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Welcome
to the Official Website of the Ealdormere College of Heralds. The College is
comprised of the warranted heralds and pursuivants within the Kingdom of Ealdormere
(encompassing most of the Province of Ontario, Canada) in the Society For Creative
Anachronism, under the guidence of the Trillium Principal Herald and their Staff.
Table of Contents
Acceptances
EALDORMERE
Alana Greywood.
Device. Argent, a greyhound rampant gules, on a chief embattled
sable three crescents argent.
Caitríona inghean Raghnaill. Name.
Submitted as C a tr i ona ingh e n Raghnaill , the given name Catriona is not registerable:
Submitted as Catriona of Whitemoor, the LoI stated that the submitter preferred the spelling Catriona which she believed to be "the English version of the period Irish Name". However, documented English spellings do not contain an "o". The spelling Catriona is neither Gaelic nor English. The closest Gaelic spelling is Caitríona . The closest English spelling is Catrina . As no documentation has been provided and none could be found for the spelling Catriona, it is not registerable. [Catrina of Whitemoor, 10/01, A-Meridies]
As the rest of the name is Gaelic, we have changed the given name to the Gaelic C ai tr í ona in order to register it.
The submitter requested authenticity for 16th C Scotland. The spelling of the patronymic particle, inghen is a conservative spelling found for some centuries after the spelling shift in Gaelic around 1200. However, no documentation was provided and none found showing conservative spellings in use in 16th C Scotland. We have changed the spelling of the particle to ingh ea n to comply with her request for authenticity.
Ealdormere, Kingdom of. Order name Order of the Trillium.Because period heraldry displays a broad pattern of putting wings on various monsters, we believe this charge to be acceptable style.
Gwydion Merther. Name and device. Quarterly vert and argent, in pale a dragon passant Or and a crescent pendant counterchanged.This name does not conflict with Gwydion ap Myrddin , registered January 1995. In this case, the two bynames are of different types and meanings; ap Myrddin is a patronymic byname, while Merther is a locative byname. Therefore, if they are significantly different in sound and appearance, they are clear of conflict. While articles and prepositions do not count towards difference for name conflict, patronymic particles may. In this case, the addition of the patronymic particle also makes the two bynames, which are already different in type and meaning, significantly different in sound and appearance. Therefore, they do not conflict.
Jullienne of Caldrithig. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Azure, on a fess Or between two bees proper two mullets of eight points azure.Submitted under the name Jullienne LaRousseaux .
Mairghread Plonced. Name (see RETURNS for device).The submitter requested authenticity for 15th/16th C Ireland. This is an authentic Irish name for that time period.
Meghan of Ealdormere. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Argent, a bend sinister wavy sable, overall a human footprint gules.Submitted under the name Magnunnr Hringsdottir .
Meurug Taylor. Name (see RETURNS for device).Submitted as N e amh inghean Fhearghail l , the feminine name Neamh or Nem appears to be a unique legendary name. O Corrain and Maguire, Irish Names s.n. Nem, say that "In saga, Ném is daughter of the Ulster hero, Celtchar mac Uithechair and wife of the great warrior, Conganchnes mac Dedaid." In addition, no documentation was submitted and none found for the spelling Fhearghaill . We have changed this name to N i amh inghean Fheargha l in order to register it and to match the submitted documentation. The given name Niamh appears in several tales and sagas. In registering the name Niamh ingen Maolán in July 2000, Laurel noted "While there is no evidence that Niamh was actually used in period, it appears in period sagas, in some cases as the name of a human being."
Odette de Saint Remy. Name.The summarization of the documentation consisted only of the fact the the name came from a Saint Gabriel letter. This is not, nor has it ever been, adequate summarization of documentation:
All the elements in this name were documented from a letter from the Academy of Saint Gabriel. However, the letter was not adequately summarized in the LoI, which has been cause for return in the past. ... By Laurel precedent, the College is not required to look up documentation that is not adequately summarized on the LoI. In this case, multiple members of the College went out of their way to dig up this information. For the benefit of both the submitter and the members of the College who took on this extra work, we are registering this name as an exception to the requirement that all submitted documentation be properly and adequately summarized on the LoI. Kingdom submissions heralds should be aware that inadequate summarization of supporting documentation has been and will continue to be a reason for return. [Isa van Reinholte, November 01 A-Ansteorra]
In this case, the College provided the information missing on the LoI. Had they not done so, we would have been forced to return this name.
Ramshaven, Barony of. Badge. Gules, a ram's head cabossed Or within a bordure argent.Her former device, Argent, a pall arrondy between three forget-me-nots
azure , is released.
Returns
EALDORMERE
Jullienne LaRousseaux. Name.
Conflict with Gilian la Rousse registered March 2002. The given names are variants of the same name and differ in pronunciation by only a single vowel sound. The byname la Rousseaux is a diminutive of la Rousse , both bynames have the same meaning and differ in pronunciation by a single syllable.
Had this name not been a conflict, it would have been registered as Jullienne Rousseaux . Siren notes that "Diminutives of la Roux seem to not use an article: Morlet, Picardie, gives Roussel 1285-1448, Roussele (fem.) 1245, Rousselet 1448-1461, Rousellus 1281, and Rousset 1459-60."
Her armory has been registered under the holding name Jullienne of Caldrithig .
Magnunnr Hringsdottir. Name.The given name does not appear to be a properly constructed Old Norse or Norwegian name. Only one name, Magnhildr , was provided to show the protheme Magn- . However, Orle notes: "According to Lena Peterson, Magnhildr is the Norse adaptation of an imported German name, not a native two-element name." As no documentation was submitted and none found for the independent use of the protheme Magn- in native Old Norse or Norwegian names, it cannot be combined with Old Norse or Norwegian deuterothemes to form new names.
Her armory has been registered under the holding name Meghan of Ealdormere .
Mairghread Plonced. Device. Per fess argent and purpure, a demi-badger issuant from the line of division sable marked argent and three marguerites argent seeded Or.The argent markings on the badger create identifiability problems against the argent field. As precedent indicates, returning Per chevron inverted argent and azure, an Orca embowed sable marked argent and three double-bitted axes argent , "The argent portions of the orca cannot be placed on an argent field" [Rowen Seer, 03/00, R-Caid]. This case is similar, especially since so much of the badger's face is argent.
Meurug Taylor. Device. Argent, a badger statant sable marked argent, a base gules.The argent markings on the badger create identifiability problems against
the argent field. As precedent indicates, returning Per chevron inverted
argent and azure, an Orca embowed sable marked argent and three double-bitted
axes argent , "The argent portions of the orca cannot be placed on
an argent field" [Rowen Seer, 03/00, R-Caid]. This case is similar, especially
since so much of the badger's face is argent.
Pends
EALDORMERE
To all the College of Arms and all others who may read this missive, from Elisabeth Laurel, Gwenllian Wreath, and Margaret Pelican, greetings.
This letter contains the issues raised in the March 2005 LoAR for CoA discussion. The text in this letter is copied verbatim from that LoAR; it is provided here for convenience. As with a May 2005 LoI, these matters are currently scheduled for the Pelican and Wreath meetings in September 2005. Original commentary must be in the College's hands no later than July 31 2005. Responses and rebuttals to commentary must be in the College's hands no later than August 31 2005.
Arielle Makcristyne. Name.
This submission raises the sticky question of whether names combining Hebrew names not found in the Bible and Scots or Scottish Gaelic should be registerable. There is evidence of Jews living in Ireland during our period. The website "The Irish Jewish Museum - Tracing the History of Ireland's Jews" by Carol Sorgenson, http://www.gallagherstravels.com/international_places/Ireland/irishjewishmuseum/ notes:
The earliest reference can be found in the Annals of Innisfallen which record the arrival in 1079 of five Jews from "over the sea," very likely merchants arriving from Rouen, the capital of Normandy, in France. More Jews arrived following the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal in 1496. The first Jewish Mayor of Ireland was William Annyas, of Youghal in County Cork, elected in 1555.
However, searches for information about Jewish history in Scotland suggest that Jews in Scotland were practically nonexistent until the late 17th C. What evidence is there for the kind of Jewish/Scottish contact in period that would allow the registration of Jewish/Scots or Jewish/Scottish Gaelic names? We are pending this name to give the College time to research and answer this question.
There was some question about the status of the name Arielle , both whether it was ever declared SCA-compatible, and whether it follows patterns for feminizing masculine Hebrew names. Precedent states:
The name Ariel is found in the Bible, in Ezra, as the name of a male leader. While no one could produce documentation showing that Arielle is a period name, Hebrew names of this sort are frequently feminized by adding an "a" or an "e" at the end. For instance, Rafael becomes Rafaelle, Gabriel becomes Gabrielle, Uriel becomes Urielle, Michael becomes Michaela, etc. Since our sources for period Hebrew names give us many more for men than for women, we are registering this as a compatible name. [Arielle the Golden, February 1997]
This precedent does not declare the name Arielle SCA-compatible. If it did, it would have used the phrase SCA-compatible. Instead, it says that the name Arielle is compatible with documented naming practice demonstrated by the pairs of names listed in the precedent. However, Siren notes: "research on Jewish names since 1997 has made it clear that feminine names were not formed in period by adding -a or -e to the end of masculine names. A few names of major saints were feminized *by Christians*, but none by Jews." Given this new information, barring other documentation of the name Arielle as a period name, we will discontinue registering this name beginning at the decision meeting in September of 2005.
Her armory has been registered under the holding name Arielle of Eisental .
This was item 3 on the Ealdormere letter of November 15, 2004.
Eleanor of Huntingdon. Device. Per saltire vert and argent, in pale two open books argent and in fess two daggers sable.
Blazoned on the Letter of Intent as Per saltire argent and vert two daggers sable and two open books in cross , the field is actually Per saltire vert and argent and the books are argent . We have pended the device to allow the College the opportunity to research it using the correct tinctures.
This was item 3 on the Ealdormere letter of November 15, 2004.
