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So the Crown gives an AOA to "Madame E"

Does that make her Lady Madame E? Lady E of Iron Bog? Madame Lady E?
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[identity profile] baron-elric.livejournal.com 2008-10-26 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Does this woman have a registered name? If so, I imagine it would be "Lady E(whatever)."

I don't know that the word Madame has any recognition within the SCA. (Certainly not as a job title.) It means Mrs., and marital titles aren't normally used in names. Moreover, the contraction of two French words into one, as far as I know, didn't happen until the late seventeenth century.

[identity profile] tashabear.livejournal.com 2008-10-26 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know that the word Madame has any recognition within the SCA. (Certainly not as a job title.)


Actually, it does. It's an alternate title for Lady. So if she was calling herself Madame E, up until the time she got her AoA, she was presumptuous, and now she is merely redundant.
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