House of Beaumont
(this is my first AAR so please bear with me
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Birth of the House
On the aftermath of Hastings and the Norman conquest of Britain, William the Conqueror gave to his more loyal subjects (and those of higher prestige) large fiefs in the form of counties or duchies. But not all were entitled to a large and rich domain, and some, perhaps considered more troublesome by the new King of England, were sent to the scottish and welsh border, namely one Roger de Beaumont, a knight of the royal host. Travelling with his entourage to his new appointed fief of Warwick, Roger made no trouble of showing his disaproval: not only was his domain on the borders of that marshland of barbaric welshman but his own subjects were of the lowliest kind of all: saxons. Oh, how he wished he could have received a domain in the Bretagne, at least the women there had some colour to their skin and lush raven-black hair, not this rabble with their straw heads and reddish skin.
On a strange event, not explained by other sources, Roger came to a rather violent death: he was crushed by a falling tree.
Hence it came to his 15 year old son to claim the domain and rule in it's stead.
Young Henry de Beaumont, tutored by an italian master-of-arms, Luca de Spatti, without the guidance of his father or mother set to handle the county all by himself and with great expedience did so.
(this is my first AAR so please bear with me
Birth of the House
On the aftermath of Hastings and the Norman conquest of Britain, William the Conqueror gave to his more loyal subjects (and those of higher prestige) large fiefs in the form of counties or duchies. But not all were entitled to a large and rich domain, and some, perhaps considered more troublesome by the new King of England, were sent to the scottish and welsh border, namely one Roger de Beaumont, a knight of the royal host. Travelling with his entourage to his new appointed fief of Warwick, Roger made no trouble of showing his disaproval: not only was his domain on the borders of that marshland of barbaric welshman but his own subjects were of the lowliest kind of all: saxons. Oh, how he wished he could have received a domain in the Bretagne, at least the women there had some colour to their skin and lush raven-black hair, not this rabble with their straw heads and reddish skin.
On a strange event, not explained by other sources, Roger came to a rather violent death: he was crushed by a falling tree.
Hence it came to his 15 year old son to claim the domain and rule in it's stead.
Young Henry de Beaumont, tutored by an italian master-of-arms, Luca de Spatti, without the guidance of his father or mother set to handle the county all by himself and with great expedience did so.
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