Post by Johann Boyen on Dec 28, 2008 18:28:54 GMT -5
Memoirs of Noble Addresses, December 26th - 28th 2008
An Audience with the Sovereign Prince of Lüdenberg
Dec 26, 2008, 9:08pm
Schloss Altenberg, Lüdenberg
YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, William First of the Name, Sovereign Prince of Ludenburg and Augustusburg et alii, I extend my most humble greetings to you O sovereign of this land.
I prostrate myself before you as would a young ambitious Landsknecht before their Knight Commanding begging for an opportunity to for the duration of one battle become flagbearer for his battalion or at the very least be allowed a chance to fight either beside that glorious and god-favoured warrior, or on the front lines and thus be first into the fray.
I come to you, an exiled ruler, not of noble stature and great repute like yourself but one without any fortune remaining, for whom like yourself there seems no longer a place in that homeland of Holzborg.
My great-great-grandfather, a simple soldier by the name of Hans Boyen, was the progenitor of the Boyen line. Before him there was nothing to my name; a pauper from the small town of Beiersdorf-Freudenberg far to the North, no genealogy had been kept of my family's line. We have a tradition that we are descended from Hermann (Arminius) but of course there exist no records to substantiate this claim. Hans' life as a soldier led to recognition by the Kaiser of his time who bestowed him with the title of Landgrave of Beiersdorf-Freudenberg after many years of faithful service, and the title has been passed down from son to son to this day until it reached me.
However, the Kaiser of Holzborg recently sent me a letter informing me that I had to leave Castle Freudenberg which has been the house of my fathers for over a century and give up any claim I have on the title of Landgrave Beiersdorf-Freudenberg. I politely replied asking for a reason for this strange request, suggesting that perhaps this had been an administrational error, to which no reply was given. Shocked and abhorred as I was, I intended to refuse but armed personnel threatened me. I was forced to flee from Holzborg with my family and a small personal fortune. I had originally intended to take my personal yacht from Kongriver up to the Fifth Isle and negotiate with the government of Craitland but unfortunately I was barred entry from the city and informed the Arminius had been confiscated by Imperial troops. I narrowly escaped arrest and it was then that I heard word of the independence of Ludenburg.
I made the journey here at my own expense and now plead to you to grant me a safe place to live until I can negotiate the return of my rightful lands to me from the Holzer Reich, if it has not become a province of Alexandria by then.
Dec 26, 2008, 9:08pm
Schloss Altenberg, Lüdenberg
YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, William First of the Name, Sovereign Prince of Ludenburg and Augustusburg et alii, I extend my most humble greetings to you O sovereign of this land.
I prostrate myself before you as would a young ambitious Landsknecht before their Knight Commanding begging for an opportunity to for the duration of one battle become flagbearer for his battalion or at the very least be allowed a chance to fight either beside that glorious and god-favoured warrior, or on the front lines and thus be first into the fray.
I come to you, an exiled ruler, not of noble stature and great repute like yourself but one without any fortune remaining, for whom like yourself there seems no longer a place in that homeland of Holzborg.
My great-great-grandfather, a simple soldier by the name of Hans Boyen, was the progenitor of the Boyen line. Before him there was nothing to my name; a pauper from the small town of Beiersdorf-Freudenberg far to the North, no genealogy had been kept of my family's line. We have a tradition that we are descended from Hermann (Arminius) but of course there exist no records to substantiate this claim. Hans' life as a soldier led to recognition by the Kaiser of his time who bestowed him with the title of Landgrave of Beiersdorf-Freudenberg after many years of faithful service, and the title has been passed down from son to son to this day until it reached me.
However, the Kaiser of Holzborg recently sent me a letter informing me that I had to leave Castle Freudenberg which has been the house of my fathers for over a century and give up any claim I have on the title of Landgrave Beiersdorf-Freudenberg. I politely replied asking for a reason for this strange request, suggesting that perhaps this had been an administrational error, to which no reply was given. Shocked and abhorred as I was, I intended to refuse but armed personnel threatened me. I was forced to flee from Holzborg with my family and a small personal fortune. I had originally intended to take my personal yacht from Kongriver up to the Fifth Isle and negotiate with the government of Craitland but unfortunately I was barred entry from the city and informed the Arminius had been confiscated by Imperial troops. I narrowly escaped arrest and it was then that I heard word of the independence of Ludenburg.
I made the journey here at my own expense and now plead to you to grant me a safe place to live until I can negotiate the return of my rightful lands to me from the Holzer Reich, if it has not become a province of Alexandria by then.
An Audience with the Kaiser of the Holzer Reich
Dec 28, 2008, 12:33am
Friedrich Schloss, Königriver
From the Office of the Landgraf von Beiersdorf-Freudenberg-in-exile
In the matter of
Honouring the new Kaiser
YOUR IMPERIAL MAJESTY, the Kaiser Frederick Augustus Second of the Name, Kaiser of Holzborg, Supreme Sovereign of the Holzer Reich, King of Holstein et alii, greeting.
My name is Johann Boyen. My family have long been faithful servants of the Empire and her Kaisers, dating back to the first of my line, Hans Boyen, my great-great-grandfather. That same servant of your imperial ancestor was, in recognition of his valiant actions as a soldier in the Imperial Armed Forces, granted the title of Langrave of his home town of Beiersdorf-Freudenberg in 1910, and the succession of his heirs was guaranteed forever so long as they served the Kaiser dutifully.
However, your predecessor Hans-Fredrich broke this guarantee. He demanded my family to be rooted out of the ground, our ground, in the North, without prior explanation or justification and I was forced to flee the country. I took refuge in the briefly independent Principality of Ludenberg, where Prince William welcomed me warmly, for which I was thankful.
I return to my homeland of Holzborg now in the hope that the Imperial Court and I, lowly Landgraf, might be able to reconcile, and that I might be granted my ancestral homelands back to me as is only right.
All respect and glory to you, Kaiser Frederick Augustus. May you be remembered for your wisdom and perception in years to come.
Yours sincerely,
Johann Boyen von Beiersdorf-Freudenberg
Johann Boyen
Landgrave of Beiersdorf-Freudenberg
Dec 28, 2008, 12:33am
Friedrich Schloss, Königriver
From the Office of the Landgraf von Beiersdorf-Freudenberg-in-exile
In the matter of
Honouring the new Kaiser
YOUR IMPERIAL MAJESTY, the Kaiser Frederick Augustus Second of the Name, Kaiser of Holzborg, Supreme Sovereign of the Holzer Reich, King of Holstein et alii, greeting.
My name is Johann Boyen. My family have long been faithful servants of the Empire and her Kaisers, dating back to the first of my line, Hans Boyen, my great-great-grandfather. That same servant of your imperial ancestor was, in recognition of his valiant actions as a soldier in the Imperial Armed Forces, granted the title of Langrave of his home town of Beiersdorf-Freudenberg in 1910, and the succession of his heirs was guaranteed forever so long as they served the Kaiser dutifully.
However, your predecessor Hans-Fredrich broke this guarantee. He demanded my family to be rooted out of the ground, our ground, in the North, without prior explanation or justification and I was forced to flee the country. I took refuge in the briefly independent Principality of Ludenberg, where Prince William welcomed me warmly, for which I was thankful.
I return to my homeland of Holzborg now in the hope that the Imperial Court and I, lowly Landgraf, might be able to reconcile, and that I might be granted my ancestral homelands back to me as is only right.
All respect and glory to you, Kaiser Frederick Augustus. May you be remembered for your wisdom and perception in years to come.
Yours sincerely,
Johann Boyen von Beiersdorf-Freudenberg
Johann Boyen
Landgrave of Beiersdorf-Freudenberg
