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Formed in 1148 by the Triumverate Council the Revenue Guard was a royal institution commanded by a Lord Commandant who oversaw three Sergeants known as the ''Sergents della Marechaussee'' (Sergeants of the Marshalcy), responsible for collecting taxes and arresting highwaymen, and three Captains known as the ''Capitaines della Guardacostes'' (Captains of the Coast Guard), responsible for collecting tariffs and suppressing smuggling and piracy. During the occupation by Fiannria, the Revenue Guard was relegated to collecting tolls on roads and lost its maritime capability with the disbanding of the ''Capitaines della Guardacostes''. In 1811 with the start of the Northern Levantine Mediatization War, the Dantoine Marius re-established the ''Capitaines della Guardacostes'', simply calling them the Revenue Guard. In 1812 Dantoine used the ''Sergents della Marechaussee'' make the ''Gendarmes d'elite della Gaurdie Imperiale'' (Elite Gendarmes of the Imperial Guard), removing the land-based responsibilities of the Revenue Guard. By the end of the war, the Burgundian empire had mostly collapsed and Dantoine Marius, now styled Great Prince Pau I was granted the title great prince by the pope, instead of his goal of being crowned emperor. In a restructuring of the various noble and governmental agencies in the aftermath of the war the title was changed to ''Gendarmes d'elite della Gaurdie Real'' (Elite Gendarmes of the Royal Guard). The newly acquired territories across northern Levantia still maintained their individual forms of policing. In the 1921 Policing Reform Act policing was centralized and the various forms of gendarmeries, noble/royal guard units with law-enforcement responsibilities and regimental military policing units were consolidated into the ''Gendarmerie nacional''.