June 2006 - Laurel LoAR - Ealdormere Submissions

Acceptances

EALDORMERE

Catarine of Renfrewshire. Badge. (Fieldless) A kris bendwise inverted sable.

Mairghread Eireannach. Name and device. Per pale vert and Or, a shillelagh proper and a bordure per pale Or trefly vert and vert semy of roses Or.

Mathild de Valognes. Device. Per bend sinister azure and sable, on a bend sinister argent between a cup and a broad arrow Or, two bendlets sinister azure.

Séamus mac Dubhgaill. Name (see RETURNS for device).Submitted as Séamus mac Dubhgaill ó Ólchobhair, the patronymic Ó Ólchobhair is an Early Modern Irish spelling of a given name that "became obsolete at an early period," according to Ó Corrain and Maguire, Irish Names, s.n. Ólchobar. They give dated forms, but the latest date they give is 951. The only form of this name we found in any of the Irish Annals is Muiredach m. Olcobair in an entry for 802 in the Annals of Ulster. Barring documentation that this name survived into the Early Modern Irish era, its Early Modern Irish form is not registerable. We would change the patronymic to the Middle Irish form, but this would make the name two steps from period practice. The first step would be mixing Early Modern and Middle Irish, and the second would be for temporal disparity. The latest date we have for Olchobar is 951, while the earliest date we have for Séamus is 1348. Therefore, we are dropping this element and registering the name as Séamus mac Dubhgaill_.

The submitter requested an authentic Irish name. The registered form is an authentic Early Modern Irish name. The spelling of the byname mac Dubhgaill is found in both The Annals of the Fours Masters and The Annals of Loch Cé.

Thomas Drake d'Abernon. Name and device. Sable, a dragon sergeant and in chief three wolf's heads erased argent. Listed on the LoI as Thomas Drake D'Abernon, both the forms and the documentation show the byname as d'Abernon. We have changed the name to match the forms and the documentation.

Returns

EALDORMERE

Séamus mac Dubhgaill. Device. Per saltire argent and Or, on a goute de sang a goblet argent within a bordure bendy gules and Or. This device is returned for lack of contrast due to using a bordure bendy sharing a tincture of the field. The bordure loses its identifiability when large strips of it share a tincture with the field. The submitter has dealt with this by drawing a thick black line between the bordure and the field. This keeps large portions of the bordure from disappearing but it also appears to be fimbriation; a bordure cannot be fimbriated. On resubmission please advise the submitter to draw the goutte more goutte-like and the goblet more as a standard heraldic goblet.