March 2006 - Laurel LoAR - Ealdormere Submissions

Acceptances

EALDORMERE

Draco Lengeteylle. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Draco Lengeteyll, the documentation for the byname, Reaney and Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, shows the cited spelling as Lengeteyll'. The apostrophe is a scribal abbreviation, probably a dropped -e. We do not register scribal abbreviations, so we have changed the name to Draco Lengeteylle, the most likely form represented by the cited example.
Mairsil inghean Aoidh. Name.

Submitted as Marsaili inghean Aoidh, the submitter requested authenticity for Scottish Gaelic. While we do not have a documented form of the given name in Gaelic in Scotland, we do have Irish examples. Mari neyn Brian, "Index of Names from Irish Annals", lists Mairsil in 1486. We have changed this name to Mairsil, an authentic 15th C Gaelic name.

The spelling Marsaili is a speculative Scottish Gaelic spelling from Sharon Krossa, "Scottish Gaelic Given Names." This article was last updated in November 2001. In it the author notes that no examples of this name have been found in a Gaelic record, although Latin and Scots language forms of a name something like Marsaili had been found. Since that time, though, an Irish example of this name, the form registered her, has been found. Since we now have a true documentable Early Modern Gaelic form of this name that is different from the speculative form found in Krossa's article, this raises doubts as to whether the speculative form is actually a period form. Therefore, barring an actual example of the spelling Marsaili in period, this spelling is no longer registerable.
Maria Katharina von Schulenberg. Name and device. Gules, on a chief indented Or three sea-lions contourny, each maintaining a heart gules.

The submitter requested an authentic German name. This is a reasonable 14th C German name.
Marioun Golightly. Badge. Argent, an arrow and a chief sable.

Nicolaa de Bracton of Leicester. Badge. (Fieldless) A comet fesswise gules bearded Or.

This is clear of Alesia la Sabia de Murcia, (Fieldless) A comet fesswise gules. There is a CD for fieldlessness and another for the tincture of the comet as Nicolaa's comet is Or with a gules estoile and is thus primarily Or, not gules.
Ohthere Strongitharm of Thaxted. Device. Per pale purpure and Or, two dolphins haurient addorsed counterchanged.

Quintus Manlius Petraeus. Name change from Robert le Medier de Rouen and device change. Gules, on a sea-lion Or a heart gules.

His old name, Robert le Medier de Rouen, is released.

The submitter's previous device, Purpure, ermined Or, an eagle rising contourny, wings elevated and displayed, grasping in its talons a scimitar fesswise, blade to base, between its wings a compass-rose argent, all within a bordure embattled Or, is retained as a badge.
Róis Inse Fhinne. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Vladislav cel Înalt. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Returns

EALDORMERE

Cainder ingen hui Chatharnaig. Badge. Argent semy of sparks, a slow match sable lit proper.

This badge is returned for conflict with Conrad Breakring, Argent, an annulet fracted on the dexter side sable. There is a CD for adding the semy of sparks, but that is the only CD. Laurel has previously ruled "The consensus of the College was that a coiled match is visually too similar to an annulet to grant a CD between the two. (Kazimir Petrovich Pomeshanov, September, 1992, pg. 40)". The fracting of Conrad's annulet counts for no difference.

We are unaware of any sparks drawn in period as two and one instead of one and two. On resubmission the submitter should draw the sparks in the standard arrangement or provide period heraldic evidence of sparks drawn two and one.

Draco Lengeteylle. Device. Ermine, a dragon statant erect gules.

This conflicts with Bela of Eastmarch, Gyronny sable and argent, a dragon rampant gules, armed and webbed vert. There is a CD for changes to the field but nothing for the minor change in posture nor for the difference in tincture of the dragon. In a previous return involving a conflict with Bela's device Laurel noted:

As a general rule, changing the tincture of a dragon's wings is considered to be change of tincture of half the charge. However, the webs of the dragon's wings are not the entire wing, and visual inspection of the dragon in Bela's emblazon shows that it has particularly small wings. Therefore, less than half the tincture of the charge has changed, and so there is no additional difference for change in tincture. [Ian Lindsay MacRae, 02/02, R-Outlands]

Róis Inse Fhinne. Device. Azure, on a mount argent a rose fesswise gules slipped and leaved vert.

This is returned for conflict with Jonathas Reinisch, Azure, on a mountain argent a fox's head couped gules. There is a single CD for substantially changing the type of the tertiary charge.

Vladislav cel Înalt. Device. Argent, on a pale and a base gules, an inverted tau cross throughout nebuly Or.

The submission doesn't match any period style with which we're familiar. The pale and base, despite being the same tincture, are actually two separate charges; they cannot bear a single tertiary group, certainly not one that overlies their edges. Even were that not the case, the nebuly line of the tau cross is drawn far too small to be identifiable at any distance. This must be returned for redraw and redesign - with any tertiary groups confined to a single underlying charge each, and complex lines drawn large and visible.