Cristina l’Ambuler

Cristina l'Ambuler

Per chevron sable and argent, a chevron counterchanged between two roundels argent and a rustre gules

Honourable Lady Cristina l’Ambuler

• Pronunciation guide: Kris-tee-NAH luh Ahm-boo-LAIR
• Alternate/former names: Cristina D'Ambuler, Cristina l'Ambeler, Cristina la Ambeler
• Calontir Armorial/OP - https://www.calontir.org/persona/4203

Persona:

• 1340 Reim, France. Lives in the woods with a garden with aspirations of being cook to a nobleman.

History in the SCA:

Timeline:

• Started in the SCA in Caid, 1995, in the Shire of Gallavalley as protege to Mistress Eileen O’Kitspaugh.
• Significant events since then (competitions, championships, tourneys, first event, etc.)
  • Entered into the Order of the Calon Cross on January 6th, 2018, at Twelfth Night in Lonely Tower.

Groups and Affiliations:

• Currently resides in Barony of the Lonely Tower.
• Previous Groups:
• Guilds, Households, etc:
  • Apprentice to Mistress Suzanne de la Ferte.

Offices:

• Local Offices: Baronial offices of Minister of Arts&Sciences and Exchequer
• Regional Offices:
• Kingdom Offices:
• SCA-wide Offices:
• Other service:

Other Information

Websites, photo-sharing, etc.

Text of Cross Scroll

by Mistress Jehanne Bening, based on The Deeds of Phillip II Augustus by Rigord

In the Kingdom of Calontir's 33rd year, the second of Their Royal Majesties Damien and Issabell's reign, they summoned their friends and intimates to the celebration of Twelfth Night, in Their Barony of the Lonely Tower, a very powerful and well fortified keep.

In the innumerable multitude they recognized one whose zealous teaching and leading of others, contributions in many kitchens, bundles of largess, officer of Our Barony and months bearing water to Our army, are in the interests of the realm. In addition they recognized their Order of the Calon Cross, whose names would be too long to list here, were never the less deficient in strength. There-fore they drew up a testament and ordinance for the whole realm in the following words:

We, Damien, king by right of combat, and Issabell, his queen of Calontir, know that the royal office exists to provide for the needs of subjects by all means and to place the public before Our private interest. Therefore We will and command that Cristina la Ambeler from this day forward to be a member of Our esteemed Order of the Calon Cross; to take counsel in the business of the Order; to accept from our hands and wear as fitting Our Order's arms and to carry it for safety and protection as she travels from kingdom to kingdom. In addition and from Our abundance We concede and give to the Honorable Lady Cristina for her use and benefit as is her wont an annual rent of eight barrels of wine in barrels called costerez, which contain a sixth of a muid of Chatres.

We have commanded that the present document be confirmed with the authority of our seal and the karactere of the royal names appended below. Done on January 6th in the 52nd year of Our Society, in the presence of Our Order of the Calon Cross.

(Calligraphy and illumination by Mistress Sofya la Rus, based on 13th-14th century manuscripts, especially the Grandes Chroniques.)

Pelican Scroll

Text was by Rhodri ap Hywell, Calligraphy by Astrid Esbjörnsdotter, Illumination by Kitta Kristinsdottir. Photo courtesy of Dagný ingen Murchada.

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