Quest for the Chalice of St. Gunther -- Barony of Calafia
July 21, 1974

Held at Balboa Park. There were games and dancing for the ladies, while the fighters went on quest. Patrick of Innisfree found the chalice, but lost it to Armand Sebastian de la Forêt de Savigny in the lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Annotations: “Finding the chalice gave Patrick an extra life in the following lists while the rest of the combatants had but a single life. Interesting concept for future specialty events. Go on a quest, find objects that provide advantages and disadvantages such as extra life, type of weapon or shield one may use, loss of mobility? regeneration? Then fight the lists. hmmm! Could be interesting!” - Martin the Temperate “This was the tourney where, if you found the chalice, you had to fight all the other fighters for it, one at a time. I believe it gave you an extra life. Patrick found it and fought several fights before finally losing enough times that Armand's fight was his last.” – Charles of Dublin

Armand de Sevigny fighting . . .who? Picture from the Collection of Collegium Caidis

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Description of this event, © Copyright 1980 by William R. Keyes (Wilhelm von Schlüssel)
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