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, OP

Persona

Ceara was born in 1275 in Melrose Abbey in Roxburgshire in Scotland north of the English border. 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. She lives in the region of Peebleshire, Scotland.

She joined the SCA in 1997 in her home Barony of Gyldenholt, however she lived the great adventure in the Shire of Pont Alarch, Crown Principality of Insulae Draconis, Drachenwald from Aug. 2004 thru Aug. 2007.

Ceara is apprenticed to Master Giuseppe Francesco da Borgia Her Ladyships awards can be viewed here: here

Offices & Positions

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

Culinary Projects

Ceara has an active cookery blog located at: http://cearasformeofcookery.blogspot.com/?m=0

  • 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 of the Three Sisters Catering Team, Lyondemere Cast Iron Chef Winners, 2012
  • Judge for Lyondemere Cast Iron Chef competition, 2013 and 2014

Clothing Projects

Cooking with pottery

Court Service

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, Caid, Event Steward, 2014

Projects

She has an active cooking blog located at: http://cearasformeofcookery.blogspot.com

She has attended the West Coast Culinary Symposium for several years and has assisted on several feasts in Caid.

She has also been in charge of several lunches for the Populace of Caid.

Head cook for Fall Coronation 2014.

Classes Taught

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 (Seal Jug)
  • 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.--