East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
The following are the sixteen combatants who advanced from the eight pools. Notes will be added next to their name as this round as often as is feasible, so refresh the article for changes. Lord Damon Von Drachenklaue for Lady Segnat ingeann Donnchada Eorl Kenric of Warwick for Hlæfdige Avelina Keyes Pan Jan Janowicz Bogdanski …
The first round of Crown Tourney is being fought using a round robin format. All combatants were divided into 8 different pools. The bouts are being fought using the combatants choice of weapons. The top two scorers advance from each pool.
The combatants in each pool are listed below.
Wishing you were at Crown but can’t make the trip? Want to know the full play-by-play as the tourney progresses? Can’t wait to find out who the next King and Queen of the East will be? Tomorrow, October 27th, the East Kingdom Gazette will provide full coverage of the tournament, from the March of Precedence …
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This Saturday in Their Majesties’ Shire of Endewearde, forty-six combatants will take to the field to seek the glory and honor of bestowing the crown of the East upon the consort who inspires them to feats of chivalry and prowess.
The list of combatants and consorts is as follows:
Unto Our Dear Populace, We would ask for a moment of your time to mark the passing of Mistress eLeri of Nefyn. Mistress eLeri battled cancer for some time, and while it claimed her body last Friday – we will not say that it claimed her life. Throughout the chemotherapy, she was at events doing …
By Baron Jehan du Lac The Kingdom has recently witnessed the funeral rites of a great War King and it brings up the eternal question… what cool stuff did he leave behind? We are familiar with the riches found in places like Sutton Hoo. Have you ever thought about how cool it would be …
By: Baron Rowen Cloteworthy
And so it was on crisp, clear morning, the 13th day of October, the
47th year as these things are reckoned, that the people of the East
gathered at the Church of All Saints in the Barony of Concordia of the
Snows. The populace had come to see Queen Avelina settle the affairs
of her husband, King Kenric, fallen from injuries sustained in a great
boar hunt the prior weekend and watch the Coronation of Edward II and
Thyra as the new King and Queen of the East.
As the choir sang “Pange Melos Lacrimosum”, His Majesty Kenric’s body
was processed silently up the aisle of the cathedral, borne by Duke
Lucan von Drachenklaue, Sir Culann mac Cianain, Pan Jan Janowicz
Bogdanski, Sir Arnwulf Æthelreding, Baron Matthew Moraveous Avdenmork,
and Lord Buyanderlger, and followed by the Queen’s Guard, Her Majesty,
the ladies-in-waiting, and other attendants.
For those fortunate to be onboard for feast at Crown Tourney, the following is the menu that was provided under a comment to the previous Crown Tournament post on October 19, 2012. The autocrat has advised that the feast is sold out at this time.
The Court of our most excellent prince and lord, King Edward II, by grace most illustrious King of the East, and Thyra, his Queen, begun and held at the Shire of Blak Rose, on 20 October A.S. 47, and in the first year of his reign. On which day were called all and sundry the lords of the realm and the great men of the kingdom, earls, barons, freeholders and commissioners of the burghs to hear the following publicly proclaimed: (more…)