Spanish Names

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Sources:

Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Names Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/
Database of medieval names (from the Medieval Names Archive) - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/database/
Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi

Laurel Name Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/

IGI Searches, batches beginning with C, J, K, M (except M17 and M18), or P are acceptable - https://familysearch.org/search/collection/igi

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

"Catalogo de Passajeros a Indias Cat.II years 1535-1538

"16th C Spanish Names" by Elsbeth Anne Roth - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/spanish/

St. Gabriel report number 1945 - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/1945.txt

Placenames:

Historic Cities: Iberia - http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/iberia/iberia.html (old maps and images)

SENA Appendix A: Patterns That Do Not Need Further Documentation by Language Group

http://heraldry.sca.org/sena.html#AppendixA (as of 12 October 2013)

Iberian

	Double Given Names	Locative	Patronymic	Other relationship	Descriptive/Occupational	Dictus	Double Bynames	Order
Castilian (Spanish)	Late	Phrase (de X; del Y or de la Y), unmarked; adjectival	Marked (see notes), unmarked		Yes; usually without article		Yes; second byname usually locative	given+byname given+pat+locative given+byname+locative given+pat+descriptive
Catalan	Yes	Phrase (de X,del Y or de la Y), adjectival	Unmarked or marked as in Castilian	viuda "widow"	Yes; usually without article	alias with two bynames	Yes; second byname usually locative	given+byname given+given+byname given+byname+locative
Basque
Portuguese		Phrase (de X,da X, do X,d'X)	Marked (see notes), unmarked		Yes; usually without article		Yes; second byname usually locative	given+byname given+pat+locative

Notes:

Castilian: A patronymic byname may be Latinized (filius B) or in the vernacular, usually formed by adding -ez to the father's name (and dropping terminal -o). Patronyms may also be formed by using an unmodified version of the father's name. For more details see Elsbeth Anne Roth, "16th Century Spanish Names" (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kvs/heraldry/spanish16/) or Juliana de Luna "Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century" (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/).

Catalan: For further details see Aryanhwy merch Catmael, "Catalan Names from the 1510 census of Valencia" (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/spanish/valencia1510.html), especially the surname section.

Basque: All patterns in Basque must be documented; Basque names often closely resemble Castilian or Catalan names.

Portuguese: ...

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SENA Appendix C: Regional Naming Groups and Their Mixes

http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/sena.html#AppendixC

Regional Groups:	By Time Period:	Languages Included In This Group:	Can Be Combined With Groups:
Iberian	550-1100	Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Basque, Visigothic, etc.	Arabic French Italian
	1100-1600	Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Basque, Visigothic, etc.	Arabic French Italian

Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Collected Precedents of the SCA: Basque - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Basque.html
Collected Precedents of the SCA: Catalan - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Catalan.html
Collected Precedents of the SCA: Spanish - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Spanish.html

April 2016 Allowed Naming Patterns

Rodrigo Francisco Sanchez de Vihuela de Navarra. Name and device. Sable, a chevron inverted couped, on a chief argent three Maltese crosses sable.

In 2007, we ruled:

Submitted as Diego Antonio Vega de Palma, no documentation was submitted and none found for Spanish bynames of the form [unmarked locative] + [locative] in period. Precedent states:

The primary problem with the name is the form: [given name] [given name] [locative] [given name] [locative]. A quick survey of the first 4000 names (A­C) in the sixth volume of the Catalogo (dating around 1580), shows of those names, 5 had possibly four elements, and none had five. Of those five names, two (María Alvarez de Sotomayor de Quiroga and Pedro Gonzalez de Baeza de los Hermanos) are probably actually of the form [given name] [patronymic] [compound locative]. One other (Diego de Peralta Cabeza de Vaca) is probably of the form [given name] [locative] [compound locative] as Cabeza de Vaca is independently listed as a place name (in volume IV). The other two use the modern y formation: Diego García de Montalvo y Colindra and Miguel Jeronimo de Mendoza y Arquillada. [Constanzia Maria Morales Enzina d'Zamora, October 1997]

Further, Palimpsest notes:

While unmarked locatives are found as single bynames, I have seen no examples of unmarked locatives used in compound bynames. To make a compound byname with two locative elements, this needs to be altered to "de Vega y Palma" or "de la Vega y de Palma" (both "de Vega" and "de la Vega" are found in my Spanish names from the Late 15th Century: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/isabella/).

We have changed the name to Diego Antonio de Vega y Palma in order to register it. [Diego Antonio de Vega y Palma, July 2007, A-Caid]

The Letter of Intent included two possible examples of two double locative bynames or possible compound locatives: Maria Martinez De Ytuarte De Susao and Juana Hernandez Del Corro Del Toro. Therefore, we will give the submitter the benefit of the doubt that the submitted form is also plausible.