Renée du bois d'Ambre

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Resides: Porte de l'Eau Date Started: A.S. VII Status: Active Awards: Visit the Order of Precedence to access a list of this person's awards. Offices: {{{offices}}}
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Renée du bois d'Ambré

Is a matron of mixed ancestry, being of Franco-Scots, Alsatian and Sinti descent. She has now lived in An Tir for half of her life, something she finds odd to believe, being a mere slip of a girl of 21. She currently resides in the Canton of Porte de l'Eau.

Persona

Renée's paternal great-grandfather Donal MacBheathain came from the Cairngorm Mountains by the river Spey in Scotland to the continent as part of what is in modern parlance called the Auld Alliance between the crown of Scotland and France against the English, eventually falling in love with a local girl, Martine d'Artois and marrying her.

Renée's maternal great grandparents came from Alsace with other Sinti and Roma into France during the early 14th Century, eventually settling in the Artois region of Burgundy. More information on these families may be forthcoming if possible - those Manouche are not known for telling their histories to outsiders, though.

Partly as a result of her ancestry, she has traveled to and from Scotland, the Low Countries, France, parts of Italy, Switzerland and Germany.

House Amberwood/La Maison du bois d'Ambré

Was founded by Aislynn of Amberwood, and Renée is a member of this Household. She has hopes that other members of the Household will become active again, especially Aislynn.

Offices and Positions

None within An Tir as yet.

Awards

None within An Tir as yet.

SCA Miscellany

When I first joined the Society in Anno Societatis VII, in West, there were but three Kingdoms, and An Tir had only recently become a Principality, at the urging of a Bard of the West, the late Gwydion Pendderwen. I later lived in Atenveldt, Ansteorra and the then Principality of Drachenwald before returning to the United States, where most of my active time within the Society was spent within Kingdom of Caid in the former Shire of Darkwell, where in another life (and persona) earned awards and arms, which are irrelevant to Renée. In Anno Mundanis 1987, our family moved to Washington, and for many reasons, our participation within the Society ended not long after. My mundane career was spent in Civil Service, working variously for the Social Security Administration,the Kern County Department of Human Services (California), and lastly Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, from which I medically retired in 1997. Over the years, I have stayed abreast of some changes within the Society, and have renewed membership multiple times, but pnly recently felt able to return to active participation, and renewed by practice of heraldry, primarily research and consulting.