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

Deborah Hammons mistressaldyth at gmail.com
Thu May 26 14:58:09 PDT 2011


Out here a Province is just a Province.  A Crown Barony is different.  Got
to love interkingdom anthropology.

Aldyth

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Saint Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:

> That maybe your experience, but that's not the experience of  the
> greater NYC area. Ostgardr has been a Province with a  sitting Viceroy
> and Vicereine since rocks were soft ;-) Ian and Katherine recently
> stepped down after having been in that position for years and years,
> Alexandre and Eularia took a  turn, and last I heard there were
> several candidates being voted on for the job (I'm not a member of
> Ostgardr, so I'm not involved in the actual voting, so I'm not sure if
> anyone has been elected yet.)
>
> However, Ostgardr is NOT a  Crown Province because they lack for good
> and willing candidates for the position to fill the coronet.
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Deborah Hammons
> <mistressaldyth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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> --
> Saint Phlip
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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