MSCA (was: Re: MOA)

Michael F. Gunter mfgunter at tddeng00.fnts.com
Wed Jun 4 06:54:54 PDT 1997


> From nweders at mail.utexas.edu Wed Jun  4 08:06:22 1997
> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 07:57:09 -0500 (CDT)
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> During the Investiture of the new King, Masters do not swear fealty but in
> the past, I have seen Dukes Lloyd and Jonathon both toast the Crown.  If my
> memory serves me the also tell the Crown that they do not swear any oath to
> the Crown but that they offer their services.  (Something like that)
> Basically they acknowledge the Crown somehow.

Yes, this is called Courtesy and respect for the Crown.  Also, they would approach
the Crown just after the Knights have completed the oath-making so there would be
no break in the flow of the Court.  They do not interrupt the Court, to do so 
would be rude.


> I know of several knights
> who used to not swear fealty to a Crown if they felt that they could not
> work with that particular Crown... then they wore their Chain in their belt
> for that reign.  I don't think that it's a popular concept though.....
> 

Wearing the chain on the belt because you have a problem with the current Crown is
insulting to the extreme.  One common misconception, even among the knights, is 
that you swear fealty each time there is a new Crown.  A knight swears fealty
ONCE.  That during the ceremony in which they are knighted.  The knight's oath is
to the Crown and lands of Ansteorra and to whomever is the rightful ruler.  The
fealty ceremony is simply a reaffirmation of that oath.  There have been Kings
to whom I did not reaffirm my oath to for various reasons but I was no less a 
Knight of Ansteorra nor did I consider myself out of fealty.  Had the King 
commanded me, I would have obeyed.

> Clare R. St. John
> 

Yers,

Sir Gunthar Jonsson                      "It is better to lose well than 
Kingdom of Ansteorra                               to win badly."


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