[Sca-cooks] The Naming of Names - slightly OOP

[Deborah Hammons]

It has been my experience that Provinces are groups that either cannot or
will not have good candidates to fill the coronet (Sitting Baronage.) Beats
being a Crown Barony in some people's minds. YMMV.  I do know of one that
just wants to be the Province without the "hassle" of baronial awards and
other things.

Aldyth

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Donna Green <donnaegreen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] The Naming of Names - slightly
> > OOP
>
> > Does the Province{?} of Ostgardr consist of just the five
> > boroughs/
> > cantons?  And what is an SCA "province"? How does it
> > vary from a
> > barony or a principality?
>
> A province is the same as a barony in terms of size and officer
> requirements, but it does not have a Baron and/or Baroness. They are common
> here in the West, particularly in the Mists. I think the Crown Provice of
> Ostgardr (NY) and the Provice of Treegirtsea (Chicago) are the only ones
> outside the West.
>
> The theory in the old days, as I understand it, is that a Baron/ess's job
> is to stand in for the Crown when They aren't there. But, if you live in an
> area where the Crown is almost always there, then you don't need a stand in,
> so you have a Province instead of a Barony. The Provinces in the
> Principality of the Mists are in the parts of the SF Bay Area where all our
> early kings came from. Golden Rivers (Sacramento) in the Principality of
> Cynagua, became a Province after having been a Barony. The specific reasons
> for this change are unknown to me.
>
> Juana Isabella
> West
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