Baronial Meeting Minutes – April 3, 2017

Please contact the Secretary at secretary@carolingia.eastkingdom.org with any questions or corrections.

  • Spring is here! (shhh, don’t tell it)
  • Bylaw Amendments time is here
    • Submission window is open now
    • Discuss on June 5
    • Final drafts due June 10
    • Vote on July 10
  • 5 Great Carolingian events n the last month.  Go Team!
  • Officers
    • Chatelaine – New people came to the Laurel’s Prize challenge.  They had fun, woo!
    • Thrown Weapons will be starting next week
    • Dance Practice continues through the first week in May, skipping April 20.  Thursdays in Brighton
    • Heralds
      • The submitted heraldry for the Perseus differs from what is in the bylaws.  We registered 6 mullets, we use 9 stars
      • Nicolette – We registered what we discussed, Justin disagrees.
      • Edith points out that the current medallions match the Bylaws, not the registration
      • Senechal – We should discuss this on the Perseus list, it’s now a good time to amend the bylaws to match whatever we want or update the heraldic registration
    • Metal Drive – Bring in your old site tokens to be melted down into shiny new medallions!
    • Activities
      • Scribal – Meeting on April 16, Easter.  Revere.  Project will be whatever, but with a focus on new scribes if you’ve ever wanted to try
      • Storytellers – Full day Njal’s Saga Event in Rochester, NY (Aethelmark) njalblog.wordpress.com (October 14th Columbus day weekend)
      • Fellowship of Philosophers – We have had several salons on “How to Choose a Coronet”.  No conclusions were reached but discussions were had and summaries have been distributed (or will be as soon as the next miniscule is distributed)
      • Fighting Schola in Aschehyrst on Sunday 1pm
    • Baroness Nicolette
      • Colin and Nic are looking for autocrats for 2 events next winter
        • Late period dance/dessert.  Long lead time since there will be classes on how to make Tudor/Elizabethan garb
        • Ambassadorial Event – Non-western persona present themselves to the court with a presentation of something from their homeland.
        • In addition, we need to find a new Baronial Performance Championship, perhaps to fit into an upcoming event or a stand-alone event.  If you are thinking about preparing, their excellencies are leaning on “bringing a period piece to life”
      • Laurels Prize Tourney
        • It’s not just about the laurels, there was no tourney, which was perfect
        • Colin couldn’t go due to puppy-issues
        • They wish to extend their deepest gratitude to Mistress Dreda and the entire staff of the event for creating such magic
        • There was Baronial Court, Lady Elana Hynton was inducted into the Moons and Master Avaldr was inducted into the Perseus
      • Final Business – The barons serve through the support and loyalty of the Royalty, which makes the Landed Baronness the representative of the King and Queen in their absance.  In such, a writ has been handed off to be presented
        • Writ for Mistress Dreda to be inducted into the order of the Pelican at Panteria
      • Recent Events
        • Dreda – We had a Laurels Prize Tourney.  100 people attended a “little bitty narrow event.” We took in over $1200 gross, which more than covered expenses for the event. There were over 20 challenges, and everyone had a great time!
      • Upcoming Events
        • Company of Bowman – May 20.  We need volunteers throughout the day. Please contact the autocrats if interested. There will be both archery and thrown weapons qualification shoots.
        • Battle of the Armies
          • working on finalizing site fees with the site
          • More A/S Challenges are coming
          • Pre-reg is open
          • eastkingdom.org
          • Looking for meal cooks, if you wanna cook breakfast, we want YOU
        • Archery and TW Champs, might be early October
        • Falling Leaves is still happening
      • Next Council is May 1, Mistress Katryn is in charge, you are warned