Post by Kamenwati on Nov 22, 2011 15:01:23 GMT -6
Tamazgha State Positions
Senate of Carnia
Emperor of Carnia
Comitia Coriata- Former General
Lord of Agora
Lord of Thracia
Lord of Genoa
Lord of Pontus
Lord of Martius
Lord of Lycia
Senate Member. Only needed to break vote of the main senate members.
Ambassadors
Falconer is a person who keeps the hunting birds of the Sovereign, ensuring each is fully trained, well-nourished, and ready to hunt at short notice. The birds that the falconer care for are expensive and have to be treated with respect, as they were often both fragile and dangerous. It is the falconer who catches birds of prey from the wild and trains them to be handled by humans, whilst retaining their hunting instincts. The falconer makes leather hoods and straps, known as jesses, individually for each bird. The job involves acquired skills and is often passed down from father to son.
Lady-in-Waiting is often a noblewoman of lower rank than the one she attends to, and is not considered a servant. Female relatives are often appointed because they could be trusted confidantes to the queen; The duties of ladies-in-waiting at court are to act as royal companions, and to accompany the Queen wherever she goes. There are many jobs that require the ladies-in-waiting such as: being proficient in the "modern" dances, languages, instruments, reading, writing letters for the queen, sewing, and embroidery. Usually ladies-in-waiting come from families that are highly thought of in good society, noble families, or trustworthy friends of the family. Ladies-in-waiting are divided into three separate systems:
Ladies of the Privy Chamber are the ones closest to the queen and thought to be the highest level of unpaid ladies-in-waiting. Especially privileged in seeing to the queen's most intimate needs as she readied herself for bed and prepared for the intricate task of getting dressed in the morning.
Maids of Honour are the single, unmarried ladies-in-waiting; learning the ways of court and there attracting the attention of the King's most eligible courtiers. Mothers among nobility fight long and hard to get their marriageable daughters positions as Maids of Honour.
Chamberers are the most humble of the queen's personal female servants. [/blockquote]
Pages are noble boys that are trained from about 7-14 years of age to become knights. The training was at first informal training at court, often used as attendants to persons of rank, usually noble or royal. These boys are chosen from aristocratic or "good" families. The tradition begins as boys serving knights as part of their military training and preparation for knighthood themselves. As these pages accompanied the knight they served, they were also present at court and thus had to learn refined manners, as well as fighting skills.
Pantler is in charge of the bread and the pantry, where provisions were kept and prepared.
Jesters are employed as entertainers and professional fools, sometimes called licensed fools. Entertainment includes music, juggling, clowning, and the telling of riddles.
Standard bearer is the person who carries the Monarch’s standards
One of the institutions Secundus made was Manorialism. To defray the cost of building a nation, he assumed much of the already established infrastructure, financed and built by the departing Romans. Manoralism is characterized by the vesting of legal and economic power in a lord, supported economically from his own direct landholding and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population under his jurisdiction. These obligations can be payable in several ways, in labor, in food and board, or, on rare occasions, in coin.
Manorialism derives from traditional inherited divisions of the countryside, reassigned as local jurisdictions known as manors; each manor being subject to a lord, usually holding his position in return for undertakings offered to a higher lord. The lord held a manor court, governed by public law and local custom.
The word manor is to mean any home area or territory in which authority is held. Secundus authorized the acquisition of all manors and estates that the Roman nobles vacated.
The strips of individually-worked land in the open field system are immediately apparent. In this plan, the manor house is set slightly apart from the village, but equally often the village grew up around the forecourt of the manor, usually walled, while the manor lands stretched away outside. As concerns for privacy increased, manor houses are located a farther distance from the village.
Manors each consisted of up to three classes of land:
1. Demesne, the part directly controlled by the lord and used for the benefit of his household and dependents;
2. Dependent (serf or villein) holdings carrying the obligation that the peasant household supply the lord with specified labor services or a part of its output (or cash in lieu thereof), subject to the custom attached to the holding;
3. Free peasant land, without such obligation but otherwise subject to manorial jurisdiction and custom, and owing money rent fixed at the time of the lease.
Additional sources of income for the lord include charges for use of his mill, bakery, or wine-press, or for the right to hunt or to let pigs feed in his woodland, as well as court revenues and single payments on each change of tenant. On the other side of the account, manorial administration involve significant expenses,
Dependent holdings are held nominally by arrangement of lord and tenant, but tenure became in practice almost universally hereditary, with a payment made to the lord on each succession of another member of the family. Villein land could not be abandoned, at least until demographic and economic circumstances make flight a viable proposition; nor can they be passed to a third party without the lord's permission, and the customary payment.
Though not free, villeins are by no means in the same position as slaves: they enjoy legal rights, subject to local custom, and have recourse to the law, subject to court charges which were an additional source of manorial income. Sub-letting of villein holdings are common, and labor on the demesne might be commuted into an additional money payment,
