Acorn Valley
The Barony of Acorn Valley is a peerage title awarded by The Royal Manticoran Navy: The Official Honor Harrington Fan Association, Inc..
Acorn Valley was created as a title on 01 July 2023 at BayCon/MantiCon when SMCPO Megan Krick was created Baroness Acorn Valley.
Coat of arms
Arms granted to Baroness Acorn Valley by Sir William Knight, Earl White Lion, Sphinx King of Arms.[1]
Escutcheon
BLAZON: Azure, two red squirrels rampant regardant maintaining an acorn proper.
Coronet
The whole ensigned with the coronet of a baroness of the planet Sphinx and encircled with the garter of the Order of the Star Kingdom.
Motto
No Day but Today
Letters Patent
TO ALL AND SINGULAR to whom these Presents shall come Sir William Knight, Earl White Lion, Sphinx King of Arms sends Greetings!
Whereas the Right Honorable Dame Megan Krick, Baroness Acorn Valley, Senior Master Chief Petty Officer in Her Majesty’s Navy, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Star Kingdom, upon whom has been conferred the Osterman Cross, the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, and the Queen’s Bravery Medal hath represented unto Sir Scott Bell, Baron Brentwood-upon-Tweed, Star Kingdom Principal King of Arms that she is desirous of having Armorial Bearings duly established and recorded under lawful authority and hath requested the favor of Star Kingdom’s Warrant for my granting and assigning such Arms and Crest as I deem suitable to be borne and used by her and by her descendants with their due and proper differences and according to the Laws of Arms.
And forasmuch as the said Star Kingdom did by Warrant under his hand and Seal bearing the date the Fifth day of the Fifth month of the year 310 After Landing authorize and direct me to grant and assign such Arms accordingly,
Know Ye therefore that I the said Sphinx in pursuance of Star Kingdom’s Warrant and by virtue of Letters Patent of my Office granted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty do by these Presents grant and assign unto the said Baroness Acorn Valley the Arms following, that is to say Azure, two red squirrels rampant regardant maintaining an acorn proper, and for the Motto “No Day but Today” the whole ensigned with the coronet of a baroness of the planet Sphinx and encircled with the garter of the Order of the Star Kingdom as are in the margin hereof more clearly depicted to be borne and used for ever hereafter by the said Baroness Acorn Valley and by her descendants with due and proper differences and according to the Laws of Arms.
In Witness whereof I the said Sphinx have to these Presents subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of my Office this the Fifth day of the Fifth Month in the thirty-ninth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth Adrienne Samantha Annette Winton, Grand Commander of the Order of King Roger I, Grand Commander of the Order of Queen Elizabeth I, Grand Commander of the Order of the Golden Lion, Baroness of Crystal Pine, Baroness of White Sand, Countess of Tannerman, Countess of High Garnet, Grand Duchess of Basilisk, Princess Protector of the Realm, by God’s grace and the will of Parliament, Queen Elizabeth III of the Star Kingdom of Manticore, and Empress Elizabeth I.
William J. Knight
Sphinx
7th day of the Fifth month, 310 AL
References
- ↑ Grant of Arms to Baroness Acorn Valley, TRMN Forums.