Unto the College of Heralds of the Principality of Lochac, and all others who may read this missive, from Baron Uberto Renaldi, Crux Australis Herald, greetings!

In this issue…..

Lochac’s new arms now official | Reports | Changes to the Rules for Submissions | Roster changes | Important addresses

Subscriptions and Resources | Submission requirements | Meeting schedule | Recent submissions | News of previous submissions

Saint-Florian investitiure thanks

My thanks to those who assisted in the heraldry at the Saint-Florian-de-la-rivière Baronial Investiture, especially Lord William Addemere, Lord Declan of Drogheda and Baron Humphrey de la Pole. Thanks also to the musicians who played processional music at the courts - fabulous!

Your servant,

Baron Uberto Renaldi,
Crux Australis Herald

Lochac’s new arms now official

As of July, the officially registered arms of Lochac are the new "kingdom arms" of Quarterly azure and argent, on a cross gules a crown between four mullets of five points, in canton a laurel wreath argent.

Lochac’s "old" arms (the same, minus the crown) have been retained as "ancient arms", and I suggest that they continue to be displayed in preference to the new arms until after the first coronation next year.

Reports

The next quarterly reports are due on 10 September 2001.

Changes to the Rules for Submissions

The following changes to the Rules for Submissions were published in Cover Letter to Laurel’s June 2001 Letter of Acceptances and Returns (dated July 20, 2001). They are effective immediately.

The following rule is added:

VIII.7. Augmentations of Honor – An augmentation of honor must be compatible with period armorial style.

An augmentation is an honor bestowed by the crown, taking the form of an addition or alteration to the honoree’s device. While the right to an augmentation is bestowed by the crown, its form is subject to the normal registration process. The augmentation must itself follow the armory rules; if it has the appearance of being independent armory, for example a charged escutcheon or canton, then it is independently subject to the normal rules of armorial conflict. The augmentation may, however, on a case by case basis break the rules in relation to the original armory. For example, Sable, on a chief argent a lion passant maintaining, in augmentation, an escutcheon gules charged with a cross throughout argent is acceptable even though it breaks RfS VIII.1.c.ii., Layer Limit. Gules, a lion argent, and in augmentation a canton argent charged with a tower Or is not acceptable, as the augmentation internally breaks RfS VIII.2., Armorial Contrast. Since an augmentation is an earned honor, it may in some cases violate RfS XI.3. Marshaling or RfS XI.4. Arms of Pretense and Augmentations of Honor. Arms in their augmented form are subject to the normal rules of conflict.

The text of RfS X.2 is changed to the following:

X.2. Substantially Different Charges – Simple armory does not conflict with other simple armory if the type of every primary charge is substantially changed.

These types of changes were normally seen between complete strangers in blood, and were not usually used to indicate any form of cadency. For purposes of this rule, simple armory is defined as armory that has no more than two types of charge directly on the field and has no overall charges.
The following examples are simple, with at most two types of charge on the field: Argent, a fess sable. Sable, three lions Or. Vert, two eagles and a maunch argent. Vair, a bordure gules. Per pale gules and argent, a fess between three lozenges counterchanged. Or, on a chevron between three clarions gules, three garbs argent. Purpure, on a pale dancetty within a bordure semy-de-lys argent, a millrind sable between two roses gules.The following examples are all non-simple, with more than two types of charges on the field, or with one or more overall charges: Argent, a fess between two lions and a lozenge azure. Vert, a chevron between three swords, a bordure Or. Gules, a bend between two roundels argent, overall a lion Or. Per bend argent and sable, a bend gules between a tree and a cross crosslet counterchanged. Argent, a dragon sable, overall a bend gules.Argent, a fess sable does not conflict with Argent, a lion sable. Vert, two eagles and a maunch argent does not conflict with Vert, three lozenges argent. Azure, a fess between three cups Or does not conflict with Azure, a chevron between three cups Or. In each case the designs are simple and the type of every primary charge has been substantially changed.
Per chevron gules and argent, three oak trees counterchanged does conflict with Per chevron gules and argent, three fir trees counterchanged, because the type of charge has not been substantially changed; they both conflict with Per chevron gules and argent, two mullets and a fir tree counterchanged because not all of the primary charges have been substantially changed. Vert, two mullets and a clarion argent within a bordure Or conflicts with Vert, three gauntlets argent within a bordure Or because the first design is not simple, with three different types of charge on the field.

Lastly, the text of rule XI.4 is changed to the following:

XI.4. Arms of Pretense and Augmentations of Honor – Armory that uses charges in such a way as to appear to be arms of pretense or an unearned augmentation of honor is considered presumptuous.

Period and modern heraldic practice asserts a claim to land or property by surmounting an individual’s usual armory with a display of armory associated with that claim. Such arms of pretense are placed on an escutcheon. Similarly, an augmentation of honor often, though not necessarily, takes the form of an independent coat placed on an escutcheon or canton. Generally, therefore, a canton or a single escutcheon may only be used if it is both uncharged and of a single tincture. For example, Argent, a fess gules surmounted by an escutcheon sable charged with a roundel argent has the appearance of being arms of pretense or an augmentation. Or, in saltire five escutcheons sable each charged with three roundels argent does not have this appearance, as it has multiple escutcheons, as so is acceptable. The exception to the restrictions of this rule is when the submitter is entitled to an augmentation as described in RfS VIII.7. Augmentations of Honor.

Roster changes

The Shire of Bacchus Wood now has a rostered herald: Yseult de Sancerre has volunteered to take on the office, and will be rostered as Acting Pursuivant Extraordinary for the Shire until she fulfills the requirements of a personal rank of PE.

Important addresses

Subscriptions and Resources

"The CAMeL" is available from Crux Australis at $20 per year. Make cheques payable to "SCA Inc. College of Heralds".

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".

The Armorial and Ordinary, as well as updates to them, are available from ‘SCA Inc. - Free Trumpet Press West’ in the USA. Their address is ‘1613 N. School St., Normal IL 61761-1240’. They also sell the ‘Heraldic Pictorial Dictionary for the SCA’, proceedings of Known World Heraldic Symposia and Compilations of Precedents by past Laurel Sovereigns of Arms. Contact me or see details of their web site below.

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’. The latter is out of print, so if you spot it at a second-hand book sale, buy it!

Useful or interesting links:
The SCA Heraldry web page - www.sca.org/heraldry including the Laurel home page and on-line armorial and ordinary search.
The Academy of St. Gabriel (an heraldic consultation service) - www.s-gabriel.org
West Kingdom Heralds' Handbook - heralds.westkingdom.org
Free Trumpet Press West (SCA heraldic publications) - www.sca.org/heraldry/ftpw.
Parker’s Glossary of Heraldry - http://www04.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/ta2/saitou/ie401

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Submission Requirements

Cost: $20 per new submission (name, device or badge). Note: a new name and device costs a total of $40. No cost for resubmissions or branch submissions. Make cheques payable to "SCA Inc. College of Heralds".

Copies required:

Please include ALL necessary documentation to support each submission. It is the responsibility of the submittor to present their submission in a way that makes registration easy. Name documentation should be as accurate as possible: remember to include photocopies of the title page as well as the relevent page(s) of any source used.

Meeting schedule

Crux Australis submission meetings are held once a month, usually at 36 Rosella Street, Payneham SA, starting at 2pm. Please call beforehand if you intend to bring submissions for processing. The next meeting is scheduled for the 9th September and the one after that is scheduled for the 14th October (the day after the investitiure of the next Baron and Baroness of Innilgard, so I expect lots of interstate visitors!)

Recent submissions

Present at the Crux Australis Submissions Meeting held on Sunday 12th August 2001 at 36 Rosella Street, Payneham SA were: Baron Uberto Renaldi, Crux Australis Herald; Lord William Forester de Blacwode, Frette Rouge Pursuivant; and Lord Gryffyd ap Cynan and Wakeline de Foxley, heralds-in-training, who provided invaluable conflict-checking and decision-making assistance.

The following submissions were FORWARDED to the College of Arms for registration:

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News of previous submissions

From Laurel’s June 2001 Letter of Acceptances and Returns:

ACCEPTANCES

Alice de Durham. Name and device. Per bend sinister embattled argent and azure, two crosses of four lozenges counterchanged.
Arrowreach, Canton of. Device. Per fess indented of three points azure and argent, in pale a laurel wreath Or and two arrows crossed in saltire inverted gules.
This was pended from the November 2000 LoAR.
Brúsi of Dragonvale. Name change from Little Brúsi of Dragon Vale.
His former name is released.
Constanzia Moralez y de Zamora. Device. Gules, a cross of Santiago, on a chief argent three crescents sable.
Cynethryth Dall. Name and device. Argent semy of roundels, a bordure sable.
Nice armory!
Liadan ingen Glassain. Name.
Submitted as Líadan inghean Glaisín, she requested an authentic Irish name. We have therefore changed the byname to be temporally compatible with the given name. As the name was originally submitted without accents we have removed them throughout.
Lochac, Principality of. Device change. Quarterly azure and argent, on a cross gules a crown between four mullets of six points, in canton a laurel wreath argent.
Their current device, Quarterly azure and argent, on a cross gules four mullets of six points and in canton a laurel wreath argent, is retained as Ancient Arms as per the recent changes to the Administrative Handbook.
Philipe du Lac. Name and device. Gules, two swords crossed in saltire argent, on a chief ermine two roses proper.
Submitted as Phillipe du Lac Bleu, he requested an authentic 15th century French name. No documentation was provided for the spelling of the given name, and we have changed it to the closest documented spelling. Also, no evidence was provided to support the place name "Blue Lake", so we have changed that to "Lake".

RETURNS

Gabriel de Beaumont. Device. Per pale sable and azure, a dexter wing and a sinister wing argent.
Conflict with Francois le Féroce, Per chevron vert and argent, in chief two wings addorsed argent. There is one CD for changes to the field, but none for the change of the location of the wings, as the location of Francois’ wings is forced.

From Laurel’s July 2001 Letter of Acceptances and Returns:

ACCEPTANCES

Konrad Athalwolf. Name.
Submitted on the LoI as Konrad Adelwolf, we have changed the name back to the originally submitted form.
Liadan ingen Glassain. Device. Argent, a triquetra within a bordure embattled purpure.
Richenza d’Assisi. Name and Device. Per pale argent and vert, a grape leaf inverted within an orle counterchanged.
The name was documented as having a Polish given name with an Italian byname, but no evidence was provided that Poland and Italy were in sufficient cultural contact that the combination is registerable.
However, the given name seems not to be limited to Poland: for instance, it was borne by the daughter of Henry the Fat, Duke of Saxony, who later married Lothar II, Holy Roman Emperor. The contact between Germany and Italy was sufficient to allow registration.
The primary charge was blazoned as an oak leaf, but the emblazon shows a grape leaf.

RETURNS

Saint Crispin, College of. Device. Per bend azure and argent, a seahorse naiant argent and and open book gules within a laurel wreath vert.
The presence of the seahorse makes the seahorse, book, and laurel wreath all part of the primary charge group, thus violating the rule of thumb in RfS VIII.1.a, Tincture and Charge Limit, limiting a single group to no more than two types of charges. [This is known amongst heralds as the "slot-machine" rule – Crux]

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