Post by King Adam Aberdeen I on Jan 8, 2012 3:08:57 GMT -6
(This is a post about Adam's fight against tyranny before he met Beathag. He was known as Marco Sudovaine, to prevent being murdered by his Father, Lord William Maubrey...
In order to fight tyranny, he did what he had to do....))
Marco stands 6 foot 1 inche tall… 185 pounds of muscle and sinew… with a heart steeled by a violent Father and ruthless murderers… He is an expert swordsman and very effective with a war hatchet. He has curly brown hair and sea-green eyes. Many would come to know the knight in the green and white. Less renown as the Dux Le’Aosta, Baron de Lyons, and the Viscount of Bedford… he is known as the Falcon of Tyne…
His Story
In the city of Aosta, in the Kingdom of Burgundy, the family Maubrey, was of accounted English nobility, and owned considerable property. Lord William Maubrey was an arrogant man of harsh and violent temper. His wife, Davena, was known as a prudent and virtuous woman of Scottish heritage. It was during one of Lord William’s violent tirades that Davena shunned her husband after many years of abuse, and was raped for her efforts. Nine months later, Adam was born. His Mother protected him, as best she could. She provided the young Adam careful religious training.
At the age of 10, Adam desired to enter a monastery, but he could not obtain his father's consent. Adam gave up his studies and lived a more carefree life for three years. During this period his mother died, and his father's harshness became unbearable. He left home early in this thirteenth year… crossing the Alps, and wandering through Burgundy and France for more than two years.
That five years Adam was absent, would find that Lord William had sold the land in Aosta and returned to England. Lord William did not want Adam to return to England and place claim by birthright to any of his land. Lord William made promises to the King regarding lands in Scotland… in return for a royal decree… A decree from the King forbidding Adam the ability to return to England. Lord William was also able to convince the Church to excommunicate Adam for his “Apostasy.” A term generally used by the Church to describe the formal abandonment or renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. This was the plan that Lord William used to finally destroy Adam and his credibility. In return of Excommunication, Adam swore never to step into a Church or abide by its teachings or rules. He believed in God, but at the tender age of 15, had his own ideas and guides toward life; He didn’t need the Church, a tool of man’s own greed and hypocrisy.
In his sixteenth year, Adam became a squire in service to a French knight, Charles, Baron de Lyons. His duties included dressing the knight in the morning, serving all of the knight’s meals, caring for the knight’s horse, and cleaning the knight’s armor and weapons. He followed the knight to tournaments and assisted his lord on the battlefield. Adam also prepared himself by learning how to handle a sword and lance while wearing forty pounds of armor and riding a horse.
When he was twenty, Adam accompanied the French Baron in a skirmish with two English knights. Lord Charles was unseated in a war joust and about to be crushed by the English knight’s warhorse, when Adam interceded and saved the Baron. In a matter of moments, Adam had proven himself worth of the Baron’s favor by overcoming both aggressors.
Having proved himself worthy, the Baron agreed to knight Adam. In those days, it was a fact that powerful lords often maintained criminal knights and gentlemen, and those who the lord supported often acted as his private army. This lord and retainer relationship was symbolized by granting liveries or capes of the lord’s colors to a man of lesser rank which was representative of their aristocratic connections. Many retainers used their associations with the nobility to further their criminal careers. They regarded liveries as licenses to carry weapons and armor, and to behave in a generally lawless manner. A lord with enough retainers under his command had the equivalent of a personal militia and was almost totally immune to local authority and, as such, regarded himself above the law. This practice became so widespread that even the lesser nobility were able to accumulate a personal power base of men who were ready and willing to do his bidding. Adam was now one of those retainers.
It was the summer of 1321, that Adam, amongst other of the Baron’s retainers, rode deep into Scotland, to a village… manned by English soldiers. Out-numbered and ill-supported, the English troops did not put up much resistance and surrendered. But in the name of France, the Baron ordered all soldiers and villagers – man, woman, and child slaughtered. Adam refused…
The Baron then turned his men on Adam … the battle lasted almost an hour… with the Baron losing several retainers, until he himself ran, a dismounted Adam, thru with a lance from behind. He was left for dead upon the village road with countless others.
Near death’s door, Adam was rescued by neighboring villagers… Scots… Many of the villagers wagered on whether he would live or die… He lived… And spent the next four months recouperating from wounds. The village gathered around the thatch roof home and beckon Adam to stay but he knew he could not, for he feared the Baron would return.
In his actions against the Baron and his men, the villagers dug out a secret long kept quiet from the English… It was the armor of their knight who once ruled the land… They gave him clothes fit for a knight… and the regalia of the now dead protectorate of the village. The horse covering was a green material with a white trim. The crest was a white falcon atop a red leaf. The villagers provided him a green lance and standard. Then they gave him a sword worthy of a fine knight. The people of the village not only gave him his life back but they sent him on his way as the Falcon of Tyne….
Making his way deeper into Scotland, the people of the oppressed villages of the Lowlands cheered as their Protector faced the invaders as often as he could. The English, refusing to tolerate a single rebel, now issued a bounty for his Head. Marco would smile at the posted scrolls, never fearing to ride as the Falcon of Tyne…
Many knew the Falcon, but few knew the man named Marco Sudovaine, formerly known as Adam Maubrey….
What was in a name when yu hide until you were ready to fight? Now Marco resides in Inverness, Highlands of Scotland, and has found something that he thought was long forgotten - Love.
Freedom – One Village at a Time
After the Knight had rode round the lists, and made his obeisance to the Ladies, he drew up fronting the other Knights; and the Green Knight, having thrown down his gauntlet, before the English knight, smiled at them. The leader of the English Knights directed his squire to take it up. This strange knight had interrupted the English joust and insulted the men.
The first English Knight then received his Lance from his squire, and had the squire remove the buttal on the end of the spear. The English knight then fixed his shield on his left arm, and made a general salute to the Green Knight, by a very graceful movement of his lance, he turned round to take his start into full speed, and, encountering in full gallop, leveled his lance.
The Green Knight smirked under the faceshield… knocking off his own buttal. He hefted his shield higher, and spurred the warhorse into a full gallop. Then he leveled his own lance. The thunder of hooves resounded in the lists as the two knights met in the center… The English lance hit the Falcon’s shield squarely and shattered… the Green lance, laced with white stripes, shifted downward at the last moment and caught the English knight just under the shield… lifting him up and backward from his mount.
In the second and third encounters the English were again unseated. The Leader of the English knights then ordered his knights to engage the mounted stranger with their swords. At length of the lance, the Green Knight killed three of the knights before ever being forced to dismount himself.
Spurring forward into the Center, the leader of the English leveled his lance as the Green Knight leveled his… By fate it seems, both men protected themselves with their shields and were dislodged from their seated positions.
In the center of the list, clangs of steel against steel echoed as the two engaged furiously in single combat. The oohhhs and ahhhs from the crowd seem to spur the Green Knight into a flurry of sword moves, with the Englishman continually backing up.
In the end, the Englishman lay dead upon the ground near his brethren… The Green Knight raised his blood-tipped sword to the cheers of the crowd. Once again, a Scottish village held under the English sword, was free again. The people lauded the Green Knight and begged him to reveal himself… He in turn simply smiled under the faceshield and announced "Brethern, Know ye be free from tyranny... for aye shall be forever in Gaelic Fealty... Be it known that the Falcon of Tyne shall persevere to have Scots free and whole..."
In order to fight tyranny, he did what he had to do....))
Marco stands 6 foot 1 inche tall… 185 pounds of muscle and sinew… with a heart steeled by a violent Father and ruthless murderers… He is an expert swordsman and very effective with a war hatchet. He has curly brown hair and sea-green eyes. Many would come to know the knight in the green and white. Less renown as the Dux Le’Aosta, Baron de Lyons, and the Viscount of Bedford… he is known as the Falcon of Tyne…
His Story
In the city of Aosta, in the Kingdom of Burgundy, the family Maubrey, was of accounted English nobility, and owned considerable property. Lord William Maubrey was an arrogant man of harsh and violent temper. His wife, Davena, was known as a prudent and virtuous woman of Scottish heritage. It was during one of Lord William’s violent tirades that Davena shunned her husband after many years of abuse, and was raped for her efforts. Nine months later, Adam was born. His Mother protected him, as best she could. She provided the young Adam careful religious training.
At the age of 10, Adam desired to enter a monastery, but he could not obtain his father's consent. Adam gave up his studies and lived a more carefree life for three years. During this period his mother died, and his father's harshness became unbearable. He left home early in this thirteenth year… crossing the Alps, and wandering through Burgundy and France for more than two years.
That five years Adam was absent, would find that Lord William had sold the land in Aosta and returned to England. Lord William did not want Adam to return to England and place claim by birthright to any of his land. Lord William made promises to the King regarding lands in Scotland… in return for a royal decree… A decree from the King forbidding Adam the ability to return to England. Lord William was also able to convince the Church to excommunicate Adam for his “Apostasy.” A term generally used by the Church to describe the formal abandonment or renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. This was the plan that Lord William used to finally destroy Adam and his credibility. In return of Excommunication, Adam swore never to step into a Church or abide by its teachings or rules. He believed in God, but at the tender age of 15, had his own ideas and guides toward life; He didn’t need the Church, a tool of man’s own greed and hypocrisy.
In his sixteenth year, Adam became a squire in service to a French knight, Charles, Baron de Lyons. His duties included dressing the knight in the morning, serving all of the knight’s meals, caring for the knight’s horse, and cleaning the knight’s armor and weapons. He followed the knight to tournaments and assisted his lord on the battlefield. Adam also prepared himself by learning how to handle a sword and lance while wearing forty pounds of armor and riding a horse.
When he was twenty, Adam accompanied the French Baron in a skirmish with two English knights. Lord Charles was unseated in a war joust and about to be crushed by the English knight’s warhorse, when Adam interceded and saved the Baron. In a matter of moments, Adam had proven himself worth of the Baron’s favor by overcoming both aggressors.
Having proved himself worthy, the Baron agreed to knight Adam. In those days, it was a fact that powerful lords often maintained criminal knights and gentlemen, and those who the lord supported often acted as his private army. This lord and retainer relationship was symbolized by granting liveries or capes of the lord’s colors to a man of lesser rank which was representative of their aristocratic connections. Many retainers used their associations with the nobility to further their criminal careers. They regarded liveries as licenses to carry weapons and armor, and to behave in a generally lawless manner. A lord with enough retainers under his command had the equivalent of a personal militia and was almost totally immune to local authority and, as such, regarded himself above the law. This practice became so widespread that even the lesser nobility were able to accumulate a personal power base of men who were ready and willing to do his bidding. Adam was now one of those retainers.
It was the summer of 1321, that Adam, amongst other of the Baron’s retainers, rode deep into Scotland, to a village… manned by English soldiers. Out-numbered and ill-supported, the English troops did not put up much resistance and surrendered. But in the name of France, the Baron ordered all soldiers and villagers – man, woman, and child slaughtered. Adam refused…
The Baron then turned his men on Adam … the battle lasted almost an hour… with the Baron losing several retainers, until he himself ran, a dismounted Adam, thru with a lance from behind. He was left for dead upon the village road with countless others.
Near death’s door, Adam was rescued by neighboring villagers… Scots… Many of the villagers wagered on whether he would live or die… He lived… And spent the next four months recouperating from wounds. The village gathered around the thatch roof home and beckon Adam to stay but he knew he could not, for he feared the Baron would return.
In his actions against the Baron and his men, the villagers dug out a secret long kept quiet from the English… It was the armor of their knight who once ruled the land… They gave him clothes fit for a knight… and the regalia of the now dead protectorate of the village. The horse covering was a green material with a white trim. The crest was a white falcon atop a red leaf. The villagers provided him a green lance and standard. Then they gave him a sword worthy of a fine knight. The people of the village not only gave him his life back but they sent him on his way as the Falcon of Tyne….
Making his way deeper into Scotland, the people of the oppressed villages of the Lowlands cheered as their Protector faced the invaders as often as he could. The English, refusing to tolerate a single rebel, now issued a bounty for his Head. Marco would smile at the posted scrolls, never fearing to ride as the Falcon of Tyne…
Many knew the Falcon, but few knew the man named Marco Sudovaine, formerly known as Adam Maubrey….
What was in a name when yu hide until you were ready to fight? Now Marco resides in Inverness, Highlands of Scotland, and has found something that he thought was long forgotten - Love.
Freedom – One Village at a Time
After the Knight had rode round the lists, and made his obeisance to the Ladies, he drew up fronting the other Knights; and the Green Knight, having thrown down his gauntlet, before the English knight, smiled at them. The leader of the English Knights directed his squire to take it up. This strange knight had interrupted the English joust and insulted the men.
The first English Knight then received his Lance from his squire, and had the squire remove the buttal on the end of the spear. The English knight then fixed his shield on his left arm, and made a general salute to the Green Knight, by a very graceful movement of his lance, he turned round to take his start into full speed, and, encountering in full gallop, leveled his lance.
The Green Knight smirked under the faceshield… knocking off his own buttal. He hefted his shield higher, and spurred the warhorse into a full gallop. Then he leveled his own lance. The thunder of hooves resounded in the lists as the two knights met in the center… The English lance hit the Falcon’s shield squarely and shattered… the Green lance, laced with white stripes, shifted downward at the last moment and caught the English knight just under the shield… lifting him up and backward from his mount.
In the second and third encounters the English were again unseated. The Leader of the English knights then ordered his knights to engage the mounted stranger with their swords. At length of the lance, the Green Knight killed three of the knights before ever being forced to dismount himself.
Spurring forward into the Center, the leader of the English leveled his lance as the Green Knight leveled his… By fate it seems, both men protected themselves with their shields and were dislodged from their seated positions.
In the center of the list, clangs of steel against steel echoed as the two engaged furiously in single combat. The oohhhs and ahhhs from the crowd seem to spur the Green Knight into a flurry of sword moves, with the Englishman continually backing up.
In the end, the Englishman lay dead upon the ground near his brethren… The Green Knight raised his blood-tipped sword to the cheers of the crowd. Once again, a Scottish village held under the English sword, was free again. The people lauded the Green Knight and begged him to reveal himself… He in turn simply smiled under the faceshield and announced "Brethern, Know ye be free from tyranny... for aye shall be forever in Gaelic Fealty... Be it known that the Falcon of Tyne shall persevere to have Scots free and whole..."
