Crown Tourney Roll of Arms Competition

Triton sponsors the Roll of Arms competition at Crown Tourney.

What is a Roll of Arms, you ask? The online Encyclopedia Brittannica defines a Roll of Arms as "(an) illuminated manuscript describing (blazoning) and often illustrating (emblazoning) the arms of persons Present at a particular battle or tournament."

The rules for the competition are simple. Using the registered heraldry for the combatants, prepare a manuscript depicting the entrants to Their Majesties' Crown Tournament, with the final pairing and the eventual Winner clearly denoted as such. For example, your page might contain 14 small escutcheons of all the entrants by rank, then 2 larger escutcheons of the finalists, with one even larger escutcheon of the winner, listing the names under each depiction. Illuminated poems or songs depicting the tourney progression are also viable as entries.

For visual examples, please see the following links of historic Rolls of Arms and past winners of the Atlantian Roll of Arms Competition:

http://www.silverdragon.org/HERALDRY/ZurichRolls/zroadt2v.htm  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hyghalmen_Roll_Late_1400s.jpg  http://scribe.atlantia.sca.org/gallery/RollOfArms/index.html  http://www.flickr.com/photos/8407825@N02/525082139/ 

A final list of entrants can be obtained on the day of Crown Tourney, and will also be posted to the Merry Rose immediately following the event. Those interested in entering the competition will have 30 days from Crown to send their entries to Triton. Entries should be prepared on appropriate 11x14 scribal mediums (suitable for inclusion in the official Roll of Arms book).

Last Updated August 29, 2008