The East has Heirs!
With thanks to Mistress Kay Leigh Mac Whyte, who was kind enough to send us photos and reporting from Crown Tourney.
Jarl Ozurr the Boot Giver, fighting for Lady Hemma Eilika Schweinfurt Von Nurnberg, has defeated Kurfurst Matthias Grunwald, fighting for Doña Magdalena von Kirschberg today in the Barony of An Dubhaigeainn.
Twenty-four fighters entered the lists. The full list of combatants is available here: https://ch.eastkingdom.org/2026/04/crown-tournament-field-listing/
The rules of the tourney were as follows:
- The format shall be pools until the 16. The pools will be fought with great weapons. Pools will be round Robin, top 4 will advance to the 1.
- Once we have the top 16 it will be double elimination bring your best until the semi-finals. Semi-finals will be best of 3 rotating weapons forms. A combatant from the winner’s list will be paired with a combatant from the loser’s list. The combatant from the loser’s list must win twice. The combatant coming out of the winner’s list must win once. The combatant from the winner’s list will pick the first form.
- Finals will be best of 7.
- Finalists shall be heralded into the list.
- First round will be the Queen’s choice.
- Rounds 2 and 3 will be chosen by the combatants’ consorts, with the consort of the combatant losing the first bout picking the form for the 2nd bout. The other consort will pick the form for the 3rd bout.
- The loser of the 3rd and subsequent bouts will pick the weapons form for the next bout, rotating weapons with no form repeating.
- Combatants may choose to repeat weapons from the Queens and Consorts choices though. If the fights go to 7, the 7th bout will be fought with Dane axes.
The results of the top 16 are:
The finals went a total of five rounds:
- Round 1: Sword and shield. Winner- Ozurr
- Round 2: Sword and buckler. Winner- Matthias
- Round 3: Dane axes. Winner- Ozurr
- Round 4: Two sword (specifically sword, not two weapon). Winner- Ozurr
- Round 5: greatsword. Winner- Ozurr
We thank Mistress Kay Leigh for her reporting, however this article was assembled by the Gazette staff, and any errors are our responsibility.