Cornelia Thorpe

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Registered Name: [] Resides: Bryn Gwlad Status: Active Joined SCA: 05/2025
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Cornelia Thorpe

Pronunciation: Cor-ne-li-a Th-or-p
Pronouns: She/Her

Additional Registered Heraldry:

Badge: (Pending Submission Approval) Field-less, rabbit proper couchant in it's mouth holding two sprigs of lavender proper

Offices:

• Local Offices Held
  • 05/25-Present: Archery Marshal Officer for the Barony of Bryn Gwlad

• Regional Offices Held

• Kingdom Offices Held

Persona History:

Childhood: Cornelia Thorpe was born in 1336 (14th century) London.

• Her father, David Thorpe (English, Born: 1310) and mother, Emeline Marcant (Northern French/Rouen, 1313) they met while he was traveling as a Mercer. They were married in 1330.
  
• Her older brother of 5 years, John (Born 1331), died in Hundred Years War as Yeoman archer at the Siege of Calais in 1346 of dysentery (known as the "bloody flux").
  
• Her mother follows soon and dies at 1348 of the plague when she was 12.
  

Early Adult:

• Cornelia and her father fled from the black plague to a country villa in Florence, where he met and married his second wife in 1352, she could not bear children.
  
• She was tutored by her new Florentine mother and the best money could buy in order to take over her father's business. This made Cornelia, under law, a Femme converte, where under her father's tutelage, was allowed to do business.
  
• He retired in 1353 and gave control of the business to Cornelia when she turned 17.
  
• As a Fabric Mercer, she engaged in extensive trade with the Low Countries (like Flanders), France, Italy, and the Baltic and North Sea regions. She traveled to these regions to buy and sell goods, with Bruges (in particular serving as a major international trading hub.)
  

Current Position:

• Cornelia married in 1355, when she was 19 to a Flemish landed gentry of good birth, Zegher Gughelare.
  
• She bought a Ardennais mare from him while she was traveling with her father as he was a son of a Hanseatic merchant.
  
• After her father died in 1359, Cornelia and her husband purchased a manor in Ansteorra as their primary home. They continue the family business and Cornelia pursues her hobbies of fiber arts, rabbit and horse husbandry, archery, leather working, embroidery, and brewing.

Interests:

Service: Ambiance, Event Coordination, Cooking/Baking, Photography.
Arts and Sciences: Sartorial Creations, Ambiance, Cooking/Baking, Jewelry Making, Brewing, Leatherworking, Weaving, Spinning.
Combat: Target Archery, Combat Archery, Equestrian, Thrown Weapons, Siege Engines, Rapier.
Research: History of Rabbits in Medieval Period, Medieval Makeup, Medieval Life, Historical Cooking/Baking, Generational Style Personas, Personal Ancestry.
Sartorial Focus: Danelaw Period Danes/Norseman Viking, 14th Century Peasant Woman/Wealthy London English Mercer, 16th Century Wealthy Burgundian, Peasant/Wealthy Tudor Period.

Timeline of Activity:

2025:

• Joined local SCA group of Barony of Bryn Gwlad in 03/2025.
• Attended First Event of Bjornsborg's Roman in the Round on 04/25/2025. Made first Roman garb for event.
• Paid member in 05/2025.
• Became Archery Marshal Officer in 05/2025.
• Attended Steppe's Warlord on 05/23-05/25/2025: Competed in Newcomer's archery tournament and came in 4th.
• Authorized as Target Archery Marshal for Bryn Gwlad in 07/2025.
• Attended Kingdom Collegium on 07/12/2025: Took Magic Wings – The Drawing Compass with Ivo Blackhawk, Cloth Buttons and Eyelets with Hextilda Corbett, Flat Drafting a Fitted Kirtle or Cotehardie with Ashildr inn Harfagri, Pattern Blocks & Dart Manipulation with Elizabethe de Salisbiry, Period Patterning: Make and Take Bara Tapes with Maren of Maplewood & Melody MacGregor, Cordial Making with Alexandra Lunette Arundel, “Why the #)*%& did my arrow go over there?” – Learning to be your shot coach with Martin Malone.
• Attended Hotter Than Hellsgate on 08/09/2025: Took Stitching History- Learning the Bayeux Tapestry Stitch with Master Juan Carlos, Tigers and Wolves- on Combat Mindset with Master Abd al-Mahdi Jamal ibn Hakim, Leatherworking with Lord Claudio de Cassiopi, Building Combat Bolts/Arrows 101 with Arc Grimwolfr at Brytarauki.
• Attended Bryn Gwlad's Fall Baronial: Ran Archery Championship Shoot on behalf of Agnes Olympe Fort de Nice, New Champion named was Kaitlyn Mckenna. Managed the range for a collaborative rapier/archery offhand tournament created by Havvar Erickson on 10/04/2025.

Prior Groups:

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Notable Contributions or Accomplishments:

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Mundane Information:

Name: Courtney J
Employment: Data Analyst
Pets: Bearded Dragon named Cheeto and a Chocolate Lab named Scotch.
Hobbies: Video Games, Women's PewPew Groups, Cosplay, and similar SCA hobbies.

In Case of Court:

Please notify in advance due to anxiety. I prefer to walk myself into court and do not need an escort (I tripped on my own train at my first court, let's not add any more liability). You can also notify: Sigwin Rotbart, Sarah Hall, Sedalia, Aine MacFinn.