Announcements

Proposed Corpora Change for Fourth Peerage, and Call for Comments

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The deadline for comments for the following is January 15, 2015.
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At the July 2013 Board Meeting, the Additional Peerage Exploratory Committee (“APEC”) proposed that the Board of Directors create a new Patent-bearing Peerage Order parallel to the Orders of the Chivalry, the Laurel and the Pelican. This Rapier Peerage would be for the related martial arts of rapier and all forms of cut & thrust in the SCA. In August of 2013, the APEC’s proposal for name, heraldry and badge was sent out to the membership for commentary, and a second committee was formed of representatives appointed by the Kingdoms of the Known World to review the proposal and represent their interests. After reviewing all commentary received from the membership and the committees, the Board believes there is enough interest to request further commentary on the changes that would be required to Corpora if the Board decides to create such an Order. This will be the final opportunity for the membership to make its opinions and wishes known on this subject as the Board will vote at the January 2015 Board meeting on whether or not to create this Order.

In the event a rapier/cut & thrust peerage is created, the following would be the proposed changes to Corpora (additions in red; deletions in blue and struck out.)

Glossary, page 9.

DELETE

[• Peerage: Collectively, the members of the Order of Chivalry, the Order of the Laurel, and the Order of the Pelican, are referred to as the Peerage. A member of any of these Orders is a Peer.]

ADD

• Peerage: Collectively, the members of the Order of Chivalry, the Order of the Laurel, and the Order of the Pelican, and the Order of Defense are referred to as the Peerage. A member of any of these Orders is a Peer.

VIII. PERSONAL AWARDS AND TITLES

A. Patents of Arms

2. Order of Precedence Within the Peerage
DELETE
[The Crown may establish the order of precedence within the peerage according to the laws and customs of the kingdom. However, the Chivalry, the Laurel, and the Pelican, and Defense are of equal precedence and must be considered as one group.]

ADD
The Crown may establish the order of precedence within the peerage according to the laws and customs of the kingdom. However, the orders of the Chivalry, the Laurel, and the Pelican, and Defense are of equal precedence and must be considered as one group.

4. Patent Orders:

ADD

d. The Order of Defense:
(i) Members of the Order of Defense may choose to swear fealty, but are not required to do so. The candidate must be considered the equal of his or her prospective peers with the basic weapons of rapier and/or cut-and-thrust combat. The candidate must have applied this skill and/or knowledge for the instruction of members and service to the kingdom to an extent above and beyond that normally expected of members of the Society.

(2) The duties of the members of the order are as follows:

(a)    To set an example of courtesy and chivalrous conduct on and off the field of honor.
(b)    To respect the Crown of the kingdom; to support and uphold the laws of the kingdom and Corpora.
(c)    If in fealty, to support and uphold the Crown of his or her kingdom.
(d)    To enrich the kingdom by sharing his or her knowledge and skills.
(e)    To enhance the renown and defend the honor of the peer’s Lady or Lord.
(f)    To advise the Crown on the advancement of candidates for the Order of Defense

(The section on royal peerage becomes section e, etc.)

D. Titles
4. The titles listed here are considered standard, and may be used by those who have earned or been granted the appropriate rank or award within the Society. The College of Arms publishes a more extensive list of titles and alternative forms, which may also be used freely by qualified persons. In addition, the College of Arms has full approval authority over new alternative titles, which must be added to their list before being released for use in the Society.

DELETE

[TITLE

Master/Mistress
Members of the Orders of the Laurel, the Pelican, and Mastery of Arms.]

ADD

TITLE

Master/Mistress
Members of the Orders of the Laurel, the Pelican, Mastery of Arms, and Defense.

IX. Society Combat

DELETE:

[C. Rapier Fighting in the Society
The Board acknowledges rapier combat as an ancillary activity of the Society when properly supervised by the Marshals and when approved by individual kingdoms. Rapier combat may take place within a kingdom only by rules established by the Marshallate of that kingdom and after the approval of those rules by the Marshal of the Society. The Marshal of the Society will maintain guidelines for rapier combat within the Society. Rapier combat, not having been part of formal tournament combat in the Middle Ages, shall not be a part of formal tournament lists for royal ranks and armigerous titles. ]

ADD

C. Royal Lists
Only Chivalric (rattan) combat shall be used for formal tournament lists for royal ranks.

[This last might need some explanation. The current Section IX.C is a holdover from a Governing and Policy decision from October 1979, when the Board decided that rapier combat would be allowed in the SCA as an ancillary activity. Rapier combat is no longer considered an ancillary activity and has not been for many years. Also, the duties of the Society Earl Marshal are properly defined in section VI.D. So this section is reduced to a single clear, unambiguous rule.]

Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent to:
SCA Inc.
Box 360789
Milpitas,  CA 95036

You may also email comments@lists.sca.org.

This announcement is an official informational release by the Society for Creative Anachronism , Inc.  Permission is granted to reproduce this announcement in its entirety in newsletters, websites and electronic mailing lists.

September 2014 LOAR Results

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From the Vert Hawk Herald, via the Calonlist:

CALONTIR acceptances

 

* Adelaide Sarsfield.

Name and device. Per chevron argent and azure, two fleurs-de-lys sable and a martlet argent.

The sources cited in the Letter of Intent to document the byname, Sarsfield, use normalized, or modernized, forms of the names. The submitted spelling is found in Latin dated to 1516-7 (Chartularies of St Mary’s Abbey, Dublin;http://books.google.com/books?id=R_w-CZ0eXnYC, p. 14), so we are able to register this name.

* Aelia Basina.

Name change from Ho’elun Checheg.

Submitted as Aelia Basina of Veii, the submitter requested authenticity for 6th-7th century Roman. Aelia and Basina were documented as Byzantine names. We do not have evidence of double given names for that culture. However, these elements can be interpreted as a Late classical Roman name. In commentary, Green Staff documented several Roman names with Aelia as a first element, although most of the women who used this pattern were empresses. In order to make the name authentic, however, the lingua Anglica of Veii should be dropped. We have made this change with the submitter’s permission in order to register this name.
The submitter’s previous name, Ho’elun Checheg, is released.

* Biby ferch Llewelyn of Camelford.

Name and device. Sable, a coney rampant contourny argent within a bordure per pale gules and Or semy of Bowen knots crosswise counterchanged.

This name combines an English given name and locative with a Welsh patronymic byname. This is an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA.

* Caoimhin McKee.

Heraldic Title Sanglier Rouge Herald.

* Cesare di Lodovico Malefici.

Device. Bendy wavy argent and sable.

Nice device!

* Ffelix Æskelsson.

Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as F{oe}linx Æskelsson, the submitter requested a given name that sounded like “Felix”. Goutte d’Eau documented the name Ffelix to 16th century Norway (Diplomatarium Norvegicum). Æskelsson can also be documented as a 14th and 15th century byname in the same source, making this a wholly Norwegian name.
If the submitter had not agreed to this change, the name F{oe}linx is a genitive (possessive) form, not the required nominative form. The nominative forms would be F{oe}lins and F{oe}linss.

* Halldóra Guðrøðardóttir.

Name (see RETURNS for device).

* Isibél inghean Dáire.

Name.

Submitted as Isibél ingen Dáire, the name appeared on the Letter of Intent as Isibél inghen Dáire. This form contained a misspelling of the particle ingen/inghean (“daughter of”). The submitter confirmed that she preferred the Early Modern Irish byname inghean Dáire. We have made this correction in order to register the name.

* Ormar Svensson.

Name.

Submitted as Ormarr Svensson, the submitter expressed a preference for the form Ormar Svensson. In commentary, Goutte d’Eau documented both elements to Norway in 1384-1394 (in Diplomatarium Norvegicum). Therefore, we are happy to make this change to meet the submitter’s wishes.

* Uesugi Katsumoto.

Name.

* Wulfhere of Eofeshamme.

Name.

The submitter requested authenticity for 8th to 10th century Anglo-Saxon. The given name Wulfhere is dated to the 9th and 11th centuries, and the byname of Eofeshamme is dated to the 11th century. The name may be authentic for the desired time period, but we cannot be certain. 

CALONTIR returns

 

* Ffelix Æskelsson.

Device. Per fess sable and argent, an increscent Or and a penguin sable bellied argent beaked and footed Or maintaining a sword bendwise sable.

This device is returned for lack of contrast.
Per precedent:

Unfortunately, just as a black orca with a white belly can’t be put on an argent field (v. Rowan Seer, March 2000), so too a black auk with a white belly can’t be put on an argent field.

Here we have a similar case where the belly of the penguin disappears for sharing the tincture of the field.
Although the July 2010 cover letter, discussing about fox proper on an argent background, concluded “The precedent, therefore, is overturned. As long as the charge maintains its identifiability, minor details, even minor details which are identifying characteristics, may have no contrast with the underlying tinctures.” we have here a different situation, as it’s about half the charge that disappears against the argent field and thus the identifiability is not maintained.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a penguin.

* Halldóra Guðrøðardóttir.

Device. Or, a cameleopard couchant regardant argent spotted brown and a sinister gore gules.

This device is returned for multiple issues, each sufficient to justify a return.
This depiction of the posture renders the camelopard unidentifiable, with the neck so close to the back that the separation disappears.
This device is also returned for contrast and tincture issues.
Blazoned as proper, an older precedent regarding the proper tincture of camelopards states:

A cameleopard, or giraffe, proper is Or marked brown/tan; as such, it lacks sufficient contrast against the argent field. (Trust me on this one; I have a relatively recent photograph taken while on one of those “drive-through” safari-type animal reserves, in which a very curious giraffe’s fills up most of the windscreen. Quite dramatic, it was! [Pushy beggar, too. Wouldn’t move out of the roadway until we bribed it with some of the feed pellets they sell you at the entrance.] [Ceridwen Alianora McInnes, 06/1995, Atenveldt-r]

Although there is currently no defined proper tinctures for a camelopard in the Glossary of terms, if we follow this precedent, this charge would not be actually proper. Instead, the camelopard is argent marked brown, which presents two issues:
– it cannot be blazoned as marked brown, as brown is not a heraldic tincture.
– it lacks contrast with the field. We treat markings as details that don’t change the underlying tincture, so the charge is argent, on an Or field.
Per the May 2014 cover letter, the use of gores with other charges is a step from period practice.

* Rodrigo Hernández of Vatavia.

Device. Argent, on a chevron purpure three dragonflies palewise Or.

This device was registered last month. It appears to have been sent up identically in two consecutive months.

CALONTIR pends

 

* Deidra de Warenne.

Name change from holding name Deidra of Bonwicke.

Submitted as Deidra de Warenne of Childentune, the second byname (of Childentune) had been added to clear a potential conflict with the registered Deirdre the Warrener. Under SENA, however, Deidra de Warenne does not in fact conflict with Deirdre the Warrener. Kingdom confirmed with the submitter that she preferred the name without the second byname. We have made this change with her permission.
The Letter of Intent stated that Deidra is grandfathered to the submitter. However, the submitter’s previous name is a holding name, and thus, Deidra is not eligible for the grandfather clause. As this was not noticed until after the Pelican decision meeting, we are pending the name to allow commenters time to either document the given name Deidra or allow the submitter to provide documentation of her legal name.
This was item 6 on the Calontir letter of May 13, 2014

August 2014 LOAR Results

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From the Vert Hawk Herald, via the Calonlist:

CALONTIR acceptances

* Adelaide Sarsfield.

Name and device. Per chevron argent and azure, two fleurs-de-lys sable and a martlet argent.

The sources cited in the Letter of Intent to document the byname, Sarsfield, use normalized, or modernized, forms of the names. The submitted spelling is found in Latin dated to 1516-7 (Chartularies of St Mary’s Abbey, Dublin;http://books.google.com/books?id=R_w-CZ0eXnYC, p. 14), so we are able to register this name.

* Aelia Basina.

Name change from Ho’elun Checheg.

Submitted as Aelia Basina of Veii, the submitter requested authenticity for 6th-7th century Roman. Aelia and Basina were documented as Byzantine names. We do not have evidence of double given names for that culture. However, these elements can be interpreted as a Late classical Roman name. In commentary, Green Staff documented several Roman names with Aelia as a first element, although most of the women who used this pattern were empresses. In order to make the name authentic, however, the lingua Anglica of Veii should be dropped. We have made this change with the submitter’s permission in order to register this name.
The submitter’s previous name, Ho’elun Checheg, is released.

* Biby ferch Llewelyn of Camelford.

Name and device. Sable, a coney rampant contourny argent within a bordure per pale gules and Or semy of Bowen knots crosswise counterchanged.

This name combines an English given name and locative with a Welsh patronymic byname. This is an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA.

* Caoimhin McKee.

Heraldic Title Sanglier Rouge Herald.

* Cesare di Lodovico Malefici.

Device. Bendy wavy argent and sable.

Nice device!

* Ffelix Æskelsson.

Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as F{oe}linx Æskelsson, the submitter requested a given name that sounded like “Felix”. Goutte d’Eau documented the name Ffelix to 16th century Norway (Diplomatarium Norvegicum). Æskelsson can also be documented as a 14th and 15th century byname in the same source, making this a wholly Norwegian name.
If the submitter had not agreed to this change, the name F{oe}linx is a genitive (possessive) form, not the required nominative form. The nominative forms would be F{oe}lins and F{oe}linss.

* Halldóra Guðrøðardóttir.

Name (see RETURNS for device).

* Isibél inghean Dáire.

Name.

Submitted as Isibél ingen Dáire, the name appeared on the Letter of Intent as Isibél inghen Dáire. This form contained a misspelling of the particle ingen/inghean (“daughter of”). The submitter confirmed that she preferred the Early Modern Irish byname inghean Dáire. We have made this correction in order to register the name.

* Ormar Svensson.

Name.

Submitted as Ormarr Svensson, the submitter expressed a preference for the form Ormar Svensson. In commentary, Goutte d’Eau documented both elements to Norway in 1384-1394 (in Diplomatarium Norvegicum). Therefore, we are happy to make this change to meet the submitter’s wishes.

* Uesugi Katsumoto.

Name.

* Wulfhere of Eofeshamme.

Name.

The submitter requested authenticity for 8th to 10th century Anglo-Saxon. The given name Wulfhere is dated to the 9th and 11th centuries, and the byname of Eofeshamme is dated to the 11th century. The name may be authentic for the desired time period, but we cannot be certain. 

CALONTIR returns

* Ffelix Æskelsson.

Device. Per fess sable and argent, an increscent Or and a penguin sable bellied argent beaked and footed Or maintaining a sword bendwise sable.

This device is returned for lack of contrast.
Per precedent:

Unfortunately, just as a black orca with a white belly can’t be put on an argent field (v. Rowan Seer, March 2000), so too a black auk with a white belly can’t be put on an argent field.

Here we have a similar case where the belly of the penguin disappears for sharing the tincture of the field.
Although the July 2010 cover letter, discussing about fox proper on an argent background, concluded “The precedent, therefore, is overturned. As long as the charge maintains its identifiability, minor details, even minor details which are identifying characteristics, may have no contrast with the underlying tinctures.” we have here a different situation, as it’s about half the charge that disappears against the argent field and thus the identifiability is not maintained.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a penguin.

* Halldóra Guðrøðardóttir.

Device. Or, a cameleopard couchant regardant argent spotted brown and a sinister gore gules.

This device is returned for multiple issues, each sufficient to justify a return.
This depiction of the posture renders the camelopard unidentifiable, with the neck so close to the back that the separation disappears.
This device is also returned for contrast and tincture issues.
Blazoned as proper, an older precedent regarding the proper tincture of camelopards states:

A cameleopard, or giraffe, proper is Or marked brown/tan; as such, it lacks sufficient contrast against the argent field. (Trust me on this one; I have a relatively recent photograph taken while on one of those “drive-through” safari-type animal reserves, in which a very curious giraffe’s fills up most of the windscreen. Quite dramatic, it was! [Pushy beggar, too. Wouldn’t move out of the roadway until we bribed it with some of the feed pellets they sell you at the entrance.] [Ceridwen Alianora McInnes, 06/1995, Atenveldt-r]

Although there is currently no defined proper tinctures for a camelopard in the Glossary of terms, if we follow this precedent, this charge would not be actually proper. Instead, the camelopard is argent marked brown, which presents two issues:
– it cannot be blazoned as marked brown, as brown is not a heraldic tincture.
– it lacks contrast with the field. We treat markings as details that don’t change the underlying tincture, so the charge is argent, on an Or field.
Per the May 2014 cover letter, the use of gores with other charges is a step from period practice.

* Rodrigo Hernández of Vatavia.

Device. Argent, on a chevron purpure three dragonflies palewise Or.

This device was registered last month. It appears to have been sent up identically in two consecutive months.

CALONTIR pends

* Deidra de Warenne.

Name change from holding name Deidra of Bonwicke.

Submitted as Deidra de Warenne of Childentune, the second byname (of Childentune) had been added to clear a potential conflict with the registered Deirdre the Warrener. Under SENA, however, Deidra de Warenne does not in fact conflict with Deirdre the Warrener. Kingdom confirmed with the submitter that she preferred the name without the second byname. We have made this change with her permission.
The Letter of Intent stated that Deidra is grandfathered to the submitter. However, the submitter’s previous name is a holding name, and thus, Deidra is not eligible for the grandfather clause. As this was not noticed until after the Pelican decision meeting, we are pending the name to allow commenters time to either document the given name Deidra or allow the submitter to provide documentation of her legal name.
This was item 6 on the Calontir letter of May 13, 2014

Urgent advice to all Victorian participants and those planning to travel to the State of Victoria (Australia)

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Urgent advice to all Victorian SCA participants and those planning to travel to the State of Victoria: Due to changes in the Victorian Control of Weapons Act 1990, effective immediately, a restriction has been placed on members of SCA Ltd in Victoria, who are new members since the 5th of June 2014.

These members must not handle or acquire metal weapons, including swords, dress swords, rapier, flails, maces or throwing blades. This does not include rattan weapons.

New members who reside in Victoria and intend to handle or acquire such weapons must complete a Statutory Declaration stating that they are not a prohibited person under the Victorian Control of Weapons Act 1990. This is a requirement of the Victorian State Government.

The restriction for new members will be lifted once they receive a confirmation of receipt of declaration or permit via email from the Registrar.

This will eventually affect all members of SCA Ltd, who live in or plan to travel to Victoria.  These members will also need to send a Statutory Declaration to the Registrar, although members prior to the 5th of June 2014 are not currently restricted from acquiring, using or carrying metal weapons, including swords, rapiers, flails, maces or throwing blades in Victoria during the phase-in period. This includes those in Royal or Baronial Households who may be required to handle ceremonial weapons.

The Statutory Declaration and Application form for this exemption can be found at http://sca.org.au/board/documents/policy/weapons, and needs to have details completed and to be signed and witnessed, as per the attachment to the document. The application form and  declaration (Pages 1 & 2) must be posted to the SCA Ltd Registrar.

Overseas members who intend to undertake travel in Victoria in the near future, please contact secretary@sca.org.au for further information relating to this issue.

Donna Page
Chair
SCA Ltd

Please ensure that this information is forwarded to all lists and communication channels within your group.

October Awards Granted by TRM Agamemnon & Gwen

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Thanks to HG Phaedra:

 

Fall Crown Tournament

Otto von Wolfhagen – Torse
Tanaka Ujimori – Award of Arms
Binde Lavin – Award of Arms
Giovanni Loredan – Torse
Yasamin al-Hadiyya – Golden Calon Swan
Cassius Acillius Rufus known as Voltz – Queen’s Chalice
Winnifred d’Artois – Calon Lily
Edward Blythe – Order of the Pelican
Cai Dubhglas announced for Chivalry

Octo-Bear Fest

Caitriona ingen Faelen – Award of Arms
Ceridwen ferch Llewelyn – Leather Mallet
Cian Mac Lorccan ua Connaill – Iren Fyrd
Otric van Mecklinberg – Leather Mallet
Yumm – Award of Arms
Od Barbarossa – King’s Favor

Hail to the Striking Falcon

Barrett Thickblood – Award of Arms
Kathryn Alice Northrup – Award of Arms
Rafe le Mountere – Torse
Elena Morena del Mar – Award of Arms
Eynon Llangenydd – Silver Hammer
Ivar of Grimfells – Award of Arms
Alexandra Rivke Jessen – Torse
Annora Reynor – Eo-Hirth
Alarich Iarngrad von Thorn – Torse
Kara of Grimfells – Queen’s Chalice
Gustav of Grimfells – Award of Arms
Nakos Theodorosides – Leather Mallet
Eowyth þa Siðend – Court Barony
Mar of Grimfells – Order of Chivalry
Halvgrimr Riddari – King’s Favor

News from Hail the Striking Falcon

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Gathered from Facebook:

 

Mar – Order of Chivalry

Eowyth – Court Baroness

Anorra – Eo Hirth

Barrett Thickblood – AoA

Gustav of Grimfells – AoA

Cara of Grimfells – Queen’s Chalice

Rafe la Montere – Torse

Alaric von Thorne – Torse

Nakos – Leather Mallet

Einen (sp?) – Silver Hammer

Hvalgrimr – King’s Favor

Hirsch won the March Warden tourney.

Masters of the Duel — Schedule and Crash Space

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Garnered from Facebook:

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/883710691646821/

Saturday, November 22nd

SCHEDULE:

9:00 AM – Site Opens

Calontir Steel
9:30-11:30 PM – Beginners How-To Class (Lord Seamus & Lord Michael)
11:00 PM – Inspections
12:00 PM – Swiss Five Tournament
12:00 PM – C&T Tourney Basics Class, held next to Tourney Field during Swiss Five
2:00 PM – Advanced C&T Steel
3:00 PM – Bolognese Class
2:00-4:00 PM – Beginners How-To Class (Lord Seamus & Lord Michael)

Armored Combat
10:00 PM – Inspections
11:00 AM – Warlord Tournament
1:00 PM – Small Unit Tactics Class (Sir Wulfric)
1:00 PM – 6-Foot Spear Class (Lord Torin)
2:00 PM – Buckler Class (HG Sir Garrick) – Open for C&T or Heavy
2:00 PM – 2-Sword/Florentine Class (Mstr. Sir Gawayne)
3:00 PM – Bastard Sword Class (Lord Torin)
3:00 PM – Footwork Class (HG Sir Garrick) – Open for C&T or Heavy

Arts & Sciences Classes
10:00 AM – Cooking Class (Lord Herrick)
1:00 PM – TBA (Lord Niall)
2:00 PM – Calontir Steel Legal Heavy Garb (Baroness Zoe)
3:00 PM – TBA (Lord Niall)

Tavern (Breakfast): 9:00-11:00 PM

Tavern (Lunch): 11:00 AM-1:30 PM

6:00 PM – Site Closes

The crash space coordinator for this event is Francisca and she can be contacted at ladyfranciscadeleon@gmail.com