Escarlata de Granda

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Escarlata de Granada at Bryn Gwlad Candlemas 2024 in an Italian dress.
Information
Registered Name: (Not Yet Registered) Resides: Bryn Gwlad Status: Active Joined SCA: 2003
Order of Precedence
Escarlata de Granada
Heraldry
Device Registration in Progress

Hildagua Escarlata de Granda

Pronunciation: Eel-dog-wah Es-CAR-la-ta DAY Gruh-NAH-Da
Preferred Title: Hildagua
Previously Known As: Ketala Boldt; Katia Boldt; Pertinax Surly
Pronouns: They/She (when presenting as Escarlata)
Nickname: Escarlata de Granda
Proper Name: Eulalia Leticia Itzel Falcona Zubia y Zamarron
Proper Name Pronunciation: You-LA-lee-uh LAY-tee-SEE-uh it-ZELLE Fal-CO-na Zoo-BEE-uh E ZAM-a-roan
AKA Proper Name: Sebastian Cornieles Ladron Vigilia Zubia y Zamarron
AKA Proper Name Pronunciation: See-BAS-tee-an Corn-EEL-lee-es La-DRONE Vee-JEEL-ee-uh Zoo-BEE-uh E ZAM-a-roan
Pronouns: They/He (when presenting as Sebastian)

Curriculum Vitae & SCA Resumes:

• Curriculum Vitae:
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mJ0DkLG1019ZXmHXegyQKxjf6KBEksJVYPhe3x4uMN4/edit?usp=sharing
• Arts & Sciences Resume:
  • Link for A&S Resume on Google Drive Goes Here*
• Service Resume:
  • Link for Service Resume on Google Drive Goes Here*

Offices:

• Local Offices Held
  • Deputy Seneschal of Bryn Gwlad - April 2024 - Present
  • Co-Head Bryn Gwlad Scribal Guild - April 2024 - Present
  • Deputy Head Bryn Gwlad Cook's Guild - February 2022 - Present

• Regional Offices Held
  • Deputy Solstice Herald - February 2024 - Present

• Kingdom Offices Held
  • ER Deputy Asterisk Herald - June 2024 - Present
    

Persona History:

Escarlata is a Spanish noble living in Granada, Spain in the late 1500s. Escarlata's family is a highly regarded regional merchant and purveyor of fabric, fabric dyes, citrus fruits, and pomegranates from the region. Their mother's family, Zubia, is known for agriculture and their Moorish influence in the Granada region. Their father's family, Zamarron, is historically known for their durable fabrics and coats in the Granada region and indeed the name is synonymous with fur and fleece jackets which they are known for making. Escarlata is the name given to the very rich red fabric, often accented with goldwork, that their family produces and which they are fond of wearing frequently, hence the nickname. Thier family focuses on merchant marine sales to the Old and New World. Their family is very successful, wealthy, and regionally powerful. When in Ansteorra, Escarlata is known as Escarlata de Granada because it's shorter and easier to remember than their full proper name.

Escarlata is well-known in court as an important regional patron of the arts and is the main financial backer of The Curtain Theatre in Bryn Gwlad and has produced a number of plays with The Baron's Men there. They are also known for hosting artistic competitions and lavish parties with exciting and extensive menus. Escarlata is known for both their wittiness and flair for the dramatic in court and is always ready to bring extravagance to a room. Escarlata is also known for their extensive wardrobe, love for entertaining, and particularly keen eye for ambiance. Escarlata is astoundingly well-rounded in their academic and artistic pursuits, not only can they read and write, but they are also a musician and and artisan of some renown.

No one has seen Escarlata in the same room at the same time as their twin, Sebastian Cornieles Ladron Vigilia Zubia y Zamarron. Sebastian is an avid and accomplished sailor who is responsible for the family shipping fleet. Sebastian also has a reputation for their luck in gambling and with the ladies. It is rumored that Sebastian purchased Madame Luchia's School for Wayward Girls with business partner Hanse Kleermacher and continued running it as a brothel when Luchia left Bryn Gwlad for An Tir. Following Hanse's death, Sebastian is rumored to be the sole proprietor. Sebastian has been seen on stage at The Curtain Theatre, and the School for Wayward Girls is located on the third floor of the Curtain. Sebastian is also of some note for his brewing. When in Ansteorra, Sebastian is known as Sebastian de Granada because it is shorter and easier to remember than their full proper name.

Both Escarlata and Sebastian are known to love the finer things in life – exploration, the arts, fine foods, and the pursuit of science.

Persona FAQs

1) What’s the deal with Escarlata de Granada if your name is really some long formal Spanish name?
“Escarlata de Granada” is a nickname given to Eulalia Leticia Itzel Falcona Zubia y Zamarron by Ansteorrans. Escarlata is the formal name of a type of red woolen fabric which is made by Escarlata’s family in Spain. Escarlata fabric is, in fact, documentable in the 1500s and is a red woolen fabric often used with extensive goldwork and was popularized in the Granda region of Spain. Because Escarlata wears the fabric often and works to sell and popularize its usage, it is a nickname. Escarlata is also from Granda, Spain. It is common in period for foreign individuals to become known by nicknames or shortened versions of their foreign names. In Ansteorra, people know Eulalia Leticia Itzel Falcona Zubia y Zamarron as the person from Granda that wears Escarlata fabric, hence Escarlata de Granada.
2) So, what’s the deal with Sebastian? Is that an alternate persona?
No. Escarlata is just your classic late 1500’s Spanish aristocratic roaring girl, stylized a la Ana de Mendoza de la Cerda y de Silva Cifuentes. Escarlata does have an alternate name when presenting their masculine side, though this is not an alternate persona, it is actually Escarlata who is actively acting outside of the gender binary and is presenting themselves in masculine clothing as their “brother” there is not actually another person, just Escarlata cleverly presenting as their own “brother” so that in society they can do things that only a masculine individual can do, like running a business, being in charge of a fleet of merchant ships, etc. It's not actually a different person, it's Escarlata in drab playing the role of their brother to do the things that they want to do.

Interests:

• Service: Administrative Leadership, Logistics, List Ministering, Ambiance, Event Management, Heraldry, Cookery, Project Management, etc.
• Arts and Sciences: Costuming, Ambiance, Culinary Arts, Jewelry Making, Metalwork, Glasswork, Illumination, Oil Painting, Miniature/Limning, Brewing, Music, Poetry, Early Modern Theatre/Stagecraft, and anything else they get their hands on.
• Combat: Combat Archery, Siege Engines
• Research: History of Marginalized Groups, Limning, Spain in the 1500s, Heraldry
• Costuming: Renaissance (Italy, Spain, Tudor England), Iron Age Celtic, Viking (inclusive of Rus Viking), India, Egypt, Mesoamerica

Classes Taught & Handouts:

• Making Heraldic Tabards Ansteorra Heraldic and Scribal Symposium 2024
  • No handout, this class dealt with patterning.
• Devil's in the Details Ansteorra Heraldic and Scribal Symposium 2024
  • Handout available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVuK0IYT21vBM9Mi7vfUS2XyNwsAcStk//view?usp=sharing
• Art of Heraldry (With Sigrun i Birka) Serpent Service Symposium 2024
• Largesse Derbies: Serving Up Arts as Service Serpent Service Symposium 2024
  • Handout available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rcfVEoNC87T-XukE0DGHvCU0PnzrBZ_w/view?usp=sharing
• Bryn Gwlad Newcomer's Academy: Persona, Heraldry, and Garb (with Drika van Sitteren, Tuthal O'Shiels, Sigrun i Brika, and Vash Bathorji) Bryn Gwlad Newcomer's Academy August 2024
  • Video Available Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEG2R3_OFwg
• Butter Making (With Bryn Gwlad Cook's Guild) Sherwood Forest Faire Demo 2024
• An Introduction to Period Spices (With Bryn Gwlad Cook's Guild) Sherwood Forest Faire Demo 2024
• Eating Your Grief: A History of Funeary Feasting Bryn Gwlad Yule 2021
  • Class Video Available Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nootvx1PtOA&list=PLRgAZ8YrAZjsM-Razua5eN483WQMuJ0ha&index=4

Arts & Sciences Research and Contributions

Escarlata has been actively pursuing research and creating projects across a multitude of fields in A&S since 2003. Below are some of her works and research which are presented in alphabetical order by topic and in reverse chronological order by creation.

• Brewing:
  • Melomel Granatum (Pomegranate Mead)

Charcuterie (Meat/Cheese/Fruit/Nut/Bread/Cracker/Dips Spread):

• • See Gallery

• Cookery
  • Breads
    • • Matzah from an Ancient Jewish Recipe
  • Charcuterie (Sausage Making)
    • • 100 Pounds of 6 Period Inspired Sausages
      • 50 Pounds of Venison Sausage
      • Haggis from a Period Scottish Recipe
  • Soups/Stews
    • • Agritsura with Pomegranate Verjus
      • Chili from Mayan Recipe
      • Pottage
  • Snacks
    • • Handpies
      • Urchins
  • Sweets
    • • Shortbread from a Viking Avacal Recipe
  • Wild Game
    • • Dove Pie
      • Venison Stew

• Costuming:
  • Silk Tabard
  • Italian Renaissance Dress
  • Pair of Leather Jerkins from a Pattern from Findings on the Mary Rose
  • Furred Silk Over Coat
  • Silk Sleeves for a Woolen Doublet
  • Linen Tabards
  • Linen Chemise
  • Lower Class Viking Apron
  • Lower Class Linen Dress
  • Silk Cotehardie
  • Simple Linen Chemise
  • Italian Renaissance Dress
  • Pair of Bodies drafted to their body from a pattern in the Alacega

• Jewelry
  • Labradorite Skull Necklace
  • Viking Festoon Kits
  • Melon Necklaces
  • Pomegranate and Garnet Pearl Necklaces

• Millinery
  • 18 Wool Tudor Hats
  • Felted Flat Cap

Service Works and Contributions

Escarlata tirelessly serves and uses her knowledge of Servant Leadership, logistics, volunteer management, and nonprofits to expand, make efficient, and facilitate service works in her barony and the kingdom where possible.

• • THIS SECTION IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, PARDON MY DUST AS IT IS REMODELED**

Timeline of Activity:

• Bryn Gwlad Battle of the Bucket 2024
  • Prize Coordinator
  • Host - Triple Threat Largesse Derby
• Bjornsborg Danse Macabre
  • Teacher - Funeary Feasting
• Ansteorra Heraldic and Scribal Symposium 2024
  • Autocrat
  • Teacher - How to Make Heraldic Tabards, The Devil's in the Details
• Loch Sollier Serpent Service Symposium 2024
  • Host - Proteges and Service-Minded Individuals Meetup
  • Teacher - Largesse Derbies 101, The Art of Heraldic Display
• September 2024 Black Star*
  • Photographer of Cover Photo depicting Baron Gavin mac Goilla Ruidh and Baroness Wentilliana le Chandelier embracing one another at the Pennsic Cathedral having finished the Camino de Pennsic
• Pennsic 2024
  • Sable Thistle - Costuming
  • Sable Falcon - Serving Chili Night During Extreme Weather
  • Completed Camino de Pennsic
• Summer Roundtable 2024
  • DEIB Trained
  • Warranted for Seneschal
  • Warranted for Financial Policy
• Ansteorran Longship Association Fundraising Campaign 2024
  • Donated over $2,000.00 to help ALA move locations, hosted Facebook Birthday Donation Drive and matched funds given
• Bryn Gwlad Indoor Space Fundraising Campaign 2024
  • Donated $2,000.00 to ensure an indoor space for the barony
• Named Co-Head of Bryn Gwlad Scribal Guild
  • Co-Head with Elizabeth Frasier
  • Host of Scribal South
• Named Deputy Seneschal of Bryn Gwlad
  • Newcomer's Academy Seneschal Liaison
  • Candlemas 2025 Planning Committee Seneschal Liaison
  • Ran July 2024 Business Meeting
  • Oversaw transition into new storage space in July 2024
• Bjornsborg Battle of the Beasts 2024
  • Patron - Paid for Mistress Meadhbh to have rabbit in her A&S Entry
• Sherwood Forest Faire Demo 2024
  • Primary
  • Photographer of Photo of Baroness Ciara Mac an Gabhan which was picked up by the Society social media
  • Teacher - Butter Making (With Bryn Gwlad Cook's Guild), A Primer to Period Spices (With Bryn Gwlad Cook's Guild)
  • Patron - Paid for Bookbinding Supplies for Lady Sophie Federspil to be able to teach her Bookbinding Classes
  • 84 Hours on site as volunteer during the 2024 season
• Bryn Gwlad Candlemas 2024
  • Subtleties Competition Winner (With Cook's Guild) Heraldic Cookies and Cake with Heraldic Cookie Ring Boxes
  • Donated 4 rings as gifts to outgoing and incoming Baron & Baroness of Bryn Gwlad
  • Costume Competition Entrant
  • Muse - Baronial Arts Award
• Southernish Scribal Retreat 2024
  • Named Deputy Solstice (Southern Regional) Herald
• Spring Roundtable 2024
  • Warranted as Herald
  • DEIB for Heralds Trained
• Bryn Gwlad Tudor Yule 2023
  • Charcutocrat - Responsible for coordinating over 40 charcuterie dishes and made 6 historically based types of sausage from around the world, managed servers in bringing out the goods, provided serving ware, etc.
• Bryn Gwlad Flameworks Guild Christmas Ornaments Workshop
  • Host (with Zacaria)
• Bryn Gwlad Zombie Mini Tourney 2023
  • Host - Zombie A&S Mini Tourney
  • Charcutocrat - Responsible for coordinating over 20 spooky charcuterie items including meats, cheeses, chocolates, fruits, and deserts as well as serving utensils, etc.
• Bryn Gwlad Fall Event 2023
  • Winner: Largesse Derby - Over the Top Category - Populace Choice Birka Bags, Viking Festoon Kits, and Zumma de Granada Samples
  • Award of Arms
  • Newcomer's Academy Feast Gear Coordinator
• Bjornsborg Arthurian Legends Event 2023
  • One of two individuals that completed all quests and side quests
• Bryn Gwlad Flameworks Guild*
  • Made Dragon's Egg Regalia for Barony
• Bryn Gwlad Candlemas 2023
  • Winner: Largesse Derby - Populace Choice Rainbow Viking Hats With Fur Trim
• Named Deputy Head of Bryn Gwlad Cook's Guild

This Segment is missing a number of items which will be updated when I remember what all I did pre-COVID

• Bryn Gwlad Candlemas 2015
  • Crash Space Coordinator
  • Made Site Tokens
  • Kitchen Hand
  • Server
• Guardian of the Tor 20*
  • List Mistress - Rapier
• Dragonsfire Tor Yule 2010
  • Honorable Mention: Baron and Baroness' ChoicePomegranate Granatum and Miniature Portrait
  • Kitchen Hand and Server

Prior Groups:

Escarlata got their start in the Canton of Dragonsfire Tor in 2003, and remained active there while in undergraduate school and graduate school until moving to Bryn Gwlad for more graduate school in 2010. While in Bryn Gwlad, they were periodically active in the barony, assisting with events when asked. They also became very active with The Baron's Men until completing law school in 2018, and served as a stitcher, actor, props manager, costumer, producer, director, board member, and toilet cleaner, among other roles. Following the COVID-19 Pandemic, they have been quite active at the local level in Bryn Gwlad and increasingly active at the regional and kingdom level as well as in the College of Heralds.

Notable Contributions or Accomplishments:

• Autocrat of Ansteorra Heraldic and Scribal Symposium 2024
  • This was the most attended Ansteorran Heraldic and Scribal Symposium to date
• Photographer of the Cover of The Black Star for September 2024
• Interview Featured in the June 2024 edition of The Halberd
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/18DuqA-cnWGPHZDV6BQWdpVfposTW-XU9aC1wSMk5JHE
• Began and Hosts the A&S Competition at Bryn Gwlad Zombie Mini Tourney

• Notable Contributions
• September 2024 Cover of The Black Star

  September 2024 Cover of The Black Star

• 2023 Bryn Gwlad Zombie Tourney A&S Prize

  2023 Bryn Gwlad Zombie Tourney A&S Prize

Non-Armigerous Awards and Recognitions:

• Ansteorra
  • Sable Sparrow - Service to Kingdom - Ansteorra Chili Night at Pennsic - August 2024
• Bryn Gwlad
  • Muse - Baronial Arts & Sciences - February 2024
  • Martlet - Baronial Service - September 2024

Gallery:

• Various Projects
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Affiliations:

Family: Adopted SCA Child of the late Sir Dietrich Kiempenich vol Eltz/Hanse Kleermacher
Households: Currently None... but open to conversation
Squire to: Currently None
Arcarius to: Currently None
Protege to: Currently None... but open to conversation
Apprentice to: Currently None... but open to conversation
Student to: Currently None... but open to conversation
Proud Member of: Clan Blue Feather, The Baron's Men, Knowne World Courtesans,

Mundane Information:

Mundanely, Katy Thompson is an attorney in Austin, Texas.

Special Needs Information:

Escarlata should not eat or drink items with raw vinegar, it chemically burns their tongue. Escarlata suffers from an autoimmune disorder and due to it and the medications they take for this condition, they are more sensitive to heat and sunlight and must stay adequately hydrated; they may also need assistance lifting items after a long day or during a high inflammation day and may need to rest more often after strenuous activities, especially in heat.

In Case Of Court:

While I do like to be surprised, I also like to be adequately dressed when called into court. ;-) I prefer to walk myself into court and require no escort. Because of autoimmune issues or wearing very fussy garb, I may not kneel in court.