Beatriz Aluares de la Oya

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Magistra Beatriz Aluares de la Oya
Information
Pronouns: She/they Resides: Barony of Bright Hills Status: Active Awards: Order of Precedence Entry
Heraldry
Gules, six pomegranates two, two and two, slipped and leaved Or

Introduction

Magistra Beatriz is currently the Landed Baroness of the Barony of Highland Foorde and has interests in all things Spanish: clothing, cooking, death and funerary practices, medieval magick and demonology, women's studies, Spanish law, and church history.

Persona

Beatriz is a moderately wealthy widow living in Burgos under the reign of their Catholic Majesties Ferdinand and Isabella. She manages a modest wool business left by her late husband, and has aspirations to make the great pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

Heraldry

Coat of Arms

• Gules, six pomegranates two, two and two, slipped and leaved Or

Motto

• DVCTVS EXEMPLO ('Lead By Example')

Relationships & Household Affiliations

Associates

• Apprentice: Doña Mariana Ruiz de Medina (formerly Marion Compton).
• Apprentice: Noble Elvira de Luz
• Student: THL Isobel of Carnewyth

Former Dependents

• Mistress Marguerite Honoree d'Cheneau
• Mu'allimah Tala al-Zahra

Households

• Clan Oldcastle
• Casa de Granada Dorado
• Free Company of St. Lawrence
• Guild of St. Expeditus (AKA Pretty Tasty Camp)

Awards & Achievements

Awards

Beatriz Aluares de la Oya OP

• Order of the Golden Dolphin, Atlantia (April 2024)
• Honorary Citizen of Storvik (June 2023)
• Baron's Award of Excellence, Storvik (June 2023)
• Award of the Fountain, Atlantia (April 2023)
• Court Baroness, Court of Abran and Anya, Atlantia (March 2023)
• Order of the Hart, Highland Foorde, Atlantia (November 2021)
• Order of the Opal, Atlantia (June 2021)
• Order of the Lark, Highland Foorde, Atlantia (June 2019)
• Order of the Laurel, Atlantia (March 2013)
• Order of the Pearl, Atlantia (November 2009)
• Order of the Golden Calon Swan, Calontir (September 2003)
• Award of Arms, Atlantia (July 1991)

University of Atlantia Degrees

• Certified Teaching Assistant (UA117 September 2024)
• Masters Degree (UA105 September 2020)
• Bachelors Degree (UA91 September 2015)
• Fellowship (UA79 June 2011)

Offices & Warrants

Current

• Territorial Baroness, Barony of Highland Foorde (April 2024-present)
• Kingdom MoAS Deputy for Competitions (April 2024-present)

Previous

• Co-Guildmistress, St. Anne Guild of Clothiers (closed)
• Quartermaster/Deputy Exchequer, Barony of Highland Foorde (December 2020-April 2024)
• Deputy Display Coordinator, Known World Arts & Sciences Display (Pennsic War) (2015-2023)
• Deputy MoAS, Barony of Highland Foorde (March 2022-December 2022)
• Kingdom Deputy MoAS for Historical Costuming, Atlantia (2015-2017)
• Guildmistress, St. Anne’s Guild of Clothiers, Atlantia (2014-2015)
• Kingdom Waiver Secretary, Calontir (2003-2005)
• Deputy Exchequer, Shire of Standing Stones, Calontir (2001-2003)
• Deputy Herald, Shire of Standing Stones, Calontir (2001-2002)
• MoAS, Incipient Shire of Evensong Forest, Meridies (1997-1998)

Arts & Sciences

• Kingdom MoAS Deputy for Competitions (April 2024-present)
• Display: Threads of Light: 14th century Spanish Clothing in the Reign of Abran & Anya (March 2023)
• Co-sponsor: True Novice/New Novice Challenge, Storvik Novice & Unbelt Tournament (July 2022)
• Sponsor: Persona Pocket Trash Challenge, Highland River Melees (May 2022)
• Co-sponsor: Most Interesting Iberian Ensemble Challenge, Virtual Calontir Clothing Challenge (October 2020 - January 2021)
• Sponsor: Italian Undergarments Challenge, Virtual Highland Havoc (November 2020)
• Display: An Assortment of Spanish Hats for Men - Atlantia Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival (March 2012)
• Display: A Spanish Hooped Gown (Verdugado) - Atlantia Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival (March 2011)
• Displayed at Atlantia Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival (March 2010)
• Display: A Late 16th century Spanish Working Women's Ensemble - Pennsic Known World Arts & Science Display (August 2009)
• Competition entry: A Late 16th Century Spanish Noblewoman Goes Traveling - Persona Pentathlon, Kingdom Arts & Sciences Fair (2009)
• Winner: “But Not in Spain” competition - St. Luke’s Arts & Sciences Festival (2008)
• Kingdom Arts & Sciences Champion - Artemisia (2006)
• Display: A Blackwork Sweet Bag - Queen’s Prize Tourney, Kingdom of Calontir (2003)

Service

• Clothier, Their Royal Majesties Abran & Anya (April 2025-October 2025)
• Team member, Pennsic A&S War Point committee (2025)
• Committee member, Atlantian MoAS Judging Improvement Committee (2025)
• Co-Coordinator, Pennsic KWAS Display Consultation Table (August 2024)
• A&S Coordinator, Storvik Novice & Unbelt Tourney (April 2024)
• A&S Coordinator, Ponte Alto Investiture (March 2024)
• A&S Coordinator, Atlantia Kingdom Twelfth Night (January 2024)
• Event Steward, Highland Havoc (November 2023)
• Emergency Coordinator: Cultura Atlantia, Coronation of Ragnar and Mary Isobel (October 2023)
• A&S Coordinator, Storvik Novice and Unbelt Tourney (July 2023)
• A&S Co-Coordinator, Coronation of Afshin & Yasmine (April 2023)
• Display Space Coordinator - Kingdom of Atlantia Arts & Sciences Festival (March 2023)
• Clothier, Their Royal Majesties Abran & Anya (October 2022-April 2023)
• Facilitator, Huapahua II: New World Persona Symposium (August 2022)
• A&S Coordinator, Storvik Novice and Unbelt Tourney (July 2022)
• Royal Liaison, Highland River Melees (May 2022)
• A&S Coordinator, Highland River Melees (May 2022)
• Facilitator, Virtual West Coast Culinary Symposium (April 2022)
• Event Steward, Highland Havoc (November 2021)
• Event Steward/Webminister, Virtual Known World Arts & Sciences Display (July-August 2021; Virtual Pennsic)
• Facilitator, Huapahua: New World Persona Symposium (August 2021)
• Co-Steward/Webminister, Second Annual Known World Colegio de Iberia (Virtual June 2021)
• Facilitator, First Annual Known World Colegio de Iberia (Virtual July 2020)
• Games Staff, Coronation of Adelhait and Christoph (Atlantia, April 2019)
• Period Heroes (2018-present) - assisted with the distribution of information and supplies for: Pennsic Newcomer’s Point, Spring Coronation (2019)
• A&S Coordinator, Highland River Melees (2013)
• Creator of the SCA Baltic Facebook group (2014)
• Administrator of the Historic Cosmetics Facebook group (2012-present)
• Administrator of the SCA Iberia Facebook group (2011-present)

Classes

• Upcoming classes are advertised on the Spanish Seamstress Facebook page.
• For a full catalog of classes I am available to teach and/or to view my handouts and documentation, please go to the Handouts and Documentation section of my website.
• Class recordings are available on my Youtube channel.