Iago ab Adam

Iago relaxing at a tournament in Seagirt next to his best friend Tita the Wanderer.

SCA History

Iago joined the Society in the fall of 1994. He was admitted to the Order of the Jambe de Lion on March 7 AS 32. At Twelfth Night Coronation XXXV/2001 he and his lady wife Cecille de Beumund were offered entry into the Order of the Laurel, but they both chose to take a vigil until July Coronation XXXVI/2001. During the time on vigil Iago completed his masterwork, a roll of arms based on the arms borne at the Seige of Caerlaverock Castle in the year 1300. He has one apprentice, Boyarina Magdalina Voronova.

Persona History

Iago ab Adam is a Welshman living in England in the year 1296. He divides his time between his wife Cecille's estate at Crosswell-Beumund and his at Great Ockham.

Interests

• Calligraphy
• Illumination
• Heraldry
• Singing
• Redheads

Scribal Creations

• Court Baroness scroll which I translated into Old Church Slavonic, done in a 16th C. Russian style
• A scroll for the Kingdom Arts and Sciences Champion, in the style of an Italian Renaissance frontspiece
• Seagirt's petition to be granted Baronial status
• Saint Giles College's etition for incipiency status
• University of Ithra scroll for a Magisters Degree. Modern Russian wording calligraphed and illuminated in a 13th C. Russian style

Bardic Creations

• Iago's An Tir
• Goldihat and the Three Peers
• Everybody is Mundane
• Heral-Do Re Mi (with Margaree ny Kenneth)

Award Summary

• Silent Harp (Seagirt) Feb 28 AS 31 / 1997
• Fellow of Saint Giles (Saint Giles) Mar 21 AS 31 / 1997
• Jambe de Lion Mar 7 AS 32 / 1998
• Seagull (Seagirt) Mar 21 AS 32 / 1998
• Magistrae Ithra Sept 17 AS 35 / 2000
• Laurel July 21 AS 36 / 2001

External Links

• A Caerlaverock Roll of Arms
• "Iago's An Tir" lyrics and music
• Goldihat and the Three Peers