Playing This Game Another Way

[Paul Mitchell]

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.

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> 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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