Austina of Aldersberg

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"The Lady Prudence" by Swanhilda de Owynsburg, c.1879
Austina of Aldersberg

Baroness of Aldersberg
Tenure: 1888 - Present
Predecessor: TRH, Alexander Leopold, 2ed Baron of Aldersberg
Successor: N/A

Born: 11th of Owyn’s Flame, 1789, County of Aldersberg, Kingdom of Oren
Death: N/A
Spouse: N/A
House: House of Aldersberg
Father: Edward Clement, Count of Aldersberg
Mother: Anne of Sunholdt

Austina of Aldersberg (13th of Tobias' Bounty, 1872 - pres.) was the eldest daughter of Edward Clement, Count of Aldersberg, and his wife, Anne of Sunholdt. After the death of her eldest brother, Alexander, Baron of Aldersberg, she'd inherit the title and serve as Baroness.

Early Life

Austina Prudence Novellen-Aldersberg was born on the 13th of Tobias’ Bounty in 1872 to the Count of Aldersberg and his consort, Anne of Sunholdt. She was subsequently welcomed into the world five years after her elder brother's birth, being the only daughter between the pair. Her birth was seen as a symbol of peace between her bickering parents. Austina was named after her parental great-grandmother, Anne I, and only two years later her little brother Arthur Marie would be born.

Edward would later comment on how alike Austina looked to her parental aunt, Georgiana. “Her tresses just as platinum, and her eyes just as inquisitive.”

As an infant, her father was overcome with stress from the changing political states instigating her care to be entrusted solely to her mother. Austina was diagnosed with multiple illnesses ranging from fevers to deadly ailments that kept her locked inside her bed chamber for months. When ill, her mother treated her with loving diligence. However, as her physical state improved her mother's treatment of her worsened. Numerous times her face would be bruised and her wrists would be sprained in an effort to restrain the girl into behaving a certain way.

Austina eventually adapted and became quiet and alienated from other children, including her siblings. She’d learn to serve her mother, being instructed on well-bred manners, ways of dress, and proper court politics. In her free time, she’d read, her only solace found in history books. The only reason Austina ever learned to write was due to her older brother gifting her a series of novels that he had learned from, published by a company in Hanseti-Ruska.

Whilst she was customarily kept inside the Aldersberg residence, on a few occasions, the youthful Aldersberg did appear in public during her juvenility she was always accompanied by her father. Many of the nobility noted her cheery disposition and how she could charm anyone she’d become acquainted too. Little did most know about the estrangement at home.

Ward of Haense

Following the victory of The Eastern Almaris Treaty, Austina would be sent away by her father in 1880 to travel to the Kingdom of Hanseti-Ruska to ward under the Queen, Amadea. No longer under the strict thumb of her mother, she’d finally formed friendships. Noteworthy ones are Elia Colborn and Manon de Falstaff.

As a ward, her perfectionist upbringing and fondness for history set her above the rest. She’d be given the task of compiling the biographies of all the Princess Royals in Haense history and Austina took this assignment seriously. It took her almost two years of rigorous study until it would be edited and formally published in 1884 as her first missive [1]. Thereafter she’d help write multiple biographies for the Grand Ladies of Haense.