Table of ContentsTable of Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

I. Noble Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Kingship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6The Titled Nobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12The State of Knighthood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Protocol, Prestige, and Precedence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

II. Characters and Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Land and Wealth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20New Optional Virtues and Flaws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Character Advancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

III. Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Law and Lordship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Types of Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Medieval Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Conducting a Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

IV. Leisure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Food and Entertainment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56The Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Competitive Pastimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Gentle Pursuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Storytelling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Adventuring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Area Lore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

V. Chivalric Combat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79The Battle of Bouvines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Optional Melee Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Horses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Tournaments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Mass Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Castles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

VI. The Realms of Mythic Europe . . . . . . . . . . 106The Kingdoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106A Profile of the Territorial Principalities. . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Britain and Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Iberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115France. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118The Kingdom of Burgundy (Arelat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131The Norse Lands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138The North Slavs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141The Balkans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143The Eastern Empire and the Christian Kingdoms of the Levant . . 148

VII. A Bad Knight’s Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Storyguide’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Setting the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153At the Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154The Pre-Wedding Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156Strange Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157The Wedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158The Tournament. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158Judgement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Dramatis Personae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

VIII. By the Law of the Land . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163The Lure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Traveling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165In Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Hanging in the Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173He Washes Away the Sins of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

IX. On the Respective Merits of Twilight and Gloaming . . 182Storyguide’s Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182The Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183The Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185Lost in Faerie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189The Faerie Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199The Contest Begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Escaping from Faerie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204Aftermath. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Appendix I: Bestiary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207Warriors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207Horses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Hounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

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S ince its release, Ars Magica hascarved a unique niche in the role-playing market and has developedan audience of devoted and geo-

graphically-diverse fans. While published in theUnited States of America, a substantial portionof the game’s English-language sales are madeabroad — not counting translated editions.

It is thus with both excitement and sometrepidation that we three Canadians offer up ourown contribution to the Ars Magica “canon,”the growing body of sourcebooks which buildsand expands on the seminal efforts of Mark andJonathan. Our excitement needs no explanation.Our trepidation, on the other hand, is due to thefact that the game remains, for many Ars Magicafans, a “sacred” trust. We hope our efforts willnonetheless meet with their approval.

With respect to the Mythic element of OrdoNobilis, we have relied most heavily on the con-temporary beliefs of the people who lived in the12th and early 13th centuries. This may disap-point some, as it effectively excludes many of thedirect romantic ancestors of modern high fanta-sy. But the key difference between the romancesof Chrétien de Troyes and the other great 12thand 13th century poets is that, unlike the heroicepics of an earlier period, their works were under-stood by their contemporaries to be fiction. Assuch, the adventures of Sir Lancelot, a purely fic-tional character, are never alluded to in OrdoNobilis.

Troupes and storyguides should not be heldto such rigorous standards, however, and wecommend the medieval romances to our readersas a rich source of color and adventure ideas. Infact, we ourselves have cheated a bit and madean exception of the Romance of Reynard theFox. We have assimilated this work, along with

the fables of Aesop and Phaedrus, with medievallegends of animal faeries.

With respect to the more mundane aspectsof 13th century Mythic Europe, Ordo Nobilisstrives to adhere as closely as reasonably possibleto the strictures of historicity. Our aim here is toplease the hardened history buffs without turningoff those for whom history is more of an “option-al extra.” The “mundane” history we have includ-ed in this sourcebook (and there is a lot of it) isnonetheless probably fraught with unintentionalerrors, gaps, over-generalizations, and anachro-nisms. For this we can only apologize and pleadthe poverty of our scholarship and the time,space, and resources available to us. Nevertheless,we hope our readers will find between these twocovers that which will help bring the MiddleAges alive for them. We trust it will prove aninvaluable source of ideas and game mechanicsfor any saga in which contact with mundanemedieval society plays a significant role.

With Ordo Nobilis we have attempted tolook behind the common stereotypes and presenta detailed picture of the life of the 13th centurynobility, albeit in a mythic context. This source-book defines what a noble was, what the variousranks and titles meant, and how nobles interact-ed with each other and with broader society. Italso delves into their concerns and interests, howthey lived, what they did with their time, howthey did it and, perhaps most importantly, whythey did it.

The picture of the medieval nobility wehave drawn is a composite one. Because of theintense variation in land tenure, custom, andlegal practice from one place to the next, itapplies fully nowhere in the Europe of the 13thcentury. This having been said, our picture prob-ably applies more fully to northern France than

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to anywhere else. There are good reasons for this.In the early 13th century, France was the cultur-al heart of Europe. It was the most populousrealm; its ruler was the most powerful secularmonarch; and it set fashion in all fields fromfood, clothing, courtly manners, and vernacularliterature to formal theology. The institution ofknighthood also found its origin in northernFrance, and this region of Europe continued toset the trend in the development of ever moreexpensive armor and weaponry. France was alsothe heart of the old Carolingian Empire, and itsknights played the leading role in the successfulFirst Crusade. Finally, French was quite literallythe lingua franca of the 13th century Europeannobility.

Both for these reasons, and to stress theunderlying unity of medieval noble civilization,we have chosen to adopt three conscious biasesin Ordo Nobilis (albeit, sometimes with tongue incheek): nobles are good, French nobles are best,and pious French nobles are best of all. This hier-archy broadly corresponds to the view universal-ly held by 13th century nobles. How the various“non-French” nobles reconciled this with theirown, often justifiable, sense of ethnic pride is ofsome interest.

For the English nobility the matter was sim-ply dealt with. They considered themselvesFrench, were recognized as French by others, andin fact were French (they came from Normandy,after all). The same applied to the nobility ofsouthern Italy, and of the crusader states in theBalkans and the eastern Mediterranean. TheGermans took a slightly different tack, mentallysubstituting the word “Frank” for “French.” Asfounding or (in the case of Bavarians, Saxons,Swabians, and Thuringians) adopted members ofthe Merovingian and then Carolingian Frankishkingdom, they were “Franks” too. The samecould be said for the nobility of northern Italy.The Iberian rulers of Leon, Castile, and Portugalset great store by the fact they could trace their

descent from the French duke of Burgundy, whilethe king of Aragon was first and foremost countof Barcelona — still a part of France in 1220.Other poorer and more distant lands inScandinavia and eastern Europe had surprisinglyfew inhibitions about adopting explicitly Frenchfeudal norms and practices. What they stilllacked they sought to acquire through marriageswith French aristocrats and through the whole-sale importation of French culture, clerks, andgovernesses.

From the perspective of the French nobility,the Byzantines were unfortunately too “self-opin-ionated” to share in this general appreciation ofall things French. But even they recognized themilitary superiority of French knights and hadbegun to adopt feudal political structures early inthe 12th century. In any case, it is unlikely thecrusader lords of Constantinople would havebeen much troubled by the “unreasonable preju-dices” of their Byzantine subjects and enemies.

It follows from this discussion that we havenot been able to cover the Islamic nobility of Al-Andalus, and of the Arab and Turkish East. To doso would have stretched any working definitionof nobility to the breaking point and would havedetracted from the picture we wished to high-light for our readers: that of a common noble cul-ture and society ruling nearly all of ChristianEurope, albeit with significant regional differences.

As a parting note, we would like to take thisopportunity to thank our rigorous group ofplaytesters for their judicious and often pointedcriticism, all of which has led to notableimprovement.

Finally, and in conclusion, we would like todedicate Ordo Nobilis to the millions of hard-working European peasants without whose toiland back-breaking labor over the centuries thissourcebook would never have been possible.

—The Authors

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Aadventuring 72-77advocates 50advocates, church 133-134Aed Méith O’Neill 113Aesop 4, 72Aimar II de Poitiers 127Aimery VII 125Al-Andalus see IberiaAlamanni 137Alan, lord of Galloway 115alaunt 210Albigensien Crusade 125, 126Albino Flaw 39Alboin 72alcohol 58Alemannia see GermanyAlexander II 112, 114Aliosha Popovich 72allod 22Almohades 115Almos 72Alphonso II the Fat 117Alphonso IX 116Alwyn, earl of Lennox 114Amanieu d’Albret 125Amaury de Monfort 112, 125Ambidextrous Virtue 89-90Ameling cycle 69-70Andrew II of Hungary 144Andrew, dauphin of Vienne 127Andvari 68animal baiting 62Anjou 122-123anointment 8Antioch 149apprenticeship 41Aquitaine 124-125

Aragon 118Arcadia 71, 72Archibald II 125Archibald, sieur of Bourbon 121Area Lore 77-78Arelat see BurgundyArmenia Minor 151Armenian heresy 151armor, attacking through chinks therein 88armor, horses 91armor, knightly 16armor, magical 86armor, optional rules 82-84Arnold, count of Guines 121Arnold, viscount of Castelbon 126Arpád 72, 144Arpád cycle 72Arthur 67Arthurian cycle 67-68athletics 63Attila see Etzelaugustale 25auras, in trials 53Aurembaix, countess of Urgel 126Avalon 67avarice 25

BBaldwin de Redvers 111Baldwin of Flanders 148ban 145baptism, lay 181Barcelona 126baron 12-13, 40barony 107barter 24-25Basques 117-118battle of Bouvines 79-82, 99Bavaria 137

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Beowulf 69Berenger, count of Peralada 126Bernard V 125Bertran de Born 66beverages 58bezant see nomismaBiarki 69bias, French 1-224biases, of Ordo Nobilis 5bishop-count 14bishops, appointment 11Blanche de Navarre 121Blanche of Castile 161Blessed Sword Virtue 36Blondel de Nelse 66blunted weaponry 94Bohemia 137-138Boniface of Monferrat 149Boso de Mastar 125Bouvines see battle of Bouvinesbribes 54Britain 110-115Britanny 123Brunnhild 68Bulgaria 146-147bureaucracy 10Burgundy 126-127butler 19Byzantine emperor 106

CCaliburn 67Canon law see law, CanonCapetians 118-119capitalism 25Carolingian cycle 70Carolingian empire 10, 23Carolingians 118Castile 116-117castle 101-105castle, storming 104castle, walled 103Catalonia see BarcelonaCathal Crobderg O’Connor 113Cathal O’Reilly 113Centullo, count of Astarac 125chamberlain 19chancellor 18-19Chanteclair the Coq 71Charlemagne 7-8, 13, 23, 70, 128Charles Martel the Hammer 70chess 63Childeric III 70chivalry 16

Chonchobar of Ulster 72Chrétien de Troyes 4Cilicia see Armenia MinorCivil law see law, Roman CivilClerk Virtue 32coinage 23-24, 25coinage, gold 25Combat Encumbrance see Encumbrance, in combatCommon law 112communes, Italian 128comte see countConan, vicount of Léon 123Conrad, duke of Mazovia 142constable 19Constantinople, Latin Empire of 148-149consumption 25-26conte see countCormac Oc Liathánach MacCarthy 113count 14, 40count palatine 134county 107Covenfolk Virtue 32credit 26-29credit rating 27Croatia 145Cu Chulain 72Cumans 73, 147Cumans, statistics 209Cyprus 149

DDalmacio VI 126dancing 59Daniel, prince of Volynia 143demense, royal 10, 22Demetruis, Saint 149denarius 23denaro see denariusdenier see denariusDenmark 140destrier see warhorsedice 63Dienestman see ministerialesDietrich of Bern 69, 133dinar 25dirhem 25disguise 31disputatio 43, 44Divine Might, of kings 9Dobrynia Nikitish 72dogs, hunting 59Domnall Mór O’Donnell 113Donald, lord of the Isles 115donkey 90

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Donnchad Cairprech O’Brien 113ducat 25duke 14-15, 40Duncan, earl of Carrick 114Durendal 70

Eearl 14El Cid 41, 72Eleanor of Aquitaine 123, 124embroidery 65emperor of Byzantium, Divine Might 9Encumbrance, in combat 84Engerrand III 121England 110-112entertainment 59epic cycles 67-72Epilepsy Flaw 39Ermenrich 69etiquette, eating 58Etzel 69evidence 50-51Exaclibur 67Expenses Flaw 36experience points, optional rules 41-44Ezzo VII d’Este 130

FFaerie Enmity Flaw 37Fafnir 68Failed Apprentice Virtue 32-33falconry 60Falkes de Bréauté 110fatigue, optional rules 84-85feasting 56, 58female characters, social class 30-31, 36Ferdinand II of Castile, Saint 10Ferdinand III of Castile 116, 117Ferdinand of Portugal 123Fernando of Montearagon 118Ferocity 209feudal levy, statistics 208fief 20-21fines 55Flanders 123-124florin 25follis 25Folquet de Marseille 66food 56, 58-59foot soldier, statistics 208France 118-126Franconia 136Frederick II 127, 130, 133Freeman/woman Virtue 32

Frothi 68-69fueros 115-116Fulk II of Anjou 122Fulk III the Bladk 123

Ggames 63Ganelon 70Gaston VII 125Gauche de Chatillon 121Gauthier d’Avesnes 120Gawain 67, 68genovino 25Gentleman/woman Virtue 33Geoffrey V 120Geoffrey Plantagenet 123, 124Geoffrey, vicount of Rohan 123George IV the Brilliant 151Georgia 150-151Germany 131-138Ghibelline 128Gilbert de Clare 111, 113Gilbert “Strongbow” of Pembroke 113Gilbert, earl of Strathearn 114Goslar 136graf see countGram 68Grande Chartreuse 126Gratian 45, 47Great Lord Virtue 39-41Grendel 69Grievous Wounds see wounds, grievousGriffith ab Gwenwynwyn 113group initiative 89Gudrun 68Guenevere 67Guerau, viscount of Cabrera and Ager 126Gunther 68Guy IV 127Guy de Lusignan 149-150

HHaakon IV Haakonson 141Hading 68Hailti 69Haldan 69Harold of Wessex 110Harvey de Donzy 121Hectorus the quaesitor 168-170Heime 69Heir Virtue 35Helgi 69Henry II 110Henry III 110, 125, 132

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Henry IV 132Henry VI the Cruel 66, 133Henry d’Auvaugour 123Henry de Beaumont 111Henry “Pescatore” 131Henry Plantagenet 119Henry the Bearded 142Henry, count of Bar-sur-Aube 121Hermetic Law, vis sources 167Hermetic Oath 109hersir 138Hildebrand 69Hohenstaufens 131, 132, 137Holy Roman Emperor, Divine Might 9Holy Roman Emperor, healing powers 9Honorius III 127, 130horses 90-92 209-210horses, armor 91horses, breeds 90-91horses, encumbrance 91horses, types 90Hospitaliers 117hounds 210House Bonisagus 109House Díedne 109House Flambeau 109, 116House Jerbiton 109House Tytalus 122Hubert de Burgh 110Hugdietrich 69Hugh II 121Hugh III 126Hugh IV 121, 125Hugh de Lusignan 125Hugh de Mortimer 113Humphrey de Bohun 110-111Hungary 144-145hunting 59-62

IIberia 115-118Ile de France 119Ilia Muromets 72immunity (estate) 134Indiscreet Flaw 37Inept Underlings Flaw 37-38initiative, optional rules 89Innocent III 127, 130, 133interest 24intimidation 55Investiture Dispute 132, 133investment 29Ireland 113-114Irnerius 45, 47

Isabella II 149Isolde 68ispán 144Italy 127-131Italy, kingdom of 128-129

JJames the Elder, Saint 116James, king of Aragon 118, 126jarl 14jarl 139Jerusalem 149Jinxed Flaw 38Joan of Hainault 123John Asen 148John de Brienne 149John de Montour 123John Haraldson 114, 141John of Ceccano 130John Sverkersson 141John, earl of Garioch 114jury 49-50justicar 18justice 48-53justice, distinction between high and low 48-49Justinian Code 46

Kkeep 102keration 25Kiev 142kindgom of Jerusalem 106king of England, Divine Might 9king of France, Divine Might 9king of the Germans, Divine Might 9kingship, biblical 8kingship, electoral 8kingship, inheritance 8kingship, institution of 6-10kingship, judicial authority 10-11kingship, sacred character 9-10kingship, sovereignty of 106kingship, tribal 7-8Kipchaks see CumansKnight Virtue 33-34knight, statistics 207knighthood 15-16knighthood, female 30-31Krum’s Cup 146

Llabor, cost of 24lance (military unit) 97lance (weapon) 16

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Lancelot 4land 20-22land, buying and selling 22-23Language Block Flaw 37Languedoc 124-125Languedoïl 119Las Navas de Tolosa 115, 117law 45law, Canon 45-46law, customary 47-48law, English Common 49law, feudal 47law, Roman Civil 45-46law, tribal 46-47lectio 43lendermaend 139Leon 116leprosy 9Leszek the White 142Levant, the 148-151levrier 210levy, statistics 208libra 23libra 23lira see libralivery 16livre see libraLlywelyn ab Iorwerth 112-113loan 27-28Lombard cycle 72lordship, greater 39-41lordship, judicial requirements 45Lorraine 136Louis VIII the Lion 161Louis IX the Pious, Saint 161Louis IX, Saint 9love, courtly 65-66Lunacy Flaw 38lymer 210

MMadoc ab Griffith 113Maeb of Connaught 72magic, and castles 105magic, on the battlefield 101Magister in Artibus Virtue 34-35Magna Carta 110Malcolm, earl of Fife 114man-at-arms, statistics 208Manfred III del Vasto of Saluzzo 129manor 22manor house 102marchese see marquisMargentius of Criamon 168, 169

margraf see marquismark 23marquis 14, 40marshal 19mass combat 95-101Matthew II 120Maurice II 114Mélisande 122Mendicant Friar Virtue 33Mercenary Virtue 34Merchant Virtue 33Merlin 68Midi, the see Languedocministeriales 134minnesinger 66minstrel 66Miser Flaw 37Mistaken Identity Flaw 37monarchy, Christian 6money, optional rules 26monstrous bash 88-89Moravia 137-138Mordred 67Morgana 68mortgage 28-29Motion Sickness Flaw 37motte and bailey 102mounted combat 88, 89Mstislav, grand prince of Kiev 143Mstislav, prince of Chernigov 143Muirchertach O’Connor 113mule 90music 64Myralys of Jerbiton 170-172Mythic penny 24

Nnames, noble 108Navarre 117-118Neustria 122Nicaea, Empire of 150nine-mans-morris 63No Sense of Direction Flaw 37nobility, titled 12-15Noble the Lion 71Nocturnal Flaw 37nomisma 25Normandy 121-122Norse, the 138-141Norway 140-141Nunyo-Sanche of Roussillon and Cerdagna 118, 126

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Odoaker see Ermenrichofficials, royal 17-19Ogier the Dane 70Olifant 70Oliver the Wise 70ordeal, judicial 51-53Order of Hermes 109, 114Oriflamme 119Ostrogoths 69Otrok, khan 73Otto II 127Otto IV 127Otto of Brunswick 79Overbearing Underlings Flaw 38

Ppalfrey 90palfrey, statistics 209Pandulf 110Papacy 132-133Papel States, the 129-130parvenu 40pastimes, competitive 62-64pastimes, non-competitive 64-67Patrick Saint 72Patrick, earl of Dunbar 114Patrimony of St. Peter 106, 130pawn 28payment in kind 24-25penny 23Pepin of Heristal 70Pepin the Short 70Perceval see PeredurPeredur 68Perideus 72Peter de Benevento 118Peter de Courtenay 121Peter de Dreux 112, 122, 123Peter des Roches 110Pfennig see denariusPfund see libraPhaedrus 4, 72Philip II Augustus 79, 119, 120, 161Picardy 120-121piracy, Norse 139podestá 128poetry 64Poland 142Polotsvi see CumansPoor Flaw 36Portugal 117posadnik 142pound 23practice 43-44

precedence 17, 18Premysl 137Priest Virtue 35prince-bishops, of Germany 133Prosperous Virtue 36protocol 16-17punishment 55

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Rraces 63Ralph Neville 110ransom 100Ranulf de Blundeville 110, 111Ranulf de Nesle 121Raspallion the Redcap 164Raymond Fulk 126Raymond Roger 126Raymond VI of Toulouse 125, 127Raymond, viscount of Turenne 125Raymond-Bérenger IV 127Reconquista, the 115-116Regin 68Reginald, king of Man and the Isles 141Reinold de Dammartin 121relics 10research 74Reynard the Fox 71-72Reynold de Braose 113Richard II de Montfaucon 127rithmomachia 63Robert III 122Robert de Courtenay 148Robert de Vere 111Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar see El CidRoe 69Roger de Quency 112Roger II 126Roger le Bigod 110Roger, viscount of Fézansaguet 125Roland 70Rolf Krake 69Rollo 121-122Roman Civil law see law, Roman CivilRoman empire 6Roman, prince 73roncin 90roncin, statistics 209Rosamund 72royal family 11-12Rudolf de Lusignan 122Rurik 142

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Rurikid princes 72Rus, Kievan 142-143Russian principalities 106

SSamuel 8Sancho VII the Strong 118Saul 8savings 25-26Saxony 135-136Scandinavian cycle 68-69schools, legal 45, 46Scotland 114-115scrofula 9seneschal see marshalSerbia 146sergeant, statistics 208shell keep 102Shield and Weapon Skill 89shilling 23Sicily 130-131Siege of Amalfi 46siege 103-104Siggeir 68Sigmund 68Sigurd 68silver 23Simon de Monfort 112, 125singing 59Single Weapon and Shield Skill 89Single Weapon Skill 89Skjöld 68Skule Baardson 141Slavs, northern 141-143Soak, optional rules 85Social Class Virtues and Flaws 30-35soldo see solidussolidus 23sommier 90sommier, statistics 210Song of Roland 70sou see solidusSpirit of Tuberculosis 177Stephen Langton 110Stephen Nemanya 146Stephen of Hungary, Saint 144, 145Stephen, count of Auxonne 127steward 19storytelling 66-67Strategy Knowledge 98Student/Scholar Virtue 36-37Sulpices d’Amboise 120Surly Underlings Flaw 38Svipdag 69

Swabia 137Sweden 141Swietopelk 142sword, knightly 15-16

Ttablero 63Templars 117tenancy in chief 11tenement 20Theobald II of Champagne 153Theobald IV of Champagne 66, 121Theodore Lascaris 150Theodore, the Despot of Epirus 150Theodoric of Verona see Dietrich von BernThessalonika 149thing 138Thomas of Savoy 127, 129Thora 69Thuringia 136-137Thurisind 72Tilbert the Cat 71toppling attacks 87-88Toulouse 125tournaments 92, 94-95tracking 62trainers 43training 41-43travel, on horseback 92Treasure 26treasurer 19Trebizond 150trial, judicial 53-55Tristan 68troubador 66trouvère 66Troyes 152-154Truce of God 80Turpin of Reims 70Turul Hawk, the 72Two Weapons Skill 89-90

UUalgarg O’Rourke 113Ulster cycle 72Unsavory Underlings Flaw 38Uther Pendragon 67

VValdemar II the Victorious 140vassalage 49veche 142Vegetius 98verse 66

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vicount 14Virtues and Flaws, modified 30-35, 35-36Virtues and Flaws, new 36-39vis sources 167viscount 40Vlachs 144Vladimir, prince of Pereiaslavl 143Vladimir, Saint 72Vladislav Spindleshanks 142Vöggi 69Völsung 68Völsung saga 68

WWakhtang Gurgaslani 72Wales 112-113Walter de Lacy 113Walther von der Vogelweide 66Wanderer Virtue 31-32warhorse 15, 90warhorse, statistics 209Wealthy Virtue 36weapon skills, optional rules 89-90weaponry, blunted 94Welf 128, 131, 132, 137Well-Off Virtue 36Welsh principalities 106White Stallion, the 72Wild Hunt 70Wildeber 69William II 113William III de Montgommery-Alençon 121

William V de Sabran 127William VI Aleramici of Monferrat 129William IX of Aquitaine 66William XI 125William Comyn 114William d’Aubigny 111William de Cervera 126William de Chauvigny 120William de Ferrers 111William de Mandeville 112William de Warenne 111William Longespée 112William Marshal 92, 113William of Normandy 110, 119William Porco 131William the Conqueror 122William, count of Geneva 127Wise One Virtue 33Wittich 69Wolfdietrich 69women, effects of marriage 36wormwood 73wounds, grievous 86

YYrsa 69Ysengrin the Wolf 71Yuri, grand prince of Suzdalia 143

Zzupan 146

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