ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 3296
http://www.s-gabriel.org/3296
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17 Oct 2007
From: Aryanhwy merch Catmael 

Greetings from the Academy of S. Gabriel!

You asked us to reconsider the 15th century German name and arms we
recommended a long time ago. [1] The name we recommended was <Eckard
Egelolf> and the arms you are now interested in are "Per pale sable 
and gules, two wolves addorsed argent."

Firstly we will address your name, and secondly your armory.

Forms of the name <Eckard> are recorded throughout the 11th to the 
17th centuries. Those closest to the spelling we recommended are: [2]

   Eckard   1013
   Eckart   1329
   Eckart   1336
   Eckhard  14th century
   Eckart   1409
   Eckardus 1483
   Eckard   1612

The form <Eckardus> is a Latin-language form.

The surname <Egelolf> was originally a patronymic byname, one 
indicating that the bearer's father's name was <Egelolf>.  <Egelolf> 
is a later development of the name <Agilulf>.  As we noted in our 
earlier report, various forms of <Agilulf> were common in most of the 
Continental Germanic dialects of the later first millenium. [6]  The
name remained fairly popular in southwestern Germany.  We have the
following forms (the spellings ending in <-us> are Latin forms): [7,8]

  Egilolfus    1106, 12th C
  Egelolfus    1154, 1180, 1212, 1219, 1270, 1277, 1279, 1280, 1298
  Egilolf      12th C, 1258, 1298
  Egelolphus   1238
  Egellolfus   1257
  Egiloff      1280
  Egloff       1282
  Eglolfus     1284, 1300
  Egelouf      1291
  Egulolfus    ~1300
  Egelolf      1300, 1293
  Eglolf       1315
  Egnolff      1441
  Egolff      ~1520

The name also gave rise to a variant where the first <l> became an
<n>.  In 1380 we find the same person recorded as both <Eglolf> and
<Egenolf> [9], and we also have the following spellings: [7,8]

  Egnolfus     1102, 1212
  Egenolf      1298, 1299
  Egnolf       1300
  Egnolff      1441

By the 14th and 15th century, spellings which dropped the <e> or <i>
between the <g> and the <l> or <n> seem to be more common.  Based on
this, we recommend a spelling such as <Egloff> as good re-creation for
your period.

We can now give more information on the design elements in your arms 
and their suitability in the 15th century.

We have found all the elements of your arms in a 1605 German roll of
arms, and all except one in a 14th century German roll of arms. [3,4]
Low contrast fields are not common but we have found examples of them,
including one quartered device in 1605 with two quarters being

     Per pale gules and sable, a rose argent. [3]

In the 14th century we found

     Per pale gules and sable, a chief argent. [4]

The rarest element in your proposed arms is the addorsed animals. In 
the 14th century we found only fish addorsed, while in 1605 we do 
find dogs and lions addorsed.  Your arms are thus appropriate for the 
end of the 16th century and beginning of the 17th century, but we are 
less sure whether they are appropriate for the 15th century. [5]

We hope this letter has been useful. Please write to us again if any 
part of it has been unclear or if you have other questions. We were 
assisted in researching and writing this letter by Walraven van 
Nijmegen, Rian mag Uidir, Coblaith Mhuimhneach, Margaret Makafee, 
Talan Gwynek, and Adelaide de Beaumont.

For the Academy,

Eleyne de Comnocke & Aryanhwy merch Catmael, 17 October 2007

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References:

[1] In Academy of S. Gabriel Report #411 (http://www.s-
gabriel.org/411) and Academy of S. Gabriel Report #639 (http://www.s-
gabriel.org/639).

[2] Seibicke, Wilfried, _Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch_ (de 
Gruyter, series, various dates), vol. 1, pp. 557-558, s.n. Eckehard.

[3] Siebmacher, Johann, _Johann Siebmachers Wappenbuch von 1605_, 2 
vols., ed. Horst Appuhn (Dortmund: Harenberg, 1988, 1989). 
http://www.wappenbuch.de/

[4] "The Zurich Roll of Arms"
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ZurichRoll/

[5] However, when we conflict checked this design with a view to its
suitability for registration with the College of Arms of the SCA, we
found a conflict with the following arms:

Manfred Albrecht von Halsstern (in May of 1997 via the East):
(Fieldless) Two wolves rampant addorsed argent.

So far as we can tell, changing the wolves from argent to Or results
in a registerable design.  There are various examples of Or dogs,
foxes, or wolves in [3] and #351 in [4] is "Per fess azure and argent,
in chief a wolf passant Or."

[6] Mu"ller, Gunter, _Studien zu den Theriophoren Personennamen der
Germanen_ (Ko"ln: Bo"hlau Verlag, 1970), p. 142.

[7] Brechenmacher, Josef Karlmann, _Etymologisches Woerterbuch der
deutschen Familiennamen_ (Limburg a. d. Lahn, C. A. Starke-Verlag,
1957-1960), s.nn. Egilolf, Eglauf, Eglof(f), Eglolf, Egnolf, Egolf.

[8] Socin, Adolf, _Mittelhochdeutsches Namenbuch. Nach oberrheinischen
Quellen des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts_ (Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn,
1903; Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1966), pp. 13-14.

[9] Bahlow, Hans, _Deutsches Namenlexikon: Familien- und Vornamen 
nach Ursprung und Sinn erklaert_ (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 
Taschenbuch Verlag, 1985, 1990), s.nn. Egenolf(f), Egloff.