Argent, a peregrine falcon contourny proper, belled and jessed, between flaunches azure.

The original submission of this badge was Returned by Laurel on the June 2014 LoAR with the comments:

Argent, a falcon contourny sable between flaunches azure.

This device is in conflict with the device of Erc of Ringholden Argent, a raven close to sinister sable bearing in its beak an annulet gules, between a chief and a point pointed azure. There is no difference between a raven and a falcon. The annulet is a maintained charge that doesn't add a difference. There is a single DC for changing the type of secondaries, as all peripheral ordinaries are considered to be in the same charge group.

This device is not in conflict with the badge of Kathren of Sandesward Argent, a legless quail close to sinister reguardant sable. There is a substantial change between the poultry-shaped quail and the regular-shaped falcon.

The Rules change relating to sustained/maintained charges clears the conflict with Erc of Ringholden by allowing a DC for the presence of the annulet.

This is a Name Change, please release the previously registered name, Claire Bennett of Essex, registered in February of 2003 (via Caid), on registration of this name.

The submitter will NOT accept ANY changes and cares about the meaning (gentle/kind), sound (shortens to Ellie), and gender (female) of the name

Eleanor: NCS Withycombe, p. 96-97. First introduced into England by Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204), the wife of King Henry II.

the Gentle: Compact Oxford English Dictionary: meaning, well-bred, noble, dated to 1225. Alternative meaning, mild in disposition or behavior, kind, tender, dated to 1552.

The English name formation <given + byname> is found in SENA Appendix A.

Armory:
Sable, a garb and a chief rayonny Or.

The West College believes this to be free of conflict, but presents for review:

• Grane the Golden of Hippogriff Tower, registered September 1971, Sable, three stalks of wheat as in a garb, Or.
• Please review the Nov 2013 LoAR:
  William Brewer. Device. Vert, a garb distilling two gouttes within a bordure Or.
  This device is returned for blurring the difference between charge groups. These gouttes as drawn are too small to be considered secondary charges, being more of the size expected from maintained drops. However, maintained drops would also be expected to be closer to the garb, if not outright touching it as they are distilled. Distilled gouttes are considered maintained charges in Society armory, and so do not count for difference. This device would then conflict with the device of Mædscir, Vert, a garb and in base a laurel wreath, a bordure Or, with a single DC for removing the secondary wreath. This device also then conflicts with the badge of Dagmaer or Nautaloek, Purpure, a garb within a bordure Or, with a single DC for the change in field. There may also be a conflict with the device of Óengus Minogue, Vert, a sheaf of five stalks of wheat and a bordure wavy Or, as there is a DC for the complex line of the bordure, but there may or may not be a DC for the difference between a sheaf of five stalks of wheat and a garb.

The submitter will NOT accept MAJOR changes and cares about the meaning (Pulver), the sound (Gisele), and the gender (female) of the name.

Gisele - from Family Search: Gisele Russell, married Oct 1597 in Thornford, Dorset, England (Batch M16055-1, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVG2-QH9, accessed 2/1/2022).

Pulver - from Family Search: Joane Pulver, christened 1 Oct 1576 in Wigtoft, Lincoln, England (Batch C03313-2, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NGR8-JXC, accessed 11/3/2021)

The English name formation <given + byname> is found in SENA Appendix A.

Armory:
Per bend sinister vert and argent, a wolf’s head cabossed argent and a sprig of lavender bendwise sinister proper.

The submitter cares about the meaning and language and/or culture (none noted) and the gender (male) of the name

Grimbjorn - from Gillian Fellows Jensen, “Scandinavian Personal names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire”, p.107

NCS Geirr Bassi shows Grimolfr (with some diacrititcals) and -bjorn is a prolific deuterotheme

Drifa - from NCS Geirr Bassi. p. 20 Column 2

The Scandinavian name formation <given + byname> is found in SENA Appendix A.

Armory:
Azure, two bears combattant, in base an escarbuncle, a bordure argent.

Please review: Þorlákr bjarki Eiríksson’s Azure, two bears combattant and in chief a compass star argent.

Argent, on a pale vert between two pawprints sable, a tower Or.

There is a SFCP for the use of pawprints.

Notes for the West:

The original submission of this badge was Returned by the West College in the September 2014 Minutes with the comments:

Argent, on a pale vert between two paw prints sable, a tower Or charged with a heart gules.

Complexity count of NINE (SENA A.3.E.2 generates a Step from Period Practice - see below), Paws are also SFPP, so just for those two things, this must be returned. Also, layer count of FOUR – “…Charges on tertiary charges are known as quaternary charges and are not allowed, unless documented as an Individually Attested Pattern.” (SENA Appendix I.C.).

Ref. SENA A.3.E.2 “We require that any submission not exceed a certain "complexity count," measured by adding the number of types of charges to the number of tinctures. Items with a complexity count of eight or less receive no penalty for complexity from this rule. … An item with a complexity count of nine or higher that follows a period pattern of charges and tinctures may be registered, but may need to be documented as an Individually Attested Pattern.”

This submission removes the “heart gules” to clear both the complexity count concerns and the tertiary charge concern.

Azure, a gazelle’s head couped, on a chief Or two spears fesswise in pale proper.

The submitter cares about the gender (male) of the name.

William - from NCS Withycombe p.293 ‘William’: “introduced into England by the Normans in the 11th C, from which time it has held its place as one of the commonest men’s names”.

of the Red Valley - no documentation provided.

If ‘of the Red Valley’ is not possible, the submitter will accept the name ‘William Raikes’:

Raikes - from NCS Reaney & Wilson page 371, under the header Rake, Raikes. Nicholas Raikes, son of Thomas Rakes, 1585.

The English name formation <given + byname> is found in SENA Appendix A.

**comments** The West College was not able to document ‘William of the Red Valley’ but our members did provide the following research:

Provided by Astrith of Swansvale:

<of the Red Valley> Ekwall [pp 383-384] has numerous place names combining <Red-> with a landscape feature. In most cases, <Red-> actually means <reed>, but <reed valley> is certainly possible as a place name. And two of the place names specifically refer to the red color of the soil. All the examples have the words combined, e.g., Redbridge, Redcliff, Redhill. <Redcombe> would be a name meaning <red valley> or "reed valley". Ekwall p 385 under the header <Renscombe> dates <Romescombe> to the Domesday Book and <Rembescumb> to 1212.

<William of Redcombe> means "William from Red Valley" or "William from Reed Valley".

<-combe, -coombe>: Farncombe [Ekwall p 174, Fernecome 1086; Farncumbe 1348], Ilfracombe [p 262: Alfreincome 1086, Alfredscumbe 1249, Ilfridecumbe 1279], Salcombe [p 401: Saltecumbe 1244, Saltcomb 1303, Sealtcumbe c1070, Selccome 1086, Saltcumb 1242].

<-dale>: Airedale, Rochdale, Weardale

<-dean>: Croydon, Walkden, Horndean

The formations <-dale> and <-dean> would also be possible under this documentation.

Astrith submits <Redcombe> as the version she found most appealing when spoken.

Provided by Derelei filia Uoret:

The Middle English Dictionary has a few examples of place names or locative bynames with variants of "valley":

(1199) CRR(1) 1435 : Radulphus de la Valeie. (1346) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames361 : Richard atte Valeye. (1451) EPNSoc.19 (Cmb.)348 : Le Valey.

They also had examples "In phrases denoting specific valleys" that had modifiers, but skimming quickly through their examples, most sounded literary.

Lingua Societatus would allow this to be translated to ‘William of the Valley’