Pieter Rausch

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Registered Name: Pieter Rausch Resides: Bjornsborg Status: Active Joined SCA: 1992
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Pieter Rausch
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His Excellency, Master Pieter Rausch, MOD, WSA

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Offices:

• Local Offices Held
  • Rapier Marshal, Barony of Bjornsborg
  • Minister of Arts & Sciences, Barony of Bjornsborg
  • Deputy Seneshal, Barony of Bjornsborg
  • Constable, Barony of Bjornsborg

• Regional Offices held
  • Regional Rapier Marshal

• Kingdom Offices Held
  • Deputy Kingdom Rapier Marshal
  • (First ever) Kingdom Youth Rapier Marshal
  • Experimental Weapons Marshal

Persona History:

Master Pieter is a Dutch Landsknecht. His mother was Dutch and his

father came from the German states with William of Orange, where they met and were married.

He is traveled and has been a Seabeggar (Dutch navy in its war with Spain), and wanting to leave

the sea he joined up with a company of Landsknecht. It is in their service where he learned is

current trade as an executioner.

Interests:

While I will always love rapier fighting, my main interest at this time is the study and

teaching of the executioners arts and sciences. While doing that, I dabble in wood working,

smithing, and leather work make demonstration pieces for my classes.

Timeline of Activity:

I started in the SCA in 1992 briefly in Atlantia before moving to Ansteorra and settling

down.

Notable Contributions or Accomplishments:

• Wrote the first set of Youth Rapier rules used in the SCA and was its first Kingdom Marshal

overseeing the program.

• Was Queens champion to Deanna della Penna and Elizabeta I.
• My biggest accomplishment is convincing Dona Christiana Ivarsdottir to marry me.

Affiliations:

• Married to Christiana Ivarsdottir
• Previously, a Cadet to His Excellency, Master Jeremy James Scurlock, WSA.

Mundane Information:

Mundanely Pieter is an internationally certified fencing coach in all three modern fencing

styles.