Field of Cloth of Gold
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- A huge tournament which took place June 7-24, 1520, between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France. The event was arranged to increase the bond of friendship between the two kings, and consisted of tournaments, banquets and other entertainments such as archery and wrestling.
- An event of the same name in An Tir. aka "FOTCOG"
(Note: There is some disagreement on the the name of the event. "Field of Cloth of Gold" or "Field of THE Cloth of Gold". They're both referring to the same event.)
(Posted to the Steps on 12 July XLI/2006.)
Greetings,
The Field of the Cloth of Gold was a resounding success.
How do we know? Because by 2:00 Saturday people were already buzzing about plans for NEXT year.
Darienne and Morgan did an excellent job as Autocrats and their excellencies Blatha an Oir and Madrone did a superb job of leading Their Baronies to heretofore unseen heights of ostentatious display!
Some of the highlights.
Well it's me, so I'm going to start with the fighting.
The Ransom Tourney was a smash. Their Excellencies and their ladies did a wonderful job of either providing or extracting ransoms throughout the tourney. Sir Martin should have been allowed to enter the Equestrian competitions since he won a horse!
The 'Battle Chess' game was a huge hit. You know it is going well when the fighters are impatient to start the THIRD game and likely would have gone a 4th if there would have been time.
The fashion show went Very well. I may need to bring sunglasses next year for all the gold metallic material and bright sunlight.
The equestrians had a ball and I saw several folks waving around their new equestrian authorization cards. It looks like BAO is on it's way to getting their own horsy guild up and running.
The round-robin bardic competition was (and I'm not exaggerating) one of the best I've seen in my 20 years in the SCA. It was interesting that in order to win, the performers had to have a DEEP repertoire. Every time you thought you'd seen their best piece they would top themselves in the next round!
Sunday brought the Rose tourney, and the waterbearers were definitely the big winners.
The Dual Courts were fascinating. Once the Heralds got the hang of it, it was a great way to illustrate the nature of the event.
Speaking of which, anyone interested in what FOTCOG is, you should read the article and listen to the BBC file at the bottom of this page. It really was the first SCA event ever!
Thanks to all I may have missed, and I can't wait to do it again next year!
In Service,
Sir Daniel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/ram/inourtime_20051006.ram