Judith de Bruges

• This gentle's name has been entered on the Scroll of Honor - An Tir Remembers.

Judith de Bruges – Passed away May 23 AS XL / 2005 at the age of 71 in the Barony of Terra Pomaria, Kingdom of An Tir. She was one of the two first members of the Order of the White Scroll of Terra Pomaria, the barony’s highest order, and the original holder of the Office of the Grete Boke in the same place; Judith had also held the office of Gold Key. She was an early contributor to the transformation of Terra Pomaria from shire to barony along with her lord husband Lionel the Woodworker of Antwerp who survives her. In addition to being one of the two simultaneous inductees into the Order of the White Scroll along with her lord husband, Judith also was a member of the Order of the Jambe de Lion, held the Silver Apple for service in Terra Pomaria and was given founding Baron Cesare the Merchant’s personal favor. She was well-known for having made the original blue cushions for the baron and baroness’s chairs in Terra Pomaria circa AS XXVII / 1992 that are still in use as of AS XLI / 2006. Judith’s last two SCA appearances were at the 20/10 Anniversary Revel of Terra Pomaria and Ducal War both held in AS XXXVII / 2002. Mundanely, she was the mother of fellow SCAdians Finna Grimsdottir (aka Fionnghuala inghean Aoidh) and Jeane Chantal la Bouviere.