Has anyone got or know of a collection of customised court ceremonies?

By customised court ceremonies I mean peerage ceremonies, coronations, fealty oaths and the like that have been adapted from the Kingdom standard to a certain time and place (and language)?

I have found a few online, but much fewer than I would think have occurred in the history of the Known World:

heralds.westkingdom.org/Ceremony/AlternateFealty.htm
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/peerage.html
http://www.doomchicken.net/~ursula/sca/laurelelevation/

good websites. what is a peerage ceremony?

Joseph H. Gray wrote:


A peerage ceremony is a ceremony held in a Royal Court where the King and Queen, having consulted the members of the appropriate Order, elevate a new member into the Order of Chivalry, the Order of the Laurel or the Order of the Pelican.

These three Orders (plus royal peers) consitute the "Peerage".

Ahhh I see. So ingratiated into an order of ones peers. I get it. Thank you for the explaination.

Domhnall na Moicheirghe wrote:



I bet it varies from kingdom to kingdom. I know that I have witnessed many around the SCA in the US (and performed quite a few in Ansteorra). I can tell you that I have seen a wide disparity. The general form is the same mostly, but the verbiage is different. Of course, some kingdoms may have standardized them more that others, and I see you have the West ceremonies link. I would have wagered that they would be more standardized than typical. East probably as well at that. Been around a lot longer than us younger kingdoms.

FYI...when looking at these ceremonies I will wager that the Knighthood ones will be twice as long (more stuff to do...3 or 4 regalias to impart, the last blow, dubbing, etc...)

Drake, Dux Ansteorrae