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Factbook of the Fairhair Monarchy
Topic Started: Aug 27 2010, 09:19 PM (751 Views)
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Royal coat of arms, also serving as Royal standard


Full Name: Kingdom of Denmark, England, Norway, Sweden and Iceland.
Short Name: Fairhair Monarchy
Government Type: Monarchy
Head of State: King Sweyn VII
Population: 4.400 000
Capital: Jelling
Languages: Danish, English, Norwegian, Swedish, Finish, Estonian, German.
Monetary Unit: Riksdaler (Thaler)
Official Religion: Catholicism
Military strength:TBD (RP in process)

NAME OF REALM
Term “Fairhair Monarchy” is not official, thus frequently in use.
There is no official name is de jure adopted, because Monarchy officially is collection of separate crowns, thus during last few centuries unified administration was adopted and all kingdoms become one political entity.
Apart from “Fairhair Monarchy” another of term is simply "the Realm".
Official title of King is: King of Denmark, England, Norway, Sweden and Iceland, Grand Duce of Finland, Duke of Estonia etc.

HISTORY
[Note: text in white is where history of Fairhair Monarchy differs from RW history]

1013- Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Danes conquers England
1014- Sweyn Forkbeard dies his son Cnut creates an empire by taking crowns of England (1016), Denmark 1018), Norway (1028) and Sweden (1026)
1035- Cnut dies. Norwegians deposes his son Sweyn. Magnus I, son of earlier Norwegians king return to thrown. Sweyn dies soon afterwards.
Sweden is also turns under reign of previous dynasty, deposed by Cnut. Anund Jacob and, latter his brother Emund reigns unchallenged till 1060.
England under rule of Cnut’s son Harold Harefoot.
His another son Harthacnut takes crown of Denmark.
1040- Harold Harefoot dies. Harthacnut becomes king of England.
1042- Harthacnut dies. English choose Edward the Confessor, member of previous ruling family to take thrown. Crown of Denmark goes to Magnus I, as it was agreed between him and Harthacnut.
1043- Grandson of Cnut, Sweyn Estridsson challenges Magnus rule in Danemark.
1045- Sweyn allies with uncle of Magnus, Harald Hardrada.
1047- Magnus dies. Sweyn becomes king of Danemar and Harald- king of Norway. And now they began fight between them selfs.
1066- Edward the Confessor dies. Harald Godwinson becomes king of England.
Harald Hardrada invades England and is defeated by Harald Godwinson.
William the Conqueror invades England and is defeats Harald Godwinson.
William the Conqueror crowned king of England, but Anglo- Saxons nobility elects Edgar the Ætheling as king, but William takes over and Edgar flies to Scotland
Taking over England
1069- Sweyn of Danemark supports Edgar and his royalists.
Danish- Anglo- Saxons forces takes over York and began to advance towards London.
1070- William the Conqueror fleas to Normandy. Edgar the Ætheling crowned as king of England.
1126- Edgar dies with no heir. King of Denmark takes Englands crown.

Taking over Norway
1093- Magnus III, grandson of Harald Hardrada becomes king of Norway.
He began campaign to conquer territories around Irish Sea.
1097- Eric I of Denmark invades and take over most of Norway.
1098- Magnus III is killed in battle in Hebrides.
1100- Eric I crowned king of Norway.

Taking over Sweden
After death of Cnut Sweden fell in long period of inner feud.
1208- Erik Knutsson deposes king Sverker II and take his place. Sverker runs to Denmark. Valdemar II of Denmark supports Sverkel and in battle of Lena Danish forces beats Erik. Sverkel restored as king of Sweden
1215- Sverkel dies and Valdemar II tooks his crown color

Taking over Finland
1240- after consolidation of his positions in Sweden, Valdemar sends his regent in Sweden Birgel Jarl to conquer Finland. Finnish crusade continues for 10 years and ends with Jarl's victory.
1284- Duchy of Finland established.

Taking over Estonia
1219- Valdemar II invades Estonia and conquers it. Duchy of Estonia established.
Rise of Fairhair
After king Christopher II (1276 –1332) died leaving kingdom literally in ruins, 8 years of interregnum fallowed.
In this period new power risen- the House of Fairhair. They claim to be descendants of Thyra Haraldsdatter (sister of Sweyn Forkbeard ) and Styrbjörn the Strong. In 1340 Sweyn Fairhair was crowned as Sweyn II of Denmark. It take more than a half of the century of intense wars for Fairhairs to restore realm of Voldemar II.
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GOVERNMENT
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His Majesty Sweyn VII, King of Denmark, England, Norway, Sweden and Iceland, Grand Duce of Finland, Duke of Estonia etc. Ruler and Sovereign of the Realm

The Royal Court
Court is center of power structure. Thus not officially an institution this is place were political (and also cultural) life concentrates.
Dignitaries of the Realm
They are state officials selected and appointed by king.
Lord High Chancellors duties is to ensure that the orders of the king and government is followed and to aid the king during negotiations with foreign powers. Thus due to his double duties he is head of High Council of the Realm and generally speaking second after king himself.
Lord Keeper of the Seals position was established to assist Lord High Chancellor but in recent years position power expanded, taking Chancellors duties to “ensure that the orders of the king and government is followed”.
Lord High Steward is responsible of supervising justice system of the Realm.
Lord Great Chamberlains is kings majordomo. He is generally responsible for organizing all court functions and thats grand him of most important positions in hierarchy.
Lord High Treasurers responsibility is to supervise issues concerning the economy of the state.
Lord High Constable is chief of kings armies.
Lord Great Seneschal is second military rank, commanding mercenaries and Royal household units
Lord High Admiral is commander of the navy.
High Almoner is the head of the royal chapel.
There is also number of other court and state positions, who plays role in making of politics (also influential courtiers with no official position cant be forgotten)
High Council of the Realm
Is advisors to the king body and consists of above mentioned dignitaries and also other persons appointed by king.
Thing(Parliament)
The Thing of all Realm was assembled only once in 1447.
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KINGDOMS
The separate kingdoms was forged in to one political entity during last centuries with unified state structure, code of law, and army, kingdoms sustain autonomy with they state symbols, parliaments etc. In London law is enforced in name of the King of England, while in Stockholm- in the name of the King of Sweden, but still its the same law.
Major power of parliaments is to grant taxes and deal with local legislation. Were is rivalry over being the center of power, but generally local nobility, controlling the parliaments finds modus vivendi royal government – Kings priority is foreign policy and military and for support in this issues he tends to leave nobleman's alone to solve they deals themselves.
Each of kingdoms is de facto headed by the kings regent, who leads Kingdoms Council who is composed by model of the High Council of the Realm.

Kingdom of Denmark
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Capital: Jelling
Seat of Parliament: Roskilde

The very heart of the Realm Denmark is also only kingdom under direct rule of King and High Council of the Realm is also Council of Kingdom of Denmark. Royal court is also primary composed of danish nobles. Denmark is generally country of landlords, but being a center of large empire stimulates growth of cities.

Kingdom of England
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Regent: Edmund Blackadder, Earl of Wessex
Capital: Winchester
Seat of Parliament: Winchester

After death of Edgar the Ætheling, Anglo- Saxons revolted against Danish rule tree times ( 1150, 1193 and 1215) and there was numerous of attempts of lesser scale.
England de facto restored independence during reign of Christopher II. But as old royal line was long gone, barons began to rival among them selfs and in 1289 Danish launched invasion to retake island, they find popular support in hope to restore peace and order. While Royal court still considers Anglo- Saxons as somewhat rebellious, there was no major uprising in last few centuries (except few ill- fated attempts of small groups of barons).
England bordering Scotland and Wales and constant border conflicts and is raging in borderlands.
On the other hand England is also center of Realms commerce and trade.

Kingdom of Norway
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Regent: Sigurd Galtung, Count of Bergen
Capital: Trondheim
Seat of Parliament: Trondheim

Once main rival of the Denmark, Norway is now considered to be provincial part of the Realm, largely because of its geographical nature.

Kingdom of Sweden
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Regent: Birger Bjelbo, Jarl of Bergen
Capital: Stockholm
Seat of Parliament: Stockholm

By the power and importance Sweden is second only to Denmark itself. Similarly to Denmark, landscape of Sweden is dominated by landlords manors and households of freeman's, while few bigger towns is on the coast.

Kingdom of Iceland
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Regent: Sigurd Arnarson, Jarl of Thingvellir
Capital: Thingvellir
Seat of Parliament: Thingvellir

If Norway considered to be provincial, hard to say something about Iceland. Taking over Iceland (1325) was one of last conquest of Danish. Few members of local authorities was granted titles and since then life in Iceland is peaceful and unnoticeable to rest of the world. There is rumors that Sweyn V take one more crown in 1437 only to avoid direct rule over island. The only thing Icelandians stands out is they're scalds.

Grand Duchy of Finland
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Regent: Gustav Vasa, Jarl of Turku
Capital: Turku
Seat of Parliament: Turku

While being part of Kingdom of Sweden, Finland also have autonomy and parliament as Grand duke is King him self.
Finland to Sweden is something like Norway to Denmark. With local nobility of Finnish and Swedish origin, few small ports and low density of inhabitants, it is land of farmers and hunters. Thus, Finland have huge resources of of hight quality wood.

Duchy of Estonia
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Regent: Johannes Kanna, Jarl of Reval
Capital: Reval
Seat of Parliament: Reval

Estonia have similar status as Finland only in kingdom of Denmark. Only other thing separating Estonia from Finland is lack of woods.
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