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Court Report: Black Rose Ball

April 7, 2024 by Leonete

Court Of Their Majesties Matthias And Æsa Feilinn

at Black Rose Ball

In the parliament of the most excellent sovereign lord Matthias, illustrious King of Easterners,
held in the Barony of the Bridge on the 30 th day of March in the fifty-eighth year of the Society,
His Majesty did do and cause to be done the following:

  • Item: His Majesty exchanged gifts of friendship and amity with the Baroness of the Bridge.
  • Item: His Majesty gifted Nest verch Tangwistel and Erasmus Urswyc with his Sovereign’s
    Esteems in thanks for their crafting of beautiful and study boxes for the new crowns.
  • Item: His Majesty named Amalie von Hohensee, Mylisant Grey, and Moire MacGraha as
    Seamstresses to the Crown, and gave them tokens of thanks for their work.
  • Item: His Majesty endowed Moire MacGraha with the Order of Terpsichore for her skill in
    and teaching of dance.
  • Item: His Majesty endowed Zohane Faber with the Award of the Rabbit in the Moon for his
    exceptional service in connection with the Carolingian 50 th Year Celebration.
  • Item: His Majesty charged Master Robert Earlson with the running of the Toybox, to the great
    delight of the multitude of children in attendance.
  • Item: His Majesty commanded Ulfrik Viglundarson to appear before the Tyger Thrones, and
    the said Ulfrik so appearing, thereupon awarded him Arms, as memorialized in a document
    written by Trian O Bruadair and calligraphed and illuminated by Sulicena Vassura.
  • Item: His Majesty called Æthelthryth Kenricing to attend upon him and, praising the said
    Æthelthryth’s skill and dedication to the art of archery, inducted them into the Order of Apollo’s
    Arrow, as attested by a document created by Nataliia Anastasiia Evgenova.
  • Item: His Majesty endowed Serafina Della Torre with his Sovereign’s Esteem in gratitude for
    her work managing largesse for the reign.
  • Item: His Majesty gifted Anéžka Liška z Kolína with his Sovereign’s Esteem in thanks for her
    good work as part of the heraldic staff for the reign and part of Her Majesty’s Guard.
  • Item: His Majesty summoned Aelia Fortunata to appear before the Court, and the said lady so
    appearing, he invested and endowed her with the Order of the Silver Wheel, as attested in a
    document created by Demetrio Antelini de Lucca.
  • Item: His Majesty made gifts of drinking vessels to newcomers to the Society.
  • Item: His Majesty invested Kassandra Aiantide with the Order of the Burdened Tyger in
    token of her diligent and excellent labors on the Carolingian 50 th Year Celebration.
  • Item: In further signacle and token of the said Kassandra’s many good works and the esteem in
    which the said Kassandra is held, His Majesty then caused the name of Kassandra Aiantide to
    be written in the rolls of the Order of the Silver Crescent, all of which is attested in a document
    created by Magdalena von Kirschberg.
  • Item: On behalf of Her Majesty, His Majesty then endowed Lydia Webbe with the Consort’s
    Esteem in recognition of her excellent work as a sign language herald during the reign.
  • Item: His Majesty invested and endowed Cezilia Raposa with the Sovereign’s Cypher as
    thanks for her work managing retainers for the reign.
  • Item: His Majesty gifted Gwillim Kynith and Melisaunde de Vianne with the Order of the
    Golden Lyre as thanks for their parts in the performance of the processional hymn at Their
    Majesties’ Coronation.
  • Item: His Majesty issued a Writ to Cedric Campell a/k/a Cedric of the Floppy Hat,
    commanding him to sit vigil at a future time and place, and then to answer whether he would
    accept membership in the Order of Defense.
  • Item: His Majesty issued a Writ to Ysane la Fileresse commanding her to sit vigil at a future
    time and place, and then to answer whether she would accept membership in the Order of the
    Pelican.

I do hereby bear witness and upon the strength of my signature confirm that the aforesaid was
done upon the day and in the place aforenamed

 

Thyra Brigantia
Witnesseth:
Anéžka Liška z Kolína, Blue Tyger Herald
Æsa Ormstunga
Gavin Kent

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