Court Reports of the Barony of Delftwood
Edward and Anastasie
December 3rd, AS 46
(2011)
A Shoote in the Wildwood
Barony of Delftwood
Being
the Report of the Court of Their Excellencies, Edward Harbinger and
Anastasie de Lamoure, Ninth Baron and Baroness of Delftwood, held at
Baronial Yule in Their Barony of Delftwood on the 3rd day of December
A.S. 46. Officiated jointly by Mistress Aheydis von
Körckhingen and Marcellus Titus Cincinnatus. Mistress
Aheydis von Körckhingen reporting herald.
Their Excellencies invited before them the assembled youth in
attendance. As is customary, Their Excellencies queried as to their
enjoyment of the festivities, to which the youths replied with vigor.
Having gained affirmation of the day's success from Their youngest
subjects, Their Excellencies gifted to them small cakes of the season
from the Baronial larder.
Their Excellencies invited before them all for whom this was their
first visit to the Known World. All were welcomed by Their Excellencies
and invited to return and, if it please them, to find a home in these
peaceful and prosperous lands.
Their Excellencies called forward the event's head cook, Meisterin
Felicitas Flußmüllnerin, and her staff. Their Excellencies
congratulated them on a fine day's feasting and thanked them for the
labors.
Their Excellencies likewise thanked the event steward, Lady
Faílenn ingen Chernaich, and commended her efforts in creating a
convivial and festive event.
Their Excellencies requested the presence of Their Bardic Champion,
Lady Éadaoin ingen Chanacáin. Lady Éadaoin spoke
glowingly of the many fine performances given during the competition
and announced the overall tournament winner as Lady Helene al-Zarqa'.
The tournament scroll is a work in progress with illumination by Lord
Fridrich Flußmüllner and calligraphy by Meisterin Felicitas
Flußmüllnerin.
Their Excellencies thanked Lady Éadaoin for her service. Her
time of service at an end, she was divested of the regalia of the
office and invited to take her place among the populace that had been
so delightfully entertained by her song.
Their Excellencies called forth Reinaldr bjór-tappr and spoke
with delight of Reinaldr's fine singing. Having found him equally full
of talent, song and goodly manner, Their Excellencies proclaimed him
Their new Baronial bardic champion. However, before investing him of
the regalia of the office, Reinaldr was called upon to complete the
word smithing of his own championship scroll. With the advisement of
the grammarians among the populace, Reinaldr was tasked to give in turn
examples of nouns, adjectives, diverse articles and all manner of verb
conjugations. Such diction was then joined to the prose of His
Excellency Oeric Thegn upon a scrolled painted and scribed by His
Excellency, whereupon Reinaldr, newly invested of the regalia of
Baronial Bard took his place upon the dais.
Their Excellencies called forth Lord Jan ten Walde, Their Champion of
Arts and Sciences. Their Excellencies praised the artistry of the
entrants and announced the overall winner of the competition as Lord
Justin Lymner, by merit of his hand weaving. The tournament scroll is
the work of Lord Corwin Alexander Templeton.
Their Excellencies thanked Lord Jan for his service to the barony. His
tenure completed, Lord Jan was divested of the regalia of his office
and invited to take his place among the assembly.
Their Excellencies called forward Her Excellency Baroness Clarice Roan.
Having found her scribal entry both pleasing and well-crafted, Their
Excellencies declared her to be Their new champion of Arts and
Sciences. In continuation of tradition, it was discovered that the
scroll was the work of the recipient herself, Baroness Clarice, who,
most fittingly, should be intimately familiar of its value by knowledge
of the toil and labor by which it was made.
Reinaldr bjór-tappr was again called before Their Excellencies.
Having notices his many services to the barony and to the household of
House Hamilton, having been delighted by his singing and having been
impressed by his manner, Their Excellencies created him a companion of
the Order of the Windmill. Scroll painted and scribed by Lady Helene
al-Zarqa', based upon the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Aleidis Lanen was invited to attend Their Excellencies, who, having
noted her many labors in service to the barony and to House Hamilton
and having benefited by her stewardship and by her cooking, made her a
companion of the Order of the Windmill. Scroll painted and scribed by
Meisterin Felicitas Flußmüllnerin, based upon a woodcut of
the Belagerung von Munster c. 1535.
On the invitation of Windmill Pursuivant, Their Excellencies led the
assembly in cheering the heraldic service of Marcellus Titus
Cincinnatus, the barony's newest and youngest herald, whose wont of
years was amply compensated for by his wealth of voice and poise.
There being no further business before Their Excellencies, court was
closed.
NEW CHAMPIONS
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Reinaldr bjór-tappr - Bardic Champion
Clarice Roan - Arts and Sciences Champion
AWARD SUMMARY
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Reinaldr bjór-tappr - Companion of the Windmill (Delftwood
[Svc.])
Aleidis Lanen - Companion of the Windmill (Delftwood [Svc.])