Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2306 A Covenant with Glory (Part 2)

  The Allenberg family comes from Allenberg, a small duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, but there was no family called Allenberg before 1547, when they belonged to the Deligne family. When Marguerite, Countess of the Delamac family, married the Baron of Ligne with a dowry, both abandoned their surnames, and their descendants took the surname of Arenberg.

The marriage of Marguerite's son Charles to Anne de Chroy brought the family a great deal of Dutch land, becoming a great lord in the Spanish aristocracy, and then through continuous cultivation and the simultaneous speaking of the Romance language The big family married and became the premier wealthy family in the Netherlands. At the same time, the Allenberg lords were also staunch supporters of the Habsburg emperors and their agents in the Netherlands, so the Allenbergs became the first dukes of Habsburg Holland, and He was also awarded a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and in 1549 became a high-ranking official in the provinces of North Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe and Upper IJssel.

   The 80-year-long Dutch War of Independence broke out shortly after, and since his mother was from Spain, the 1st Baron Allenberg maintained his loyalty to King Philip II of Spain and distanced himself from his friend William I of Orange. He was unable to prevent the spread of Protestantism in the north, but kept them loyal to the royal family without bloodshed, returning to the south he joined the army of the Duke of Alva, but opposed the arrest of Elomonte and Horn.

   Shortly after joining the Duke of Alva's army he died fighting against the invasion of Groningen by the brothers of Louis of Nassau and William I of Orange, and he is buried in St. Catherine's Church in Zevenbergen.

In 1605, the 2nd Duke of Arenberg bought the land of King Henry IV of France in Enghien and made it their main seat in the Netherlands, the 1st Duke of Arenberg was moved to the family cemetery , and then inspired by Robert Cecil, the Allenbergs built a garden castle on this land, and in order to prove the patronage of the Capuchins, the Knights established the Allenbergs in the monastery of Enghien Family cemetery.

The Capuchin Order was a branch of the Franciscan order, founded with the approval of Clement VII. It was an important force in the counter-reformation movement in the Holy See. The religious order, the biggest feature of this order is the construction of catacombs and the preservation of mummified corpses. They used a method similar to the Egyptians. After removing the internal organs, the corpses were placed in a dry place to dry naturally, and then washed. Dressed for display along the walls, or placed in niches, the bodies were maintained every three years by applying wax to prevent decomposition.

At first this kind of tomb was reserved for the monks of the monastery, and later it was also open to the public, provided that they had contributed to the construction of the Capuchin Society, that is, the donors of the Capuchin Society, and Allenbey Because the Duke of Ge has donated a lot, they can not only be buried in this kind of tomb, but also have a family tomb.

Later, with the arrival of the Duchy of Alscott, in order to maintain their original status, the dukes of Areenberg bought an apartment in Brussels. After being destroyed in a bombardment in 1695, the dukes had to settle in a rented residence. , until the Palace of Elomont was acquired in 1754, at which time the Duke of Arenberg had been extended to the fourth generation.

The 4th Duke of Areenberg is a friend of Voltaire and Rousseau, an advocate of science. He has six children. The eldest daughter, Mary Victoria Pauline Areenberg, is the wife of the Marquis of Baden-Baden. . The 4th Duke of Areenberg, who was governor of the Netherlands, served at Savoy on the Rhine during the Spanish War for the Throne, became field marshal in 1737, and was appointed supreme commander of the Dutch Austrian army. During the War of the Austrian Throne, he established a military alliance between England and the Netherlands, and he led the Austrian army at the Battle of Dettingen. After the war, he returned to Hainaut to continue serving as governor, and died in 1754 at the castle of Areenberg, the castle Located in Leuven.

To reward the loyalty of the Allenberg family, the Habsburg emperor upgraded Allenberg's possessions in the Netherlands from "princelycounty" to "duchy" in 1645, and under the Allenberg family under the Holy Roman Empire Also has many territories. These territories belong to the Allenberg family, but they do not belong to each other. In some places, they have the right to vote, and in some places they only have the lowest level of judicial power. Qualifications.

According to the primogeniture system, everything of the father is inherited by the eldest son. The father of the seventh Duke of Areenberg is the fifth Duke of Areenberg, and his uncle August was originally unable to inherit anything in the family. But there are many branches of this great family. At that time Count Lamarck was serving in the German infantry, serving France, and he had no son, so he sent August to France to join the army, if he was willing to put his Legion to August.

At this time, France and Austria had achieved a "diplomatic revolution", Marie Antoinette had married Louis XVI, and further, if the Count of Lamarck died, the young Auguste would get Lamarck The title of earl, so August went to France.

   As a "sovereign prince", Auguste could serve in any country he wanted. This is different from mercenaries, which belong to the property of the mercenary captain, and are also different from those German farmers who cannot help themselves. At that time, Germany was very poor and could not afford a decent dowry, so Queen Maria Theresa gave an army as a dowry to Louis XV.

  Prince Auguste was introduced to the queen, then joined the legions of the south of France, and returned to court after a year.

Although according to the order of succession, the fifth Duke of Arenberg can inherit everything smoothly without effort, but the tradition of the Arenberg family is to join the army, and the fifth Duke of Arenberg followed his father for the first time on the battlefield The 4th Duke of Areenberg fought together in the War for the Austrian Throne, first as a lieutenant colonel, then as a colonel of the 2nd Walloon Infantry, then as a colonel of Baden-Baden, at the Battle of Maastricht in 1748 , he has become a major general because of his outstanding performance in defense of France.

   During the Seven Years' War, he was active in the battlefields of Bohemia, participated in the Battle of Prague, and fought head-to-head with Frederick the Great. In 1758, he became the commander of the Austrian Right Army and was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit by Queen Maria Theresa.

In addition to the glory of victory in the war, injuries and deaths were inevitable. In 1760, the fifth Duke of Areenberg was seriously injured in the Battle of Tolgau in 1760. To the point where he had to retire, he lived until he was appointed to the army in 1777. Marshal, he died shortly after.

The 5th Duke of Aremberg had 8 children. Louis was the eldest child. He was born in 1750 and was 28 years old when his father died. According to the legal order, Louis was supposed to be the sixth generation of Aremberg. Duke of Grid.

   But by virtue of his relationship with the court, his uncle Auguste inherited everything from the Duke of Arenberg, and also inherited the military rank of Spain. His valiant performance was a duel with a Swedish officer, for one of the legions to India belonged to the Count of Lamarck, and the War Department appointed a Swedish officer, who later resigned from the appointment, and was appointed by August lead the army. And August was seriously wounded in India, and the legion was destroyed. After returning to France, the Swedish officer laughed at August's performance at the ball. The two had a duel, and August stabbed the sword into Sweden. in the eyes of the officer.

   However, the Swedish officer vomited a mouthful of blood when he was about to die, which wounded him. Don't underestimate the explosiveness of a person on his deathbed. In addition to his injuries in India, it took him some time to recover. August was married in 1776, and he lived a happy life, alternating between country estates and **** at Versailles.

The original duke's widow and his family lived in the castle of Allenberg, so it was nothing, but the experience of the serious injury may remind August of something, anyway, Austria confiscated the castle of Allenberg as a The country was made, so that the Duchess and her children had no place to live, and Auguste had a lot of wealth. This time, the Duchess took advantage of Napoleon's visit to Belgium to ask Napoleon to return the former ancestral home to them.

  August was Meppola's friend and also the messenger who communicated with the queen. Meppola, a famous orator, entered the National Assembly through Augustus Meppola and became a representative force at the court.

  When the royal family became desperate, Auguste left France and entered the Austrian army as a major general, never serving, but serving as a diplomat on various occasions.

   With the victories of the Napoleonic Wars, and seeing that Austria was failing again, he wanted to join the French service, but was rejected by Napoleon.

  Napoleon not only returned the castle to the 5th Duchess of Arenberg, but also to Louis, even though August 6th Duke of Arenberg was still living in Vienna.

The Treaty of Campo Formio stipulated that the land owned by the Archduke Charles in the Netherlands remained his own. Napoleon spent one million francs to buy the land near the Castle of Lechchen and Brussels. The rest of the Archduke's lands belonged to the Duke of Saxony. There are two titles of elector and duke. This is because in 1547 the elector of the Duke of Lüneburg lost the battle against Charles V, and Charles transferred his title to the Duke of Saxony.

After Louis became the seventh Duke of Areenberg, he transferred part of the land in the Holy Roman Empire, such as that of his uncle August, to the Duke of Saxony, and the Duke of Saxony transferred the land of the Archduke Charles in Belgium to Allen Duke Berg, the "procedure" is over.

At present, the land of Ruben is owned by France in the Treaty of Campo Formio. If it is easier to understand in a way, it is the Knights of Malta. They had no territory in the 20th century, only a building in the Vatican, but It remained a sovereign state, as stipulated in the Treaty of Amiens, even though the Order lost all its lands, including the last island of Malta.

  This form of sovereignty is recognized by Britain, France, Russia, Austria, Prussia and other countries, except for Spain, which may not have participated in the signing of the peace treaty.

  Is the Knights of Malta a special case? It was not written in the peace treaty, just like the French constitution stipulated that the first ruler was not allowed to lead the army, but it did not say that he could not accompany the army, and then Beretti became the nominal commander-in-chief.

   Orphans and widows will always be bullied, and the 7th Duke of Arlberg himself is also a victim. The orphans are not as rich as him, but they still have residual value that has been seized.

The Knights of Malta are actually very rich. They have hospitals and schools in many places. The main source of income is donations. This is the legacy of the Crusades. The rich only need to donate to be considered to have participated in the holy war. Because of this, they donate to the Knights. It can be regarded as a title awarded to a knight, it can be a king, a president, an actor, and if you donate money, you are considered a knight.

Even if it is not in the castle of Arenberg in Reuven, it can be the Palace of Emont, or this new Knights can also rent a house like the Knights of Malta as their "government department", and Georgiana manages the property in Belgium for Napoleon. , she can rent it to the Industrial Credit Bank, or to the Knights, 500,000 francs is not money at all for these rich people, and the military expenses of Georgiana's Mamluk cavalry are still given by them.

   But she didn't know all this until after the ceremony, and they were very happy, as if it was fun to play her around.

   There are a lot of things that, despite the good intentions in the beginning, will change later.

   She doesn't want this knight order to become a human trafficking organization in the future, because the objects they help are "valuable" women and children.

  Maybe those who supported slavery didn't realize that if slavery continued to exist, you would be like Andromache after the defeat of Troy, from a noblewoman to a female slave, and to have children for the enemy.

  You also have to smile at him and please him so that you can get his inheritance.

   She had this idea because she had read the Persian letters, although the slave in red was not the princess of the kingdom.

   And Ferrier, Georgiana remembers how cautious she was when she first came, Ferrier was also transferred over and over.

   She is doing well now, but other slaves are not necessarily the same. People work hardest when they work for themselves. Although Georgiana is only manipulated like a puppet, she still has the power to design slogans and flags for the Knights. "Guarding the faith and helping the suffering" sounded holy and had a healing effect, but she didn't think it was necessary.

   Directly said that banning the slave trade would definitely annoy Bonaparte, he was already very unhappy...

   "Georgianna!" shouted her "Guardian Knight", Duke Areenberg, "Come on, let's go up to the tower."

   "Here it is!" she said with a smile on her face, and she followed with light steps.

   (end of this chapter)