[Ansteorra] All this talk about Provinces and Palatine Baronies....

[herrdetlef at aol.com]

Let's see what I can remember:
 
Province = next step up from a shire, parallel to a barony, but without a baronial court
Crown Barony = a barony of which the Crown (king and queen) are Baron and Baroness...an example is the Crown Barony of the Bridge in the East Kingdom (http://www.baronyofthebridge.eastkingdom.org/)
Dominion = clueless, but the Dominion of Myrkfaelin (http://www.lightlink.com/myrkies/) is in New York (I guess East Kingdom)
Barony Marche = again, relatively clueless, but I would believe this to be a barony established in a remote or border region (I think the Debatable Lands is such a group...not sure)
March = If I remember correctly, The Steppes was founded as a March.......again being a shire established in a remote or border region (and The Steppes was the second SCA group founded in Texas, after the Stargate which, according to corpora, automatically became a barony because it was the first group founded in the state)
Crown Principality = a territorial principality of which the Crown (king and queen) are prince and princess.  (Do the crown prince and crown princess of that kingdom become the territorials of such a principality?) Cunnan reports that a crown principality is a kind of incipient principality that doesn't quite have the numbers or the level of activity required for a full-fledged principality, it cannot create armigerous awards, etc...and instead of a Prince and Princess, it is ruled by a Viceroy and Vicereine
Crown Province = <scratches head>  although......I have a fuzzy recollection of the SCA group in Manhattan being a Crown Province of some kind....(I just found it......they are the Crown Province of Ostgardr, and their website is www.ostgardr.org!)
Palatine Barony = a barony whose baron and baroness are chosen, not by polling and the will of the Crown, but by some kind of tournament
 
SURELY there is a link somewhere on sca.org that lists the different kinds of groups allowed, and what their natures are...the best one I've seen right now is on Cunnan, at http://cunnan.sca.org.au/wiki/Groups.
 
I've gotta run!  I'm late for class, and I"m sure my students are getting restless!
 
Hope this helps, and I hope I didn't cause more confusion than before!
 
Detlef
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Tressa <tressarhiannon at yahoo.com>
To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
Sent: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:18:37 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Ansteorra] All this talk about Provinces and Palatine Baronies....


Greetings to the list,

All this talk about different types of groups made me
curious.  In doing a little looking around, I found
some interesting types.  I confess I don't really know
what the differences are with some of them..

Beside the usual types..Barony, Shire, Canton etc.

So far...

Province
Crown Barony
Dominion
Barony Marche
March
Crown Principality
Crown Province
Palantine Barony

Can anyone shed light on the differences?

Just curious,
Tressa

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