Populace:Benedict of Luzern

Photo

The Honorable Lordship Benedikt von Luzern Photographer: Aurora Faw

Information

Resides: Barony of Twin Moons Status: Active

Heraldry

Quarterly gules and Or, in bend three cats' faces, a bordure engrailed counterchanged.

Gules, a lion's head cabossed between flaunches Or

(Fieldless) A pheon inverted within and conjoined to an annulet gules.

SCA origin story

Benedikt von Luzern was introduced to the SCA by a friend in The Barony of Tir Ysgithr in 1989. He became squired in the mid 90's but was released to follow his lady to the Kingdom of An Tir. Residing in An Tir he sort of fell out of the society with the exception of the occasional armored combat practice and the annual pilgramage to Estrella War. He then traveled to the Kingdom of Ansteorra for another year. In 2017 the two returned to Atenveldt. He now revels in a strange juxtaposition of building new relationships through the archery community yet reuniting with people from decades ago. In a way Benedikt is reinventing himself. His dreams are that this new energy will spill over onto the rest of Haus Tagesterne.

Persona

Benedikt is a 14th century stone mason out of Luzern, a canton of what is now known as Switzerland. It was a time when the Swiss cantons were first uniting against the Hapsburg rule. Benedikt's persona was born and ages thru time exactly 600 years before his mundane counterpart of today. At events he attempts to maintain a very 14th century appearance and encampment.

Benedikt's Double Bell Wedge

Interests & activities

Archery

Period, horn reinforced self nocked, whipped & bound goose feather fletched, bodkin tipped arrows.

Benedikt is an archery marshal and was the archery captain for the Barony of Twin Moons from September 2021 thru September 2023. He has achieved the archery rank of Bowmaster in open handbow, Yeoman in Period hand bow, and Yeoman in Period Crossbow. He is honored to be accepted as a Companion of the Order of the Black Pheon and a Companion of the Order of the Azure Archers. He started his SCA archery career with a period longbow which he used for several years. He is somewhat experienced in crossbow but now primarily uses a modern longbow and a modern recurve. He has done minor bow repairs and builds all his own arm bracer's, quivers, arrows.

Has taught/can teach arrow building.

Kingdom Handbow Archery Champion on April 10th, 2022 to November 20th, 2022

Barony of Twin Moon's Quarter Moon archery champion on July 24th, 2022

Kingdom Handbow Archery Champion on May 21'st 2023 to November 11th 2023

Barony of Twin Moon's Quarter Moon archery champion on June 18th, 2023

Armored Combat

One of the reason's Benedikt was drawn into the SCA was shinai. Remember SCA shinai back in the early 90's. No? Well you're not the only one. "Brah, shinai was like soooooooooo 90's." From there he transitioned into fencing and from there into full hardsuit. In the late 90's Benedikt actually started the road to knighthood by taking a red belt to Thegn Sir Brendan mac Artuir (then Sir Brendan). A couple years and a AoA later Sir Brendan released Benedict as a squire when he followed his lady love to An Tir. From that point on Benedict only fought occasionally and at Estrella Wars but has recently picked up combat archery.

Arts & Sciences

Benedikt enjoys leatherworking & tooling, metalwork, some light woodwork and silk banner dying.

One of the household badges on Benedikt's archery quiver.

See more of Benedikt's SCA leatherwork here.

Mead Making

In Atenveldt Brewer's guild competitions Benedikt has achieved-

3rd place, Estrella War 2002, wines & meads, lavender mead.

3rd place, Estrella War 2003, wines & meads, mead

2nd place, Estrella War 2003, wines & meads, blackberry melomel.

1st place, Estrella War 2004, wines & meads for the same blackberry melomel.

Honorable mention, Estrella War 2004, wines & meads, clove metheglin.

1st place, Highlands War 2005, wines & meads & best period beverage, mead

1st place, Estrella War 2018, wines & meads, 10 year old peppermint metheglin

At Highlands War 2022 Benedikt challenged for and achieved rank of Craftmaster for Mead in the Aten Brewers Guild.

Heraldry

While no expert Benedikt is knowledgeable and happy to discuss heraldry. He currently has arms, and three badges passed (one especially for his household).

Period Games

"Decades ago I attended a household period game night and I was fascinated." Benedikt enjoys playing backgammon, tabula, nine man's morris, mancala, boccie, chess & Senet and is interested in obtaining & playing the Royal Game of Ur, and Tafl.

Awards - Order of Precedence

Kingdom -

01/24/1999 - Award of Arms

02/22/2020 - Black Pheon

01/02/2021 - Flower of the Desert

06/04/2022 - Beacon of the Desert

09/17/2022 - Queen's Grace

11/19/2022 - Azure Archer

02/24/2023 - Star of the Desert - Gules

07/29/2023 - Pilgrim of the Desert

11/11/2023 - Commander of the Queens's Grace

11/11/2023 - King's Sigil

Baronial -

11/09/2019 - Crimson Mace of Twin Moons

07/21/2022 - l'Ordre de la Lune Bleue of Twin Moons

04/09/2023 - Order of the Dragon's Fury of Sun Dragon - Gules

07/29/2023 - Order of the Silver Cap of Twin Moons
Benedikt's Order of Precedence

Household

Benedikt is the current head of Haus Tagesterne as of April 23rd, 2022 in the common era