Ceara ingen Chonaill

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Ceara and Sagramor
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Preferred title: Not specified Their Pronouns: Not specified Resides: Gyldenholt Status: Active Awards: Visit the Caid Order of Precedence
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Baroness Ceara ingen Chonaill

Persona

Ceara was born in 1275 in Melrose Abbey in Rosburgshire in the Scottish Borders. Her mother died when she was 11, then raised by her father along with her older brother James. Her father died in the Battle of Fallkirk in 1298 and her brother passed away in the Battle of Bannockburn. Though Scottish, Ceara wed an English squire, Richard Clerke of Rowanwood. She sees him when she can since they are on opposite sides of the war.

Associates

• Ceara is a member of La Famiglia.
• Ceara is apprenticed to Master Giuseppe Francesco da Borgia
• Ceara is married to Richard Clerke of Rowanwood

Awards

• Lux Caidis (Period Cooking) 6/11/11
• Court Baroness 3/13/10
• Crescent 1/24/09
• Harp Argent (Costuming) 6/2/02
• Fôret d'Or [Gyldenholt] 6/23/01
• Dolphin 10/14/00
• Award of Arms 6/27/99

Offices & Positions

• Baronial Exchequer of Gyldenholt 1999-2001
• Baronial Seneschal of Gyldenholt 2002-2004
• Guildmistress, Right Noble Guild of the Upper_Crust (Gyldenholt's cooking group), 08/2010-Present
• Sexton of Gyldenholt 2011 to present

Court Service

• Chief Lady in Waiting to Their Excellencies Colette and Ursel of Gyldenholt 6/2010 to 6/2012
• Lady in Waiting to Their Grace's Kara and Patrick 11/2011 to 8/2012
• Lady in Waiting to Their Excellencies Mansur and Eilidh 8/2012 to 6/2013
• Beck and Call Girl to Their Excellencies Giles and Giuseppe of Gyldenholt 6/2012 to present
• Lady in Waiting to Their Excellencies Sven and Cassandra 6/2013 to 8/2013

Event Staff

• Queen's Champion Event Steward, Spring 2002
• Gyldenholt Yule, Event Steward, 2003
• Protectors Feast, Feast Steward, 2006, Shire of Pont Alarch, Crown Principality of Insulae Draconis, Drachenwald
• Queen's Champion, Event Steward, Fall 2009
• Gyldenholt Anniversary, Co-Event Steward, 2013
• Gyldenholt Anniversary, Co-Feast Steward, 2013
• West Coast Culinary Symposium, Event Steward, 2014

Other Competitions

• Member of the Right Noble Upper Crust Team, Potrero Siege Cook-Off Winners, 2010
• Member of the Right Noble Upper Crust Team, Potrero Siege Cook-Off Winners, 2011
• Member and leader of the Three Sisters Catering Team, Lyondemere Cast Iron Chef Winners, 2012
• Judge for Lyondemere Cast Iron Chef competition, 2011 and 2013

Projects

Ceara is working on her entries for Pentathlon 2015. She has attended the West Coast Culinary Symposium and has assisted on several feasts in Caid. She has also been in charge of several lunches for the Populace of Caid.

Classes Taught

• Pottery for Children at GWW 2010 and 2011
• Easy Period Lunches, Collegium Caidis 2011
• Let's Make Mustard at GWW 2013
• Bread: from Field to Table, Collegium Caidis 2013
• Let's Make Mustard, West Coast Culinary Symposium, 2013 An Tir

Competitions

Caidian Arts and Sciences and Pentathlon 2011

• 2nd Place Journeyman, Culinary Arts: Sweets (Comodores (fig pastry))
• 1st Place Journeyman, Fiber Arts: Period Construction (Men's 14C suit(chauses, braies, shirt, coat, hat)
• 1st Place Apprentice, Functional Arts: Games or Toys (Fish Trap)
• 2nd Place Journeyman, Visual Arts: Ceramics: Functional (Kitchen Ceramics display)
• 2nd Place Journeyman, Fiber, Period Construction: (Felt Slippers)

Caidian Arts and Sciences and Pentathlon 2013 =

• 1st Place Journeyman, Culinary Arts: Sweets (Rosee (custard))
• 1st Place Journeyman, Fiber Arts: Costume Review (Katherine Parr Dress)
• 1st Place Journeyman, Ceramics Functional
• 1st Place Apprentice, Fiber Arts: Hats (French Hood)

Interests

Cooking,pottery, sewing of just about anything: mainly 14th and early 16th century English clothing. Anything 14th century English and the Tudor Period. Ceara, in the past was authorized in Rapier, Archery, Equestrian and is a former Equestrian Marshall.