Royal Vicariates of Fhainnlannachaeran: Difference between revisions

The Vicariates of Fhainnlannachaeran were administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Fhainnlannachaeran (modern [[Faneria]]), based largely on the old borders of the princedoms and free cities of pre-Royal Fhainnin homelands. Each was ruled by a Vicar; nominally a prince within his own lands, each reported to the King with various levels of loyalty depending on time, distance, and the individual kings and Vicars as well as local political considerations. The power of the Vicariates waxed and waned dramatically over the course of their existences, and several were folded into each other or created from whole cloth over the centuries.

=Organization and Role=

==Vicarial Powers==

Prior to Second Prince's War: levy taxes, knight people, elect the king, effectively had power to make laws, could judge cases unilaterally (check how this ties with the election of Barheln, Wydd-Martainns, and then Suthar-Martainns, the last of which defeated the elected antiking); essentially feudal elector vassals, with the capital vicariate being the King's direct property and usually run by an appointed Vicar-Regent

After Second War: lost rights to levy taxes directly, collected still until 1870 with centralized mint and bank; *effectively* became rubber stamp for kingly succession, could originally still judge cases unilaterally but later were restricted to overseeing civil disputes with a few checks; lost the power to raise their own vassal armies, had to get king to rubber-stamp appointment of their immediate vassal lords

==List of Vicariates==

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!Discontinued

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|1548

|Folded into Srathlann after [[Kurikilan Crusade]]

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|1423

|1912

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|1822

|1907

|Title created from whole cloth to make a capital province

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|1401

|1907

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|1506

|1908

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|1730

|Folded into Vicariate of Connsmonan

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|1398

|1907

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|1847

|1907

|Formed from parts of other, larger Vicariates which had been sketchy

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|1405

|1908

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|1601

|Split into Glean Bean and Glean Teilt

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|1601

|1914

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|1601

|1914

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|1474

|1909

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|1423

|Folded into Vicariate of Connsmonan

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|1656

|1910

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|1712

|1914

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|1781

|1915

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|1714

|1914

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|1398

|1907

|Royal Capital; governed directly by the Rih or appointed governor rather than a Vicar

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|[[Ransford]]

|1463

|Taken by Fiannria following Fourth Kin War

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|1595

|1913

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|1544

|1914

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|1475

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==Notable Vicars==

=History=

===Foundation===

===First Princes' War===

Main Article: [[First Prince's War]]

he reigns and the same thing happens on his (Cledwyn Wydd-Màrtainn) death maybe 1570 or so

except the vicars refuse and the second vicarial(?) war begins

===Second Prince's War===

Main Article: [[Second Prince's War]]

1571-1583: Second Prince's War:  this second one is very bloody and just an overall mess, whole dynastic noble local families are wiped out, at least one king (Conan Wydd-Màrtainn, Ruaridh Sutharlan, Banrih (Queen) Cailean Suthar-Màrtainn) of fhanrrenenoit4hlwtf is killed in battle; it ends in a brokered peace; the king's election will continue, but the vicars will also be elected by local nobles, and since so many local families died, the right to appoint new local nobility reverts to the King (Donan Sutharlan-Màrtainn), who begins to solely grant lifetime peerages, i.e., no hereditary succession for the local holdings. typically he will continue to appoint from one family, but they now remain local to the crown - while the king could appoint hereditary nobility, none do because that's a stupid move, and so the local nobles (appointed by the king) begin electing as vicar basically anyone the king wants to keep their power in the family - this allows titles to be sold by the crown, too

===Royal Era Proper===

this system continues until the 1690s when the kings (Sean Suthar-Màrtainn) begin to realize hey, we can just buy off the still remaining hereditary local lords

External conflicts and relative stability here

===Fhainnin Civil War and End of the Vicariates===

1906, one of the reformist factions finally managed to blow up the king (Ruaridh Sutharlan) and a couple key throne supporters at once, which kicked off a civil war between socialist, monarchist, and republican factions

with the republicans and socialist allying and said socialists immediately getting shanked in the back

which is the breaking point for most radicals

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