Branwen

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Period Forms:

• Name - type of name (eg. English feminine give name), date, source.

Other Potential Sources:

• Laurel Name Articles - http:heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/|http:heraldry.sca.org/laurel/
• On-line System for Commentary and Response (OSCAR) - https://oscar.sca.org/ (mine previous submissions)
• Morsulus LoAR/Precedent Searches - http://www.morsulus.org/
• Name Pattern Search Form for registered items - http://oanda.sca.org/oanda_np.cgi

• Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Names Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ (copies required)
• Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi ("no copy")
• Academy of St. Gabriel "working" bibliography - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-documents/biblio.html

• Database of Medieval Names (from the Medieval Names Archive) - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/database/alphalist.php
• Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources - http://dmnes.org/names
• IGI Searches (aka Family Search) - https://familysearch.org/search/collection/igi (batches B, C, J, K, M (except M17 and M18), or P are acceptable)

• Omniglot On-line Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages - http://www.omniglot.com/index.htm

Precedents:

• Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[1]]
• Morsulus Heralds Website - [[2]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
• Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Registerability:

From Pelican: No More SCA-Compatibility On the May 2008 Cover Letter, we ruled: > Therefore, as of the May 2009 decisions meetings, we declare that no new name elements or name patterns will be ruled SCA-compatible, that all names previously ruled SCA-compatible are no longer SCA-compatible and that in order for them to be registered, documentation meeting the same standards as for non-SCA-compatible names will be required. This ruling went into effect with this, the May 2009 Pelican meeting.

http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2009/05/09-05cl.html

Conflict:

From the <month> <year> LoAR:

Collected Precedents:

• Compiled Names Precedents (current through May 2004, as of 10/2016) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/index.html

Branwen
François la Flamme	2001.11	Branwen was ruled SCA compatible in June of 1996. Reaney & Wilson (p. 61 s.n. Brangwin) date Brangwayna to 1250, and various surname forms to later. However, this is not a form of Branwen, but rather of Brangwain, which is a different name. Therefore, Branwen is not registerable as a documented name, thought it remains SCA compatible. [Branwen ferch Gwythyr, 11/01, A-East]
Da'ud ibn Auda (2nd tenure, 2nd year)	1996.06	Note that for all its popularity in the SCA, Branwen has not yet been shown to have been used by human beings in our period. (Talan Gwynek, LoAR June 1996, p. 1)
Da'ud ibn Auda (2nd tenure, 2nd year)	1996.06	What Names Are 'SCA-Compatible'?... Having found that my own baronial herald was slightly confused on the subject of 'SCA-compatibility', I thought that it might be helpful to list the status of some of the most common names that have been considered under this rubric. The post-period English name Fiona, which is not to be confused with the period Irish name Fíona (earlier Fíne), has long been considered 'SCA-compatible'. So have the names Cer(r)idwen (Ker(r)idwen), Rhiannon, Bronwen, Branwen, Rowen(a), and Rhonwen, all of which may be found in Welsh myth and legend, but none of which seems to have been in actual use by real people in our period. Guendolen/Gwendolen, a name based on a misreading of a masculine name and attested only in fiction, was declared 'SCA-compatible' in the 8/95 Cover Letter; more modern spellings of the name were disallowed. Brian(n)a, a modern feminization of Brian that follows no known period model, was declared 'SCA-compatible' in the 12/95 Cover Letter.

• 2nd Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (April 2011 - August 2011) - to be included in Compiled Names Precedents above
• 1st Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (May 2005 - July 2008) - ditto
• The 2nd Tenure of François la Flamme (October 2004 - May 2005) - http:heraldry.sca.org/goodbye.cgi?url=http:www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/sca/nameprec.html
• The Tenure of Shauna of Carrick Point (May 2004 - August 2004) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/shauna/name.html
• The Tenure of François la Flamme (August 2001 - April 2004) - included in Compiled Names Precedents above
• The Tenure of Elsbeth Anne Roth (June 1999 - July 2001) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/elsbeth/name.html (included in above)
• The Tenure of Jaelle of Armida (June 1996 - June 1999) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/jaelleret.html (also in CNP above)
• The 2nd Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (November 1993 - June 1996) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/daud2/daud2ret.html (also in CNP above)
• The Tenure of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme (June 1992 - October 1993) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/bruce/Bruceret.html (also in CNP above)
• The 1st Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (June 1990 - June 1992) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/daud/daud1ret.html (also in CNP above)
• The Tenure of Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (September 1986 - June 1990) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/AlisounRet.html
• The Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor (August 1984 - August 1986) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/baldwinret.html
• The Tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel (August 1979 - August 1984) - in Compiled Names Precedents above
• The Tenure of Karina of the Far West (December 1975 - June 1979) - in Compiled Names Precedents above
• The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975) - in Compiled Names Precedents above