Brabant

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Brabant Viscomital Seat of the House of Blaxton The Coat of Arms of the House of Blaxton Country: Sixth Holy Orenian Empire Principality of Pruvia Holding's Title: Viscounty Founders: Aylwin Blaxton Facts of Brabant Government: Feudal Aristocratic Land Religion: Church of the Canon Economic: Savannah Landscape for Horse-breeding & Lumber Military groups: Imperial Legions Language(s): Common, High Imperial

"Castle Blackwell in the Principality of Pruvia, part of the Sixth Holy Orenian Empire, circa 1640"

Brabant, otherwise known as the Viscounty of Brabant or Castle Blackwell, was established in 1612 when Aylwin Blaxton, the Chancellor of Hochspitze for Frederick Augustus Horen-Preussens, Prince of Pruvia, enfeoffed the Haenseni émigré with the Viscounty of Dithmarschen. Raising a keep on the land and creating a lumberyard in the area, Aylwin Blaxton renamed the area Brabant and lived in his new home with his wife, Erin Lockley & his brother, Ayldan Blaxton. The Husband and Wife lived in the Viscounty of Brabant until their joint-deaths on the 2nd of Sun's Smile, 1617. His brother held the title thereafter.

History

Following his service under Queen Anna of Lotharingia's year-long reign as the Queen of Lotharingia, which would end in 1607 when d'Amaury Loyalists, led by Ser Hornigold, broke into Ostwick Keep and murdered the Queen in kind. Her lands and titles would pass to her brother Frederick, Prince of Pruvia who would aid in the restoration of the Holy Orenian Empire under Peter II, Holy Orenian Emperor.

It is rumored that the pair conspired to have the Princess killed, as they only required the amount of lands that encompassed a part of her kingdom to reform the desired Imperial throne. What is known is that Aylwin Blaxton was rewarded handsomely, first with a new position as Chancellor of Hochspitze, then with the Viscounty of Dithmarschen in 1612 (later renamed Brabant), seated within Pruvian lands, where he would eventually vassalise back under Owyn "Iron-Fist" Amador.

Aylwin Blaxton would later serve out the rest of his life peacefully residing in the Viscounty of Brabant, within a small stout Keep known as Blackwell, surrounded by family and servants. Over the course of his time as a Diplomat and Chamberlain, he had carried on a correspondence with another commoner named Erin Lockley, a young woman of minor wealth who owned her own farm and sold the produce within Hanseti-Ruska. The pair were married at Hochspitze on 1st of The Amber Cold, 1616. It was reportedly a happy marriage, but sadly ended just a year later when both Aylwin and Erin Blaxton suspiciously died on 2nd of Sun's Smile, 1617.

Ayldan Blaxton continued as the Viscount of Brabant in the Blaxton's seat until 1642, when the lands were abandoned in the Exodus to Atlas & the Blaxton family continued in servitude to the House of Amador.