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

[Chris Zakes]

At 01:47 PM 1/25/2006, you wrote:
>Tressa wrote:
>
>>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..
>
>>Can anyone shed light on the differences?
>
>The types of branches are defined in Corpora - 
>http://www.sca.org/docs/govdocs.pdf - Section III.C.1.   Sections III.C.2 
>through III.C.7 provide further information.
>
>
>III.  BRANCHES
>C. Branch Designations
>1. The designations given below are considered standard, and their use for 
>branches of the appropriate type needs no special justification:
>• Kingdom: area ruled by a King and Queen
>• Principality: area within a kingdom ruled by Prince and Princess
>• Barony: area administered by a Baron and/or Baroness, the ceremonial 
>representative(s) of the Crown
>• Province: equivalent of barony without ceremonial representative
>• Shire: local branch reporting directly to a kingdom or principality
>• Canton: local branch reporting through a barony
>• Riding: local branch reporting through a province
>• College: institutional branch based at a school, research facility, etc.
>• Stronghold: institutional branch based at a military installation
>• Port: institutional branch based at a military installation in 
>situations where groups of members will be detached for long periods, as 
>with ships at sea
>
>--Perronnelle


I suspect (without looking into the history of the various "unusual" groups 
mentioned in Detlef's post) that titles such as "March" or  "Crown 
Principality" were names made up in the early days of the SCA, before the 
structure was quite as formalized as it is now.

         -Tivar Moondragon