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Atenveldt Submissions (excerpted from the S.C.A. College of Arms' Letters of Acceptance and Return)

The following submissions were registered by the S.C.A. College of Arms, November 2006:


Æthelflæda Boscher. Name and device. Per fess sable and checky azure and argent, in chief an hourglass fesswise per fess argent and Or framed argent.

This name combines Latinized Old English and Middle English; this is one step from period practice. As the byname is a Middle English occupational term derived from Old French, this combination of name forms is highly unlikely. We would expect a fully Middle English form instead. If the submitter is interested in such a form, we suggest Alfleda Boscher. Selten, Anglo-Saxon Heritage in Middle English Personal Names vol II, p 11, dates Alfleda to 1258.

Áine inghean Chuinn. Name and device. Per pale argent and Or, a mullet purpure charged with a triquetra per pale Or and argent, a chief doubly arched purpure.

Submitted as Áine MacQuinn, the submitter requested an authentic feminine Irish name. For an authentic Irish name, we would expect the name to be in an all Irish Gaelic form. Woulfe, Irish Names and Surnames, s.n. Mac Cuinn, gives Mac Cuinn as an modern Irish Gaelic form of MacQuinn. The Annals of the Four Masters notes a Tuathal mac I Neill .i. mac Airt mic Cuinn and a Conn mac Cuinn in 1531. The expected feminine form of this patronymic is inghean Chuinn; we have changed the name to Áine inghean Chuinn to fulfill her request for authenticity.

Alrick von Baeker. Reblazon of device. Or, a Continental panther passant bendwise azure incensed gules.

Registered July 1974 with the blazon Or, a panther passant bendwise azure, the panther is a Continental panther, not an English panther. Please see the Cover Letter for a discussion on the difference between English, Continental, and natural panthers.

Anastasia filia Maguch. Name.

Nice 13th C Latinized Hungarian name!

Bjorn Krom Hakenberg. Device. Vert, on a bend sinister cotised argent between a sheaf of tulips slipped and a sheaf of arrows inverted Or, a demi-bear affronty palewise, paws outstretched, sable.

Bronwyn Banadruidh. Reblazon of device. Argent, an ounce sejant erect pean, incensed gules.

Registered January 1980 with the blazon Argent, a panther sejant erect pean, armed and issuing flames from the mouth and ears gules, orbed azure, the cat lack the spots of a heraldic panther. Please see the Cover Letter for a discussion on the difference between English, Continental, and natural panthers.

Elena Glamorgan. Reblazon of device. Per pale argent and vert, a natural panther and a bear passant respectant counterchanged and on a chief azure three cinquefoils argent.

Registered August 2004 with the blazon Per pale argent and vert, a natural panther passant contourny and a bear passant counterchanged and on a chief azure three cinquefoils argent, there was some question as to whether the primary charges were in pale or in fess. The blazon has been changed to make it clearer that they are in fess, which is the default for two charges on a per pale field.

Gwenllyan verch Wilkin. Name.

Nice 16th C Welsh name!

Ilona von Neunhoff. Device. Gules, a hop vine palewise Or, fructed argent, a bordure compony azure, semy of towers argent, and Or.

Juan Alonso de la Vega. Device. Per bend sinister argent and sable, an anchor and a tankard counterchanged.

The LoI stated: It seems that in the evolution of anchors, "...Curved arms began to replace straight arms in anchors early in the 19th century...", according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online ( http://www.britannica.com/ ), under Anchor. The large amount of curvature of the anchor's arms is a post period innovation. Period anchors had much straighter arms. The client will be informed of this.

While the Encyclopedia Britannica might be correct regarding anchors as used in navies, anchors as used in heraldry frequently had curved arms. See de Bara's Blason des Armoiries (dated 1581), p.64, for a nicely drawn example.

Juan Alonso de la Vega. Badge. (Fieldless) On a tankard argent within and conjoined to an annulet an anchor sable.

Katerina O'Callaghan. Device change. Or, a fox's head contourny erased ducally crowned within a bordure embattled gules.

The submitter is a duchess and thus entitled to display a ducal coronet. Her previous device, Or, a fox's head contourny erased within a bordure embattled gules, is released.

Katerina O'Callaghan. Augmentation. Or, a fox's head contourny erased ducally crowned within a bordure embattled gules and for augmentation on a canton azure, a sun in his glory issuant from base Or, within a bordure argent.

The submitter is a duchess and thus entitled to display a ducal coronet. She received an augmentation of arms in May 2006.

Leonia le Deye. Name.

Submitted as Leonia_Dey, the submitter requested an authentic name; since the given name is dated to the 13th C and the 13th C le Deye is cited as support for the byname, we assume this is for 13th C English. The earliest example of the spelling dey we were able to find is the 1492 citation found in the Oxford English Dictionary. So, while this spelling is certainly registerable, it is not a form we would expect in the 13th C. All earlier spellings we have found starting with dey- have a terminal -e. Reaney and Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, s.n. Dey, shows the byname as le Deye in 1277. We have changed the name to Leonia le Deye to meeting the submitter's request for an authentic 13th C name.

Linnett Marie de Ryes. Badge. (Fieldless) An acorn winged Or.

Mathghamhain MacAlpine. Device change. Purpure, between the tips of a vol bendwise sinister argent a ducal coronet bendwise sinister Or, in chief three hearts sable fimbriated argent.

The submitter is a duke and thus entitled to display a ducal coronet. His previous device, Purpure, a pair of wings conjoined bendwise argent, in chief three hearts in fess sable, fimbriated argent, is released
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