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== Persona ==
England:
1084: Matthew D’Arden (later “The Elder,” “The Wise,” or “The Less-Spicy”) is born

While Matthew’s Norman Grandfather was away on his travels with the Lord of Sicily, alternately protecting and sacking Rome, he left his wife and children in the safety of England.  However, his daughter was wooed by the son of a dispossessed Saxon lord.  

Upon his return to England, Grandfather chased off his Saxon son-in-law and forced his daughter into a nunnery, but now had to tolerate his half-Saxon grandson.  Matthew has been trying to earn his grandfather's approval ever since. 

From youth to adulthood, Matthew was in the contingent his well-traveled Grandfather, through the Holy Lands, the Baltics, and the Italian Peninsula.  Matthew returned to England to tend to the household at his Grandfather’s request, but was called to battle by the King in a local skirmish.  

While tending the wounded on a smoldering battlefield, Fiamuin Kareman is brought to Matthew’s blood covered body. Though mostly not his own blood, his arm did protrude at a strange angle. Through her skills and ministrations, the arm loudly returned to its intended place, and a love affair was born.

While a Norman and an Anglo-Saxon marriage was not rare, once they were married Matthew and Fiamuin developed their own paths through the differences in the cultures.  Matthew taught Fiamuin the ways of the nobility, and she taught him that in her culture woman are near equal companions to men.  She assisted in his campaigns, and tended the household when he traveled to war, and she continued her ministrations as a Wise Woman.

== Affiliations ==
* Husband to Mistress [[Fia Kareman]] and Father to [[Galen]]<br>
* Peer of [[House of the Crucible]] <br>
* Peer of [[Duchy Von Drachenklaue]] <br>
* Peer of [[Haus Dagon]]

== Current Positions ==
'''Prince of the East Kingdom''', ''5/4/24 to present''<br>

== Squires ==
THL [[Leurona Winterborne]], OST, OTC <br>
Lord [[Nicol mac Donnachaidh]], OST, OSB <br>
THL [[Gregor von Medehem]], OSB, OST, OM, Troubadour, Durga <br>
THL [[Karl Falchner]], OST, OGM <br>

== Former Squires ==
Sir [[Matthew MacGyver]], Tyger's Cub, Gawain, OST, OTC <br>

== Former Men At Arms ==
THL [[Embla Knutrdottir]], OSB, OSC, OM, OTC, ''now Squired to Sir [[Euric Germanicus]]''<br>
Lady [[Um Ishaq Sara bint Abu-Zakariya]], OST, ''now Squired to Sir [[Micah of Brighton Manor]]'' <br>


== Former Offices & Positions ==
* '''Northern Region Deputy Marshal of Armored Combat''', Current<br>
* '''Admiral of the Armies''', Crown Tournament (Ostgardr), 5/6/2023 - 11/4/2023 <br>
* '''Admiral of the Armies''', Crown Tournament (Endewearde), 11/3/2018 - 5/4/2019<br>
* '''Admiral of the Armies''', Crown Tournament (Bergental), 11/4/2017 - 5/5/2018<br>
* '''Shield of Chivalry''', Crown Tourney (Ostgardr), 4/27/2013 - 11/2/2013

== Accomplishments ==
* '''Heroic Champion, Unbelted''', Pennsic 43, 8/3/2014
* '''Unbelted Champion''', Pennsic 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 - 2007 - 2014
* '''Belted Champion''', Pennsic 44, 47, 50

== Event Staff ==
* Marshal in Charge of Youth Combat, Pantera, 5/25/2024
* Marshal in Charge of Youth Combat, Birka XXXII, 1/27/2023
* Marshal in Charge of Youth Combat, Great Northeastern War, 2023
* Marshal in Charge of Youth Combat, Harper's Retreat, 2022

== Court ==
In case of court, please contact Mistress [[Fia Kareman]]