Girard Antoin de Beauchamp
Girard Antoine de Beauchamp
mka: Gary Brock
awards:
Jambe de Lion - 30 Mar AS 24/1990
Goutte de Sang - 27 Feb AS 27/1993
died: May 11, 1994
Memoria:
From Quentin Martel
Girard was a kind and generous man. He was a herald by SCAdian trade, a Frenchman by proclivity, a gentleman by demeanor, and a good friend. When I joined the SCA in 1992, playing in the College of St. Bunstable, he was one of the few who took the time to show me Madrone, give me rides to events, and show me what good garb is all about.
One of my most cherished possessions is the herald's baldric that he willed to me. It is an honor to wear it in remembrance of this kind and gentle man.
My first experience with Girard came at a Madrone Baronial Banquet, let us just say his particular version of a heavy Texas accent took a while to get used to.
"Now Y'all wanna put 'em on the tables lack diss" as he explained to us how we were setting plates on a table.
It was quite a double take for all of us.
Over the years he was in Madrone either his accent mostly went away, or the rest of us just got so used to it we no longer noticed.
Gordon Redthorn, OL
I just wrote this at https://www.lighttounite.org preparatory for World Aids Day...
"Once, in the fair Barony of Madrone (SCA), lived a bright bird of a man named Girard de Beauchamp. He was a herald, a clotheshorse, a lover of beauty and things well done - i.e., precisely and with flair.
The stories are too numerous, the instinctive balance between incisive and kind can't be described. Punctilious to the last, he died just in time to get a good seat for Ascension. The cathedral canon understood our tales of him so well that cloth of gold vestments were used at his funeral."
Tvorimir Danilov (Mir Greyfalcon at the time)
- This gentle's name has been added to the Scroll of Honor