Joseph DéMerrick

This is the Wiki page for Joseph dé Merik, Chatelaine for the Shire of Dragon's Mist. Please pardon the odd spelling above.

History

Joseph has been attending events under different names since A.S.XXII. First, in Nether Edge, as just "Duncan," then "Duncan Grey" while in the Meridies Kingdom, and then "Duncan Gill" in the Barony of Terra Pomaria. He then took a rather long break from about A.S. XXXII to A.S. XXXVII and had alot of fun watching his children grow.

Name

Joseph is known as Barry when he is not at events.

Interests

Joseph participates in Heavy Armoured Combat, and has practiced martial arts for many years. This has not helped his fighting in any evident way, but he remains unconcerned as he looks at fighting as some of the most fun he has ever had.

Joseph has been known to try to always get in at least one Town Cry at events, as he loves heralding, but finds little time for it. He is also the culprit responsible for The Test of the Emergency Heraldic System.

Personal

Joseph is mundanely married to the beautiful and talented Lady Merrie DéMerrick.

Joseph and Merrie have three children, and are known to camp with Andronikos Belisariou and Anastasia Komnene.

Joseph is friendly and outgoing, and loves a good conversation. He is easily known by his smile, wit, and willingness to assist strangers in hopes of parting as friends. He has recently begun to believe he has a responsibility to the Society, and takes this as a very serious matter.

Persona

The Persona Joseph dé Merik is based on a pikeman during the Hundred Year's War. One such man, a Jon dé Merik was an archer under the Captain John Vere, Earl of Oxford, and Joseph would have been directly under the same commander as him, Richard, Duke of York (this would be Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York). They would have been cousins, from the sons of Rodger ap Merik who fought under the command of Henry V, for the Captain John de Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk (though history will remember him as John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk). For his conduct on the field, Jopseph was granted a small bit of land in Outre-Mer France. Joseph took his father's young French ward, Merrie as his wife and watches as pieces of England are slowly lost back to France. Joseph has been one of the lucky few of his generation to make a pilgramage to the Holy Land, and is known to wear a keffiyeh on hot days in token of his trip. The keffiyeh is plain and white in honor of the purity of Jesus.

Photo taken by Talentus (MKA: Jacob Snow) and used with his permission. Thank you.

A picture from An Tir 12th Night A.S. XXXXII