Awards and Honors

Welcome to the West Kingdom's Award Lists

Note: The Golem Herald does not track awards that were granted by a Baron or Baroness or other local awards [with the exception of Awards of Arms granted by the Baron and Baroness of the Far West -- those will be tracked here as well]. Golem is only responsible for awards and honors granted by the King and Queen or a Prince and Princess.

I must thank several folk for helping get and/or keep this system under control.

(Note that I removed some of the details for the following names, but don't want to forget Waldt von Markheim, Linda of the Lakelands, Elspeth the Semstress of Dunkeld,Kay the Innocent, Gwendolyn the Rat Keeper, Stanislaw Jan Ossolinski, the late Aja du Jardin or Mastyer Khevron Oktavii Tikhikovich Vorotnikov who have been of much help over the years).

Thanks to Khevron and his crew of artists who upate and maintain the West Kingdom Roll of Arms -- the turnaround for requests and such have always been timely.

Many others who have sent me information so far, and whom I hope to hear from in the future ...

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The Award List

The Primary Online Version (Alphabetic Sort by name, then by Rank, etc.)
The online version is a (huge) set of standard HTML Web pages (note that this is controlled by a menu which lets you narrow down your search):

HTML Alphabetic Listing

The Order of Precedence

HTML Order of Precedence Listing

If you are interested in performing a "Grand March", details for precedence used in such can be found at: Grand March/Precedence

Downloadable COMPLETE LISTING Files

PKZIP/Text Version

• Alphabetical Listing (Size: 382 KB)
• For the Scribes (Size: 250 KB)
  (This special file is pipe-delimited, all awards from AA on up, for the scribes to import to their database ...)
• Order of Precedence Listing (Size: 191 KB)

Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Version:

Principality Award List Explanation: It should be noted that Principality award lists display the data in a way that may be confusing at first. If an award recipient is a resident of the Principality, then all awards and honors granted to said recipient will be listed, including awards and honors from both Kingdom and Principality Royalty. If, however, the recipient is no longer resident in the Principality for whatever reason, then any awards and honors not given by the Royalty of said Principality will not be shown. For example, if Fred the Lame received three Principality awards from the Principality of the Mists, and four awards from the Crown of the West, and he lived in The Mists, then all seven awards would be listed. If Fred the Lame moved to the Principality of Cynagua, then the only awards that would be listed for Fred in the Principality of the Mists award list would be those granted by Mists Royalty. However, Fred would also be listed in the Principality of Cynagua awards list as he is now resident there and that list would contain all seven of his recognitions. Hopefully this explains the dichotomy of some people's listings, which periodically raises the same question(s) that have to be explained many times ...

Palm Handheld Device Users:

• I had to install "Documents to Go" (which is on the Software CD that came with the device).
• Then I had to run the "Documents to Go" application on the desktop.
• Select the file(s) I wanted to install to the Palm device (I chose the text version of the Award List, which is 2.5 megabytes in size -- download and unzip the .zip file to an appropriate folder).
• Select the item to make sure it has focus.
• On the right of the "Documents to Go" application, is a "Synchronize" option -- make sure it says "Yes".
• Perform a Hotsync®.
• Because of time factors, you may want to go back after you have performed the HotSync® and set the "Synchronize" option to "No", until you get a newer version of the file so that it doesn't try to synchronize the file each time you perform a HotSync® of your Palm device.
• On the Palm device, open "Documents to Go", and the file should be in the file list. (For the PDF file, you may need to run the Acrobat Reader application, instead ...)

Explanations of the Award Information

The way the information appears (with explanations):

Name of Award Recipient (aka Alternate Names) [Baron/ess Baronyname] [OP: 1234]

(Gender: Male)   (Mundane Name on File? [Yes/No])
Region (Branch)   Name Registered: [Yes/No]  Arms Registered: [Yes/No]
Award Name   Date given   Royalty who gave it (Region)

• The name of the award recipient is the 'current' name in use, or if it is registered with the College of Arms of the SCA, the registered version. In parenthesis () are other names that the recipient may have received awards under, or if the recipient has changed their registered name with the College of Arms, the earlier name(s) may be there. These are cross-referenced, so you may see an entry that shows a name, and "-- see Other Name" -- this is a Cross Reference, so that if you remember one name but it's not what is currently in use, you can find the person by the name in use. The next to last item for names (in the text versions, this appears on the same line as the region (branch) bits ...) -- if the recipient is the Founding Baron or Founding Baroness, they are entitled to use: Baron <barony> or Baroness <barony> as part of their form of address. If the person is the current Baron/ess of the Barony but not the founding Baron/ess, then this title is not listed. The last item in this line is your rank in the Order of Precedence ([OP: 1234]) -- this number may change as other people's award ranks change over time. This is not an important piece of information, but some people are interested in knowing the number for whatever reason. Finally, if you see a couple of characters in braces such as {sv}, you might want to look at: Special Characters for an explanation of what these mean.
• Gender: This is really for the Scribes more than anything else. It is there so that the Scribes can ensure the text for Award Scrolls uses the correct gender. This will list "Male", "Female" or "Unknown". If you know better, please let us know.
• Is Mundane Name on File? -- note that your mundane name will never be displayed on the website or in any printouts. The only purpose of the mundane name being in the database is for searching purposes -- sometimes the only name someone knows for a person is their mundane name, and it's easier to search for them that way, if it's known. It's not required for you to provide this, but it can be helpful.
• Region (Branch) -- this may appear as just the region, if the local branch is not known, it may appear as the Kingdom if the recipient is living in another Kingdom. Otherwise, a best guess was used for a lot of folk -- people move a lot. Please let us know if your listing is incorrect for where you live.
• Name Registered/Arms Registered -- This is based on the SCA Armorial and Ordinary. If your name and arms are registered with the SCA College of Arms (not just submitted to the College of Heralds of the Kingdom, not whatever you placed on your membership form, but actually registered ...) you will see the words "Yes" or "No" (depending on the status of the registration of your name and/or armory) ...
• Arms and Blazon -- The armory of the person listed may be shown if it is available, and the blazon of their registered arms (if any) will be listed. Most of the arms listed are from the West Kingdom Roll of Arms. Please note that if these are not correct, at the bottom of this page, and on each of the pages displaying awards data is a link to a webpage you may use to send correction information to the appropriate persons.
• Award Name -- ANY award given by the King and Queen of the West or the Princes and Princesses of the Principalities of the West. In addition, any awards from other Kingdoms that have West Kingdom equivalents are listed. NOTE: I am not responsible for tracking Baronial, or other local branch awards, with the exception of Awards of Arms from the Baron and Baroness of the Far West. Please check with the appropriate heralds for those. Additionally, most awards that begin with "Order of" or "Order of the" have had those words removed in order to shorten the entry. The ones that haven't are ones where the terminology was translated to another language or it was left in to avoid confusion with other awards ... (ex.: Valor vs. Order of Valor)
• Date Given -- This is the SCA date the award was given on, I've added the mundane year, as it's easy to forget what SCA year is what ....
• Royalty (Region) -- If the award is from outside of the West Kingdom, it will be simply the Kingdom name, otherwise, you will see something like: "John & Gabriel (West)".
• ~ Honors ~ -- Some items that appear in the list are not, strictly speaking, awards, but rather honors. These end up at the bottom of a listing, with a header like that shown here to separate them from any awards that a person may have. It is a minor distinction, but it is felt to be an important one.

Please Help

The amount of data here is huge. The amount of human error is hopefully smaller, but, it is very probable that there will always be errors in this information. PLEASE help us out by sending (contact information below) updates and corrections to the keeper of the OP. See the format information given above.

If your award is not listed, you may want to visit this page: My Award Is Not Listed ...

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Need Information?

If you would like a printout of the Award List, or the Order of Precedence, a new listing is generated before each Coronation and a subset for the Principalities for Investitures, for the Award Lists. At this time I am not selling these, due to cost restraints.

If you are royalty, you should be getting a copy gratis. Note that if you are not royalty, or you are royalty but need a more up-to-date version, there are now PDF files available which is the easiest way to get a nicely formatted version of the list, and will only cost you the time it takes to download. See above ...

Other information you may be able to get by asking:

In an attempt to be flexible, there are a variety of ways the data can be extracted and made available (in addition to the Award List and Order of Precedence):

• List of Awards of all folk in a Principality (Princes and Princesses and Principality Heralds should receive a copy of this automatically)
• List of Awards of all folk in a local branch (Useful for landed Barons and Baronesses, Seneschals ...)
• List of all holders of a specific award (members of an Order ...) (examples: all Dukes & Duchesses of the West; all members of the Order of Chivalry; all holders of the Pied d'Argent ...)
• All awards given by a specific set of Royalty during their reign (Useful to keep tabs on what data made it from the heralds to the appropriate persons after court ...)
• A listing of all past Royalty of the West Kingdom
• A listing of all awards for a specific individual (Usually one page)

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Online Awards Lists for Other Kingdoms

(In order of creation as a Kingdom)

1. The West Kingdom (You're here)
2. The East Kingdom
3. The Middle
4. Atenveldt
5. Meridies
6. Caid
7. Ansteorra
8. Atlantia
9. An Tir
10. Calontir
11. Trimaris
12. Outlands
13. Drachenwald
14. Artemisia
15. Æthelmearc
16. Ealdormere
17. Lochac
18. Northshield
19. Gleann Abhann

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Contact Information

If you have queries, updates, corrections, or requests for copies of any of the listings mentioned above, please go to one of these pages (click link):
[ Corrections/Queries]     [ My Arms Are Not Correct]

Code to generate these pages by Hirsch von Henford (aka Ken Mayer), Golden Stag Productions