Unto Olwynn Laurel, Aryanhwy Pelican, Istvan Wreath, and the rest of the College of Arms, does Alasdair MacEogan, Bordure Herald, send greetings.

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1 Ansteorra LoI dated Page 1 of 9 Unto Olwynn Laurel, Aryanhwy Pelican, Istvan Wreath, and the rest of the College of Arms, does Alasdair MacEogan, Bordure Herald, send greetings. It is the intent of the College of Heralds of Ansteorra to register the following items. Unless otherwise noted, the submitter has no desire for authenticity and allows any changes. 1: Alfonso Luis Texen de Saldañas - New Name Change Old Item: Jovianus Skleros, to be released. Submitter desires a masculine name. Language (Spanish) most important. <Alfonso> - Spanish Names from the Late 15th Cent. <Luis> - 16th Cent. Spanish Names by Elsbeth Anne Roth cited 17 times <Texen> - Spanish Names from the Late 15th Cent., Full names of Men. - "Juan Texen (Dexen)" <de Saldañas> - Names in the Memoria de Leonor López de Cordoba, ca Jovianus Skleros was registered in November of 2002 (via Ansteorra). 2: Angelina Falconis - New Name Sound ("Angelina" + "Falconis") most important. <Angelina> - found in Academy of Saint Gabriel report #1679, where it is stated that the name is found in Venetian Crete in the 14th and 15th centuries. <Falconis> - appears 8 times in Juliana de Luna, "Masculine Names from Thirteenth Century Pisa"

2 Ansteorra LoI dated Page 2 of 9 3: Beatrix Alfray - New Name & New Device Quarterly gules and Or, a sun in its splendor counterchanged. Client requests authenticity for 13th - 14th C English. <Beatrix> - Withycombe, s.n. Beatrix dates this form to & <Alfray> - Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Alfrey list "Robery Alfray" in : Caitríona inghean Uí Mháille - New Name Language (Irish 14th-16th c. period.) most important. <Caitríona> is the standard Early Modern Irish Gaelic form of a feminine given name that appears 16 times in entries relating to the 14th through 16th centuries in the Annals of Ulster, Connacht, Loch Cé, and the Four Masters, according to Mari Elspeth nic Bryan's index of names in Irish annals A <Tuathal Ó Máille> is mentioned in an entry related to the 14th century in the Annals of the Four Masters, according to Mari Elspeth nic Bryan's index of names in Irish annals In addition, <Ó Máille> is described in Academy of Saint Gabriel Report as a "clan name" that is "a fine choice for a medieval Irish persona". Sharon L. Krossa's "Quick and Easy Gaelic Names" says that a clan affiliation byname using <Ó> and the genitive form of an ancestor's name is masculine, and that the feminine equivalent uses <inghean Uí> instead of <Ó> and lenits the ancestor's name unless it begins with a vowel. The same author's "The Spelling of Lenited Consonants in Gaelic" indicates the spelling for a lenited "m" after roughly AD 1200 is "mh" or "m". I therefore believe <inghean Uí Mháille > to be a properly constructed feminine equivalent to <Ó Máille>.

3 Ansteorra LoI dated Page 3 of 9 5: Garbhan Kepler - New Badge OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 1987, via the East. (Fieldless) Between two plates of a screw press Or, conjoined at the feet a brown weasel statant erect contourny proper. 6: Garbhan Kepler - Resub Badge OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 1987, via the East. (Fieldless) A dance couped azure, overall a fox's mask argent. Previous badge <(Fieldless) A wagon wheel gyronny azure and argent.> was returned April 2007 for identifiability issues. 7: Gillian of the Eldern Hills - New Name Sound (unspecified) most important. <Gillian> - Oxford Dictionary of English Christian First Names by Withycombe, p. 134 "Gillian... the popular English form of "Julian(a)" (q.v.): very common in the middle Ages, especially in the diminutive forms Gill, Jill, Gillot, Gillet which gave rise to many surnames." <of the Eldern Hills> - The byname "of the Eldern Hills" is formed from an SCA branch name. "Barony of the Eldern Hills" was registered in 10/1988 via Ansteorra. 8: Giuliani Falconi - New Name & New Device Per bend sable and argent, a pair of cat's eyes Or and another pair azure. Sound (phonetic [sic]) most important.

4 Ansteorra LoI dated Page 4 of 9 <Giuliana> - Feminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of <Falconi> - Family Names Appearing in the Catasto of Correction (2009-Dec-31 11:12:54): The submitted name is Giuliana Falconi and not Giuliani Falconi. 9: Griffin de Willingeham - New Name Submitter desires a masculine name. Sound (wants sound Griffin) most important. <Griffin> - Griffon filius Gungau 1130 P Pembroke p. 206 header: Griffon, Griffen <de Willingeham> - Odo de Willingeham 1190 P Suffolk p. 493 header: Willingham Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, Oxford UP Revised : Ibrahim al-katib - New Name Submitter desires a masculine name. Language (unspecified) most important. Culture (unspecified) most important. <Ibrahim> - appears as a common masculine ism and <al-katib> as a masculine nisba meaning `the author' or `the writer' in Da'ud ibn Auda's "Period Arabic Names and Naming Practices" The names included in these articles are, according the author, " period (pre-1600 A.D.) Arabic names and name elements.selected from names of people who lived during that time," and " spelled according to the most commonly-used transliterations found," with most of the diacritical marks left out "for simplification". The article also indicates the ism + nisba pattern to have been common in period. 11: Janis Elaine L'Orfèvre - New Name Language (French) most important. <Janis> - Legal given name per Texas Driver's License. Photocopy provided. <Elaine> - Withycombe 3rd ed s.n. page 96, cites <Elaine> as an old French form found in Malory's Morte d'arthur. <le Orfevre> - Reany & Wilson, page 328, s.n. O ff dates <Thomas le Orfevre> to Submitter would like a French version of this byname. This form is what we we able to find at the consultation

5 Ansteorra LoI dated Page 5 of 9 table. Originally submitted as <Janis Elaine le Orfevre> the byname was changed to <L'Orfèvre> as the submitter requested a French version of the byname. The following documentation was provided during internal commentary. L'Orfèvre, 1545, 1560, 1567 Lorfévre, 1537, 1546, 1549, 1551, 1573 from Ary's Late Period French Surnames (used by women). URL: L'Orfevre, 1421, 1438 from French Surnames from Paris, 1421, 1423 & URL: 12: Marcus Cassius Lupus - New Name & New Device Azure within an annulo of four dolphins argent a wolf's head cabossed Or. The three part name formation praenomen nomen cognomen has been documented in A Simple Guide to Classical Roman Naming Practices by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Friedemann) <Marcus> Vindolanda Tablets Online [ indicates the usage or Marcus as a praenomen used. <Cassius> p.88 of A study of the cognomina of soldiers in the Roman legions By Lindley Richard Dean [ shows the Cassius in a list of "nomina of Roman gentes which are used as cognomina" Also p. 107 shows "Vibius Cassius Victorinus designates a beneficiarius in Noricum in the year 215 <Lupus> p.75, p.76 and p.214 of A study of the cognomina of soldiers in the Roman legions By Lindley Richard Dean [ shows the use of Lupus as a cognomen. Given the above documentation I would say that <Marcus Cassius Lupus> is an acceptable Roman name.

6 Ansteorra LoI dated Page 6 of 9 13: Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada - New Badge OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in April of 2007, via Ansteorra. (Fieldless) A saltire formy argent. Included is a The LoPTC with Myfanwy ferch Elys whose badge is on the Northshield LoI dated and has not been decided yet. I, xxx, known as Myfanwy ferch Elys give xxx, known in the SCA as Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada permission for his/her armory, "(Fieldless) A saltire formy argent.", to look similar to, but not identical to, my armory, "Quarterly purpure and vert, a saltire couped argent". I understand that this permission cannot be withdrawn once this armory is registered. Signed and dated 8/5/09 14: Robert de Bray - New Name Submitter desires a masculine name. <Robert> - Reaney & Wilson, 3rd ed s.n. Robert page 380, dates Robert in that spelling "1066DB" apparently as a given name. <de Bray> - Reaney & Wilson, 3rd ed s.n. Bray page 62, dates Ralph de Bray to 1225, Daniel de Bray 1297 Name was originally submitted as <Robert debray> but the cited documentation was for <de Bray> so the name was changed to match. 15: Roesia Sorweles - New Device OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in November of 2008, via Ansteorra. Sable, fretty on a chief embattled argent three roses gules.

7 Ansteorra LoI dated Page 7 of 9 16: Seraphina Maslowska - New Name & New Device Gules, a cross clechy Or, overall a rose argent barbed and seeded proper. Language (Polish) most important. Seraphina - From St. Gabriel's Report 1679 note "Seraphin 1228, 1410, 1478, etc." from the SSNO and "These forms could be feminized by adding <-a>." ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 1679 We're not sure where the name <Seraphina> arose. It might derive from a 2nd century martyr [3]. The masculine name <Seraphin> is recorded in 9th century France [2], and a feminine version of this, <Seraphine>, would be plausible in early medieval France. The name was more popular in medieval Italy: There was a Saint Seraphina (usually referred to as Santa Fina) who lived in Italy during the 13th century [1], and there was a 15th century <Blessed Seraphina Sforza> and a 16th century <Saint Seraphin of Montegranaro> [10]. Note that these are modern spellings. The period spellings are probably closer to those illustrated by the masculine examples <Seraffo> and <Serafino>, from Florence in 1427 [12]. In Eastern Europe, the feminine name is recorded in Russia as <Serafima> late in our period [3], and the masculine form was used in Poland [7]: Seraphin 1228, 1410, 1478, etc. Zeraphin 1438 Szeraphim These forms could be feminized by adding <-a>. [1] Butler's Lives of the Saints, Herbert J. Thurston and Donald Attwater eds. (New York: P.J.. Kenedy & Sons, 1958) [2] Morlet, Marie-Therese, _Les Noms de Personne sur le Territoire de l'ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe Siecle_, three volumes (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1972). [3] Paul Wickenden of Thanet, "A Dictionary of Period Russian Names" (WWW: SCA, Inc., 1996). [7] Taszycki, Witold (ed.), _Słownik Staropolskich Nazw Osobowych_, vols. I-VII (Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy Imienia Ossolińskich, Polska Akademia Nauk, ). [10] Catholic Encyclopedia. (WWW: New Advent, Inc., 1997). [12] Ferrante lavolpe, _Men's names from Florence, 1427_ (WWW: Self-published, 1996).

8 Ansteorra LoI dated Page 8 of 9 gabriel.org/names/ferrante/catasto <Maslowska> - Wickenden, 3rd ed. s.n. Maslo Maslowska - Wickenden, Dictionary of Period Russian Names, 3rd ed. s.n. Maslo (m) Pat. Vars: Jas Maslowski 1558 [Inv 50] The source is Akty istoricheskie, Vol. XIV: Inventari imenii XVI-go stoletiia. Vilnius: Tipografiia A. G. Syrkina, Appendix A in Wickenden - Russian Feminine Names on the Western Borderlands. page XXXV This source is Volume 14 of a collection of wills from 16th century Western Russia in an area that was controlled by Poland at the time. It mixes Polish and Russian spellings of names. page XXXVII "Michalowska is a feminine form of the common surname Michalowski and Borowska is a feminine of Borowski." Maslowska appears to be a feminine form of a Polish surname Maslowski. Note: The submitter marked the form as an appeal of kingdom return but it is more accurately a resubmission of a kingdom return and is thus new to Laurel. 17: Slaine inghean Chuilinn - New Name <Slaine> Feminine Given name dated at <inghean Chuilinn> - Daughter of <Cuilen>/<Cuileann> - Woulfe page 346 s.n. Mac Cuilinn shows <Cuilinn> as a genitive form <Cuilen>/<Cuilean> - <Cuilinn> will lenite in the formation of <inghean Chuilinn>

9 Ansteorra LoI dated Page 9 of 9 18: Swetelove Twyssoday - New Name & New Device Or semy of hearts, two pomegranates and a sun in his splendor gules. Submitter has no desire as to gender. Sound (unspecified) most important. <Swetelove> R&W Revised. p. 436 sn. Sweetlove. What I guess I am missing is how this is indicated that it was used as a given name. Sweetlove: Swetelove 1279 RH (C); William Sueteluue 1197 P (Y); Margeria Swetelove 1279 RH (C) OE *Swētlufu (f) 'sweet-love' <Twyssoday> - R&W Revised sn. Twiceaday, Twisaday - "Richard Twyssoday 1496 GildY;" This concludes our Letter of Intent. In service, Alasdair MacEogan bordure@herald.ansteorra.org OSCAR counts 13 New Names, 1 New Name Change, 6 New Devices and 2 New Badges. These 22 items are chargeable, Laurel should receive $66 for them. OSCAR counts 1 Resub Badge. This item is not chargeable. There are a total of 23 items submitted on this letter.