principalities...border

[Burke McCrory]

At 03:24 PM 9/25/96 U, you wrote:
>Galen of Bristol asks:
>
>And just to be mischevious, here's another can of worms:  fealty.  Will 
>knights and Barons swear fealty to the Crown, or to their Coronet, and 
>through the Coronet, to the Crown?  One leaves the Crown with vastly 
>diminished influence, the other leaves the Coronet largely powerless before 
>peers and nobles who have no oath binding them to the Prince.
>
>>>>>

Galen, You know better than most how this would be done as you served as a
Prince once.


>Huh? Perhaps I'm missing something but how do the other kingdoms handle
>this? What exactly are their lines of fealty? This doesn't sound different
>from the situation that other kingdoms have faced. Or is fealty in
>Ansteorra different from that in other kingdoms?
>
>Do the kingdoms with principalities handle this situation differantly from
>each other? If they all handle the situation the same, why shouldn't we?

I think that you must first swear fealty to your Crown, then to your Coronet.


>
>Stefan li Rous
>Who is in fealty to none, but respects many.
>
>



Burke McCrory
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