Crown Province of Ostgardr
The Crown Province of Ostgardr encompasses the 5 boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island) as well as Nassau County and Westchester and Putnam counties. It is the original core of the East Kingdom, since when some SCA folks moved east about 1968 or so, they settled in New York.
The province encompasses three existing cantons and one incipient canton as of A.S. XLI. Lion's End encompasses Nassau County, Long Island; Northpass encompasses Westchester and Putnam counties north of the city limits; Whyt Whey is the County of New York (mostly the island of Manhattan); and Brooklyn holds the incipient canton of Brokenbridge.
History
Ostgardr is the only Crown Province in the East Kingdom, and it is a province rather than a barony because the early kings of the East mostly lived in or around New York City. When, one day the gentle who won crown tournament did not live in New York or its environs, it was decided that the lands the king had held for himself would be administered by a Viceroy and/or Vicereine, who would hold those lands directly at the king's behest.
To date, there have been three viceregal tenures in the province, and soon there will be a fourth. Ian Mitchell of Clan Mitchell and Katherine Gillesfleur have been the Viceroy and Vicereine of Ostgardr for almost 27 years, starting in 1980. They will be succeeded by Alexandre Lerot d'Avigne and Eularia Trewe on Saturday, A.S. XLI, September 9.
Ruling Nobility
- Vardak Mirceavitch Basarabov of Iloi, Viceroy
- Aidan ni Leir, Viceroy
- Ian Mitchell and Katherine Gillesfleur, VIceroy and Vicerine (January 1980 - September 2006)
- Alexandre Lerot d'Avigne and Eularia Trewe, Viceroy and Vicerine (September 2006 - )
