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ii. Number of Name Phrases - A personal name containing at most two name phrases does not conflictwith any personal name containing a different number name phrases.Thóra Arnthórudóttir does not conflict with Thóra in spaka Arnthórudóttir; Pedro Fernandez does notconflict with Pedro Fernandez Perez.iii. Order of Name Phrases - Two personal names that contain equivalent name phrases arranged indifferent orders do not conflict if the change in order significantly changes the meaning of the nameas a whole.Klein Konrad conflicts with Konrad der Kleine: they could well refer to the same person. Owen apMorgan ap Gruffudd does not conflict with Owen ap Gruffudd ap Morgan: as they have differentfathers, they cannot be the same person. Aed Dub mac Cormaic `Black Aed son of Cormac' does notconflict with Aed mac Cormaic Duib `Aed son of Black Cormac', and Hrólfr dúfunef Bjarnarson`Hrólfr dove-nose son of Björn' does not conflict with Hrólfr Bjarnarson dúfunefs `Hrólfr son ofBjörn dove-nose'. William Brun le Mercer conflicts with William Mercer le Brun, both meaning`William with brown hair who is a merchant in fine textiles'.iv. Change of Name Phrases - Two personal names do not conflict if each contains a name phrase thatis significantly different from every name phrase in the other.William Jamesson the Smith does not conflict with William Jamesson the Carter because each of thephrases the Smith and the Carter appears in one name but not the other. Gilbert Fletcher the Long ofKent conflicts with Gilbert Long Fletcher because (1) the latter name contains no phrase that issignificantly different from every phrase of the former name, and (2) the change in order of thesecond and third name phrases does not significantly change the meaning of the name.c. Historical Personal Names - Protected historical personal names are protected in all of the forms inwhich they commonly appear.Charlemagne, which becomes Carolus Magnus in Latin and Karl der Grosse in German, is protected inall three forms.2. Non-Personal Names. - Branch names, order and award names, heraldic titles, and household names mustbe significantly different from other protected non-personal names.a. Difference of Descriptive Elements - A descriptive element is a word other than a designator, an article,a preposition, or the name of a branch of the Society. Two descriptive elements are consideredsignificantly different if they differ significantly in both sound and appearance. Descriptive elements thatare not significantly different are said to be equivalent.b. Conflict of Names with the Same Number of Elements - Two non-personal names with the samenumber of descriptive elements conflict unless at least one of the following conditions is met.i. Change of Elements - Two such names do not conflict if each of them contains a descriptive elementsignificantly different from every descriptive element in the other.House Saint Mary, Saint Mary Herald, and the College of Sainte Marie all conflict with one anotherbecause their descriptive elements are equivalent; House, Herald, and College of, being designators,are not descriptive elements. The House of the Red Dolphin does not conflict with the House of theBlue Dolphin or the House of the Red Lion. The Order of the White Scarf of Ansteorra conflicts withthe Order of the White Scarf of Atenveldt because Ansteorra and Atenveldt are not descriptiveelements as defined above in clause 2.a.ii. Change of Order or Grammar - Two such names containing equivalent descriptive elements do notconflict if either the order of the elements or the grammatical structure of the name has changed in away that significantly changes the meaning of the name as a whole.The Order of the Sword and the Tower conflicts with the Order of the Tower and the Sword becausethe change in order does not significantly change the meaning of the name. Similarly, the Order ofthe Guardians of the Castle conflicts with the Order of the Castle's Guardians. The Order of theCastle of the Guardians does not conflict the Order of the Guardians of the Castle because the changeMiddle Kingdom Pursuivants Handbook 1292nd Edition - 2002