from Pegasus

Unto the heralds and populace of Lochac does
Gwyn Cantor send greetings, and the July CAMeL.

It’s reporting season!

Shire Heralds should have already sent a report to
Crux and Canton Heralds to their Baronial Herald.
Please attend to this at your earliest convenience if
you have not already done so.

Baronial Heralds’ reports are due to Crux by 1st
August.

Let’s have all the reports together nice and tidy for
Isabella when she gets back 🙂
Congratulations to the following gentles on their
new heraldic registrations this month!

Addison de Parre. Device. Per chevron argent
and purpure, three flax flowers slipped and leaved
azure and a distaff inverted argent.

Mathias von Sachsen. Device. Azure, a chevron
sable fimbriated and cotised between two wolves
combattant and an open book argent.

Matthijs Tjepke van der Horst. Badge. Azure, on a
pale sable fimbriated a mullet of sixteen points Or
and a lighthouse issuant from base argent.

Muirghein ni Ghrainne and Alexandra
Hartshorne. Joint badge. (Fieldless) A bull’s
massacre sable enflamed proper.

Ollivier Le Floch. Badge. Per pale argent and
gules. Nice badge!

I have summarised, and have omitted adjustments
to existing registrations. For further detail, please
view the entire Letter of Acceptance and Returns
at https://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2024/05/24-
05lar.html

Resource spotlights for the month are my
favourite heraldic resources that I think anyone
with an interest in consulting heraldry should
know about.

For name heraldry:

Morsulus search engine, https://morsulus.org/
Neat custom search for name articles at the
bottom, searches heraldry.sca.org as well as the
following two resources.

The Academy of Saint Gabriel’s name article
index: https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/index.shtml

My second port of call after Morsulus, when I want
to know anything about historical names.

The Dictionary of Medieval Names from
European Sources dmnes.org
The best place to browse names & find spelling
variants .

And for armorial heraldry:

The Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry https://
mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry/
Not only a useful dictionary of charges, but the
commentaries on how they are used in SCA
heraldry are invaluable.

The Book of Traceable Heraldic Art
https://heraldicart.org/
Many, many depictions of charges which can be
used for device submissions. Many based on
period manuscripts.

Yours in service,

Gwyn Cantor

Coffyn Herald
Acting Crux Australis Principal Herald