The submitter cares about the sound (none noted) and gender (male) of the name.

Aiden - a late period English surname found in "Surnames in Durham and Northumberland, 1521-1615" by Julie Kahan [https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juetta/parish/surnames_a.html] dated to 1595 and 1599, used here as a given name per SENA Appendix A.

Haak - an English surname used as a given name per SENA Appendix A. Morris Haak and Dorothie Truman married 6 Jun 1583 in Wiltshire [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NX96-SMQ?lang=en, batch M15334-2].

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

Device:
Argent, two squirrels combatant brown proper, on a chief azure an acorn Or.

The submitter cares about the meaning (variations of Fionnbharr or Finvarra for the surname), language and/ or culture (Irish) of the name, and marked the “neutral” box for gender.

Ailill - from no-copy source “Index of Names in Irish Annals: Ailill”, by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien) listed as a masculine name in the nominative form in both Old and Middle Irish Gaelic from c700-c1200 [https://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Ailill.shtml].

mac - used by Old/Middle Gaelic to form a patronymic byname per SENA Appendix A.

Finnbhairr - from no-copy source “Index of Names in Irish Annals: Finnbarr”, by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien) Finnbhairr listed as a genitive form dated 703 and a nominative form several times [https://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Finnbarr.shtml].

The Old/Middle Irish Gaelic name formation <given + patronymic byname> is found in SENA Appendix A.

Device:
Per fess engrailed argent and sable, an annulet Or fimbriated gules.

The submitter will NOT accept ANY changes.

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

Alexander - mundane given name, documentation not provided.

von Schwetzingen - implies "from Schwetzingen", a town and palace in Germany. [https://www.schloss-schwetzingen.de/en/palace/].

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

Device:
Quarterly sable and argent, heart gules winged Or.

Permission to conflict with Eliška z Jihlavy’s badge ((Fieldless) A heart gules winged Or) received.

The submitter will NOT accept ANY changes.

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

The submitter will not allow the creation of a holding name.

Bróðir - Male Name. Old Norse bróðir = 'brother'. Referenced as a name in the in the Njal’s Saga, thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020.

- masculine given name, found on Viking Answer Lady site, which says, "Found in OW.Norse as Bróðir. From OW.Norse bróðir "brother". A few late instances are found in West Scandinavia." FJ p. 65 s.n. Bróðir; NR s.n. BróðiR [http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml#b].

Bondar - The medieval Ukrainian name for a barrel(maker) is Bondar (Бондар)

The practice of polyudie: Keivan Rus' collected their tribute, which historically included furs, money, and wooden barrels of mead or grain established that barrels were an important part of the transportation of goods.

• Passively mentioned in The Primary Chronicle – pg. 71 [https://www.scribd.com/document/217402997/Primary-Chronicle-of-the-Kievan-Rus].
• In De Administrando Imperio, Chapter 9 describes the annual tribute-gathering circuit of the Kyivan Rus' rulers. Every winter, from November to April, the grand prince and his retinue of warriors left Kyiv to travel among the tributary East Slavic tribes (the Drevlians, Dregovichi, Krivichi, and Severians). [https://archive.org/stream/dimitri-obolensky-byzantium-and-the-slavs-collected-studies/Dimitri%20Obolensky%20-%20Byzantium%20and%20the%20Slavs%20collected%20studies_djvu.txt]
  Grigory Bondar, born about 1646.
• "Україна, дуплікати метричних книг Київської Православної консисторії, 1723-1931", FamilySearch [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X7M-1KYG] : Tue Jan 28 11:05:27 UTC 2025), Entry for Григорий Бондар, 20 Oct 1736.
  Vlasiy Bondar, born about 1649
• "Ukraine, Chernigov Church Records, 1717-1935", FamilySearch [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X3W-W4VB], Entry for Власий Бондар, 8 Feb 1739.
• Ukrainian - 1649 register of the Zaporozhian army. [https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Kingdom%20of%20the%20West].

The Scandinavian name formation <given + occupational byname> is found in SENA Appendix A and the combination of Old Norse and Ukrainian name elements is allowed per SENA Appendix C.

Device:
Azure, a winged bull segreant, on a chief embattled argent a cross crosslet azure.

Registered in Dec 2025 as <Giuliana La Gazza da Lucca>, this is a request to change the <La> to <la>. At the time of registration, <Giuliana La Gazza> was documented as an existing name registration. This submission includes further documentation to support the full name and formation and the use of the lower case character.

Giuliana La Gazza da Lucca is to be retained as an alternate name.

The submitter will not accept any changes to the submitted name.

Giuliana - masculine nominative version found in "Names in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: Complete Names from Declarations" by Juliana de Luna (Julia Smith): Giuliano di Giovanni, converted to a feminine nominative name by changing the following -o to an -a [https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/condado/completenames.html].

la Gazza - from Italian byname formed as <the Magpie>. Noted as meaning “the magpie” in Italian [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/italian-english/gazza].

da Lucca - from "Late Period Italian Women's Name: Florence" under Family Names "da Lucca" [http://medievalscotland.org/jes/Nuns/Florence.shtml].

The Italian name formation <given + double byname> is acceptable per SENA, Appendix A.

Per chevron nebuly gules escallopy and Or.

Returned in the June 2025 LoAR: Per chevron nebuly gules and Or, in dexter chief an escallop inverted Or.

This device is returned for conflict with the badge of Ian James of Silverlake, (Fieldless) A whelk shell fesswise Or and the seal for Triton Herald, (Tinctureless) A triton-shell trumpet bell in chief. In each case there is a single DC for adding the field. There is no difference for type of shell, nor for orientation, by precedent:

In each case there is [...] no difference for type of shell by precedent: "all shells will be considered to conflict with all other shells" [Theodosia Ouranos of Constantinople, 06/2010, R-Meridien]. There is also no DC for orientation between shells of different types, as the orientations are not comparable. [Órlaith inghean Uí hUallacháin, 09/2023, R-Ansteorra]

This resubmission is a redesign that addresses the conflicts.

The submitter cares about the gender (male) of the name and marked no other boxes.

Hiálmarr (or Hjálmarr or Hjalmarr if you prefer) - Old Norse masculine given name, Lind col. 534 s.n. Hiálmarr.

veðr - Old Norse byname, "Viking Bynames found in the Landnámabók" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Uckelman) [https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/vikbynames.html]. accessed March 1, 2026

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

Device:
Per chevron azure and gyronny from the fess point of four Or and gules, in chief two rams combatant argent.

The submitter cares about the sound (none noted) and gender (male) of the name.

John - a masculine name, fairly common in England in the 12th-15th C. from [Withycombe] 3rd edition, pp. 178-9 s.n. John.

Sanford - from no-copy source “Surnames in 15th Century York”: Sanford [https://heraldry.sca.org/names/york15/surnames-alphabetical.htm#S].

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

Device:
Per chevron azure and argent, in chevron two comets heads to chief and a trimount azure.

The submitter will not accept any changes to the name.

The submitter does not care about the gender of the name.

Josef - French masculine forename. Josef von Altendorf dated 1390 in Francfort in the no-copy source “Jewish Given Names Found in Les Noms Des Israelites en France” by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Uckelman) [https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/levy/joseph.html].

Yosef - Hebrew masculine forename, used as an unmarked patronymic byname. Dated to the late 12th Century in Chartes, France in no-copy source “Names from Hebrew Chronicles of the 10th to 13th Centuries” by Julie Stampnitzky [https://s-gabriel.org/names/juetta/acrostic.html].

The French name formation <given + unmarked patronymic byname > is found in SENA Appendix A.

Device:
Vert, an opossum rampant argent maintaining in its forepaws a bundle of wooden sticks Or, a bordure parted bordurewise Or and purpure.

Badge:
(Fieldless) An opossum rampant argent maintaining in its forepaws a bundle of sticks Or.

Sable, a mascle knot between two pallets cooped Or.

Per fess azure and sable, a tree blasted and eradicated and in chief a roundel between a crescent bendwise sinister and a crescent bendwise argent.

A device submission was reviewed by the West College in March 2026 and returned for lack of documentation of lemon trees as a period charge and a double-tressure that was indistinguishable for the line of the edge of the form. This resubmission is a redraw and includes documentation of a lemon tree as a period charge, see attached.

1. London Museum Capture the object title, the date, and the complete description. The important sentence says that one of the 1616 pageants was a Lemon Tree, a pun on Sir John Leman’s name and part of his crest. This independently connects the lemon tree with his crest and with the dated 1616 event. [https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/v/object-102553/the-fishmongers-pageant-or-lord-mayors-day-1616/]
2. Van der Meer/OpenEdition - period existence of lemons [https://books.openedition.org/pcjb/2197?lang=en].
3. John Leman V&A portrait [https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O156800/sir-john-leman-painting-unknown/].
4. KWHSS Portuguese evidence “Delgado [C145,L*] — Gules, a lemon tree and overall a leashed dog passant argent.” [https://heraldry.sca.org/kwhss/2024/Individually%20Attested%20Portuguese.pdf#page=10].

Or, a lemon tree eradicated fructed proper, in base a hand, a double tressure sable.

The submitter goes by the unregistered Onenne of Oertha.

The submitter cares about the sound (none noted) and marked the “neutral” box for gender.

Onguen - would prefer Onenne or Onuen but was unable to document the spelling.

≶Onguen> from “Cornish (and Other) Personal Names from the 10th Century Bodmin Manumissions” by Heather Rose Jones: Onguen in Female Names Group 3 [https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/bodmin/given2.htm].

of Oertha - SCA branch name byname as per the Branch Name Allowance, SENA PN1.B.2.d.1.f.
Principality of Oertha, registered May 2005 via the West.

The name formation <given + branch name> is found in SENA PN1.B.2.d.1.f.

Device:
Azure, a cattail between two geese respectant regaurdant argent.

The submitter cares about the sound (none noted) and gender (male) of the name.

Roland - a masculine given name, with this spelling appearing in no-copy source "Late Sixteenth Century English Given Names" by Talan Gwynek [http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/eng16/eng16alpha.html].

des Tournesol - “Sunflower” (Turn to the Sun) An American flower. Used as a surname since 17th Century though surname use for non-nobility wasn’t common until the 18th Century. The city of Tournesol is fictional.

The submitter will accept <de Oertha> or <of Oertha> if necessary, from the Branch Name Allowance. Principality of Oertha, registered May 2005 via the West.

The French name formation <given + locative byname> is acceptable per SENA Appendix A and English and French names can be combined per SENA Appendix C.

Device:
Sable, a horse rampant argent maintaining in its mouth a rapier, in base a sunflower, within an orle, and a bordure Or.

A previous submission was considered by the West Kingdom in July 2024: Per bend sinister vert and azure, a skull between three mustaches argent was returned due to lack of registration of a moustache in the past 40 years, and the College and submitter were unable to document one as a period charge. This resubmission has removed the charge in question.

Per bend sinister azure and gules, a death’s head and a beard argent.

(Fieldless) In pale a hand cooped close argent surmounted with a mantis rampant guardant vert, conjoined to a rainbow proper.

(Fieldless) A turnip bendwise sinister gules leaved vert.

Notes: this badge is a reference to the submitter’s arms, which contains turnips.

Possible conflict: Fiora Maria Vespucci’s (Fieldless) A turnip gules leaved vert - the question for conflict is if a turnip is considered a compact charge (no difference for orientation per SENA A.5.E.5.b) or a long charge (does receive difference under the same rule).

These submissions are returned for administrative reasons: lack of payment of submission fees.

These submissions are returned for administrative reasons: lack of payment of submission fees.

These submissions are returned for administrative reasons: lack of payment of submission fees.

Gyronny arondi purpure and argent, a sea-lion erect Or.

This device submission is returned for conflict with: Adamestor, Shire of, Badge/Misc. Armory, registered via Drachenwald 07/1999. (Fieldless) A sea-lion Or maned sable. There is one DC for the change from fieldless to fielded, but two DCs or an SD are required under the existing rules to clear conflict. There is no difference granted for the tincture of the sea-lion’s mane.

Yasaman - spelled as the Turkish transliteration. Yasemin for Jasmine in Persian for Ottoman name. Yasaman pronounced \yah-sa-man\ [http://www.s-gabriel.org/3059].

Shomali - locative surname “of the North” in Persian.

This name is returned for lack of documentation of the byname. No references were provided for the name, its use as a byname, its formation following a similar pattern, or its use in period. The West College reminds submitters that documentation of each name element and the overall name formation is required for submission as per the rules of the SCA College of Arms. Because the name was returned, so must also be the device.