Welcome to my new home on the web where I share some of my passions and projects with you, and have the opportunity to introduce you to the members of my household.

 

Baroness Mayken van der Alst, OL

 

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Mayken is a scrivener and illuminator born and raised in Gladbeec, a thriving market town in the lower Rhinelands of the Duchy of Jülich-Berg in the Holy Roman Empire. Widowed she managed to eek out a comfortable living with the help of the money and bustling scriptorium left behind by her first husband. She has since remarried. Her second husband, third son of a lowborn noble who serves as officer in Duke Gerhard VII’s army, leaves her often, to raise their son and tend to the business at home.

 

I discovered the SCA in February 2002 where I joined the Shire of Two Seas, and later became one of the founding members of the Shire of Aventiure in the Kingdom of Drachenwald. My family and I moved to the United States of America in December 2003 where we settled in Jacksonville, FL, the Barony of Castlemere in the Kingdom of Trimaris. In January 2008 I was invested as a member of the Order of the Laurel by King Thorstenn I and Queen Zephyrine I, after having been apprenticed to Master Rhys Terafan Greydragon and fostered to Mistress Melessee O'Meara.

 

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