[MR] 4th Peerage

[TheWolfhou at aol.com]

Historians help me, but do I not recall that during Medieval times, there  
have been some archers and fighters of other disiplines Knighted? It was rare,  
but I believe it did happen...
--Blitha of Wolfhou
 
 
In a message dated 2/20/2009 10:18:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
mweymark at carolina.rr.com writes:

Personally I think non-heavy combat has been too long ignored in the  Peerage 
community.  The rapier, archery, thrown weapons populous give  every bit as 
much, to the game we all adore, as the Heavy fighting, A&S  and service 
communities.  Why should they not be recognized on a peerage  level for that 
contribution??

Now the question of "do they fit into an  existing Peerage"?? No I dont think 
they do.  Yes rapier (for example) is  both an art and a science, however in 
that light so is heavy fighting, so a  rapier fighter can no sooner be 
considered a Laurel as a heavy fighter could.  And the fact that heavy fighting has 
its own peerage would say that in all  fairness non-heavy combatents should 
have their own.  Lets face it, there  are certainly some rapier fighters out 
there that have honed their craft to  such a degree as to have achieved Mastery in 
their craft, this point can not  be argued, so why not award them with a 
title of that  achievment???

Just my two cents.

--

Caterine St.  Loe
"the Good 'Prentice"
Chateaux Ferneaux

SNIP
> 
>  New peerage...I'm a 'half and half' - 1st half: what's wrong with the 3  we
> have? 2nd half: the non heavy armored martial arts could use some  love, but
> is it 'art' (A&S) or 'belt' worthy :) dunno, not my  call.
> 
>  Miriel

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