** Divestiture **
If there were predecessor(s) to the Barony, this should be done either right before the investiture or at an earlier court.
- Herald
- The Barons of ____ have asked for an audience, and it is hereby granted.
The outgoing Barons come forward and kneel.
- Barony
- Your Majesties, we have now served You and your predecessors as the Barons of ____ for ____ years, and we would retire from this office.
- Monarch
- Thanks the outgoing Barony.
Royal retainers come forward with pillows. The outgoing Baronies take off their coronets and hand them to the Crown, who put them on the pillows. The retainers retire, and after a short pause so do the ex-Barons.
- Herald
- For ____ and ____, former Barons of ______ , Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!
** Investiture **
- Herald
- Their Majesties call forward ____ .
The incoming Barons come forward and kneel.
- Monarch
- It is Our wish to create you the Barons of ____ . Will you accept this from us, and swear fealty to us?
- Barons
- I will.
Royal retainers come forward with the baronial coronet(s) on pillow(s). If there are both a Baron and a Baroness, the Crowns both take a coronet and as simultaneously as possible put the coronet on the head of one of them, saying
- Crowns (one per Baron)
- ____ , be Baron(ess) of ____ .
The Crowns receive the Sword of State. The Barons place their hands on the sword, and the Crowns their hands upon the Barons.
- Herald
- Do you ____ , Barons of ____ , acknowledge verily to these ____ and ____ , Sovereigns of Drachenwald that you hold and ought to hold as a fief the Barony of ____ , and make for the same homage and fealty with hands and with mouth to these your Sovereigns?
- Barons
- I do.
- Herald
- Do you swear that you will always be a faithful vassal to their Majesties in all things in which a vassal is required to be faithful, and defend Them and the Kingdom and ____ against all malefactors and invaders, and give their Majesties power over all, or any portion of, the castles and manors in their fief, in peace and in war, whenever they shall be lawfully claimed?
- Barons
- I so swear.
- Herald
- And if you do not observe to their Majesties each and all the things declared above, and should come against these things, the aforesaid fief should by that very fact be forfeit to their Majesties.
- Barons
- I so swear.
The Crowns raise the Barons.
- Herald
- To ____ and ____, Barons of _____ .
[Followed by a cheer of some description.]