The Winchester Pilgrims

Brother Logan the Pathwarden suggested to me after the third Winchester Pilgrimage that I should Document who attended in similar style to Chaucer's Canterbury Prologue. My Thanks to Logan for the inspiration.

Queen Eufemia, finding herself invited to bring a champion to the tourney of St Michael, that was held in Honour of the Queen of the East Kingdom at the great Pennsic Fair, contacted me and commissioned a boast.

Queen Eufemia was heralded in by Sir Gerhardt von Wuestenburg, in the following fashion,

Queen Eufemia's Boast August 2005

besides the Introduction, it is a pair of sonnets

Sir Alfred of Carlyle, after a crown tourney, comissioned an accounting of it In verse from me, to be delivered at the winners coronation.

The Rhyme structure is not one I have documented, Any retroactive documentation is welcome..

Alfred's Lay November 2001

I was asked to provide a wording for an Award of Arms for a friend and Shire member, Melisende FitzWalter, and wrote a sonnet.

Melisende's Sonnet Jan 2004