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Crux Australis Principal Herald


Wakeline de Foxley
PO Box 91 Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7006
phone: +61 3 6225 4334
herald at sca dot org dot au

Warmest greetings unto the College of Heralds of the Kingdom of Lochac, and unto any others who may read this missive from Wakeline de Foxley, Crux Australis Principal Herald

From Crux Australis

Here finally is a combined letter for January and February. January, of course, saw Coronation come and go. It was great to meet so many of you and to see your work (or at least to hear it!). My particulsr thanks to Eoghann Goutte d'Eau and Massaria Baryl for their assistance and to all of you who did such a wonderful job of field work and announcements.
January also saw me venture to India. I had hoped to make the trip at least peripherally related to SCA metters by buying lots of "stuff", but alas, it wasn't to be. My sojourn in India is the reason for this combined letter and for its lateness.
As always, my thanks to Massaria Baryl for her assistance with the preparation of this letter.

Roster Changes

Eleyne de Comnocke has been added to the roster as a Pursuivant.

Important Addresses

Crux Australis Principal Herald:

Wakeline de Foxley
PO Box 91, Sandy Bay TAS, 7006
(03) 6225 4334

Email: herald at sca dot org dot au

Baryl Herald:

Massaria da Cortona
PO Box 91, Sandy Bay TAS, 7006
(03) 6225 4334

Email: massaria at hotmail dot com

Bombard Herald (Ceremonies and Protocol):

Uberto Renaldi

Email: bombard at sca dot org dot au

Canon Herald (OP and Gentry list):

Karl Faustus von Aachen (Paul Sleigh )
PO Box 1269, Belconnen ACT 2616
(02) 6271-1534 0407-468-244.

Email: canon at sca do org do au

Astrolabe Herald (New Zealand Regional Deputy):

Alys de Wilton (Jennifer Geard)

Email: geard at verso dot org

Rocket Pursuivant (Special Projects):

Giles de Roet (Mark Calderwood)
PO Box 247
Jesmond NSW 2299

Hund Herald (External Commentary):

Thorfinn Hrolfsson (Steven Roylance)
1592 Malvern Road, Glen Iris, VIC 3146.

Email: roylance at corplink dot com dot au

Mortar Pursuivant

Vacant

Submission Requirements

Cost: $20 per new submission (name, device or badge). No cost for resubmissions (within the permitted time limit) or branch submissions. Note: a new name and device costs a total of $40. Make cheques or money orders payable to "SCA Inc. College of Heralds". Do not send cash through the post!

Copies required:

NAMES: Two (2) copies of both the form and ALL documentation, including title page of each book NB: The title page is not the same as the book cover! Essays about a submitter's persona may be entertaining, but do NOT constitute documentation. When citing web sites as documentation, you must include a printout of the pages used. Please don't staple your forms, paperclips are fine and loose is ok too.

DEVICES AND BADGES: Four (4) colour copies and one (1) black & white OUTLINE copy. The colour copies should be accurately coloured, preferably in felt tip pen. Colour printers or faint coloured pencil is not acceptable. The colours must be visible across a crowded Herald's meeting. Laurel has requested that gold pen NOT be used, as it deteriorates in files and turns to glue. Please don't staple your forms, assuming that all goes well at kingdom level they are separated and go to four different homes. Paperclips are fine and loose is ok too. 

Please include ALL necessary documentation to support each submission. It is the responsibility of the submitter to present their submission in a way that makes registration easy. Name documentation should be as accurate as possible. Failure to provide sufficient documentation is a cause for return of your submission. If you are having trouble with your documentation then speak to your local herald. If they can't answer your specific question, consider writing to Blazons, or contacting me. If I don't know the answer but I will at least be able to point you in the direction of someone who will.

January Meeting Results

The January meeting was held on Tuesday 4th January 2005. Present at the meeting were Wakeline de Foxley, Crux Australis Herald; Massaria da Cortona, Baryl Herald; Francis of Hexham, Dromond Herald; Hrolf Hrolfsson, Herald Extraordinary; Melangell ferch Rhodri, Acting Pursuivant for the College of St Gildas, and Rhodri ap Tewdwr Awenydd, herald in training.

Submissions Forwarded to Laurel

1. Drusticc inigena Eddarrnonn

New name

The submitter seeks a name authentic for a 7th century female Pict (authenticity for both time and culture is desired). She will allow minor changes and in the case of such changes cares most about culture.
Drusticc and Eddarrnonn are both drawn from J.M.P. Calise's "Pictish Sourcebook" (copy provided). The book lists a 6th century Drusticc as a "possible Pictish princess, who may have been the daughter of Drest f. Gyrom, Drest f. Munait or Drest f. Udrost". Calise goes on to say that the book of Leinster includes Drusticc as daughter of "Trust, king of the northern Britons" and mother of Lonan of Treóit, son of Talmach.
The same book under the section on Itarnan (669) says that the name Edarnon appears in inscriptions (presumably Ogham). Justification of The submitted spelling is derived from Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn's "The First Thousand Years of British Names, appendix VI" [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/british1000/appendic6.html] , which says that "the alteration between single and double internal consonants is not significant".
The Celtic inscribed stone project lists includes several instances of Eddarrnonn [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/stone/brod_1.html]. This spelling also occurs in Tangwystyl's "A Consideration of Pictish Names, Section IV" [http://www.medievalscotland.org/scaotnames/jonespictishmem/pictish4.shtml].
"The First Thousand Years of British Names" states that the patronymic byname should be placed into the genitive. I am unsure how to make the required change of case, so have sent it up as is.
The same article shows that inigena is the standard form for "daughter of" at this time.

Submissions Returned by Crux

None this month.

Submissions Pended by Crux

The name and device submissions of Elyas of Dunblane were pended until the February meeting to allow extra research into "Dunblane". See below...

February Meeting Results

The February meeting was held on Tuesday 8th February 2005. Present at the meeting were Wakeline de Foxley, Crux Australis Herald; Massaria da Cortona, Baryl Herald; Francis of Hexham, Dromond Herald; Hrolf Hrolfsson, Herald Extraordinary and Melangell ferch Rhodri, Acting Pursuivant for the College of St Gildas.

Submissions Forwarded to Laurel

1. Drusticc inigena Eddarrnonn

New device

Gules, a crescent bendwse sinister argent.

The submitter's name was submitted on the January LoI.

Drusticc's device

2. Elyas of Dunblane

New name and device

Quarterly sable and azure, a cross between four crescents argent.

The submitter seeks a masculine name authentic for 11th-13th century Scotland. He will accept minor changes, and in the event of such changes cares most about language.
Elyas is found in Withycombe s.n. Elijah, Elias. The desired spelling is cited in 1303.
Dunblane is recorded in Black's "The Surnames of Scotland" as a header spelling. The citation reads "Dunblane. From the old town of the name in Perthshire. Laurence of Dunblane, burgess of Stirling rendered homage in 1296".

Elyas's device

3. Katrijn van Delden

New name and device

Erminois, a dragon rampant sable within an orle azure.

The submitter desires a feminine name authentic in both time and language for the Low Countries in the 14th century. She will allow any changes and in the event of changes cares most about language.
Katrijn is found in Aryanhwy's "Dutch Names 1393-96" http://www.ellipsis.cx/names/dutch14.html] as a variant of Katerine.
van is equivalent to "of" in Dutch (and some other dialects of Low German).
Delden is a town located 5km west of Hengelo in the modern Dutch province of Overijssel. Several period maps show the desired spelling of the town. These maps may be seen on the page "De Stad Delden in 1570" [http://home.hetnet.nl/~harry.vrielink/de_stad_delden_in_1570.htm]. This page is the work of Harry Vrielink, a Dutch historian working on the history of towns and architecture in the region.
A map from 1570 shows the town of Deldensis (the Latin form of the Dutch name). Two maps by the eminent Dutch cartographer Jacobus van Deventer, show the spelling Delden in use in 1560 and 1570 respectively. A fourth map uses the spelling Deelden in 1567.

Katrijn's device

4. Margarita de la Carreraa

New name and device

Sable, a bear sejant erect within an orle within an orle of mullets argent.

The submitter seeks a feminine name of unspecified time or culture. She will accept minor changes and in the event of such changes cares most about sound.
Both name elements are drawn from Juliana de Luna's Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella].
Margarita can be found in the subsection on Women's Names in Alphabetical Order [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/WomensGivenAlpha.html], while de la Carrera appears in the section on Locative Surnames [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/locative.html]

. Internal commentary provided an alternate interpretation of the device; Argent, on an ineschutcheon sable a bear sejant erect argent all within a bordure sable semy of mullets argent. This interpretation would leads to problems with RfS XI.4, which prohibits the appearance of marshalling.
We note that numerous precedents allow that we can blazon our way out of a stylistic problem, so this device should be fine with regard to XI.4. We also note in passing that Laurel discussed the motif in January '94 and made no mention of problems related to XI.4.
"Brian the Blackhawk. Device. Argent, an eagle displayed within an orle within an orle of lozenges orlewise sable.
As this could equally well be blazoned (as Papworth has done with similar designs), Sable an inescutcheon argent charged with an eagle sable all within a bordure argent semy of lozenges sable, it conflicts with Fylkyn (Papworth, p. 687), Sable an escutcheon argent within a bordure of the last charged with billets of the first. There is one CD for the addition of the tertiary eagle, but because this is not simple armory as defined in RfS X.4.j.2., there is nothing for changing the type only of the tertiary charges on the bordure." Da'ud ibn Auda, January 1994

Margarita's device

5. Pedro Fernandes

New name

The submitter seeks a masculine name authentic for 14-15th century Spain. He wishes the name to be authentic for both time and language. The submitter will accept minor changes and in the event of such changes cares most about language.
Academy of St. Gabriel report #2408 [http://www.s-gabriel.org/2408] says that Pedro was one of the more common masculine names in 12th century Leon.
Fernandes may be found in Juliana de Luna's Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century - Patronymic Surnames [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/patronymic.html].

6. Sorcha inghean ui Cheallaigh

New name

The submitter seeks a feminine name authentic for the Irish/Gaelic language (time unspecified). She will allow minor changes and cares most about the meaning of the name, which she takes to be "Sorcha descendant of Kelly".
Withycombe in "The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian names" notes that Sorcha was a native Irish name which has been rendered into English as Sarah (s.n. Sara(h)). O'Corrain and Maguire's "Gaelic personal names" lists Sorcha as a header spelling. The name was said to be relatively common in medieval Ireland.
According to MacLysaght's "The surnames of Ireland" (O')Ceallaigh is the gaelic form of the name (O) Kelly.
The submitter had originally submitted the form O'Ceallaigh. During internal commentary Aryanhwy Rede Boke commented that the original name combined English O' with Gaelic Ceallaigh. This is in clear violation of RfS III.1.a. which requires linguistic consistency within a name phrase. Rede Boke suggested inghean ui Cheallaigh, a suggestion the submitter was delighted to adopt.

7. Wilfred de Ackelonde

New device

Purpure, a pile cotised argent.

Wilfred's name change submission (to Wilfred Scrivener) was submitted on the December 2004 LoI.

Wilfred's device

Submissions Returned by Crux

1. Elena le Breustere

New name

Sable, a rose argent a bordure Or seme of goblets sable.

Elena's name and device are both being returned because the submitter did not provide the required number of forms, nor did she provide the required black and white version of the emblazon.
The submitter has been advised to draw the wine goblets rather larger in her resubmission as they were only barely identifiable from a distance. Some shaping to the bottom part of the goblet might also help.

Elena's device

2. Pedro Fernandes

New device

Azure on a bend sinister two dexter gauntlets gules, a bordure argent.

Pedro's submitted device is in conflict with that of Kenn the Just, Azure, on a bend sinister argent three pellets, a bordure argent., registered February 1991. There is a single CD for the changes in the tertiaries, but nothing else.

Pedro's device

3. Sorcha inghean ui Cheallaigh

New device

Per pale gules and vert, a natural salamander tergiant Or

Sochas' device is in conflict with that of Ardis Bluemantle; (Fieldless) A lizard tergiant Or (registered August 1992). There is only a single CD for the change in the field.

Sorcha's device

Submissions Pended by Crux

None this month.

News from Laurel LoARs

From Laurel's July Letter of Acceptance and Return

Acceptances

Anne Maguier of Kylharnon.

Device

Antonia della Scalla.

Name and device.

Bartholomew Baskin.

Name.

Bianca Foscari.

Name and device

Constance de Colligny.

Name.

Henry Fox.

Name.

Huguete de Saint Germain.

Name.

Ildaria Nunez de Caminha.

Name and device.

Jane of Stokton.

Name and device. *

Raphael Dunoir.

Name and device.

Rúadán Fota.

Name and device.

Stefano da Urbino.

Name and device.

Sybille la Chatte.

Device.

Þorsteinn Yngvarsson.

Name and device.

Tristan de Poitiers.

Name.

William Castille.

Device change.

William of Waterford.

Name and device.

Ysabella de Montrose.

Device.


Returns

Huguete de Saint Germain.

Device.

Per pale gules and azure chaussé, a bunch of grapes argent.

The device conflicts with Thomas Lyon of Braemar: Per bend sinister vert and sable, a bunch of grapes argent. The only CD is for the field. Piles do not issue from the top corners of the shield. As such, we have reblazoned it as a chaussé field division, the only possible way to blazon it while satisfying our style requirements. This, however, makes the bunch of grapes the primary charge, bringing it into conflict with Thomas.


Ildhafn, Barony of.

Augmentation.

Per pale azure and argent chapé ployé, two lymphads and a laurel wreath counterchanged, and for augmentation in chief on an escutcheon azure, four crescents argent conjoined in saltire points outward, within a bordure Or.

The augmentation is too small to be identifiable at any distance farther than two feet: the "field" looks sable and the crescents were blurred beyond recognition. Unfortunately, simply returning it for a redraw is not sufficient. Making the escutcheon larger would make it effectively a co-primary charge with the lymphads and laurel wreath, violating RfS VIII.1.a: "[T]hree or more types of charges should not be used in the same group" (the "slot machine" rule). While the addition of augmentations can be allowed to break rules in some cases, the violations we allow are grounded in period examples. Barring examples of period augmentations that result in three types of charges in the same group, this sort of augmentation cannot violate RfS VIII.1.a. We note as one possible suggestion that making the escutcheon an azure canton would eliminate the style problem.

From Laurel's August Letter of Acceptance and Return

Acceptances

Ælfled æt Otreburne.

Name and device.

Basil Faulke.

Name.

Bran of Lochiel.

Badge.

Burnfield, Canton of.

Branch name and device.

Cicilia Lyon.

Name and device.

Edmund Alekonner.

Name.

Eleyne de Comnocke.

Name change.

Isobel le Bretoun.

Name.

Kaspar von Helmenstede.

Name and device.

Könusch von Eltz.

Name and device.

Leta von Golsar.

Name and device. *

Llewelyn ap Dafydd.

Device.

Lochac, Kingdom of.

Badge change and designation for Worshipful Company of Broiders. *

Nicolas de Villiers.

Name and device.

Quataryna de Montpelher.

Name and device.

Rodri Ysoglaig.

Name.

Stephen Aldred.

Name change.

Thomasine Lestrange.

Name change.

Willehelm von Tannenberg.

Device change.

* These registrations have been made with typographical errors. They are all in the process of review. Returns

Basil Faulke.

Device.

Sable, three towers conjoined in pall and a bordure argent.

The center area in between the towers should not be colored in as if it were part of the towers. Doing so rendered the charge(s) unidentifiable.

Bran of Lochiel.

Household name House Lochiel.

This is presumptous of the title of the Chief of Clan Cameron, which according to the submitter's own documentation is Lochiel. This name implies that the submitter is head of the real-world Clan Cameron and so violates RfS VI.1, "Names Claiming Rank", which states, "Names containing titles, territorial claims, or allusions to rank are considered presumptuous.

Isobel le Bretoun.

Device.

Per fess counter-ermine and gules, in base an ermine dormant argent.

The beast was not identifiable as an ermine or other mustelid. Commentary in the College and at the meeting almost invariably confused it with either a dog or a cat. The specific problems noted were the length of the legs and the shape of the head and neck.

Sancha da Sylva.

Device.

Per fess indented azure and counter-ermine.

This has a low-contrast complex line of division using two colors. The following precedent is relevant:
[Returning Per chevron wavy sable and azure, a decrescent, an increscent, and a sea-griffin argent] The contrast between the two halves of the field is so low that the line of division is not distinguishable. Past Laurels have returned extremely low-contrast lines of division even when there is not an overall charge (for an example, see the return of Isabel d'Avignon's device, June 1997 LoAR). [Oct 1999, Ret-Meridies, Anastasiia Novgorodskaia]
Likewise, azure and counter-ermine do not have sufficient contrast to allow them to be used as the tinctures on either side of a divided field with a complex line of division, even when there is no overall charge.
In addition, as drawn the line of division is too high, blurring the distinction between a per fess indented line of division and a chief indented.

Stephen Aldred.

Device change.

Per chevron abased vert and argent, a dragon passant argent and a hunting horn reversed gules.

The line of division is much too low to be per chevron, and too high to be a point pointed. We note that this line of division does not match the one on his currently registered device, and as such the Grandfather Clause does not apply.

Crux Seal Wakeline's Signature

Wakeline de Foxley,
Crux Australis Principal Herald

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