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King: Louis Dieudonné Prosper Léandre [Louis III, Roi des Merteuils] (26)
Queen: Eleanora Bianca Maria Margherita [Éléonore de Sforzatta, Reine des Merteuils] (21)
-DPrincess1: Marguerite Éléonore Johanna Thérèse [Princess Marguerite, Madame Royale]
From the most noble house of Beausoleil,
In the mighty Kingdom of Merteuil.
Louis has been king since he was four years old, when his father Louis II succumbed to tuberculosis. Being a very shrewd man and cognizant of his impending death, Louis did not name his vain and capricious wife Margaret of Pftalzgraff the sole regent, but instead decreed that a council of educated men should rule on the young Dauphin's behalf. However, after her husband's death, Margaret acted on her hurt pride and had her husband's will annulled, making her sole regent. She then elected her lover Jolyon Delaunay, a prominent statesman in Louis II's court, to make all political decisions, leading Merteuil into a period of expensive land skirmishes and debt to indulge Jolyon's megalomaniacal whims. Louis grew up hating Jolyon, and his mysterious death on the eve of Louis' 23rd birthday was said by some to be by poison administered by Louis' most trusted valet.
A year previous, however, he had married on this insistance of his mother--she had chosen for him the youngest daughter of the powerful (and land-hungry) King of Sforzatta, a neighboring kingdom that Margaret and Jolyon suspected had wanted to invade Merteuil for decades. When they first meet, Louis is definitely struck by Eleanora's beauty, but found her to be too shy and naive--she was barely more than a child at 16. They married a year later to much fanfare, and as they began to get to know each other, Louis and Eleanora fell very much in love--they both loved history and very much favored patronage of the arts. Pleased with how the King and his new wife were getting along, the kingdom waited with baited breath for an heir.
After three disappointing miscarriages, Eleanora and Louis are ecstatic when Eleanora's fourth pregnancy finally takes. Eleanora has a relatively easy pregnancy and birth, but both of them cannot hide their disappointment when the much wished-for heir is a baby girl. They name her Marguerite after Louis' mother, who consoles her new daughter-in-law that she still has plenty of time to bear her son an heir. Eleanora is an unusually doting mother for a Queen of Merteuil, and spends her hours in the nursery with little Marguerite.
Queen: Eleanora Bianca Maria Margherita [Éléonore de Sforzatta, Reine des Merteuils] (21)
-DPrincess1: Marguerite Éléonore Johanna Thérèse [Princess Marguerite, Madame Royale]
From the most noble house of Beausoleil,
In the mighty Kingdom of Merteuil.
Louis has been king since he was four years old, when his father Louis II succumbed to tuberculosis. Being a very shrewd man and cognizant of his impending death, Louis did not name his vain and capricious wife Margaret of Pftalzgraff the sole regent, but instead decreed that a council of educated men should rule on the young Dauphin's behalf. However, after her husband's death, Margaret acted on her hurt pride and had her husband's will annulled, making her sole regent. She then elected her lover Jolyon Delaunay, a prominent statesman in Louis II's court, to make all political decisions, leading Merteuil into a period of expensive land skirmishes and debt to indulge Jolyon's megalomaniacal whims. Louis grew up hating Jolyon, and his mysterious death on the eve of Louis' 23rd birthday was said by some to be by poison administered by Louis' most trusted valet.
A year previous, however, he had married on this insistance of his mother--she had chosen for him the youngest daughter of the powerful (and land-hungry) King of Sforzatta, a neighboring kingdom that Margaret and Jolyon suspected had wanted to invade Merteuil for decades. When they first meet, Louis is definitely struck by Eleanora's beauty, but found her to be too shy and naive--she was barely more than a child at 16. They married a year later to much fanfare, and as they began to get to know each other, Louis and Eleanora fell very much in love--they both loved history and very much favored patronage of the arts. Pleased with how the King and his new wife were getting along, the kingdom waited with baited breath for an heir.
After three disappointing miscarriages, Eleanora and Louis are ecstatic when Eleanora's fourth pregnancy finally takes. Eleanora has a relatively easy pregnancy and birth, but both of them cannot hide their disappointment when the much wished-for heir is a baby girl. They name her Marguerite after Louis' mother, who consoles her new daughter-in-law that she still has plenty of time to bear her son an heir. Eleanora is an unusually doting mother for a Queen of Merteuil, and spends her hours in the nursery with little Marguerite.
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