EASTERN RESULTS FROM THE OCTOBER 2020 LoAR (FINAL HERALDIC DECISIONS)
(These are the FINAL Society-level decisions on submissions from the East, reflecting what has actually been registered or returned. – Mistress Alys Mackyntoich, Heraldry Editor)
The Society College of Arms runs on monthly cycles and letters. Each month, the College processes name and armory submissions from all of the Kingdoms. Final decisions on submissions are made at the monthly meetings of the Pelican Queen of Arms (names) and the Wreath King of Arms (armory). Pelican and Wreath then write up their decisions in a Letter of Acceptances and Return (LoAR). After review and proofreading, LoARs generally are released two months after the meeting where the decisions are made.
An “acceptance” indicates that the item(s) listed are now registered with the Society. A “return” indicates that the item is returned to the submitter for additional work. Most items are registered without comments. Sometimes, the LoAR will address specific issues about the name or armory or will praise the submitter/herald on putting together a very nice historically accurate item.
The following results are from the October 2020 Wreath and Pelican meetings.
EAST acceptances
Aalina Godwyn de Coteswaud. Name and device. Vert, a bend sinister sable fimbriated and overall a stag trippant argent.
The submitter requested authenticity for 12th to 13th century English. This name does not meet this request, as the given name is dated at least 50 years earlier than the other elements. The given name is Latinized; a form with a Latinized given name and vernacular bynames is linguistically consistent for this time period.
There is a step from period practice for the use of an overall charge surmounting a fimbriated ordinary.
Hrefna Refsdóttir. Name.
Nice 9th-11th century Old Norse name from Iceland!
Jibril ibn `Ammar al-Fayyad. Badge for Veritus Slacke. (Fieldless) A lion Or seated in a wooden chair maintaining a wooden crossbow proper.
The motif of a seated lion holding a weapon is found in period arms. For example, the attributed arms of Hector of Troy found in Jerome de Bara’s Le blason des armoiries (1579), p164, depicts a seated lion holding a halberd. Other arms attributed to Hector depict the seated lion holding a sword, as seen in BSB Cod.icon. 308n (https://daten.digitalesammlungen.de/bsb00043104/image_19) and 392d (https://daten.digitalesammlungen.de/bsb00018706/image_91). Similarly, the attributed arms of Alexander the Great, depicting a seated lion holding a halberd, are found in Livro do Armeiro-Mor, 1509 (https://digitarq.arquivos.pt/details?id=4162406, image 20) and in Fac Simile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript Emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Armes 1542 (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fac_Simile_of_an_Ancient_Heraldic_Manusc/IuZBAQAAMAAJ, plate 9). These are also instances of trian aspect being found in period armory.
Nice badge!
Lily Morgaine of the East. Badge. (Fieldless) A lily argent slipped and leaved vert within and conjoined to a four-lobed quadrate cornice purpure.
Tófa geit. Name.
Nice 9th-11th century Old Norse name from Iceland!