Last modified: July 8, 2004

Outlands College of Heralds

From the office of the Rampart Herald
Lady Alia Marie de Blois (Lillith Lesanges)
1223 Fruit Ave. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
alia@swcp.com

UNTO the members of the College of Heralds of the Kingdom of the Outlands, and all others who generously give of their time and talents in commentary on this Letter of Presentation, upon this 9th day of May, A.S. XXXVIII (2003 CE), does Lady Alia Marie de Blois, Rampart Herald, send greetings and those commendations which are appropriately due.

Anyone who wants to may send me a letter of comment regarding this Letter of Presentation. I prefer them via email.
Please have your commentary on this letter to me by mid-June. Please send commentary to: alia 'at' swcp.com or the address above.

On behalf of Mistress Tatiana Pavlovna Sokolova, White Stag Principal Herald,
I present the following items for your consideration:

Line Emblazon Sheet
Color Emblazon Sheet
July 2003 Letter of Response
July 2003 Letter of Intent
December 2003 LoAR Results (reschedule)
Return to the Rampart home page.

Unless otherwise specified, all changes are allowed by the submitter.

  1. Aigiarn Aljin. (al-Barran) New Name.
    Client cares most about the Meaning, which she gives as "shining moon of crimson", and is interested in being authentic for the language/culture "13th Century Mongol".
    Aigiarn - from 'Mongol Women's Names' by Jessica Bonner, listed as meaning 'Shining Moon'.
    Aljin - constructed byname from 'Period Mongolian Names' by Baras-aghur Naran. 'Al' is listed as 'crimson'. '-jin' is listed as 'of'
  2. Aigiarn Aljin. (al-Barran) New Device. Gules, three crescents in pall inverted, horns to center, argent between three mullets of six points Or.
  3. Arimaris Maçon. New Name.
    Client cares most about the Sound, does not care about gender, and is interested in being authentic for the language/culture "10-14th French".
    Arimaris - French masculine given name used c. 918 (Morlet, "Les Noms de Personne sur le Territoire de l'Ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe Siecle" Vol I, 1971, p. 126 column b)
    Maçon - French surname from Normandy-Picarde (undated) (Dauzat, "Dictionnaire Etymologique des Nomes de Famille et Prenoms de France" 1951, s.n. Maçon)
  4. Avram Ibn Gabirol. New Device. Vert, a shofar reversed bendwise sinister and a chief argent.
    His name was registered on the March 1998 LOAR, via the Outlands.
  5. Avram Ibn Gabirol and Hannah de Ávila. New Joint Badge. Argent, a python vert within a bordure embattled sable.
    Both of their names were registered on the March 1998 LOAR, via the Outlands.
  6. Bridget inghean ui Neill. (al-Barran) New Name.
    Client cares most about the Sound of this name, doesn't care about the gender, and has no authenticity requests.
    Bridget - in Reaney & Wilson's Dictionary of English & Welsh Surnames, 2nd ed., page 405, under the heading Hudd, dated to 1545.
    inghean ui - 'daughter of'
    Neill - in MacLysaght's The Surnames of Ireland, on page 234, under the heading Neill.
  7. Ceara McCain. (Fontaine) New Device. Quarterly vert and gules, a hound statant within a bordure embattled Or.
    Her name was registered on the November 2002 LOAR, via the Outlands.
  8. Elaisse de Garrigues. (Hawk's Hollow) Device Resubmission (Kingdom). Azure chausse erminois, an oak tree eradicated argent, leaved Or.
    Her name was registered on the June 2002 LOAR, via the Outlands.
    Her previous submission, Azure chaussé Or, an oak tree eradicated argent, was returned by Rampart in November of 2002 for conflict with Ioseph of Locksley, the Rhymer - January of 1973: Vert, a tree eradicated argent.
  9. Gervais le marinier de Narbonne. Device Resubmission (Laurel). Checky sable and Or, on a pile wavy issuant from sinister gules, a greyhound coursing Or.
    His name was registered on the February 2002 LOAR, via the Outlands. His previous submission, Or, three piles in point issuant from sinister base overall a sword sable, was returned by Laurel in February of 2002 for non-period style. This is a completely new design.
  10. Giovanni Di Lucca. (Citadel) New Name.
    Client will not accept Major changes. Client wishes a male name, and is interested in being authentic for the language/culture "Italian".
    Giovanni - from 'Names from Arezzo, Italy, 1386-1528' by Sara L. Friedemann (Aryanhwy merch Catmael), in the List of given names, by frequency, it lists Giovanni as the most common name.
    Di Lucca - a locative byname documented rom 'Lucca, Medievalle Garfagnana Versilia' (with text in English and Italian), 2001. The provided page describes Lucca as a city on an island "on the border between Ligurian and Etruscan lands," and indicates that its foundation was before 218 BC, and that it continued to exist until at least after 570AD. The page number is not visible on the photocopy.
  11. Giovanni Di Lucca. (Citadel) New Device. Per pale azure and argent, in fess a tower and a spider, a chief counter-compony, all counterchanged.
  12. Hannah de Ávila. New Device. Azure, in pale between a crescent and a decrescent, a roundel argent.
    Her name was registered on the March 1998 LOAR, via the Outlands.
  13. Illasia Truue. New Name.
    Client will not accept Major changes. Client cares most about the Sound of the given name and the Meaning of the surname "true", and is interested in being authentic for the language/culture "12th-13th C English".
    Illasia - found in Withycombe's Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, 3rd. ed., page 152, under the heading 'Hilary'. This spelling is dated to "12th and 13th C."
    Truue - found in Reaney & Wilson's Dictionary of English Names, on page 455, under the heading "True". Rannulfus Truue is dated to 1180 in Warwickshire.
  14. Ivarr ffening. New Name.
    Client cares most about the language/culture, wishes a male name, and is interested in being authentic for the language/culture "Norse".
    Ivarr: a male given name found on page 12 of Geirr Bassi's The Old Norse Name.
    ffening: found in Reaney and Wilson's Dictionary of English Surnames, revised edition, on page 166 under the heading 'Fenning'. John ffening is dated to 1290-1.
  15. Leofwin De Meslach. (Scorpion's Hollow?) New Name.
    Client cares most about the Meaning "meslach meaning "oak or moot", wishes a male name, and is interested in being authentic for the time period "10th C".
    Leofwin - documented in Withycombe's Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, 3rd. ed., on page 148, under the heading Leofwin. This spelling is dated to 1086.
    de Meslach - a locative byname documented using Mills' Dictionary of English Place Names, on page 225, under the heading Matlock. This spelling is dated to 1086.
  16. Leofwin De Meslach. (Scorpion's Hollow?) New Device. Per chevron gules and argent, two oak trees eradicated and a gemstone counterchanged.
  17. Michelet des Chevaux. New Name.
    Client will not accept Major changes. Client cares most about the language/culture, wishes a female name, and is interested being authentic for the language/culture "14th Century French".
    Michelet is documented from 'An Index to the Given Names in the 1292 Census of Paris' by Colm Dubh (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/paris.html)
    des Chevaux - "is modern french for 'of the horses', was unable to locate old french translation"
  18. Natalia Vasilkovna Riazanskaia. New Device. Vert, in bend a phoenix Or rising from flames gules and a natural tiger, tail nowed in a Stafford knot, argent marked sable.
    Her name was registered on the June 2002 LOAR, via the Outlands.
  19. Renee Nix de Livingstone. (Drygestan) New Name.
    Client marked no preferences.
    Renee - legal given name per drivers license (photocopy included). Feminine form of masculine given name "sometimes used in England" [Withycombe, The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, 3rd. ed, s.n. Renee]
    Nix - English unmarked patronymic based on given name "Nick" exampled by Henry Nix, 1279 [Reaney & Wilson, Dictionary of English Surnames, 3rd. ed., s.n. Nickes, Nicks, Nix]
    de Livingstone - locative byname used in Scotland, but could have been used in England because it is based on land named after its Anglo-Saxon owner (Levingest{u|} from Leving or Leuing) [Black, The Surnames of Scotland, 1996, sn. Livingston]. If "de Livingstone" is not acceptable, the client will accept "de Levingest{u|}n". Both spellings are listed in black but "Livingstone" is undated and not listed with "de". ("de" is needed for difference from legal name "Renee Livingston Nix", where "Livingston" is her maiden surname.)
  20. Renee Nix de Livingstone. (Drygestan) New Device. Ermine, a chevron inverted purpure between a phoenix rising from flames and a cross formy gules.
  21. Séaghnait Dhonnchaidh. New Name.
    Client cares most about the language/culture, wishes a female name, and is interested in being authentic for the language/culture "Gaelic".
    Séaghnait - female Irish gaelic name found on page 164 of Ó Corráin & Maguire's Irish Names
    Dhonnchaidh - a Gaelic family name (MacDhonnchaidh, "Son of Duncan") found on pages 474-5 of Black's Surnames of Scotland, under the heading MacConachie.
  22. Séaghnait Dhonnchaidh. New Device. Per chevron inverted vert and argent.
  23. Suleymahn L'Hilt. (Drygestan) New Name.
    Client cares most about the Sound, does not care about the gender of the name, and is interested in being authentic for "1400's".
    Suleyman (the Just, etc.), ruler of the Ottoman Empire, lived 1494-1566. Found in "Ottoman Empire" from Washington State University by Richard Hooker. (http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Suleyman.html). Submitter changed the spelling to "Suleymahn" since "it was spelled phonetically in English".
    Hilt is the French heraldic term for "owl", as found in the Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, by James Parker, 1894. (http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~saitou/cgi-bin/more.cgi?input=Owl) Her arms (concurrently submitted) include an owl as a primary charge.
  24. Suleymahn L'Hilt. (Drygestan) New Device. Sable, an owl and in chief a mullet of four points, all within a bordure potenty argent.
  25. Ulrik Halvarson. (Drygestan) New Name.
    Client cares most about the Sound, wishes a male name, and is interested in being authentic for the language/culture and time period "Swedish 15-16th C".
    All documentation was from "Svenska förnamn" by Roland Otterbjörk. An English translation was provided.
    Ulrik is found on page 132, listed as originally being a German name, with the first occurrence being in 1460.
    Halvar is found on page 96, listed as "younger side form of Halvard", with the first occurrence being in 1554. "-son" was added to make this a patronymic byname.

Line Emblazon Sheet
Color Emblazon Sheet
July 2003 Letter of Response
July 2003 Letter of Intent
December 2003 LoAR Results (reschedule)
Return to the Rampart home page.

Anyone who wants to may send me a letter of comment by e-mail regarding this Letter of Presentation.
Please have your commentary on this letter to me by the end of April. Please send commentary to: alia 'at' swcp.com