Outlands LoI dated 2011-02-28

28 February 2011

From the Office of Rampart Herald

Baron Randal Carrick (Randall Jackson)

rampart@outlandsheralds.org



Unto the Sovereigns and members of the College of Arms of the Society, does Randal Carrick, Rampart Herald send his greetings. What follows is the February Letter of Intent for the Kingdom of the Outlands. I would like to thank the following heralds for providing commentary for this letter: Master Louis-Philippe Mitouard, Catspaw Herald Extraordinary; THL Eric Morrison, Hawk's Hollow Pursuivant; THL Ailinn Shadowfox; Lady Leonor Ruiz de Lison; Lord Andrew von Otelingen, Barbican Pursuivant; Ines Alfon; Lady Rohese de Dinan, Red Hawk Herald; Aritê gunê Akasa; and Gawain of Miskbridge, Green Anchor Herald.



It is my intent to register this February the following items from the Outlands College of Heralds:

1: Andrew von Otelingen - New Badge

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in May of 2009, via the Outlands.

Quarterly argent and azure, a bordure counterchanged

 

Originally submitted as Quaterly argent and azure, commenters found several conflicts. Submitter asked and was allowed to substitute this revised badge without having the original returned at Kingdom. No conflicts were found with the new badge


2: Andrew von Otelingen - New Badge

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in May of 2009, via the Outlands.

Fieldless, a flame argent and azure

 

commenters suggested an alternate blazon of Fieldless, a flame the tongues alternately argent and azure


3: Anzelm Kowalski - New Device

OSCAR finds the name on the Outlands LoI of September 30, 2010 as submitted.

Gules, a key palewise, wards to sinister base Or, on a chief argent a greyhound courant to

 

Submitter's name was forwarded to Laurel on September 2010 LoI http://rampart.outlandsheralds.org/2010-08-lop/1009-loi.html

Submitter's previous device Vert, a chevron between two greyhounds passant respectant and a ring of three keys Or, was returned by Kingdom on the September 2010 LoR (http://rampart.outlandsheralds.org/2010-08-lop/1009-lor.html) for the following reasons:

 

conflict with Penelopee of the Quill (9/95, East): Vert, a chevron between two hawk's bells and a quill pen Or. Because there are three types of charges directly on the field, this device does not qualify as simple armory under RFS X.2. Therefore, the changes to type of all of the secondary charges counts at most as 1 CD, resulting in conflict.

 

This submission is a complete re-design


4: Barbary Bramble - New Name

Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Sound (Barberrie Bramble) most important.
Language most important.
Culture most important.

Gender:Female. Submitter cares most about sound "Barberrie Bramble", and language/culture (left undefined). No major changes accepted.

 

[Barbary] - Withycombe, English Christian Names, 3rd edition. Header - Barbara, p. 41. Fairly common in 12-16th centuries. "The English form of the name was Barbary and CMY says it is so pronounced by poor people in her time".

 

[Bramble] - Surname database http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Bramble Recorded in many spellings including Bramble, Brambell, Brambill, Bremmell, Bremell, Brimmell, Brimble, Brombell, and Brumble, this is an English surname.

Early examples of the surname recording taken from surviving church registers of the diocese of Greater London include: Thomas Bremell, a christening witness at St Dunstans in the East, Stepney, on December 12th 1574, William Bramble and his wife Gartrud (?), who were witnesses at St Dunstans in the East, Stepney, on August 17th 1621.

 

Castle note - [Bramble] - Reaney and Wilson, 1997, p.61. Header "Bramble" - lists four occurrences with various spelling from 1297 to 1641.


5: Ealusaid inghean Mhaoil Choluin - New Name & New Device

Per fess purpure and Or, a hummingbird volant Or and three roses purpure barbed and seeded proper

Submitter desires a feminine name.
Language (Gael) most important.
Culture (Gael) most important.

Gender:Female. Submitter cares most about language/culture (Gael). Changes accepted.

[Ealusaid] is a feminine Scottish Gael given name. http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotnames/gaelicgiven/women/ealusaid.

The submitted spelling is dated in The 1467 manuscript, a collection of genealogies of Scottish Gaelic families written in Ireland by a Scottish Gael and dated 1467 A.D., gives "Ealusaid" as the mother of the third man named (i.e., the third generation) in the genealogy of Mac Lachlan oig.[1467 MS] and The Book of the Dean of Lismore, a collection of Gaelic poetry collected in the early 16th century and recorded in Gaelic but using Scots language style spelling rather than standard Gaelic spelling, includes a poem that names a woman as "Allissaid". Watson's and M'Lauchlan's modern Gaelic versions of the poem render this name as "Ealasaid".[Watson, p. 146; M'Lauchlan, OG pp. 88-9] Another poem refers to the same woman twice as "Ellissait", which is likewise rendered in Watson's modern Gaelic version as "Ealasaid".[Watson, p. 156; Quiggin, p. 51] Watson, p. 146; M'Lauchlan, OG pp. 88-9.

The submitted spelling [of Ealusaid] is dated in 1467 manuscript, a collection of genealogies of Scottish Gaelic families written in Ireland by a Scottish Gael and dated 1467 A.D.,.

 

[Inghean] - Scottish Gael for "daughter of"

[Mhaoil Choluin] - Scottish Gael patronymic surname (deriving originally from Mael Coluim). http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotnames/gaelicgiven/men/donnchadh.shtml The submitted spelling [of Mhaoil Choluin] is believed to be closest dated form of Mael Coluim (1200 - 1700) Annals of Ulster - U1058.2 (Ulster 1) Lulach m. Gilla Comgain airdrigh Alban do marbadh la Mael Coluim m. Donnchadha i cath. U1093.5 (Ulster 1) Mael Coluim m. Donnchadha airdri Alban & Etbard a mc do marbadh do Francaibh .i. i n-Inber Alda i

Saxanaibh. A righan imorro .i. Margareta do ec dia cumaidh ria cenn nomaidhe. U1093.5 Mael Coluim son of Donnchad, over-king of Scotland, and Edward his son, were killed by the French i.e. in Inber Alda in England. His queen, Margaret, moreover, died of sorrow for him within nine days.

Mael Coluim was the King of Scotland on 3 different occasions. The dated examples there have it only as Mael Coluim (1200-1700). [I.e., there is no dated example of the submitted form.]

Submitter believes Mhaoil Choluin is the proper and correct spelling for Mael Coluim during the time period in which Ealusaid would have been his daughter.

 


6: Jethro Stille - Resub Badge

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in May of 2002, via the Outlands.

Gules, between the blades of a Zulfikar inverted a mullet of six points Or

This submission is to be associated with Suleiman ibn Da'ud al-Qalqashandi

Original badge submission Gules, between the blades of a Zulfikar inverted Or a mullet of six points voided, was returned on August 2010 LOAR for the following reason: This device is returned for violating our standards on voiding and fimbriation, which may be used only with "simple geometric charges placed in the center of the design." The mullet of six points is not in the center of the field, http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/loar/2010/08/10-08lar.html

 

Submitter's name was registered in May 2002, via Outlands http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/loar/2002/05/02-05lar.html. Altername name, Suleiman ibn Da'ud al-Qalqashandi, was registered in October 2009, via Outlands, http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/loar/2009/10/09-10lar.html.


7: Lochlainn O Mahony - New Name & New Device

Azure, a ferret salient argent in chief a bezant

 

Gender: Unspecified. Changes accepted.

 

[Lochlainn] - O'Corrain & Maguire, header "Lochlainn", states that this male given name came into use in early Middle Ages.

 

[O Mahony] - The Peerage of Ireland, available through Google Books (http://books.google.com).

Under the header "Courcy", Lord Kingsale, p.149 : "Nicholas, the twelfth Baron of Kingsale, married Moyria (Mary), daughter of O Mahony, chief of his sept, descended from Corcadius, or Corc, King of Munster in the year 1370, and his Lordship dying in February 1474 (15 Edw. IV) left issue four sons..."

Irish Pedigrees, or The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, by John O'Hart, online at Library Ireland http://libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/MacCarthyReaghCarbery.php , regarding the pedigree of MacCarthy Reagh, Prince of Carbery, traces his ancestry to "Donal Goth, son of Donal Mor-na-Curra, known also (see MacFirbis) as Donal Glas, lord of Carbery, A.D. 1205 to 1251. This Donald dethroned Dermod Fitz-Mahon O'Mahony, lord of Iveagh, after his sanguinary engagement of Carrigdurtheacht, in which three sons of The O'Mahony and O'Coffey (or O'Cowhig), chief of Coillsealvy were slain"

Anglicization of O'Mathghamhana, MacLysaght, Surnames of Ireland, header (O) Mahony.

So we have a Gaelic given name and an Anglicized Gaelic patronymic. The Lingual Weirdness table says such names are registerable with one weirdness

Blazon changed by Rampart from Azure, in pale a bezant and a ferret salient to dexter argent. The bezant is too small to be co-primary with the ferret.


8: Nicolaao Machado - New Name

Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes.
Sound (first name diminutive "Nico") most important.
Meaning (Machado = Axe) most important.

Gender: Male. Submitter cares most about meaning and sound (undefined). No major changes accepted.

 

[Nicolaao] - Portuguese names from 16thc, by Juliana de Luna http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/portugal16/portugal16data.html

1531 Nicollao Jusarte (Nicolaao...)

 

[Machado] - Portuguese names from 16thc, by Juliana de Luna http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/portugal16/portugal16data.html

1536 Pero Machado.

Also found in Portuguese Surnames from Lisbon, 1565, by Aryanhwy merch Catmael http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/portuguese/sur1565.html

Machado, "an axe, hatchet", 15 occurences.


Respectfully submitted,



Baron Randal Carrick, Rampart Herald

Kingdom of the Outlands

rampart@outlandsheralds.org