Her Excellency The Baroness Of Seagirt's Own Grenadiers

The rapier combatants of Seagirt, when mustered for battle, are Her Excellency's Own Grenadiers.

"Why 'grenadiers'"?, you ask. Because "musketeers" is overdone. Because Mathieu's online persona is "Pistolleer" so "Pistolleers" seemed too self-serving. And because while there is no evidence of the term "grenadier" being used in the SCA period, there is plenty of evidence of grenades being used on the battle field through much of the later half of the SCA period.

Now we just have to come up with a viable device to spray RGB ammuntion it all directions when thrown...

History

Previously to AS 36, the winner of the Daffodil rapier tourney was referred to variously as Seagirt's Rapier Defender, Seagirt's Fencing Champion, and as The Daffodil Defender's Swashbuckling Side-kick.

The tournament in AS 35 was fought as a Machiavelli-style warlord tourney. A regular warlord (or snowball) tourney was fought bringing the fighters together in larger and larger teams until half of the field faced the other half of the field. This was the semi-final. This final battle was fought to determine which team's members would be fight in the final. The final was a melee; the last person standing was declared the victor.

After winning the tournament in AS 35, Mathieu Thibaud Chaudeau de Montblanc consulted with the Her Excellency Nadezhda Toranova Baroness of Seagirt to find a more suitable title for future victorious rapier combatants. Her Excellency granted commission to the rapier fighters of Seagirt as Her Own Grenadiers. In future, the victor was to be styled as the Captain of Her Excellency The Baroness Of Seagirt's Own Grenadiers. The Captain was to (and continues to) bear the responsibility to muster the Grenadiers for Sealion War and lead them into the rapier war point battle. This is as the Daffodil Defender bears responsibility for the armoured combatants and has done so since antiquity.

A list of past Captains may be found here. Captains of Her Excellency The Baroness of Seagirt's Own Grenadiers

Regalia

In AS 37, Don Iain Archibald Guthrie won the tournament and on his passing of the title the next year, he gifted a cape depicting the orca of Seagirt's arms on a field semy of grenades as regalia. It as been worn proudly by all of Her Excellency's Captains since that time.

At the beginning of AS 47, Baroness Janet Kempe presented the Grenadiers with a painted silk standard bearing the motto the grenadiers "QUOD TEMPUS EST PORTTITOR" (meaning "What time is the ferry?"). The standard was solemnly commissioned by Her Excellency Mogg, Baroness of Seagirt, in a ceremony at a Seagirt combat practice. (By solemnly, the writer means to say, "by running up and down the field madly waving the standard and gleefully giggling")

The Grenadiers proudly carried their new standard in battle for the first time at Sealion War XLVII/2012.