CAMeL March 2005

Lochac arms CoH Arms

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

I haven't much to say this month. On with the show!

Roster Changes

None this month.

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 contacti......................................................-->

March Meeting Results

The March meeting was held on Tuesday 8^th March 2005. Present at the meeting were Wakeline de Foxley, Crux Australis Herald; Francis of Hexham, Dromond Herald; Hrolf Hrolfsson, Herald Extraordinary; Declan of Drogheda, Pursuivant Extraordinary; Melangell ferch Rhodri, Acting Pursuivant for the College of St Gildas, and Beatrix Aetholsdotter of Jelling, interested onlooker. The next meeting will be held on April the 5th.

Submissions Forwarded to Laurel

1. Arganhell merch Briauc

Name Resubmission (See Returns for Device)

The name Arganhell merch Briauc was returned by Crux in June 2004 for lack of documentation. The submitter has rectified this situation.
The submitter seeks a name authentic for Wales and will allow any changes. In the event of changes she cares most about sound and culture and requests that "I would like to keep the meaning 'daughter of' closest name to Briauc."
Arganhell appears as the name of a girl healed by St. Dubricus in J Gwenogvryn Evans's (ed) "The text of the Book of Llan Dav", pg 82. In a letter to the submitter Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn states that Dubricius dates from the fifth century but that the biography here cited is "significantly later".
The same source also lists a place name "Licat arganhell" from a mid ninth century charter (pg 173).
Tangwystyl provides two cites for names similar to Briauc. The name Briog appears in a genitive form "Briaci". One of the two cites may be found in Jackson's "Language and History in Early Britain" pp 291 and 459.
The name apparently also appears in two separate instances in Macalister's "Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum" pp 401f and 403.
The submitter has also provided several extracts from the "Celtic Inscribed Stones Project" online database, which support the name forms Briac or Briaci. All four pages may be found on subpages of http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database specifically the pages: /site/braw4.html, /stone/braw4_1.html, /site/brid1.html and /stone/brid1_1.html.
Getting from the supported Briaci to Briauc is rather tricky. I can do no better than quote Harpy's letter: "This is the point where it gets complicated to do something more rigorous than 'And Tangwystyl waves her hands and a miracle occurs.' The suggestion that the 5-6th century Briacos would correspond to 10th century Briauc is based on years of studying Old and Medieval Welsh…"
Merch appears in a 10th century genealogical tract on page nine of Bartum's "Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts".
Tangwystyl ends her letter to the submitter with the words "So something like 'Argenhell merch Briauc' would be a plausible, of not typical, name for the period around the 8-10th centuries".

2. Constance de Coligny

Device Resubmission

Azure, on a fess between three mullets argent a rose gules.

Constance's device was returned by Crux for conflict in March 2004. The submitter has now provided a letter of permission to conflict from Emma de Lastone, who bears as arms Azure, a fess argent fretty vert between three mullets pierced argent (registered Dec 2001 via Lochac). Emma's letter gives permission for Constance to register conflicting arms that are "similar but not identical" to Emma's own.
The submitters name was registered in Laurel's July 2004 LoI.

Constance's device

3. Griffin Westcastle

New name (see Returns for device)

The submitter seeks a masculine name but makes no request for authenticity. He will not accept any changes.
Griffin occurs as a header spelling in Withycombe, although the submitted spelling of the name is not cited before 1655.
Westcastle appears in Reaney and Wilson's "A Dictionary of British Surnames". Dated forms are "Alan dictus biwestcastel" (1263-4) and Alan Biwestcastel (1274-5).

4.Micheline de Lyon

New name

The submitter seeks a feminine name and will allow any changes. She makes no request for authenticity, although she states that in the event of changes she cares most about sound.
The submitter has provided no direct evidence for Micheline, although Academy of Saint Gabriel report 2581 discusses the name [http://www.s-gabriel.org/2581, accessed 23rd March 2005]. The report discusses a number of similar French names and concludes "The suffix <-ine> was commonly used to feminize common masculine names in some parts of France, e.g. Paris in the late 13th century, Picardy in the 13th-15th centuries. The masculine names , were used in Paris at this time, too, so it is therefore plausible that the name might have been constructed. We should stress, though, that we have found no evidence that the name was used."
The Submitter originally requested the form Micheline d'Lyon. Rede Boke noted in internal commentary that de does not elide before words beginning with a consonant. We have therefore changed the form of the name to "de".
Lyon was of course a major city in period France. Rede Boke pointed out that the name was discussed directly in Saint Gabriel's report #2904 [http://www.s-gabriel.org/2904, accessed 23rd March 2005], which says in part "Instead, we recommend found in the 1446 census, as the byname of a very rich, possibly noble, man. The name of the city is also spelled in this source, so is also a reasonable byname."

I could find no evidence for a Michelin tyre factory in Lyon, although it appears that the Michenlin man (Bibedum), was devised at a conference in Lyon.

5. Mikhaila von Dhaun

New name

The submitter makes no specification of gender or request for authenticity. She will allow no changes.
According to Paul Goldschmidt's "Dictionary of Period Russian names - section MI" Mikhaila appeared as a given name in 1459-69.
The submitter has provided a photocopy of the title page of a book from 1565. Said book, "Valerij Maximi" was produced with the aid of one Niclas von Dhaun.

Submissions Returned by Crux

1. Arganhell merch Briauc Device Resubmission Gules on a fess rayonny argent three tortaux. This device was returned by Crux for a redraw in June 2004 as the tortaux were too small and the rays in the rayonny field division were too small and too numerous. The device must be returned again as insufficient forms were submitted. The fess has also slipped too low.
2. Everard Sefar Device Resubmission Argent, a cross bottany and a chief triangular gules. This device was returned by Crux for a redraw in June 2004 as original design was unidentifiable being somewhere between per chevron inverted and a chief triangular. This new version rectified this previous problems but is being returned as there were insufficient forms submitted.
3. Griffin Westcastle New device Per fess dancetty sable and argent a pale and in pall three griffins segreant all counterchanged. This device is being returned because the forms were odd. While I cannot tell exactly how the forms were produced, the text has a slight greenish tinge (perhaps faded already?) and low resolution. In addition the form has shrunk somehat so that the size of the emblazzon is marginal.
4. Mikhalia von Dhaun New device Purpure, a lizard and in chief three celtic crosses Or. This device is being returned because of the use of a three dimensional lizard. WIth very few exceptions, period heraldry did not use three dimensional charges.
5. Serephina le Dauncer New Name and Device Per Chevron gules and azure in chevron two oriental dragons passant respectant and in base a griffin passant Or. The submitter has requested an authentic feminine name for 16th century Venice and will not allow major changes. Serephina is given as a 15th Century Italian name, found in the Collins Gem "Dictionary of First Names" p336. le Dauncer is found in Reaney and Wilson "A Dictionary of British Surnames" under the header spelling Dancer where it is documented to 1327 as Norman-French. Thus, Serephina le Dauncer is a name which combines a 15th century Italian given name with a 14th century Norman-French occupational byname. While this combination is registrable in the SCA it does not meet the request for an authentic 16th century Venetian name and so must be returned. Serephina's device is being returned because the shape of the shield has been altered to a different shield shape. This is not permitted.

Submissions Pended by Crux

None this month.

News from Laurel LoARs

From Laurel's September Letter of Acceptance and Return

Acceptances

Conrad Burnet.

Name.

Damiana Hernandez.

Name.

Kitan von Falkenberg.

Name and Device.

Lochac, Kingdom of.

Acceptance of transfer of heraldic title Astrolabe Herald from Caid, Kingdom of.

Lochac, Kingdom of.

Acceptance of transfer of heraldic title Blue Lymphad Pursuivant from Caid, Kingdom of.

Lochac, Kingdom of.

Acceptance of transfer of heraldic title Tour d'Or Pursuivant from Caid, Kingdom of.

Maud la leitiere.

Name and Device.

Owen Cantor ap Hughe.

Name and device.

Ysambart Courtin.

Name.

Returns

Conrad Burnet.

Device.

Per chevron dovetailed argent and azure, three triquetras counter-changed.

The line of division is drawn too low; it is effectively the bottom quarter of a per saltire dovetailed division. This has been cause for return in the past:
[Per chevron argent and azure, in chief a rose slipped and leaved fesswise and in base six gouttes three two and one, counterchanged] The device does not clearly use a per chevron line of division, nor does it use a point pointed. Because of this ambiguity this must be returned under RfS VII.7.a.
Note that a per chevron line of division should appear to divide the field into two equal pieces. This emblazon does not give that appearance. One reason is that the per chevron line is drawn somewhat low on the field - it appears to have been drawn by using the form's guidelines for a per saltire division and drawing the bottom section of that field. In addition, the fact that the rose in chief is drawn as a small charge, with lots of field around it, implies that it is not a charge filling its half of an equally divided field. [Duvessa of Movilla, 03/03, R-Middle]
A per chevron field division should effectively bisect the area of the field. This field, as drawn, does not do so, and thus must be returned. Please advise the submitter to draw the dovetailing less shallowly on any resubmission using dovetailed lines..

From Laurel's October Letter of Acceptance and Return

Acceptances

Adelindis filia Gotefridi.

Name and device.

Bernard Stirling.

Device.

Edmund Alekoner.

Device.

Eleyne de Comnocke.

Device.

Everard Sefar.

Name.

Fionnabhair inghean ui Mheadhra.

Name.

Magdalena Seraphina de Greye.

Name.

Rhodri ap Tewdwr.

Name.

William filius Willelmi de Wyke.

Name and device.

Wulfric Halvedievel.

Name.

Returns

St Augustine, College of.

Branch name and device.

Per bend embattled argent and purpure, a laurel wreath vert and an open scroll fesswise Or.

Conflict with the city of Saint Augustine, Florida. This place is the first European settlement in the New World, and its longest continually occupied European settlement. This place is instantly recognizable by most people in the United States. We would drop the Saint and register this name as Augustine College, but the group will not accept major changes.
St is a scribal abbreviation for Saint. If there were no conflicts with this name, expansion of the abbreviation would still be necessary to make the name registerable.
As the branch's name is being returned and we cannot form holding names for groups, the device must be returned also. Please advise the group to draw the laurel wreath with a smaller gap at the top on a resubmission.

Ulvar MacVanis.

Device.

Quarterly gules and purpure, three wolves "courant" in annulo argent.

The wolves on the emblazon are an exact match for those in the following return:
The wolves are not clearly postured. They are in some posture between salient, courant and passant. Salient is a heraldically distinct posture from courant and passant. This submission must therefore be returned for violating RfS VII.7.b, which states, "Elements must be reconstructible in a recognizable form from a competent blazon." [Nov 2003, Ret-Meridies, R{u'}n{o'}lfr or{dh}lokarr {U'}lfsson]
This submission likewise violates RfS VII.7.b and thus is returned for that reason.
Additionally, Crescent notes a conflict with Cu{a'}n MacDaige: Checky azure and Or, three mastiffs courant in annulo argent each gorged of a coronet gules. There is a CD for changes to the field but nothing for the type of canine and nothing for gorging an entire beast (as opposed to a beast's head).

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Wakeline de Foxley,
Crux Australis Principal Herald

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