[Ansteorra] In re Border-March, "The Babe Shire"

[Bill Perkins]

Hola,

The Order of the Madonnas was a Principality of Ansteorra award. It was closed not too long after Ansteorra became a kingdom.  We still track that award in the Ansteorran OP.

Alejandro
Zodiacus



On Feb 19, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Alianorra MacKkye <alianorra.mackkye at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Is There still on 'Order of the Madonna'? I have never heard of it prior to this and I have never seen it on the OP or in the list of the awards. 
> 
> I know many a mother who has raised their children in our society. 
> 
> Alianorra 
> (the curious one)
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Chris Zakes <dontivar at gmail.com>
> To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] In re Border-March, "The Babe Shire"
> 
> At 01:10 AM 2/19/2013, you wrote:
> 
>> For the amusement and/or amazement of the realm:
>> 
>>      May it please Your Serene Highness Duke Houghten to receive this
>>      day a missive from Tessa of the Gardens, Seneschal in
>>      Border-March, "The Babe Shire" in Ansteorra, dated this eighteenth
>>      day of June, AS XII, being also the Gregorian year 1977.
>> 
>> So begins the cover letter of a packet that came into my hands.
> 
> Duke Houghton was probably William of Houghton. In the early days, 
> the Board took a much more active role in the day-to-day running of 
> the SCA. They were called The Imperial Electors and referred to as 
> "Your Serenity."
> 
> 
> 
>> Some people were sorting and clearing the files of the Kingdom of the
>> West, and some of the stuff in it was for the SCA, because they tended