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Sovereign's and Consort's Bardic Champions

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Introduction

Chosen each year at a competition. They are charged with commemorating the history of the Crowns and the kingdom in song and story, furthering the practice of the bardic arts in the kingdom, serving as members of the royal household, and setting up and supervising the competition to choose their successors. The King's Bard wears a gold baldric with three purple clarions; the Queen's Bard wears a gold baldric with three purple clarions below a purple rose. They hold the honorary position of Ollaves in the Royal College of Bards (the highest of three rankings -- one clarion per rank). The positions of King's and Queen's Bard were added to kingdom law on February 3, A.S. 24, in the reign of Horic and Lea, although Queen's Bard dates at least as far back as the reign of Gavin I and Tamera, and the first King's Bard may have been made around A.S. 16-17.

History

Lineage of Bards

King's Bard Queen's Bard Year
Alaric Bowbreaker unknown 1977
unknown Daedra MacBeth a Gryphon 1980 March 22
unknown Queen’s Bard: Lady Charlotte of the Misty Hills (now called Mistress Roen Dentilliere de la Voile Rouge) 1980 June 14
unknown Dorigen of the Grey Gate 1981
Ergard Joelson unknown 1982
Arianna of Wynthrope Mairi Rhianna nam Beanntan 1983 October 8
Andrew MacRobb Morgan Caer Graeme 1985 January 12
Edward Dragonslayer Siubhan ni Coinneach 1986 February 22
unknown unknown 1987
Malachia de la Ciel Brendan the Harper 1988
Ellisif Flakkari Nairene 1989 February 25
unknown unknown 1990
unknown unknown 1991
John Lyttleton Morwynna Cryw 1992
Anne of Framlingham Dofinn-Hallr Morrisson 1993
Seonaid a Lochbuie Arden of Icombe 1994
Anne of Framlingham Fiana of Clare 1995 March 4
Lynette de Gallardon Isabeau d’Orleans 1996 March 9
Ruaraidh an Cu Denkwert Maccabee Bathory 1997 March 22
Aleksandr Yevsha Failtigearna ingen uí Artáin 1998
Morwenna Westerne Linette de Gallardon 1999
Karl Aerdigwidder von Zauberberg (“Fum”) Aurelia du Vrai Coeur 2000 March 11
Gerilyn Fjorden and Dubbeasa Dorigen of the Grey Gate 2001 February 10
Arianrhod of Caron Morwenna Westerne 2002 March 9
Ana Raquel de Guzman Fine of Clare 2003 February 22
Toki Redbeard Alayne Alexandra Nyvern, Nightwatcher 2004 December 11
Chiara da Montepulciano Arden of Icomb 2006 February 25
Grimm the Skald Linette de Gallardon 2008 February 23
Toki Redbeard Judith the Uncertain 2009 January 24
Aoife ingen Conchobair Grimm the Skald 2010 February 20

Source

http://op.eastkingdom.org/Misc/RoyalBards.html