Murchadh Monaidh Chraoibhe
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Lord Murchadh Monaidh Chraoibhe is Marshal for the Barony of Calafia. Formerly known as Murchadh Garrioch
Persona
Born outside Edinburgh, in the year of our Lord 1267, Murchadh Monaidh Chraoibhe is the son of a peasant’s daughter and her outlaw lover. As the second child of a union condemned by her family, he was cast on the steps of the church, and later taken in by an engineer, a keeper and maintainer of his lord’s siege engines and master of sappers, in the employ of the local lord, and his barren wife. Murchadh received an extensive, if eclectic education while working in and about Dunbar Castle. He sparred with the squires, assisted the carpenters; wheelwrights; and other wood workers, and gained similar experience with the blacksmiths; marshals; mews keepers; and the learned men such as the bailiff. In 1288 Murchadh signed on with large cog carrying goods to the markets of the North Sea, Atlantic and Mediterranean. On that first voyage, he met a young woman while loading goods in Berwick-upon-Tweed. She later bore him a daughter, and they did marry. He continued to go to sea, returning to his family when he could and fathered a son. After his first voyage, he signed on with a ship of the Knights Hospitallers as a sailor and man-at-arms, sailing between the Holy land and the ports of Mediterranean Europe to quell the Saracen pirates and raid their commerce. During this time he studied sailing, seamanship, navigation, and naval warfare. He returned to Scotland in 1297. Returning to a land in ashes resulting from the ravages of Edward I of England, he joined the army of Sir William Wallace in the war against England. Murchadh and his family were forced to flee their homeland in the Scottish borderlands for the relative safety of the kingdom of Caid in 1301, and now reside in the barony of Calafia. Murchadh first sheltered his family within Clan Gryphon, before joining the men of the house in taking up the Cross with the Hospitallers in 1304. He first served the Crown on the Guard of Her Majesty, Chamayn of Castile I, and served again in service to Chamayn of Castile II. In 1306 Murchadh traveled with the Hospitaller contingent to Estrella where he received the Cross Swords of Caid along with his bretheren. In 1307 he joined the Guard of Her Majesty, Faizeh al-Zarqa I, and later served Ithuna Breithrazi I, Faizeh al-Zarqa II who again recognized the Hospitallers with the Crossed Swords in 1308, and Mora de Buchanan I in like manner. Following a Crusade to lands once conquered by Alexander the Great and the Mongol Hordes, he returned to serve Mora de Buchanan II. During this time he also served the Baron of Calafia as his marshal. In 1311 he sailed again against Saracen pirates and to succor Eastern pagans in the wake of God’s wrath. He then returned to Caid, his Knight, and his Order. He waits, protecting the pilgrim road of Caid, for the summons once again of war. Murchadh Monaidh Chraoibhe is the first of the Professed Brothers of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Caid, and Squire to Sir Halfdan Haraldsson, a Knight of the First Order.
Offices & Positions
- Queen's Guard, Chamayn I
- Queen's Guard, Chamayn II
- Queen's Guard, Faizeh I
- Queen's Guard, Iðuna I
- Queen's Guard, Faizeh II
- Queen's Guard, Mora I
- Baronial Marshall of Calafia
- Guard for [[Edward II and Mora II]|Mora II], 6/6/2009-11/7/2009
- Marshal, Calafia, 11/21/2009-present
Associates
- Squire to Sir Halfdan Haraldsson and member of his household, Crossroads
- Professed Brother of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Caid
Offices & Positions
Event Staff
- Potrero War- Parking Lot Crew
- Potrero War- Set-up and Haybale Crew
- Potrero War- Set-up Crew and Haybale Sub-Autocrat
- Potrero War- Set-up Crew
- Potrero War- Set-up Crew and Marshall
