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pogbody

Persona History work - comments welcome!

Apr 15, 2011 16:57

Melisende Fitzwalter is the only surviving child of Sir Hugh Fitzwalter, youngest son of Sir Theobald Fitzwalter of Copsale, near Horsham in Sussex.

Born in 1349 the youngest of 3 boys and one girl, surviving offspring of Sir Theobald Fitzwalter and his wife Aline Goodricke, Hugh was disinclined to enter the church. His family was long- ( Read more... )

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loupblanc April 15 2011, 21:37:30 UTC

remains unmarried eh? So what is she doing hanging around that shady character that keeps dressing up like a German? ;)

pogbody April 15 2011, 23:31:13 UTC

Weeeeeell, thats kinda hard seeing as that shadowy figure comes from around 200 years later! So unless they invent a time-machine in the 16th century.......!

loupblanc April 15 2011, 23:59:54 UTC

Well you never know, Da Vinci was quite good at certain things :)

snakewhissperer April 15 2011, 22:03:16 UTC

sounds like you've done a heck of a lot of research!

pogbody April 15 2011, 23:36:34 UTC

Not as much as you'd think! I had a vague outline in my head of the type of class and background I wanted to have, plus the foreign parent to reflect my own situation. I liked Bodiam Castle so I looked into the history of it to see if it was somewhere I could be connected to and discovered Sir Edward Dalyngrigge. From there it was just a case of making the dates work. I tried to be half Breton for a while, but couldn't make it all work, but the Gascon thing works a treat! All in all I'd say a weekend's worth of work in total.

loupblanc April 16 2011, 00:03:44 UTC

If you want to have fun with Gascons you could always claim to be a distant parent of Charles de Batz ;)

hobbitomm April 16 2011, 09:13:50 UTC

Well, you could always have a secondary persona (also called Melisande) who is early 16th century.... (Anything to increase the number of landsknecht-babes...)

This is a very nice piece of work. I'm seriously impressed compared to the sketchy one I have (for example, I've only just sorted out a surname- di Rienzo being a patronymic).

silme April 16 2011, 19:21:06 UTC

This looks great! When I created Ariel, I wrote up her history -- to the age I was at the time: 18. A couple of years ago, I realised that I wasn't 18 any longer and neither was Ariel. (Heck, she'd probably be dead by my age in those times. :) I still haven't re-done the story, though, of what happened to her post age 18. Did she marry? Where did she live? Etc.

mummybeare July 1 2011, 07:16:18 UTC

Did she like Richard? What was her relationship with his daughters like? What is it like now that he's gone?

What is Melisende's favourite food? Who cooks it?

How big is the estate? How much of her day is dedicated to caring for it? Does she have overseers, etc that she has to manage?

Who will inherit the estate after Melisende passes away? (Grim thought, I know, but without children, that could be very important!)

I really like it, by the way. But, I may just pester you to take it from a history to a biography. :-D