Baron Otto Spilman

Name documentation

• OttoLow German Names from Hamburg, 1475–1529

  Sara L. Uckelman, known in the SCA as Aryanhwy merch Catmael. Five Otto entries dated 1480, 1481, 1483, 1484, and 1492.

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• OttoDas virtuelle Hamburgische Urkundenbuch

  Paper copies of Hamburg testament records submitted with the name. Records dated 1480–1484 include Otto vam Mere, Otto van deme Mere, and Otto van Mer.

• SpilmanEtymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Familiennamen

  Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher, under the heading Spelmann. The cited entry gives Faru Kath. Spelemans in 1470.

• SpilmanAmt Waldenburg, Pfarrei Schönholthausen

  Local-history PDF cited in the submission. Multiple spellings appear under Spielmann. Its footnotes point to records described as dating from 1584, including Herzogtum Westfalen, Landstände IV 1 and 1a; Archiv Hovestadt, Akten 1584; Pfarrarchiv Schönholthausen, Register; and Depositum von Plettenberg, Urk. 1209.

• SpilmanAdditional dated citations

  Regesta Imperii, the Berner Chronik edition, and the Universität Freiburg archive inventory A001. Bürger Ludwig Spilman (1499); Erzählung von Gilgen Spilman (apparently 1455, as qualified in the submission); and Ludwig Spilman zu Bettberg (1526).

Several original 2010 web addresses are no longer live. Their titles, dated forms, and archive references are retained here from the official OSCAR submission record.

Device documentation

The paired OSCAR device item preserves the color and black-and-white emblazons and records the submitted wording as “Per pale Or and sable, a Chessman rook counterchanged Overall on a chief embattled Gules, a Winged Mermaid Harp Or between two hunting horns reversed Or.” The item records a reblazon before the final LoAR registered the form quoted above.

The public device item does not list separate historical exemplars for the charges. Its documented resources are the submission artwork, the blazon history, and the final Laurel decision, which also carries the post-period caution about the winged-mermaid harp depiction.