Kingdom Law - Awards

Awards

Awards

Source of awards

1. The Crown is the font of all awards.
2. The sole power to bestow patents, grants and awards of arms rests with the Crown.
3. The Crown hereby grants to the Coronet of each principality the right to offer awards of arms to subjects of the principality, and to offer a patent of arms with the title of Viscount or Viscountess to those who have served the principality in the capacity of Sovereign or Consort for a full reign.
4. The Crown specifically reserves the right to grant patents and create peers for any other reason unto themselves.

Publication of awards

1. All bestowals of awards shall be proclaimed in court, or in some other public place at an event published in advance in Pegasus, to the Kingdom of Lochac at large.
2. It is the responsibility of the Crown giving arms or other awards, to notify both the Crux Australis Herald and the Kingdom Chronicler of the award, the date given, and the full name of the recipient within three months.
3. The officers will then ensure the information is added to the Order of Precedence and published in Pegasus.

Signatures

1. The signatures of the Crown shall not be forged on any scroll or other document without express permission of the Crown.
2. Signatures of previous Crowns may be forged on award scrolls after the end of their reign, provided the signatures used are based on that used by that Crown during their reign.
   1. For this purpose, a copy of the Crown's reign signature must be sent to the Provost of the College of Scribes during each reign, or supplied on request if their reign has already ended.
   2. Any former kingdom or principality royalty who are not readily contactable or who do not supply a reign signature on request may have their name written at the bottom of an award scroll by the Provost of Scribes or the Provost's delegate.

Order of precedence

1. The Order of precedence within Lochac is as follows:
   1. The Crown of Lochac
   2. The Royal Heirs of Lochac
   3. Current territorial baronages, according to date of creation of the barony:
      1. Rowany
      2. Innilgard
      3. River Haven
      4. Aneala
      5. Stormhold
      6. Ynys Fawr
      7. Politarchopolis
      8. Southron Gaard
      9. Saint-Florian-de-la-rivière
      10. Ildhafn
      11. Mordenvale
      12. Krae Glas
   4. Current Greater Officers of State:
      1. Kingdom Seneschal
      2. Crux Australis Herald
      3. Earl Marshal
      4. Minister of Arts and Sciences
      5. Chancellor of the Exchequer
      6. Kingdom Chronicler
      7. Kingdom Chirurgeon
      8. Kingdom Constable
      9. Kingdom Chatelaine
   5. Dukes and Duchesses
   6. Counts and Countesses
   7. Viscounts and Viscountesses
   8. Peers of the Realm
   9. Companions of the Order of the White Scarf and the Lochac Company of Archers
   10. Companions of the orders of distinction, conferring a grant of arms, and those bearers of a grant of arms without membership in an order of distinction
   11. Court Barons and Baronesses
   12. Members of the armigerous orders of achievement
   13. Those members of the populace holding an award of arms.
2. Rank within the orders is determined solely by the date the award was given.
3. For the territorial rulers, precedence is determined by the date of inauguration of the territory to its current group level.
4. As per Section VI.12 [Immigrant Arms], precedence-bearing awards from other kingdoms carry an identical position of precedence to the corresponding Lochac award.
5. Awards granted to a branch, guild or other organised group that carry precedence do not convey that precedence onto the individual members of that group.

Royal peerages

1. The royal peers, as defined in Corpora, are the Dukes and Duchesses, Counts and Countesses and Viscounts and Viscountesses.
2. Royal peerages earned in the Kingdom of Lochac are accompanied by patents of arms.
3. People receiving such patents shall be assumed to fulfil the basic requirements for the elevation to the peerage.

Patents of Arms

1. Bestowed peerages are the Order of Chivalry, the Order of the Laurel, the Order of the Pelican,and the Order of Defense, and the Order of the Mark, as defined in Corpora.
2. Elevation to these right noble orders shall convey a patent of arms.
3. Membership in each of the bestowed peerage orders confers the same level of precedence.
4. All members of the respective orders have the right to advise the Crown regarding selection of members for their orders, and no member may be excluded from a conclave convened for that purpose unless under sanctions by the Crown as described in Corpora X.A.2's section on sanctions. X.A.2 is not the correct Corpora reference - that one is right of appeal to the Board. Potentially X.B?