Ansteorran Internal Letter of Intent 2009-04
ANSTEORRAN INTERNAL LETTER OF INTENT
APRIL 2009
1) Coenred æt Rauenesdale. (Crown lands – Southern Region)
Name registered Jan. 2005 via Atlantia. Device Change. Vert, on a fess argent two vols sable, in
chief a mullet of four greater and four lesser points argent. Retain old device as a badge: Vert, on a
tower between three mullets of four points argent a raven sable.
2) Duncan Maxwell. (Crown lands – Southern Region)
New Name. New Device. Sable, on a pall between three open books argent a triquetra sable.
Major Changes: No. Minor Changes: Yes. Gender: Male.
Change for: Sound: surname Maxwell most important.
Authenticity:
Documentation Provided: <Duncan> - “Early 16th Century Scottish Lowland Names” by Sharon
L. Krona (http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotnames/lowland16/meninstances.shtml) shows 5
instances of the name <Duncan> using this spelling in the Aberdeen Council Register between
1500-1514.
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<Maxwell> - Black’s “Surnames of Scotland” 1st Ed., page 589-590; additionally the submitter’s
legal surname is Maxwell and he desires to use this surname.
[Asterisk note – The above printout was included along with his Army identification card.]
3) Ian MacEwan. (Wiesenfeuer, Barony of)
Name registered March 2004 via Ansteorra. New Badge. No blazon provided. Purple background.
Gold cauldron with a ring on opposite sides at the top.Crack from lip of cauldron to half way to
bottom. [Asterisk note – yup. A crack is mentioned, but I don’t see it.]
4) Khioniia Pskovskaia. (Wiesenfeuer, Barony of)
Name Resubmission.
Submission History: <Kheoniia Pskova> was returned 3/08 for lack of replacement forms.
Major Changes: Yes. Minor Changes: Yes. Gender: Female.
Change for: Language and/or culture.
Authenticity: Language and/or culture
Documentation Provided: <Khioniia> - http://heraldry.sca.org/paul/ka.html “snowy”.
Khioniia, martyr. 1356.
<Pskovskaia> - http;//heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/toprus.html
Type II: Nouns
Pskova – Pskov founded in 903. Also the name later of the principality which included the city.
Type IV: Adjectives
Type IV locative bynames are created by taking the toponym and adding an adjectival suffix
(usually “-skii” / “-skoi” / “-skyi”, or feminine “-skaia”.
Pskovskaia
[Asterisk note: Included were the first 4 pages of “Locative Bynames in Medieval Russia” by Paul of
Wickenden of Thanet; the reasons for the return in 3/08; and a letter from Lady Branislava
Volkova as the consulting herald. Nothing was highlighted or summarized.]
5) Perrin de Beaujeu. (Northkeep, Barony of)
Name in progress, forwarded to Laurel 2/09. Device Resubmission. Per pale gules and Or a tree
blasted and couped and a bordure embattled counterchanged.
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Submission History: Per pale gules and Or a willow blasted and couped counterchanged was
returned for conflict with Muirghein of Forest Keep July 1999. "Per pale gules and Or, two trees
eradicated counterchanged." There is a CD for changing the number of charges,
6) Pukhta Lovtsevich. (Wiesenfeuer, Barony of)
Name resubmission.
Submission History: <Pukhta Lovvek> was returned 8/06 for lack of a surname. As Magnus
points out, we could have changed it to <Pukhta Lovtsevich>, but the submitter allowed for no
changes.
Major Changes: Yes. Minor Changes: Yes. Gender: Don’t care.
Change for: Sound.
Authenticity:
Documentation Provided: Both names are found in Paul Goldschmidt’s Dictionary of Period
Russian Names.
<Pukhta> - Section PP-Q – page 14 or 18 http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/pp-q.html .
<Lovtsevich> - Section L – page 18 or 24 http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/l.html as the name
Lovvek – Lovek (m) – “hunter.” Lovek. 1031. Vars: Lovich. 1107. Lovvek. 1031. Lovchii (byn)
hunter. Vars: Lovhai (ll’ia Oleksandrov syn Lovhago, landowner). 1477. The 3rd edition adds
Kurilo Lovchich, boair, 1609. Occupational Bynames in Medieval Russia by Paul Wickenden of
Thanet www.goldschp.net/archive/jobnames.html has: Hunter - Lovtsevich (1555). This is
information supplied by Magnus in his comments returning the original name.
[Asterisk note: Page 1 & 18 of the “Section L” and pages 1 &14 of “Section PP-Q” are provided.]
7) Roana le Wolf. (Tir Medoin, Shire of)
New Name. New Device. Gules, a cross sable on a cross Or, in dexter chief, a chalice Or.
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Submission History: [Asterisk Note: Included is a Letter of Permission to Conflict from Wulfgar
von Regensburg.]
Major Changes: Yes. Minor Changes: Yes. Gender:
Change for:
Authenticity:
Documentation Provided: <Roana> appears in “Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English
Surnames”, where it is dated to 1212. (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?
Roana)
<le Wolf> appears as a feminine byname in two instances from 1273 (one <Agnes le Wolf> and
one <Emma le Wolf> ) recorded in Charles Bardsley’s A Dictionary of English and Welsh
Surnames, s.n. Wolff.
[Asterisk note: Included printouts for the Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English
Surnames
8) Sean Graeme. (Wiesenfeuer, Barony of)
New Name. New Device. Per chevron argent and vert, two triquetra sable, tower in base argent,
border embattled sable.
Major Changes: Yes. Minor Changes: Yes. Gender: Male.
Change for: Sound.
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Authenticity:
Documentation Provided: <Sean> - Index of Names in Irish Annals: Sean (Seoan) –
www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Sean.shtml found page 1 of 5.
<Graeme> - The Surnames of Scotland (Their Orgin, Meaning, and History), George F. Black, The
New York Public Library – Astov, Lenox, and Tibden Foundation, 1st printing – 1946, 12th
printing – 1999. Page 323 – 1st column midway, heading Graeme
[Asterisk note: Printout of “Index of Names in Irish Annals” provided.]
9) Wulfgar von Regensburg. (Tir Medoin, Shire of)
Name registered 1/01. New Badge. (Fieldless) A wolf’s head erased argent.
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