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Charles Fleming

2026-01-28T18:50:21Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Commedia Roles */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Festival. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve mostly retired from fighting, although I oversee the local fighter practice. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. I have even tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

I also love English Country [[dance]], and have organized the annual [https://albums.memento.com/2025WalterRaleighBall Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball] since its beginning. Here I am calling the dance in 2025.
 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2025, I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden lamp]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings XVI 2023 - 10/21/2023

[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Vexillum Atlantiae]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Randall I & Iul'iana) - Gulf Wars XXXIII - I 3/13/2025   
[[Companion of the Don Quixote]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Aelfric and Caitrina) - Festival of Elvegast - 04/12/2025 

[[Award of the Sea Star of Atlantia]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Athos I & Alianora I) - War of the Wings, 2025 - 10/18/2025

[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden Elephant]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Randall I & Iul'iana) - Gulf Wars XXXIII - I 3/13/2025

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia and 2025-present Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia and 2025-present Atlantia
Adult Rapier Marshal:
 
2025 - present Atlantia
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2025 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
 
Jan-2026 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Apr-2026 Below the Salt
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball II
 
Feb-2025 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball III
 
Feb-2026 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball IV

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
Dottore - International Commedia Day 2025
 
Dottore - Festival of Legends 2025
 
Dottore - Spring Haven Farm Ren Faire 2025
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war. I recently got my youth combat warrants and hope to start a youth program soon.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2026-01-24T16:25:12Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Festival. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve mostly retired from fighting, although I oversee the local fighter practice. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. I have even tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

I also love English Country [[dance]], and have organized the annual [https://albums.memento.com/2025WalterRaleighBall Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball] since its beginning. Here I am calling the dance in 2025.
 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2025, I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden lamp]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings XVI 2023 - 10/21/2023

[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Vexillum Atlantiae]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Randall I & Iul'iana) - Gulf Wars XXXIII - I 3/13/2025   
[[Companion of the Don Quixote]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Aelfric and Caitrina) - Festival of Elvegast - 04/12/2025 

[[Award of the Sea Star of Atlantia]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Athos I & Alianora I) - War of the Wings, 2025 - 10/18/2025

[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden Elephant]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Randall I & Iul'iana) - Gulf Wars XXXIII - I 3/13/2025

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia and 2025-present Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia and 2025-present Atlantia
Adult Rapier Marshal:
 
2025 - present Atlantia
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2025 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
 
Jan-2026 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Apr-2026 Below the Salt
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball II
 
Feb-2025 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball III
 
Feb-2026 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball IV

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
Dottore - International Cmmedia Day 2025
 
Dottore - Festival of Legends 2025
 
Dottore - Spring Haven Farm Ren Faire 2025
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war. I recently got my youth combat warrants and hope to start a youth program soon.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2025-11-14T16:13:56Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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[[File:SCA Brian at the Viking Experience, age 67 Favorite.jpg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
[[File:Fleming's Device.jpg|thumb|center]]
| devicecaption = Registered Arms | atlantianid =724}}

== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Festival. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve mostly retired from fighting, although I oversee the local fighter practice. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. I have even tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

I also love English Country [[dance]], and have organized the annual [https://albums.memento.com/2025WalterRaleighBall Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball] since its beginning. Here I am calling the dance in 2025.
 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2025, I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden lamp]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings XVI 2023 - 10/21/2023

[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Vexillum Atlantiae]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Randall I & Iul'iana) - Gulf Wars XXXIII - I 3/13/2025   
[[Companion of the Don Quixote]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Aelfric and Caitrina) - Festival of Elvegast - 04/12/2025 [[Award of the Star of the Sea]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Athos I & Alianora I) - War of the Wings, 2025 - 10/18/2025 

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno


Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 

Feb-2024 Ymir 49

Jan-2026  Kingdom 12th Night 
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball II
 
Feb-2025 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball III

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

File:Fleming's Device.jpg

2025-11-14T16:06:25Z

Julien de la Fontaine: LordCharles uploaded a new version of File:Fleming's Device.jpg

== Summary ==
Charles Fleming's device: Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent

Charles Fleming

2025-08-09T15:04:22Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Introduction */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Festival. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve mostly retired from fighting, although I oversee the local fighter practice. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. I have even tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

I also love English Country [[dance]], and have organized the annual [https://albums.memento.com/2025WalterRaleighBall Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball] since its beginning. Here I am calling the dance in 2025.
 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2025, I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden lamp]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings XVI 2023 - 10/21/2023 
[[Order of don Quixote]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Aelfric and Caitrina) - Festival of Elvegast - 04/12/2025

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno


Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 

Feb-2024 Ymir 49

Jan-2026  Kingdom 12th Night 
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball II
 
Feb-2025 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball III

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

File:2025 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball.jpeg

2025-08-09T15:01:26Z

Julien de la Fontaine:

Charles Fleming calling the dance

File:Img1754802964332.png

2025-08-09T14:59:18Z

Julien de la Fontaine:

Charles Fleming

2025-04-18T12:05:34Z

Julien de la Fontaine:

{{PopulaceBlue|photo =
[[File:SCA Brian at the Viking Experience, age 67 Favorite.jpg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden lamp]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings XVI 2023 - 10/21/2023 
[[Order of don Quixote]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Aelfric and Caitrina) - Festival of Elvegast - 04/12/2025

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball II
 
Feb-2025 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball III

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2025-04-18T03:34:19Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden lamp]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings XVI 2023 - 10/21/2023 
[[Order of don Quixote]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Aelfric and Caitrina) - Festival of Elvegast - 04/12/2025

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball II
 
Feb-2025 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball III

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

File:SCA Brian at the Viking Experience, age 67 Favorite.jpg

2025-03-25T21:36:02Z

Julien de la Fontaine: Charles Fleming (Brian Towey) at The Viking Experience Festival, March 2025

== Summary ==
Charles Fleming (Brian Towey) at The Viking Experience Festival, March 2025

Charles Fleming

2024-12-14T13:01:45Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Offices Held in the Society */

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[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden lamp]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings XVI 2023 - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball II
 
Feb-2025 Sir Walter Raleigh Costume Ball III

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-12-14T13:00:32Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Classes Taught in the Society */

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[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
[[File:Fleming's Device.jpg|thumb|center]]
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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden lamp]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings XVI 2023 - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
* Trebuchets (youth) (War of the Wings 2024)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-06-04T18:35:06Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden lamp]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings XVI 2023 - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-06-04T18:26:56Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden Lamp]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings XVI 2023 - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-06-04T18:25:46Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
[[File:Fleming's Device.jpg|thumb|center]]
| devicecaption = Registered Arms | atlantianid =724}}

== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden Lamp]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-06-04T18:25:27Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] ([[Golden lamp]]), Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-06-04T18:24:40Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
Bachelor of SCA Studies, [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] [[Golden lamp]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-06-04T18:24:07Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Bachelor of SCA Studies]], [[University of Atlantia]] - 9/16/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] [[Golden lamp]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-04-24T12:54:10Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Commedia Roles at SCA Events */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] [[Golden lamp]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
Duke Pantalone - National Women's Theater Festival 2023
 
Doge Lorenzo - Festival of Legends 2024
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-04-24T12:49:44Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Heraldry */

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[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
[[File:Fleming's Device.jpg|thumb|center]]
| devicecaption = Registered Arms | atlantianid =724}}

== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike atop a golden lamp
and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] [[Golden lamp]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-04-24T12:38:55Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Offices Held in the Society */

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[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] [[Golden lamp]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 to Present Atlantia
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-04-24T12:35:05Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Offices Held in the Society */

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[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] [[Golden lamp]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023-Present Atlantia
Rapier Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-04-24T12:34:02Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Offices Held in the Society */

{{PopulaceBlue|photo =
[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
[[File:Fleming's Device.jpg|thumb|center]]
| devicecaption = Registered Arms | atlantianid =724}}

== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] [[Golden lamp]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023-Present Atlantia
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-04-24T12:29:30Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Offices Held in the Society */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] [[Golden lamp]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno
Knight's Marshal:
 
24-Jan-2024 to present, Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-04-24T12:22:13Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] [[Golden lamp]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-04-24T12:20:47Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
[[File:Fleming's Device.jpg|thumb|center]]
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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] [[Golden Lamp]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Afshin I and Yasamin I) - Silver Chalice - 9/23/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2024-04-24T12:14:39Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Classes Taught in the Society */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
Fellow of the University of Atlantia, 2021
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018, Gulf Wars 2024)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-10-23T23:55:05Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Classes Taught in the Society */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-10-23T23:54:04Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
[[File:Fleming's Device.jpg|thumb|center]]
| devicecaption = Registered Arms | atlantianid =724}}

== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
Companion of the Golden Ladle, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-10-23T23:53:12Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Awards and Achievements */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023
 
[[Companion of the Golden Ladle]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 48 - 02/18/2023
 
[[Companion of the Opal]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Ragnarr VI and Mary Isabel I) - War of the Wings - 10/21/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-10-03T16:00:35Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Households */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017
 
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
House Barra - Inducted 2022

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-10-03T15:57:22Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Classes Taught in the Society */

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[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization in 2015. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-10-03T15:51:20Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Offices Held in the Society */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-10-03T15:50:16Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Offices Held in the Society */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Target Archery Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball 
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-10-03T15:48:58Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Offices Held in the Society */

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[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
[[File:Fleming's Device.jpg|thumb|center]]
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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
 
Feb-2024 Ymir 49
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball 
 
Feb-2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball II

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-09-22T17:37:46Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Offices Held in the Society */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
Autocrat:
 
Jan-2022 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Feb-2023 Sir Walter Raleigh Ball

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-09-11T16:42:22Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Children's Activities */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
 
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-09-11T16:41:59Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Children's Activities */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|200px]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-09-11T16:41:35Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Children's Activities */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
[[Image:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-09-11T16:39:24Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Children's Activities */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint. The finished piece won a victory point at War of the Wings for art created at the war.
[[Image:SCA WoW 2019 Kids activities Brian Favorite - Blurred.JPG|200px|Children's Stained Glass won a war point]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-09-11T16:35:41Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Children's Activities */

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[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
[[File:Fleming's Device.jpg|thumb|center]]
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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint.
[[File:SCA WoW 2019 Kids activities Brian Favorite - Blurred.JPG|left]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-09-11T16:34:54Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Children's Activities */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint.
[[File:SCA WoW 2019 Kids activities Brian Favorite - Blurred.JPG|thumb|left]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-09-11T16:34:32Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Children's Activities */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint.
[[File:SCA WoW 2019 Kids activities Brian Favorite - Blurred.JPG|thumb|none]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-09-11T16:33:56Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Children's Activities */

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[[File:Charles Fleming 14th C.jpeg|thumb | center]]
| photocaption =Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus| location = [[Buckston-on-Eno]], [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]], Atlantia | status = Active | device =
[[File:Fleming's Device.jpg|thumb|center]]
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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint.
[[File:SCA WoW 2019 Kids activities Brian Favorite - Blurred.JPG|none]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-09-11T16:30:57Z

Julien de la Fontaine:

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

== Children's Activities ==
One thing I particularly enjoy is setting kids up for success with the skills they have. For example, here I enlarged the rose window from Chartres Cathedral beneath a sheet of Plexiglas. With the "leading" for stained glass paints, my lady and I traced all the major outlines. Even small children could paint inside each raised well, working from the center outward to avoid elbows in the paint.
[[File:SCA WoW 2019 Kids activities Brian Favorite - Blurred.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg|thumb]]

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

File:SCA The finished window won a war point.jpg

2023-09-11T16:30:51Z

Julien de la Fontaine:

SCA The finished window won a war point

File:SCA WoW 2019 Kids activities Brian Favorite - Blurred.jpg

2023-09-11T16:30:02Z

Julien de la Fontaine:

SCA WoW 2019 Kids activities

Charles Fleming

2023-09-10T23:39:33Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Other SCA skills */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat * Song Writing * Woodworking

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-09-10T23:39:00Z

Julien de la Fontaine: /* Offices Held in the Society */

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat (retired) * Song Writing * Woodworking

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]

Charles Fleming

2023-09-10T20:59:47Z

Julien de la Fontaine:

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== Introduction ==
<big>'''Lord Charles (the) Fleming of House Corvus'''</big>
 
Protégé to Maistreas Aine O Grienan
 
Husband to [[Odile de Strasbourg]]
 
I first met the SCA in Ansteorra in 1976. Swashbuckling was pretty much invented in my college quad—rattan daggers and all—and a couple of guys who would later win some of the first White Scarves invited me to a weekend demo at the Texas Renaissance Faire. Back then it was all about wine, women, and song. I grew my first mustache to look manly in a wig.
 
[[Image:Kurt of Flanders.jpeg|200px|First SCA Persona]]
 
I think my first armor was made of scrap carpet, with a borrowed helmet made from a Freon can. Later I upgraded to white plastic pipe salvaged from oilfield drilling mud samples.
 
I got married and settled down. Decades passed.
Many years later, as a dad, I was looking for a way to get outdoors, go dancing, enjoy a sport, and give our home school a boost. The SCA met all the requirements, but I have to say my wife was suspicious given my earlier experience in the club. We found the [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] at the local Festival for the Eno and have been active since the turn of the century.
 
These days I’ve retired from fighting. Cooking is my big interest, especially making period food delicious and accessible. With my family and friends, I have cooked in the SCA every few months for years. Kitchen people are the best. I love English Country [[dance]], working with children, improv comedy with the [https://ifirenzi.com i Firenzi] troupe, and creative camp furnishings. Lately I have also tried my hand at [https://charlesfleming.bandcamp.com/ songwriting].
 
[[Image:Charles Fleming 16th C Spanish.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming 16th Century Spanish]]
[[Image:Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino.JPG|500px|Charles Fleming with i Firenzi banner and Arlecchino]]

 
My house is on the border between [[Sacred Stone]] and [[Windmasters' Hill]]. I attend events in both directions. In 2019 I threw a party for all the [[armored fighting]] clubs in the area, including the Knights of Fiat Lux, HEMA, and the Triangle Sword Conservatory. I hope to make that a regular thing. As far as I'm concerned, if you strap on harness and trade licks you're a comrade in arms. It matters little whether you spar with rattan or bokken or rebated steel. They all have their pros and cons.

== Persona ==
'''Date of Birth''': 1310
 
'''Place of Origin''': Ghent, Flanders
 
[[Image:Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent.jpg|200px|Creative Commons - Towers of Ghent]]
 
The seat of the Counts of Flanders and the largest town in western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Ghent was at the heart of the Flemish cloth trade. By 1350, the city boasted a population of 50,000, of whom no less than 5000 were directly involved in the industry.
 
'''Occupation''': Soldier of the Weavers Guild, ally of the English at the Battle of Crecy, 1346
 
[[Image:SCA Charles Fleming in full kit.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming in full kit]]
 
Edward III of England went to Ghent to be crowned king of France. His son John, duke of Lancaster, was called John (of) Gaunt because he was born there.
 
Flanders began the 14th Century by defeating the French and their local vassals in the Battle of the Golden Spurs. In the turbulent years that followed, Ghent was essentially ruled by guilds of tradesmen and their representatives. The guilds even maintained their own armies, of which I was a member.

== Heraldry ==
Argent, a lion rampant sable, and on a chief vert three Latin crosses argent
 
Supported by a Spike and a Kittyhawk wearing a commedia mask

== Awards and Achievements ==
[[Award of Arms]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan IV]] and [[Isabel II]]) - Windmasters' Hill Baronial Champions - 6/28/2003
 
Companion of the St. Nicholas, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Gaston and Rosalind) - Ymir - 2/9/2008
 
Honorary Citizen of Windmasters' Hill, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Girard and Guenievre) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Supporters (Spike or Kittyhawk), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Logan VI]] and [[Esa I]]) - Academie of the Rapier - 5/9/2009
 
Companion of the Kitty Hawk, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/14/2015
 
[[Augmentation of Arms]] (a commedia mask proper), Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Christoph I]] and [[Adelhait I]]) - Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival - 3/5/2016
 
Award of the Notus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Callistus and Adriana) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/12/2016
 
Award of the Eurus, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Daemon and Typhaine) - Buckston Birthday Bash - 11/18/2017
 
[[Companion of the Coral Branch]], Kingdom of Atlantia ([[Cuán VIII]] and [[Signy II]]) - Ymir 45 - 2/22/2020
 
Award of the Flame of the Phoenix, [[Barony of Sacred Stone]] (Murienne) - SAAD - Oh, For Cog's Sake - VIRTUAL EVENT (Crois Brigte) - 6/6/2020
 
Baronial Award of Excellence, [[Barony of Windmasters' Hill]] (Lukas and Elizabeth) - Ymir 47 - 2/12/2022
 
[[Award of the Silver Nautilus]], Kingdom of Atlantia (Abran I and Anya I) - Kingdom 12th Night - 01/07/2023

== Classes Taught in the Society ==
[[Image:Charles Fleming Kids' Activities WOW 2019.JPG|200px|Charles Fleming Kids' Activities [[WOW]] 2019]]
[[Image:Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic Gulf Wars 2017.JPG|200px|Sigrid Charles Katherine teaching Heretic [[Gulf Wars]] 2017]]
 
* Campaign Furniture on a Beer Budget (University of Atlantia 2002)
* Secrets of Redaction Revealed! (Windmasters’ Hill Cooks & Performers Symposium 2015)
* Designed and led a 10-week after-school enrichment program through the Citizen Schools organization. Used SCA crafts to teach high-tech skills to underprivileged middle-schoolers. Organized a Baronial demo for the kids afterward.
* Heretic! (Gulf Wars 2012, Gulf Wars 2017, University of Atlantia 2018)
* Potjiekos - Techniques for 3-legged iron cauldron (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* New and Old World Foods (Known World Agriculture & Forestry Symposium 2019)
* The Millet's Tale (University of Atlantia 2020)
* Viking Boat Construction (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Chain Mail (youth) (War of the Wings 2022)
* Sacred Geometry (University of Atlantia 2023)
 
[[Image:Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot.JPG|600px|Citizen Schools - Iron Man Curriculum - SCA Demo 2015 Group shot]]

== Households ==
House Corvus - Inducted 2019
 
[[Maison du Poulet Noir]] - Founding member 2017

== Offices Held in the Society ==
Youth Armored Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Youth Rapier Marshal:
 
2007-1010 Atlantia
Adult Heavy Marshal:
 
2023 Atlantia (In training)
Chatelaine:
 
06-Jun-2022 to present Canton of Buckston-on-Eno

Head Chef:
 
Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jun-2019 Another Foolish Event
 
Nov-2022 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Jan-2023 Kingdom 12th Night
 
Nov-2023 Buckston's Buccaneer Birthday
Kitchen Manager:
 
Nov-2015 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2017 Buckston’s Birthday
 
Nov-2019 Kingdom 12th Night
 
12-Nov-2016 Buckston’s Birthday

== Commedia Roles at SCA Events ==
Drunken Sailor - Ymir 2016
 
Dottore - Atlantian 12th Night 2018
 
Feste - Ymir 2018
 
Ymir the Frost Giant - Journey Through The Nine Realms 2019
 
Nick Bottom - Atlantian 12th Night 2020
 
Nick Bottom - Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival 2020
 
Brighella - War of the Wings 2022
 
[[Image:Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania.JPG|200px|Charles and Odile play Bottom and Titania]]

== Other SCA skills ==
Armored combat * Armoring * Archery * Costuming * Dancing * Chain Mail * Leatherwork * Rapier combat (retired) * Song Writing * Woodworking

[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:Bards]]
[[Category:Culinary artists]]
[[Category:Dancers]]
[[Category:Members of House Corvus]]
[[Category:Members of Maison du Poulet Noir]]
[[Category:Middlegate populace]]
[[Category:People with 14th century personas]]
[[Category:People with Flemish personas]]
[[Category:People with medieval personas]]
[[Category:Populace]]
[[Category:Protégés]]
[[Category:Sacred Stone populace]]