For the first time, Company of the Staple also sent up a small contingent to Abbey Medieval Fair – Australia’s largest medieval fair held at the Abbey Museum in Caboolture, Queensland. Here we met some old friends such as the Enterprise of the Black Garter and Eslite d’ Corps and made some new friends, especially amongst the Knights Order Lion Rampant.

Sir Hugh fought in a grand tournament hosted by the Order Lion Rampant, with Elden as his attendant and his lady, Lady Louise.

Knights Order of the Lion Rampant
Enterprise of the Black Garter
Eslite d’ Corps

For the fourth year, Company of the Staple set up a static display at Winterfest. For the first time, Winterfest was held at Parramatta Park, beside the Parramatta River, which lent a more picturesque and medieval feel to the event.

Another first was our display of a 14th Century Harness fight in the main combat arena. Sir Hugh and Sir Elden engaged in a practical demonstration of how the armour protected them from blows and how a Deed of Arms works, with both fighters setting out the rules by which they wished to abide.

Company of the Staple performed at Ironfest St George Tournament. This was a static display in which we showed off some surgery instruments as well a display showing the common food of 14th Century. Along with the display, Company of the Staple acted as a retinue for Australian jouster Andrew McKinnon and performed ground crew work for the jousting, which included international jousters Dr Tobias Capwell from England, Arne Koets from Holland and Jeremy Oneail from USA.

SCA Rowany Festival – 3 April, 2010
Company of the Staple will be supporting Nova Hollandia in an appearance at Rowany Festival for a skill at arms competition and joust.

Location: Glenworth Valley, Cooks Road, Peats Ridge, NSW
Cost: $30 per person
Note: This is a re-enactment event, so an attempt at pre C17th clothing is required.
More Info: http://rowany.sca.org.au/festival/

Ironfest St. George’s Day Joust – 24-26 April, 2010
Company of the Staple will be supporting Nova Hollandia in an appearance at the Ironfest St George Day Joust for a skill at arms competition and joust.
This year we have a special treat for you with Dr Tobias Capwell, Curater of Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection in London and Author of many books, coming to Australia for the first time to compete in our prestigeous event.
Also competing this year is Arne Koets from Holland, Jeremy Oneail from the USA and all of our usual Australian competitors such as 3 times IJA World Jousting Champion Rod Walker, along with our experienced jousters Luke Binks, Justin Holland and Phillip Oliver. This year we also have a few new competitors wanting to make a name for themselves, they have been training hard and this will be their first Australian Tournament, so please welcome Andrew McKinnon, Fiona Hudson, Phillip Leitch and Sasha Buchmann when they enter the field.
Location: Lithgow Showground, Lithgow, NSW
Cost: $30 per person
More Info: http://www.ironfest.com.au/jousting.html

Winterfest – 3-4 July, 2010
Company of the Staple will be appearing at Winterfest 2010, bringing the fourteenth century to life in our encampment.

Location: Marsden Park, North Ryde, NSW
Cost: $30 per person
More Info: http://www.winterfest.com.au

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