Coronet Tourney 16
An Tir’s sixteenth Coronet Tourney was held on 3o September 1978 at Tatlow Park, Vancouver, BC Canada. Victor: Manfred Kriegstreiber.
Event Announcement
AN TIR CORONET TOURNEY, LIONS GATE, 30 SEPTEMBER, A.S. XIII.
The tournament to choose a new Prince and Princess of An Tir will be held on the 30th of September, at Tatlow Park in Lions Gate (Vancouver, BC, Canada).
SCHEDULE: 9:00 Set up 12:00 Procession, opening court, etc. 1:00 Lists close, fighting begins 5:00 Lists should finish 6:00 Clear the park 8:00 Dinner at the Medieval Inn in Gastown
A quiz on heraldry identification is planned as a contest. Dinner at the Inn is about $5, plus drink. Maps will be available at Tatlow to guide you to the Medieval Inn.
To get to the site: Take I-5, Highway 99, and Oak Street (in succession, not simultaneously!). Turn left at King Edward Ave. (25th), 12 Ave., or Broadway. Turn right at Mac Donald. Turn left at 3rd Ave. The park is on your right.
For accomodation information phone Rowena de Roncevalles de Navarre (Liz Rowe). The autocrats of the event are Nikolai Andreiov (Doug Loney), and Ilkka the Crazed (Ilkka Salokannel).
From The Crier (September 1978)
Event Chronicle
AN TIR CORONET TOURNEY, LIONS GATE, SEPTEMBER 30, A.S.XIII chronicled by Sean Gealt and Donn an Bronach Englished by Dierdre Muldomhnaigh
Despite the wettest September since Noah built the Ark, and despite the autocrats' dire predictions of doom, it did not rain on the Coronet. Of course Sean Gealt was there...
Events began on Society Time, with various presentations and petitions at First Court. Fighting began with a Grand Melee, won by Manfred Kriegstreiber. In the lists there were nineteen fighters, three fields, and no waiting. The lists were also won by Manfred, new Tanist for An Tir. For his Princess he chose Koressa Thokubjalla.
At final court, Torgul Bahadur was presented with the Shattered Shield, and Harrold of Warrington won the Mucking Tall Maul. After Final Court there ensued a bridge fight, which speedily degenerated: sides re-formed at random, corpses sprang to life in the middle of fights, and there was individual combat as well. The bridge fight and associated carnage was effectively ended when a motorcycle steadily pushed its way across the bridge; infantry yielded to cavalry.
The evening featured a banquet at Vancouver's Medieval Inn. Alas, some 35 more people showed up than had bothered to inform the autocrats, and service was, thus, some 2 hours late. An additional complication was a certain confusion over Canadian/American exchange rates. However all survived and seem to have had a good time, even the casualties.
Coronation
Prince [Manfred Kriegstreiber]] with Princess Koressa Thokubjalla on 13 January 1979 at An Tir Coronation 16 in First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park, Portland, OR.