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==External References==
==External References==
#[http://www.the-centurions.com Centurions Web Page]
#[http://www.the-centurions.com Centurions Web Page]
#[http://http://heraldry.ansteorra.org/OP/op-awards.php?&submit=List&id=43 Centurions OP]
#[http://heraldry.ansteorra.org/OP/op-awards.php?&submit=List&id=43 Centurions OP]






[[Category:Awards]]
[[Category:Awards]]

Revision as of 18:30, 10 May 2010

The badge for the Centurions.

The Order of the Centurions of the Sable Star is a Grant Level award given in the Kingdom of Ansteorra for excellence on the field in the Chivalric arts.

Overview

There shall exist in Ansteorra an order unto which the Crown shall select persons who have demonstrated all of the following qualities:

  • Exceptional leadership, skill and honor in chivalric combat.
  • Service to Ansteorra and its people;
  • Knowledge of the courtly graces; and
  • Obedience to the laws and ideals of Ansteorra and of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

This Order shall be known as the Order of the Centurions of the Sable Star

Companions of the order are entitled place the initials CSS or the word "Centurion" after their names, to be addressed with the title "Centurion", and to wear, either on the right calf or above the left elbow, a ribbon Or edged gules charged with a sable Ansteorran star. (Companions who joined the order prior to September 2002 may choose to wear the original ribbon sable edged Or charged with an Or Ansteorran Star.)

History

The Order of the Centurions of the Sable Star is an award that was created by the 30th Crown of Ansteorra, Inman and Athena.

Precedence

Companions of the Order shall take precedence after all nobility and peerage and before simple Grants of Rank. The Order of the White Scarf, Star of Merit, Iris of Merit, Centurions of the Sable Star, Arc d'Or of Ansteorra, and Golden Lance of Ansteorra are held to be of equal precedence.


Heraldry

The badge of the order is: Fieldless on an eagle displayed Or a mullet of five greater and five lesser points sable.


External References

  1. Centurions Web Page
  2. Centurions OP