conflicts for the new design.

The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
#1 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2411/2023-10-26/04-37-15_Oddr_Manaskeggr_Device_Image.jpg


12: Oksina Myshkinova - New Name Change (KLoI) (NP)

OSCAR NOTE: the old name was registered in September of 2021, via Lochac.

Old Item: Olympia of Southron Gaard, to be retained as an alternate name.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Sound most important.
Language/Culture most important.
Spelling most important.

Consulting Herald Magdalena de Narbonne.
Submitter is from Southron Gaard.

Given name found in:

https://heraldry.sca.org/kwhss/2017/Zagorsk%20museum%20names-3.pdf - Page 3 female given names

Byname "Myshkin" found in:

http://www.goldschp.net/archive/zoonames.html - Mammal Names - Mouse "Myshkin"

Byname suffix "-ova" as described in:

http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/zgrammar.html

Masculine patronymics 1. for "-ov" Feminine patronymics 1. for "-a" attached to "-ov", forming "-ova"


13: Olivia la Halconera - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

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.

Kingdom Device Notes

- Two commenters found no conflicts.


14: Primislava of Rowany - New Name Change (KLoI) (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).


15: Sorle Maknicoll and Emelyn ffayrhome - New Transfer of Badge (KLoI)

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)


16: Thomas Boardmakere - New Alternate Name (KLoI) (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).


17: Tomás de Calatrava - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Azure, a Paschal lamb proper reguardant 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.

Kingdom Name Notes

- One commenter found no conflicts

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

An example of a Paschal lamb in a French heraldic treatise with this style of cross (image #5) can be seen in Traité de blason et recueil d'armoiries, composés par Noel LE BOUCQ, de Valenciennes, dated to the 16th century, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, folio 176r.

( https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=3212 [ gallica.bnf.fr ] )

Kingdom Device Notes

- Emblazon changed at Kingdom with submitter's approval from 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. As flags must be conflict checked as independent displays of armoury, this design conflicted with the protected badge of the knights of Calatrava, (Fieldless), A cross of Calatrava gules. Additionally, no evidence was provided for the cross of Calatrava in French heraldry.

The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
#1 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2411/2023-09-25/06-19-25_Tomas_de_Calatrava_Device_Docs1.jpg
#2 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2411/2023-09-25/06-19-25_Tomas_de_Calatrava_Device_Docs2.jpg
#3 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2411/2023-09-25/06-19-25_Tomas_de_Calatrava_Device_Docs3.jpg
#4 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2411/2023-09-25/06-19-26_Tomas_de_Calatrava_Device_Docs4.jpg
#5 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2411/2023-10-26/04-44-15_Tomas_de_Calatrava_Device_Docs5.jpg


18: Wulfric hȳregilda - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Per pale sable and argent, two wolves combatant regardant within an orle of ravens rising wings 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

Kingdom Name Notes

- The byname is in Bosworth-Toller s.v. "hýre-gilda" https://bosworthtoller.com/20351, and that notes the origin as Ælfric's Glossary, glossed in Latin as mercedarii, which is from mercedarius, derived from mercēs: "pay, wages".

Kingdom Device Notes

- Two commenters found no conflicts.


I remain,

Sigrith parði

Rocket Herald


OSCAR counts 6 New Names, 2 New Name Changes, 1 New Alternate Name, 7 New Devices and 5 New Badges. These 21 items are chargeable, Laurel should receive $84 for them. There is 1 transfer, which does not require payment. There is 1 acceptance of transfer, which does not require payment. There is 1 release, which does not require payment. There are a total of 24 items submitted on this letter.

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