Unofficial Court Report: K&Q Rapier Champions
In the forty-seventh year of the Society, upon 9 February, in the Barony of l’Ile du Dragon Dormant, Edward the King and Thyra the Queen did enact and cause to be enacted the following:
Item. Their Majesties accepted the fealty of Angus and Tadea, Baron and Baroness of L’Ile du Dragon Dormant.
Item. Their Majesties caused those good gentles new to our Society to be brought before the Tyger Thrones, and did gift each with tokens of the day.
Item. Their Majesties summoned the children of the East Kingdom and shared with them toys donated by la Chambre des Dames d’Alisay.
Item. Their Majesties called before the Tyger Throne their fair subject Tadea Isabetta di Bruno, and, in acknowledgement of her many labors, including as Baroness of l’Isle du Dragon Dormant, summoned the Order of the Pelican and thereupon inducted the said Tadea in the Order aforenamed and conveyed upon her Arms by Letters Patent. This deed was memorialized in a document calligraphed by Alisay de Falaise and illuminated by Ursion de Gui.
Item. Their Majesties summoned the good lady Borujin Acilaldai before the Court and inducted her into the Order of the Silver Rapier, the which deed was memorialized in a document prepared by Lada Monguligin.
Item. The Order aforenamed being yet incomplete, Their Majesties called Mikulaj von Meissen before the Court and created him a member of the Order of the Silver Rapier, the which deed was memorialized in a document authored by Lorita de Siena and created by Isabel Chamberlaine.
Item. The Order of the Silver Rapier remaining incomplete, Their Majesties called upon Jonathan Rankin O’Rose and caused his name to be writ upon the lists thereof, the which deed was memorialized in a document calligraphed by Constance de St. Denis and illuminated by Sarra the Lymner.
Item. The subject of the art of the rapier being much on Their Majesties’ mind and the practice thereof being greatly to their pleasure, Their Majesties convened this day a great and mighty rapier tournament; the victor of the day was declared in open Court to be Nathaniel Wyatt, who was thereupon awarded the title of King’s Rapier Champion and gifted in memory thereof with a document created by Catarina Giaocchini.
Item. Her Majesty then summoned Davius Saint Jacques before the Tyger Thrones and declared him to be her chosen Queen’s Rapier Champion according to the most ancient traditions of the Realm, the which deed was memorialized in a document created by Catarina Giaocchini.
Item. Their Majesties requested the presence of Samantha McShane before their Court, and the said lady appearing, did induct her into the Order of the Tyger’s Cub, the which deed was memorialized in a document created by Borujin Acilaldai.
Item. Their Majesties requested the presence before the Court of Olan of l’Ile du Dragon Dormant and awarded him Arms, the which deed was memorialized in a document created by Brangwyne of Wentworth.
Item. Their Majesties summoned before them Mireille of l’Ile du Dragon Dormant and awarded her Arms, the which deed was memorialized in a document illuminated by Magdalena Lantfarerin and calligraphed by Elsa de Lyon.
Item. Their Majesties awarded Arms to Ildiko of l’Ile du Dragon Dormant, the which deed was memorialized in a document created by Mayuki Yuri.
Item. Their Majesties awarded Arms to Abiageal Muirgen Mhic an Mhadaigh, the which deed was memorialized in a document created by Aleksei Dmitriev.
Item. His Majesty gave tokens of the King’s Esteem of Merit to Shadiyah al-Zhara and Arthur de Beaumont.
Item. Their Majesties caused the name of Katherine Ashwode to be writ upon the list of the Order of the Manche, the which deed was memorialized in a document created by Sunniva Ormstung.
Item. Their Majesties called Daffyd of l’Ile du Dragon Dormant into their presence and awarded him Arms, the which deed was memorialized in a document created by Catarina Giaocchini.
Item. Their Majesties brought Bradwyn of l’Ile du Dragon Dormant before the Court and awarded him Arms, the which deed was memorialized in a document illuminated by Isa of Ruantallan and calligraphed by Eleana O’ Sirideain.
Item. Their Majesties summoned Erick the Ferocious into their presence and thereupon awarded him Arms, the which deed was memorialized in a document created by Robin dit Dessant.
Item. Their Majesties summoned Frasier MacLeod before the Tyger Thrones and, acknowledging his long labors, created him a member of the Order of the Silver Crescent, the which deed was memorialized in a document written in his native tongue by Alys Mackyntoich and created by Roberta MacMorland.
Item. The Order of the Silver Crescent being not as yet complete, Their Majesties then summoned the good man Guthfrith Yrlingsson and created him likewise a member of the Order aforenamed, the which need was memorialized in a document authored by Díarmaid Ó Bríain and created by Sarra Graeham of Birnham.
Item. Their Majesties called before the Tyger Thrones Noa the Archer and awarded him Arms, the which deed was memorialized in a document created by Danuta Czarowna.
Item. Their Majesties summoned Guyuk Sakighci into the Court and awarded him Arms, the which deed was memorialized in a document created by Margaret Twygge.
Item. Their Majesties called before them, and awarded Arms to, Kirsa Ajinai, the which deed was memorialized in a document illuminated by Mayuki Yuri and calligraphed by Borujin Acilaldai.
Item. The Majesties called into the Court their subject Ursion de Gui and, in recognition of his deeds, created him a Baron of the Court and granted him Arms, the which deed was memorialized in a document created by Alisay de Falaise and Kayleigh McWhyte.
Item. Their Majesties called Cosmano Piero Micheletto da Roma before the Tyger Thrones and thereupon created him a Baron of the Court and granted him Arms, the which deed was memorialized in a document authored by Borujin Acilaldai, calligraphed by Robin dit Dessant, illuminated by Melina al Andalusiyya.
All these things were enacted upon Saint Apollonia’s Day, in the presence of witnesses, including Conogan mab Rioc, John Radburne and Godfroy de Falaise. Mistress Alys Mackyntoich, Their Majesties’ Herald, wrote this, based upon information provided by Master Ryan McWhyte, Brigantia Herald.