Proposed Kingdom Law Changes for a Curia
Their Majesties Æiríkr and Jacquelyna give notice that they intend to hold an online Curia Regis before the end of the year 2020 to review 2 proposed Drachenwald Law changes. The first matter is to have Drachenwald law reflect Corpora regarding the removal of gender requirements for participating in Crown List. The second matter is to make the Drachenwald awards gender neutral and to reorganize sections describing awards to make them more readable.
Note that these proposed changes are being put before the Curia for discussion. The outcome of that discussion may be that any of the proposed changes may be rejected, or altered before being implemented into Kingdom Law.
The date and time of the Curia will be announced on the Kingdom website, by social media and to the Drachenwald email list by mid-October. All Greater Officers of the Kingdom should make every effort to attend this on-line curia. If Greater officers are unable to do so, they may send a designated representative, or make their comments known to the Crown and Kingdom Seneschal in writing, prior to the day of the Curia. Members of the populace may also send comments in writing to the Crown (crown@drachenwald.sca.org) and Kingdom Seneschal (seneschal@drachenwald.sca.org) in advance of the meeting.
1 Proposal to change Drachenwald law 7.02.2.1
Reasoning
The purpose of the proposed change is to have the kingdom law reflect Corpora regarding the removal of gender requirements for participating in Crown List. Additionally the word “Consort” is changed to “consort” for consistency.
Corpora IV.B.1 used to be:
Each competitor in a Royal List must be fighting for a prospective consort of the opposite sex unless the Crown has elected to permit a competitor to fight for a prospective consort of the same sex.
On 19 October 2019, Corpora IV.B.1 was changed to:
Each competitor in a Royal List must be fighting for a prospective consort.
Formatting
In the proposed law text below, added text is marked with bold and removed text is marked with strikethrough. All other text is unchanged from the current law text.
Proposed law text
7.02.2.1 Each competitor in the Crown Tournament must be fighting for a prospective consort. consort of the opposite sex unless the Crown has elected to permit a competitor to fight for a prospective consort of the same sex. The competitor and prospective consort Consort are referred to as “Participants” in these laws.
2 Proposal to change Drachenwald law 9-11
The award sections have gone through some reworking to achieve three things.
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The most important changes acknowledge that the roles of Sovereign and Consort are not gendered although the titles King and Queen are. One important consideration in the proposal has been to not change the existing awards but prepare as much as possible for events that were not considered when the award was created.
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The Order of the Companions of Albion (11.02) has in fact been registered with the SCA College of Arms without the word “King” in it and won’t need further actions.
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The Queen’s Order of Courtesy of Drachenwald (11.03) is called the Order of Courtesy in the proposed text. The purpose of the award has not changed. As before, it is conferred by Consort.
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The Sigillum is and has always been awarded either jointly by the Crown or separately by Sovereign or by Consort. The proposed changes in the law text do not change this, nor do they change the symbols of the award variants. The original law text presumes King Sovereign and Queen Consort and fails to address Queen Sovereign, King Consort, and situations where both of the rulers use either King or Queen as their titles. The proposed law recognises the difference between the role (Sovereign and Consort) and the title (King/Queen) of a ruler of the Kingdom, and provides the appropriate award names for the various combinations. The name of the award reflects the title of the one bestowing it (King’s -> Regis; Queen’s -> Reginae). The symbol of the award, however, reflects the role (Sovereign or Consort, or both together). This is the case currently, and is merely clarified in the proposed text. This award was originally created in principality days. When Drachenwald became a kingdom, some other – and potentially more gender-neutral – options were considered but were turned down by the SCA College of Arms.
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The second change was to unify the style and way how the awards have been written to the law. The most significant change is related to Ordo Annuli (10.03).
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A style issue was observed in capitalisation related to awards. In the current law the use has been very mixed even within the same sentence. In the proposed text, “award” or “order” are capitalised as part of the name of an award/order, for example the Order of X. When writing about awards and orders in general, no capitalisation is done unless the word is at the beginning of a sentence.
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Awards and orders have symbols, but only some of those are registered badges. To avoid confusion the proposed law uses only the word “symbol”.
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The third part of the changes includes correcting the language to use better English as well as some added clarifications to some of the awards.
Formatting
In the proposed law text below, added text is marked with bold and removed text is marked with strikethrough. All other text is unchanged from the current law text.
Proposed law text
9.00 GRANTING AWARDS
9.01 Only the Crown of Drachenwald may grant kingdom awards in accordance with Drachenwald Kingdom law.
9.02 Both the Sovereign and the Consort must agree upon any awards given by the Crown, except as specified below.
9.02.1 The Queen’s Order of Courtesy is granted solely at the discretion of the Consort. Queen.
9.02.2 The King’s Order of the Companions of Albion is granted solely at the discretion of the Sovereign. King.
9.02.3 The Sigillum is are granted jointly for the joint award, or at the sole discretion of either the Sovereign King or the Consort Queen for the individual awards. awards
9.03 The Crown may elevate subjects to the Peerage by granting membership in one of the orders Orders conferring a Patent of Arms, after polling the members of the order, Order, and in accordance with these laws and the customs of Drachenwald.
9.03.1 Any polling for a candidate must be sent to all members of the order Order residing in Drachenwald. The members of the order Order must be allowed at least thirty days to reply to the polling. If a member has not responded to any pollings in the last two years, or not responded to three consecutive pollings, then they shall be considered inactive and will no longer be sent pollings until they ask the secretary to be reinstated.
9.03.2 The original polling for each individual must be in writing. Subsequent polling need not be, although the Crown is urged to do so.
9.03.3 Polling for a candidate must have been done within a year before the offer is made to ensure the polling results are current. Since people and membership in orders change, in order to give a polling award to any person, the polling on the person must have been done in the last year. If at least 80% of the circle is present at a given event, a decision to elevate can be made with a verbal polling of the circle even if the last written polling is more than 1 year old.
9.03.4 The Royal Heirs may conduct pollings to ensure that they are best prepared to assume the Thrones. In order to be best prepared to assume the Thrones, the Crown Prince and Princess may conduct pollings.
10.00 CONCERNING ARMIGEROUS KINGDOM AWARDS
10.01 The Crown may confer an Award of Arms, a Grant of Arms, and a Court Barony Arms and/or a Court Barony and/or a Grant-of-Arms at their discretion upon to those of their subjects they deem members of the Kingdom Populace deemed worthy.
10.02 The following awards confer an Award of Arms upon the recipient if they are not yet armigerous.
10.02.1 Orden des Des Lindquistringes
10.02.1.1 This order award was established to honor a former subject member of the Principality/Protectorate, Fahrquar Finley Fahrquarson (John Lindquist).
10.02.1.2 Presented to those people who have distinguished themselves by long and extraordinary services to the Kingdom.
10.02.1.3 The symbol badge of this order the Order is (fieldless) (Fieldless) a ring A ring formed of a wingless dragon in annulo widdershins Or, maintaining in chief with all four legs and mouth a gem gules. gules
10.02.1.4 Members of this order Order shall rank equally with members of the Order of the Panache and the Order of the Silver Guard.
10.02.2 Order of the Panache
10.02.2.1 Presented to those people who have distinguished themselves by long and consistent excellence in the arts and sciences Arts and who have also consistently constantly made their expertise available to the various subjects members of the Kingdom.
10.02.2.2 The symbol of this order the Order is (fieldless) (Fieldless) issuant to chief from a torteau charged with a bezant pierced sable three feathers gules, Or, Or and sable. Sable.
10.02.2.3 Members of this order Order shall rank equally with members of the Orden des Lindquistringes and the Order of the Silver Guard.
10.02.3 Order of the Silver Guard
10.02.3.1 Presented to those members who have distinguished themselves by chivalry and martial prowess. prowess at arms.
10.02.3.2 The symbol badge of this order Order is (tinctureless) (Tinctureless) a silver wrist-guard bearing engraved with a dragon passant coward, wings addorsed, maintaining in dexter forepaw a sword erect.
10.02.3.3 Members of this order the Order shall rank equally with members of the Orden des Lindquistringes and the Order of the Panache.
10.02.4 The Order of the Rose
10.02.4.1 Presented to This order shall be bestowed upon former Consorts of Drachenwald at the end of their first reign.
10.02.4.2 Members Companions of this order Order may be styled as Lord or Lady of the Rose, or an equivalent title, Rose as is appropriate.
10.02.4.3 The symbol of this order the Order is (tinctureless) (Tinctureless) a wreath of roses.
10.03 Ordo Annuli (Order of the Ring) - Ordo Annulorum (Order of the Rings)
10.07 The following awards confer a Grant of Arms upon any recipient who does not already hold a Grant of Arms. Together named Ordo annuli - Ordo Annulorum, the (Order of the Rings), they share a badge of (fieldless) a ring sable.
10.03.1 The order consists of three parts (companies) with equal rank described in sections 10.03.4 - 10.03.6: Ordo Hirundinis (Order of the Swallow), Ordo Cygni (Order of the Swan), and Ordo Alae (Order of the Wing).
10.07.1 The Order comprises three orders or companies described in sections 10.08, 10.09 and 10.10. Membership in one of the Ordo Hirundinis (the swallow), Cygni (the swan) or Alae (the glove) automatically confers membership in the Ordo annuli.
10.03.2 This order confers a Grant of Arms upon any recipient who does not already hold a Grant of Arms.
10.03.3 The symbol of this order is (fieldless) a ring sable.
10.03.4 Ordo Hirundinis ( the Order of the Swallow) (Grant of Arms for service)
10.03.4.1 Presented to those people who have distinguished themselves by superior service to the Kingdom.
10.03.4.2 The symbol badge of this company of the order Order is (fieldless) a martlet volant Or.
10.03.5 Ordo Cygni ( the Order of the Swan) (Grant of Arms for Arts and Sciences)
10.03.5.1 Presented to those people who have distinguished themselves by superior achievement in the arts and sciences Arts and Sciences in the Kingdom.
10.03.5.2 The symbol badge of this company of the order Order is (fieldless) a swan sable.
10.03.6 Ordo Alae ( the Order of the Wing) (Grant of Arms for martial activities, such as armoured combat, fencing and archery)
10.03.6.1 Presented to those members of the Drachenwald martial community who have displayed superior abilities in their respective field or fields of martial activity in the Kingdom.
10.03.6.2 The symbol badge of this company of the order Order is (fieldless) a wing terminating in a hand gules sustaining a sword fesswise reversed proper.
10.04 Closed orders
10.04.1 The Order of the Edelweiss (formerly Marguerite)
10.11.1.2 This order Order is closed.
10.04.1.1 Members Companions of this order Order may be styled as Lord or Lady of the Edelweiss, or an equivalent title, “Lord/Lady of the Edelweiss” as appropriate.
10.04.1.2 This order was for the former Consorts of the Principality of Drachenwald.
10.04.1.3 The symbol of this order the Order is (fieldless) (Fieldless) an edelweiss Or, seeded gules, within and conjoined to an annulet amulet argent.
10.04.2 Order of the The Dragon’s Steel
10.11.2.1 This order is closed.
10.04.2.1 This order was established as a polling order for presented to those members of the period fencing community, who had displayed superior abilities in period fencing. fencing, prior to the creation of the Order of Defense. The order conferred a Grant of Arms upon any recipient who did not already hold a Grant of Arms.
10.04.2.2 The symbol badge of this the order is Or, three pine trees in fess eradicated gules, overall a dragon passant coward sable, and on a chief gules a rapier argent.
10.04.2.3 The members of this order traditionally wear a red-gold-black braid around their off-hand upper arm/shoulder.
11.00 CONCERNING NON-ARMIGEROUS KINGDOM AWARDS
11.01 The Popular Company of Sojourners (PCS)
11.01.1 Presented at the discretion of the Crown to those who have contributed to Drachenwald and will soon depart, or have already departed, the Kingdom.
11.01.2 The symbol of the order badge is barry Barry wavy argent and azure, two flaunches vert.
11.02 The King’s Order of the Companions of Albion Albion.
11.02.1 This order is conferred by the Sovereign upon those subjects of Drachenwald The Albion is presented by the King to those of His subjects that He may deem worthy of recognition for exemplary chivalry, courtesy or service. It is recommended that the Sovereign presents this award no more than one time per reign.
11.02.2 The symbol of this order Companions of this Order shall have the right to display the regalia of the Order, which is (fieldless) (Fieldless) a dragon’s claw inverted sable within and conjoined to an annulet per pale Or and gules.
11.03 The Queen’s Order of Courtesy of Drachenwald
11.03.1 This order is conferred by the Consort upon those subjects of Drachenwald worthy of recognition for exemplary chivalry, courtesy or service. The Queen of Drachenwald shall confer the Order upon such people as She deems worthy, by reason of their exemplary chivalry, courtesy or service to the people of all ranks in this Kingdom and in the Society at large.
11.03.2 The Consort may, whenever they deem necessary, call upon the members of the order for aid or advice in encouraging courteous behavior. The Queen may, if She sees fit, call upon the members of the Order to assist Her with their aid or advice in encouraging Courteous behavior, whenever She may deem this necessary.
11.03.3 The symbol of for this order is award shall be an edelweiss Edelweiss with a red center to be worn on a pin or silver chain.
11.04 The Sigillum Regis of Drachenwald, the Sigillum Reginae of Drachenwald, and the Sigillum Regis et Reginae of Drachenwald
11.04.1 The Sigillum Regis of Drachenwald, the Sigillum Reginae of Drachenwald, and the Sigillum Regis et Reginae of Drachenwald is awarded for personal service to the Crown Crown(s) that far exceeds any expected measure.
11.04.2 It is recommended that each Sovereign and Consort consort present this award no more than three times per reign. Joint awards count as one each.
11.04.3 The name and badge of the award these awards are: depends on who bestows it.
11.04. 3.1 For the King and Queen The Sigillum Regis et Reginae of Drachenwald: A white edelweiss surmounted by a black dragon’s head bearing the sigils of the Crown bestowing it.
11.04.3.1 When the Sovereign and the Consort bestow the Sigillum jointly, the name of this award mentions first the title of the Sovereign and then the title of the Consort, in Latin.
11.04.3.1.1 A Queen Sovereign and a King Consort jointly bestow Sigillum Reginae et Regis (the seal of the Queen and the King).
11.04.3.1.2 A King Sovereign and a Queen Consort jointly bestow Sigillum Regis et Reginae (the seal of the King and the Queen).
11.04.3.1.3 A Queen Sovereign and a Queen Consort jointly bestow Sigillum Reginarum (the seal of the Queens).
11.04.3.1.4 A King Sovereign and a King Consort jointly bestow Sigillum Regum (the seal of the Kings).
11.04.3.2 When either the Sovereign or the Consort bestows the Sigillum alone, the name of this award mentions their title in Latin.
11.04.3.2.1 A King Sovereign or a King Consort bestows Sigillum Regis.
11.04.3.2.1 A Queen Sovereign or a Queen Consort bestows Sigillum Reginae.
11.04. 3.2 For the King The Sigillum Regis of Drachenwald: A black dragon’s head charged with the sigils of the King bestowing it.
11.04. 3.3 For the Queen The Sigillum Reginae of Drachenwald: A white edelweiss charged with the sigils of the Queen bestowing it.
11.04.4 The symbol of the award depends on who bestows it.
11.04.4.1 When the Sovereign and the Consort bestow the Sigillum jointly, the symbol of the award is a white edelweiss surmounted by a black dragon’s head bearing the initials of the Crown bestowing it.
11.04.4.2 When the Sovereign bestows the Sigillum, the symbol of the award is a black dragon’s head charged with the initials of the Sovereign bestowing it.
11.04.4.3 When the Consort bestows the Sigillum, the symbol of the award is a white edelweiss charged with the initials of the Consort bestowing it.
11.05 The Order of the Dragon’s Tears
11.05.1 This award Award is given at the discretion of the Crown to the organizer(s) autocrat(s) of an extraordinarily successful event.
11.05.2 The symbol of this award Award is (fieldless) (Fieldless) on a goutte per pale Or and gules a dragon passant coward sable.
11.05.3 Subjects Members of the Kingdom may receive this award Award more than once.
11.05.4 Recipients of this award Award may be styled as styled, Holder of the Dragon’s Tear (or, if they have more than one, Holder of the Dragon’s Tears).
11.06 The Order of the Dragon’s Bowle
11.06.1 This award is given The Order of the Dragon’s Bowle is awarded at the discretion of the Crown to those who have displayed notable attention to authenticity.
11.06.2 The symbol of this award Award is (fieldless) (Fieldless) a dragon passant coward sable charged with a bowl per pale Or and gules.
11.07 The Order of the Dragon’s Jewel
11.07.1 This award is will be given to children (under 12 years of age) who have distinguished themselves through exemplary behavior or service.
11.07.2 The symbol of for this award is will be a crystal jewel other than black suspended from a ribbon or a cord in red, black, and gold. red, black, and gold ribbon or cord.
11.08 The Order of the Dragon’s Pride
11.08.1 This award is will be given to children (under 12 years of age) who have distinguished themselves through exemplary work in the arts and sciences.
11.08.2 The symbol of for this award Award is shall be (reserved).
11.09 Order of the The Hospitallers of Albion
11.09.1 This award is given The Hospitallers of Albion is presented by the Crowns to those persons or groups who have shown unselfish service to Crown and Kingdom of Drachenwald during their travels to events outside the Kingdom of Drachenwald.
11.09.2 The symbol of this award is (fieldless) (Fieldless) on On a dragon passant coward sable, sable a wake knot argent.
11.09.3 Only persons/groups residing/based outside the Kingdom of Drachenwald may receive this award.