Short form, from memory, so may be inaccurate: Vissevald's first Crown Tourney (that is, the Crown Tourney he supervised when he was King the first time). One of the contestants (call him A) was throwing *extremely* hard blows, calibrated far above the standards of the time, leaving severe bruises on many opponents. At some point (and this is the vaguest part of the memory), Vis stepped in and declared that one of the 'victories' gotten in that fashion was declared invalid, and that the tourney would be re-fought from the point of the quarter-finals. It was an unprecedented maneuver, to deal with a highly unusual problem. 'A' did not win the re-fought tourney. If memory serves, the person who did win had been knocked out of the running in (or before?) the original quarter-finals. 'A' took offense, loudly and publically. Much of A's home group (Ostgardr) took his side, possibly due to ancient political friction between them and Carolingia (now long-buried, but still in living memory then). In the end, A declared himself King by forming an entirely new splinter-group, now known as Acre. Eventually, as tempers cooled, and different rulers came into power, diplomatic relationships were established between Acre and the SCA, but they remain distinct political entities.
I should point out that this isn't remotely a first-hand account. It's my recollection of conversations and documents. I'm not quite as Old a Carolingian as that :-)
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Re: It ate my reply, 2nd attempt
Date: 2004-08-06 04:42 pm (UTC)Vissevald's first Crown Tourney (that is, the Crown Tourney he supervised when he was King the first time). One of the contestants (call him A) was throwing *extremely* hard blows, calibrated far above the standards of the time, leaving severe bruises on many opponents. At some point (and this is the vaguest part of the memory), Vis stepped in and declared that one of the 'victories' gotten in that fashion was declared invalid, and that the tourney would be re-fought from the point of the quarter-finals. It was an unprecedented maneuver, to deal with a highly unusual problem. 'A' did not win the re-fought tourney. If memory serves, the person who did win had been knocked out of the running in (or before?) the original quarter-finals. 'A' took offense, loudly and publically. Much of A's home group (Ostgardr) took his side, possibly due to ancient political friction between them and Carolingia (now long-buried, but still in living memory then). In the end, A declared himself King by forming an entirely new splinter-group, now known as Acre. Eventually, as tempers cooled, and different rulers came into power, diplomatic relationships were established between Acre and the SCA, but they remain distinct political entities.
I should point out that this isn't remotely a first-hand account. It's my recollection of conversations and documents. I'm not quite as Old a Carolingian as that :-)