Below are the results of the April 2004 Letter of Acceptance and Return from the Laurel King of Arms. This website is not authoritative, but is an accurate reproduction of the text of the April LoAR.On the April 2004 LOAR, Laurel considered items from the December 2003 Outlands Letters of Intent.
December 2003 Letter of Intent
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(summaries of Cover Letter items provided by Sorcha Weel)
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Originally registered with the blazon (fieldless) On an annulet sable a cross flory gules, this came up as a possible conflict for the badge of Leifr Hrólfsson and Lucia de la Valette (see RETURNS under Drachenwald). The registered emblazon for this badge has the points on the ends of the cross just barely overlapping the outside edge of the annulet, which would not be registerable today. While the new blazon doesn't quite fit the actual picture, it certainly works better than the original blazon.
The College raised the question whether Destino was adequately documented as a period name. When (1) a name is listed in De Felice, (2) the documentation includes no indication that it is post-period, and (3) the name follows naming patterns documented to period, we have traditionally given the submitter the benefit of the doubt by assuming it was used in period and is therefore registerable. Orle cites these names from James Grubb's Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto: Well-behaved (Bonagente) Uglychild (Brutofante), God Aid Him (Deolavanzio), No Trouble (Senzabriga), Welcome (Benvenuto), Good fortune (Bonaventura), Pilgrim (Pellegrino), and Allgood (Ognibene).
Submitted as Feodosia Vasilova zhena Volchagova Zub, the correct grammatical form of the first byname is Vasil'eva. We have made this change.
Please instruct the submitter to draw the line of division with a steeper angle.
An example is found in Parker of using an ermine variant as part of a vair: Barry of six, vaire gules, and ermine, and azure attributed to Giles de Braose, Bishop of Hereford, 1200-16. With that in mind, it seems appropriate to allow ermine, erminois, counter-ermine, and pean to be part of vairy furs.
This is clear of Burgundy Ancient (important non-SCA arms): Bendy Or and azure, a bordure gules. Commentary was mixed as to whether vair(y) should be considered a field division or a single tincture, and if it be a field division, whether it is substantially different from bendy for the purposes of RfS X.4.a.ii.(a), Substantial Change of Partition. We decline to rule on either issue at this time. There is no conflict with Burgundy Ancient in any case. If we consider this vairy field as a single tincture, it is clear via RfS X.4.a.ii.(a), Substantial Change of Partition. If we consider vairy to be a field division, then via RfS X.4.a.ii.(c) there are CDs for changing the line of partition and the tincture of half the field (from Or to erminois) without needing to determine if a vairy division is substantially different from bendy.
Submitted as Isibeal Benet, the submitter requested authenticity for 12th to 14th C Scotland and accepted all changes. After consulting with the submitter, we have changed the given name to Isabel to comply with the submitter's request for authenticity. Black, The Surnames of Scotland, cites a Geoffray Isabelsone in 1296.
Please instruct the submitter to center the bars on the field better.
Originally submitted as Thomas Adler, the name was changed at kingdom to Thomas der Adler to conform with submitted documentation. The College found Petsche adelar in 1372. As the byname can be documented without the article, we have returned the name to its originally submitted form.
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This conflicts with Eugénie Griffon de Seleone: Per pale vert and azure, three chevronels braced Or. The only CD is for the difference between the fields. (This was registered on the LoAR for September 2003, which was published after the LoI that included this submission.)
This conflicts with Johanna Ludwiger von Hertsbergk: Azure, in pale three bears passant argent. There is only one CD for changes to the field.
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December 2003 Letter of Intent
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