January 2006 - Laurel LoAR - Ealdormere Submissions

ACCEPTANCES

Caitilín inghean Tomáis uí Dhuibihir. Badge. (Fieldless) On a rose Or barbed vert a lion's head erased gules.

Dananir bint Zang al Tabib. Device. Argent, a natural panther's head cabossed sable, on a chief indented vert a crescent Or.

Eleanor Chantrill. Name and device. Azure, a reindeer statant within estoiles in annulo argent.

This is clear of Roxana of Shiraz, Azure, a natural ibex passant between three mullets of eight points argent, which is reblazoned elsewhere on this letter. There is a CD for the number of secondary charges and another for their type. There is a third CD for the difference between a natural ibex and a reindeer. Please see the Cover Letter for a discussion on ibexes.

Gina Dragoni. Device. Or, a full-faced Saxon helmet crested of a dragon passant purpure.

While several commenters argued that this was a crest and thus not registerable, Laurel has previous ruled that helms with crests are registerable:

[(Fieldless) A helm sable torsed mantled and maintaining as a crest a crescent Or] This badge was returned in kingdom on the grounds that it resembles a crest and precedent has indicated many times that the SCA does not register crests. However, a variety of period evidence located by the College of Arms and by Wreath staff suggests that a helm with mantling and a crest is not at all unreasonable as an heraldic charge.

Certainly, plain helms are found as charges in period heraldry. They can, for example, be found in the arms of Daubeney (St. George's Roll 1285), Compton and Hamby (Collins' Roll 1295), Helmshoven (Zurich Roll 1340), von Widlungen (Siebmacher 1605), and Robertoun (Pont's Manuscript 1624). In addition, Parker (p. 317 s.n. Helmet) mentions that helmets used as heraldic charges are sometimes found with plumes of feathers, a fact borne out by Papworth's blazon of the arms of Mynyot from Phili-pot's Ordinary (1406), Arg. three helmets with open visors adorned with plumes of feathers az, and by the arms of von Frese (Siebmacher p. 204), Azure, a helm affronty proper crested of three ostrich plumes argent. Period examples of helms crested of items other than feathers can be found in multiple examples from Siebmacher: von Helme (p. 205), Argent, a helm proper crested of five banners sable, die Schaden (p. 208), Azure, a helm affronty proper mantled Or and crested of three pennons gules, argent and Or, Kircheim (p. 243), Gules, a helm affronty proper mantled Or and crested of a pair of horns argent, Kirttorf (p. 243), Gules, a helm affronty proper mantled azure and crested of a pair of horns argent, and Niedenstein (p.244), Or, a helm affronty proper crested of a lion rampant gules between a pair of bull's horns sable. These examples, several of which include both crest and mantling, lead us to conclude that the submitted badge, despite the unattested addition of the torse, is acceptable style. [Klaus Rother von Schweinichen and Thaddeus von Orlamünde, 6/05, A-East]

As with most helms in heraldry, the Saxon helm faces to dexter by default.

Greenhithe By The Water, Canton of. Device. Argent, a mastless drakkar, oars in action, proper and on a chief invected vert two laurel wreaths argent.

Johne Moir MacLeod. Name.

The submitter expressed interest in a Scottish Gaelic name. However, this name is fully Scots (a language similar to English, spoken in the non-Gaelic regions of Scotland during the last 300 years of the SCA period.) The byname Moir appears appropriate as both a Scots and a Gaelic spelling. Black, The Surnames of Scotland s.n. Moir, shows the spelling Moyr in 1534, and the y-->i switch is well documented in Scots naming practices. If the submitter is interested in a fully Gaelic form of this name, we suggest Eoin Moir MacLeóid. The given names Eoin and Leód are both found in Krossa, "Scottish Gaelic Given Names"; the submitter documented the element Moir from Kross, "Scottish Gaelic Descriptive Bynames."

Norman Hauberger. Device. Sable, on a bend sinister embattled-counter-embattled argent, three sets of three annulets interlaced palewise two and one vert.

We wish to remind the College that a bend sinister embattled is embattled on the upper edge only. Thus this does not conflict with Philip Oneeye, Sable, on a bend sinister embattled argent, three crosses crosslet fitchy sable. There is a CD for the changes to the tertiary charges and another for the ordinary being embattled on both edges rather than on only the upper edge.

Otto zu Waldeck. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Ramshaven, Barony of. Award name Award of the Guidon de Sang and badge. Gules, in chief two ram's heads couped respectant argent.

Submitted as Award of the Guidon De Sang, it is standard practice not to capitalize the preposition in constructions of this sort. We have, therefore, changed the name to Award of the Guidon de Sang.

Ramshaven, Barony of. Award name Award of the Guidon d'Argent and badge. Gules, in chief two ram's heads couped respectant argent within a bordure argent.

Ramshaven, Barony of. Award name Award of the Guidon d'Or. Gules, in chief two ram's heads couped respectant within a bordure Or.

Ramshaven, Barony of. Award name Order of the Favour of Ramshaven.

Robert the Blue. Device. Argent, a bend gules between four roundels sable.

Please advise the submitter to draw the roundels a little smaller so that they touch neither the bend nor the edge of the shield.

Rustique de Suard. Badge. Gyronny argent and purpure, a heart sable charged with a wolf's paw print argent.

Sven of Tor Brandt. Holding name and device. Per chevron Or and sable, two wolves combatant sable and a drakkar, sails set and oars in action, argent.

Submitted under the name Sven gunnolfr Ragnaldson, that name was returned on the June 2005 LoAR.

RETURNS

Otto zu Waldeck. Device. Vert, on a pile Or, a mullet of eight points sable.

This is returned for conflict with Jaromir Mikhailovich, Azure, on a pile Or a sun gules, which is reblazoned elsewhere on this letter. There is a CD for changes to the field. Precedent grants no difference between a mullet of eight points and a sun. This leaves the change of tincture of the tertiary charge group as the only difference, and this is not worth a CD.

Ramshaven, Barony of. Award name Award of the Jewel of Ramshaven.

Conflict with Order of the Jewel of AEthelmearc, registered May 1994 and owned by the Kingdom of Æthelmearc. Neither the designator nor the group name in either order name counts for difference. The submitters have a letter of permission to conflict with House of Jewels registered May 1984, owned by Suzanna Jewell.