Ceara ingen Chonaill
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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
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
- Beck-and-Call-Girl in the Court of Giles and Giuseppe, Gyldenholt, 2012-Present
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
- West Coast Culinary Symposium 2014, Event Steward
Other Competitions
- 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 class 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)
Interests
Cooking,pottery, sewing of just about anything: mainly 14th and early 16th century English clothing. Anything 14th century English. Ceara, in the past was authorized in Rapier, Archery, Equestrian and is a former Equestrian Marshall.
