Orlando Giovanni de Gilead

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Caterina & Orlando
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Registered Name: Orlando Giovanni
Resides: Namron
Status: Active
Joined SCA: 2003
Order of Precedence
Orlando Giovanni
Heraldry

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His Excellency, Maestro Orlando Giovanni di Gilead, WSA, MOD

Previously Known as: Roland of Gilead

Offices:

  • Local Offices Held
    • Prior Baron of Namron
    • Prior Rapier Marshal, Barony of Wiesenfeuer
    • Prior Rapier Marshal, Barony of Namron
    • Regional Offices Held
    • Prior Rapier Marshal, Northern Region, Ansteorra
  • Kingdom Offices Held

Persona History:

Orlando Giovanni di' Gilead was born the son of a vineyard farmer in the Republic of Florence in the year 1524. The first 18 years of his life were somewhat uneventful but by 1542 most of the northern Italian states were being threatened by the British, Spanish and French bids to control Lombardy, Venice and most of the northern peninsula. In 1543 at the age of 19 Orlando joined the Spanish Imperial forces to repel the French under the Italian commander Prince Ferdinando Sanseverino. He saw his first action in the Battle of Ceresole, helping successfully repel the French before reaching Lombardi.
Later, Orlando returned to Florence, now the capital city of the Dutchy of Tuscany. Having no interest in vineyards or farming, Orlando traveled to Rome. In Rome, Orlando sought and found a mentor in Maestro Camillo Agrippa, a master of both the sword and the sciences. In Rome, he also met his soon to be wife, Lady Caterina.
Caterina Giovanni, originally Caterina Moncada, was also born in 1524 in Sicilia. Although Caterina's family had been of Nobel decent, Sicilia was a colonial holding of Spain and brutally governed by a greedy upper-class during the 16th century. A decade prior to her birth her family was stripped of many of it's titles and most of it's estates. Wishing to escape the oppression of the Spanish, Caterina fled at age 20 to Rome. Eventually, meeting her Husband Orlando.

Interests:

  • Rapier & Chivalric Combat
  • Pewter Casting
  • Cooking


Timeline of Activity:


Prior Groups

Shire of Arenal, Meridies

Populace Provided Information:

Reis ap Tuder

(to the tune of, and I use that phrase guardedly, Rock Me Amadeus)

He is the latest Don ever to set foot on this earth.
He was Elric's cadet from the day of his birth.
He could fight with a rapier like Saviolo
And ev'rybody screamed:
Come on, rock me Don Orlando.

He was a superstar, he was dynamite
And whenever he fought he always won his fight
And he drank and he cursed and he joked around
But when the women would shout:
Rock me Don Orlando,
Don Orlando, Don Orlando, Don Orlando,
Don Orlando, Don Orlando, Don Orlando,
Oh oh oh Don Orlando.

With a bottle of wine in one hand
and his lady in the other 'cause he was the Baroness' man
He never stopped to worry what the next day would bring
Because the girls would sing:
Rock me Don Orlando,
Don Orlando, Don Orlando, Don Orlando,
Don Orlando, Don Orlando, Don Orlando,
Oh oh oh Don Orlando.

Notable Contributions or Accomplishments:

  • Prior Rapier Champion to the Shire of Adlersruhe
  • Rapier Champion to the Canton of Skorragarðr
  • 2018 Rapier Champion to the Shire of Glaslyn
  • Northern Regional Rapier Commander for Gulf Wars (x2)
  • Former General of the Ansteorran Rapier Army, Gulf Wars


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