Crux Australis Herald
Lord Uberto Renaldi [mka Nigel Castle]GPO Box 2719
Adelaide SA 5001, Australia
phone: (08) 8336 6791 or
intl +618 8336 6791
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Crux Australis HeraldLord Uberto Renaldi [mka Nigel Castle]GPO Box 2719 Adelaide SA 5001, Australia phone: (08) 8336 6791 or intl +618 8336 6791 |
January 2000 (A.S. XXXIV)
Unto the College of Heralds of the Principality of Lochac, and all others who may read this missive, from Lord Uberto Renaldi, Crux Australis Herald, greetings!
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Twelfth Night is over, and the Kingdom Poll has been launched. Regardless of your preference in this matter, I would ask that you think about the implications of a “yes” result to the College of Heralds, and what you think needs to be done to prepare the College so that, should Lochac become a Kingdom, it may be ready to serve it.
Even if this change does not happen, at least some ideas may arise that will still be of use in improving the service we provide to the populace of Lochac and to each other. Send your ideas to me and I will publish them here, in full or a summary.
For the record, I am personally undecided on the issue. I can see the pros and cons of both cases and have yet to hear a totally convincing argument for either. Enough said.
Your servant,
Uberto Renaldi
A big thank you to all who
assisted, especially Lord Yassim Habib, Master Gwynfor Lwyd, Lord
Thomas Flamanc of Kelsale, Cormac and Cian (sorry, I didn't get
their full names) and anyone else I've missed. Brownie points go
to Lord dward StadfÊst for heralding Cornelius and Morwynna's
first court after stepping down as Prince!
The herald's meeting had a small
but select attendance, so was kept rather informal (ie I didn't
bother to take minutes) but the following points were discussed:
A reminder that if you herald any
court where Kingdom or Principality awards are given out you must
complete one of these forms, have it signed by the royalty and
forward copies to the addresses listed at the bottom of the form.
Their Highnesses have requested that, during their reign, they
also receive a copy.
Both the latest version of the
form and instructions for its use are available from this site.
Please note that Bombard Pursuivant no longer requires a copy.
His Highness has informed me that
during the current reign, the standard closing for court shall
be:
Long live the King! [echoed
by populace]
Long live the Queen! [echoed
by populace]
Long live the Prince and
Princess! [hip hip, etc (standard three cheers)]
unless it is a Baronial
court, in which case the above is echoed by the populace,
and court is ended with
Long live the Baron and
Baroness! [hip hip, etc (standard three cheers)]
or whatever regional
variation is custom.
Essentially, the cheers come
after the last royalty or royal representatives mentioned. You
will notice that neither “of the West” nor “of
Lochac” are included. They are superfluous – what other
royalty would we be cheering?
As this way of closing court is,
in my mind, the shortest and most theatrical, it not only holds
for this reign, but is now Policy (with a capital “P”),
and will be the standard closing for Courts unless otherwise
directed by the Crown, the Coronet or a subsequent Crux
Australis. Aaah, the power......
Due date for the next Quarterly
reports is 6 May 2000, two weeks before May Coronet. I will be at
Rowany Festival and will happily accept them there.
Thomas Flamanc of Kelsale has
been itching to get back into commenting, so he has taken his old
title of Baryl Pursuivant, whose job it is to comment on other
Kingdoms' Letters of Intent.
Yassim Habib has been doing the
job of Goutty d'Eau Pursuivant in Stormhold for the past 9 months
despite the Roster saying it has still been Drogo, his
predecessor. This has been amended.
In Aneala, Rhianwen ni Dhiarmada,
Peter du Gant Noir and Muirghein ni Ghrainne have been hard at
work and so, on the recommendation of Blackwing Pursuivant, they
have been promoted to personal ranks of Pursuivant. In the same
barony, Isobelle Nichola de Leon has shown herself worthy of
being rostered as a Pursuivant Extraordinary At Large. Well done,
all!
Finally, Thomas of Abraxa has,
with his blessing, been removed from the roster as the College of
Saint Bartholomew is now defunct.
As mentioned above, Lord Thomas
will soon be commenting on Letters of Intent from other Kingdoms.
However, this enjoyable pastime is not restricted to Baryl
Pursuivant – anyone with the desire to do likewise is
encouraged to contact me for further details.
Please note that Thomas will not
be collating comments from commentors around Lochac, just doing
his own commenting. It is my hope that sometime in the next
couple of years, the job of Baryl Pursuivant will involve the
administration of all Lochac commenting on external LoIs, but for
the moment it remains a courtesy title for Lochac's principal
commentor.
"The CAMeL" is available from Crux Australis at $20 per year. Make cheques payable to "SCA Inc. College of Heralds".
Alternatively, get it for free from http://www.sca.org.au/herald.
Laurel's Letter of Acceptance and
Return is available from the SCA College of Arms. Send a cheque
for $US25 made out to “SCA Inc. – College of Arms”
to Bruce R. Nevins, 2527 E. 3rd Street, Tucson AZ, 85716-4114,
USA. As usual, everything of relevance to Lochac will be
published in “The CAMeL”.
Master Thorfinn is the person to
talk to about heraldic publications. Possibly the most useful
item that he stocks is the Heraldic Pictorial Dictionary for
the SCA (affectionately known as the PicDic), which will
cost you $A8.50 for the first edition or $A12.50 for the second
edition. Alternatively, order it directly from the USA via Free
Trumpet Press for $US15 (details of their web site are below
– and they now take credit cards).
I also recommend that groups
acquire some name resources, in particular P.H. Reaney & R.M.
Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames and E.G.
Withycombe's The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names.
Many interesting heraldic links
can be found through the SCA Heraldry web page at http://www.sca.org/heraldry including the Laurel home page, on-line
armorial and ordinary search, and the Academy of St. Gabriel (an
heraldic consultation service). The Free Trumpet Press West web
page is http://www.sca.org/heraldry/ftpw or email klconlin@ilstu.edu
Cost: $20 per new submission
(name, device or badge). No cost for resubmissions or branch
submissions. Make cheques payable to "SCA Inc College of
Heralds".
Copies required:
Please check that submittors have
ALL necessary documentation to support each submission. It
is up to the submittor to present their submission in a way that
makes registration easy. Name documentation should be as accurate
as possible, and photocopies supplied unless the reference is a
standard one such as Reaney or Withycombe. Even then, the page
number(s) and edition should be quoted.
Crux Australis Herald holds a
meeting at least once a month to consider submissions, which are
then either forwarded to the College of Arms for commentary (and
hopefully registration), or returned if we find a conflict or a
stylistic problem, or occasionally pended awaiting clarification
from the submittor. If we have the time and enthusiasm, we may
also look at and comment on submissions from other Kingdoms.
Crux meetings are usually held at
36 Rosella Street, Payneham SA, starting at 2pm. Please call (08)
8336 6791 or Email me beforehand if you intend to bring
submissions for processing. The next meetings are scheduled for
Sunday 20 February 2000 and Sunday 19 March 2000 .
Thorfinn Hrolfsson, Hund Herald,
also holds regular commentary meetings in Melbourne. Please call
him for details on (03) 9885 6348.
Present at the Crux Australis
meeting held on Sunday 19th December 1999 was Lord Uberto
Renaldi, Crux Australis Herald, and cornets Lord Alcuin Adelhard
and Lady Katherine Parry.
1. Artemisia da Quieto d'Arzenta New Name (see RETURNS for Device)
The submittor desires a 16th
century female Italian name, and cares most about the language
and/or culture. She will not accept major changes.
Documentation has been supplied
via the Academy of Saint Gabriel, showing “Artemisia”
and “da Quieto d'Arzenta” as elements of real names in
16th century Italy.
2. Sabine de Bourbonnais
Resubmission of Name and Device to Crux Australis Or, a fess of three fusils azure, each charged with a bee Or, a chief and a base azure.
This gentle's name was returned
by me last month as the documentation supplied only supported the
spelling “Sabina” and the submittor had checked the
“I will not accept minor changes” box on the form.
There are now no boxes ticked, allowing me to forward this to the
College of Arms where hopefully someone can verify
“Sabine” as a period French given name. Dunkling and
Gosling (p 247) and Withycombe (p 248 on the photocopy but p 260
in my edition) both cite “Sabina” as a Roman name, and
the latter also gives the male name “Sabin” used in
England from the 12th century. “Bourbonnais” is shown
in Holmes (p.161) as an area of France near Burgundy in 1154.
The device was also returned last
month for a redraw, as it was originally drawn and blazoned as Azure,
on a fess Or three lozenges conjoined azure each charged with a
bee volant Or, which violated the three-layer limit. Although
there should still be a larger gap between the fess of three
fusils and both the chief and the base, this is
now acceptable for submitting to Laurel.
3. Sanchia de la Tourre Release of Name and Device This gentle is no longer active in the Society and has requested that these items registered to her be released.
4. William the Admirer Device resubmission to Crux Australis (Name submitted last month). This gentle's previous device
submission, Gules, on a fess ermine three compass roses Or,
was returned last month for poor contrast (the compass roses
Or on the fess ermine). By changing the compass roses
to gules, the problem has been avoided and the number of
tinctures also reduced (always a good thing). It appears free of
conflict.
The following item has been RETURNED
for further work:
5. Artemisia da Quieto d'Arzenta
New Device. Gyronny of eight purpure and
sable, a pithon displayed to sinister argent.
This violates rule VIII.2.b.iv:
“Elements evenly divided into multiple parts [ie more than
four] of two different tinctures must have good contrast between
their parts”. In other words, you can have a field
per pale, per fess, per bend, per saltire or quarterly purpure
and sable, but not barry, paly, bendy, checky, lozengy or
gyronny in those tinctures (or any other two colours or two
metals).
References
**Note** OUP = Oxford
University Press.
Dunkling, L. and Gosling, W.,
`Everyman's Dictionary of First Names'
Holmes, George (editor), `The
Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe', Oxford University
Press, 1988.
Withycombe, E.G., `The Oxford
Dictionary of English Christian Names', 2nd edition, OUP, 1959.
The following items were
REGISTERED at Laurel Queen of Arm's November 1999 meeting:
Bartolomeo
Giancristoforo Agazzari. Name and device.
Sable,
a pomegranate slipped and leaved Or seeded gules, on a
chief Or three cinquefoils gules.
Katya
Ivanova. Device.
Per
pale purpure and vert, a spider argent, a chief ermine.
Rathnait
inghean ui Chaireall·in. Device.
Azure,
a pair of shears and on a chief Or three bobbins sable.
Saint
Malachy, College of. Device.
Argent,
a tower sable within a laurel wreath, on a chief wavy
vert an open book argent bound Or.
Uberto
Renaldi. Name change from RenÈ du Bon Bois.
His
current name is released.
From the same meeting, the
following items were RETURNED for further work:
Jan van
Ghent. Name change from Lyssandre le TÈmÈraire.
This
conflicts with John of Gaunt, father of Henry IV of
England, listed in the Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
There is little difference in the sound of the two names.
Michael of
Caernarfon. Device.
Sable,
two bendlets embattled counter-embattled between two
unicorn's heads erased Or.
The
bendlets are not bendlets embattled counter-embattled,
nor could anyone come up with a blazon for them. In the
words of Clarion herald:
This is one of those
artistic design problems that are hard to describe in
words and easy to say in pictures, but basically a
bendlet embattled counterembattled doesn't squiggle back
and forth – if you draw a line down the middle of a
bendlet embattled counterembattled, it doesn't ever touch
the field. If you draw a line down the middle of one of
these charges, it touches the field about 1/3 to 1/2 the
time. This kind of square zigzag does seem to be used as
part of a lightning flash, or the lightning flash part of
a lightning bolt, which is where the confusion might
arise.
The following items were
REGISTERED at Laurel Queen of Arm's December 1999 meeting:
Eoghann MacAindreis.
Name (see RETURNS for device).
Saint Crispin, College of.
Name.
Submitted as St.
Crispin, we do not register scribal abbreviations.
Uberto Renaldi. Device
change.
Gules, three bells Or,
a chief paly azure and Or.
His current device, Azure,
an annulet Or, on a chief invected argent, a fleur-de-lys
gules, is released.
From the same meeting, the
following item was RETURNED for further work:
Eoghann MacAindreis.
Device.
Vert, a pall inverted
between three yew trees eradicated argent.
Conflict with Eric von
Charlottenburg, Vert, a pall inverted between three
mullets of four points argent. There is only one CD for
the change in type to the secondaries.
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The following items were SUBMITTED to Laurel Queen of Arms for registering:
Group: Agaricus
Consulting herald: Lyssandre le Téméraire (alias Jan van Ghent)
Group: Saint Florian-de-la-Riviere
Consulting herald: self
Argent, a comet bendwise sinister and a bordure gules.
Group: Saint Florian-de-la-Riviere
Consulting herald: Sabine de Bourbonnais
Gules, on a fess ermine three compass roses gules.
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