Playing This Game Another Way
Paul Mitchell
pmitchel at flash.net
Mon Mar 3 18:02:49 PST 1997
Galen of Bristol here:
KiheBard at aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-03-02 16:39:36 EST, you write:
>
> > > > Her we must part company for a bit. Where is there any requirement
> > > > that a given gentle must squire (or apprentice or whatever) before
> > > > they are considered for a granted peerage?
> > >
> > > No.
> > >
> > > Galen Edwin Kirchenbauer
> > > Galen Niccoli
> > > Inman McMoore
> > > Seamus of the Cats
> > > Rowan Beatrice von Kaempfer
> > > These all spring to mind as members of the Chivalry who
> > > were never squires.
> > Add Richard ap Morgan, Jan w Orzeldom and Randall von Nordlichwald to
> > that list. (This is just who I can think of from my group....)
>
> Actually, I think I can extend the list myself: Mistress Sabia (harpist
> Therese Honey) I understand to not have apprenticed formally [correction
> invited!], and to the best of my personal knowledge Jonathan Delaufysson was
> made a knight without having been previously a squire. I'm not so certain
> about Lloyd von Eaker...
I don't think Lloyd was any kind of squire, but I do believe that Duke
Jonathon was squire to Duke Deaton Claymore.
Also, Sir Christian Richard Dupre was never a squire.
> al-Sayyid Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra
> currently residing in Barony of the Steppes, Kingdom of Ansteorra
> Mike C. Baker KiheBard at aol.com
> Any opinions expressed are obviously my own unless explicitly stated
> otherwise!
As to the question of how long since a non-squire was elevated, one
must needs look at how long since anyone was elevated, a subject
upon which I have already dwelt sufficiently, of late.
- Galen of Bristol
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