The calendar is a wonderful tool for reminding the player-knights exactly how long they have been away from home in a given year. Calculating the date for Easter is easy enough (the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox, more or less), and Pentecost easier still (the seventh Sunday after Easter), so it would seem easy to determine when court is held. The week following the holiday appears to be part of the celebratory period, so court probably shouldn't begin until a week after the Monday which follows the holiday and would, I imagine, at a minimum last a week itself. Cannot find any definitive references, however, and am curious what opinions everyone here has on the topic.

Any thoughts as to how often court is held? Royal court naturally might be more set in terms of schedule, whereas local court might be both more frequent and more irregular.

Been thinking some about royal court and its timing. Travel in Logres is very slow, by my estimate it would take roughly a week for the Earl's retinue to reach Leicester or Lincoln from Sarum. Court is traditionally associated with the four major seasonal holidays (Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, and Michaelmas), which are typically week-long celebrations. Politics cannot be properly attended to until the week following, thanks to church meddling, so royal court likely would last a fortnight: a week of celebration and behind-the-scenes politics, and a week of formal petitions and legal pronouncements. Add a week's travel to and from, at the most, and royal court draws a lord away from his lands for as much as a month. Royal court occupying roughly a month out of every three, a lord has two months to oversee his own lands each season. And the forty days' military service which a lord owes doesn't even factor into this. Really fascinating, and it does explain why royal court moves around; the king's progress makes certain that everyone is a little inconvenienced at one time or another.

Been thinking some about royal court and its timing. Travel in Logres is very slow, by my estimate it would take roughly a week for the Earl's retinue to reach Leicester or Lincoln from Sarum. Court is traditionally associated with the four major seasonal holidays (Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, and Michaelmas), which are typically week-long celebrations. Politics cannot be properly attended to until the week following, thanks to church meddling, so royal court likely would last a fortnight: a week of celebration and behind-the-scenes politics, and a week of formal petitions and legal pronouncements. Add a week's travel to and from, at the most, and royal court draws a lord away from his lands for as much as a month. Royal court occupying roughly a month out of every three, a lord has two months to oversee his own lands each season. And the forty days' military service which a lord owes doesn't even factor into this. Really fascinating, and it does explain why royal court moves around; the king's progress makes certain that everyone is a little inconvenienced at one time or another.


In general, barons are expected to attend court at the king's convenience.
That means that if he requests them to be there, they attend
In practice, most barons attend when the king is nearby
or when they have something to present to the court, in which case they may be at court for a couple of months to get seen, get a decision, and so on