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[i]Alewijn de Bastaard[/i][/center]

Name: Lord Geoffrey Alewijn
Alias(es): Alewijn the Bastard
Title(s): Knight
Allegiance(s): The Queen, and thus the subjects of France and England. Long live the Queen!
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Family: 
- Jan Alewijn. (Father, alive)
- Beatrice (Mother, dead)
- Veronice (half-sister, alive)

Appearance:
- His hair is black for which he is ridiculed often, and very long for a man. It's pulled back and tied into a ponytail.
- He has a small pointy black beard, giving him a rugged look.
- Geoffrey has an average build, a bit of muscle showing in the arms but nothing too muscly anywhere. 
- His eyes are brown, further proof that, along with his hair, he is not one true to the Alewijn family but only a half-fabricate.
- He regularily wears average clothes for a knight, very simple, little decorations, but of finer fabric than what the peasantry wears.
- Along with that goes a large leather belt, with a sheath on it where he keeps his sword. It's mainly there for decoration/ceremonial reasons.

Bio: Jan Alewijn was a Dutch nobleman under the service of Philip II of Spain, who at the time was busy centralizing his holdings in the Lowlands, levying higher taxes and enforcing religious unity. For Jan Alewijn this was not much a problem, he had sworn an oath of allegiance to his true king after all. A smart man once said that only one thing is certain in life, death and taxes and Jan agreed with this whole-heartedly. So he gladly paid the taxes, and gladly converted back to catholicism. A side product of Jan's wealthy life was a child named Geoffrey, a bastard that didn't have pure blue blood. He raised the son as his own and didn't make it a secret that it was a bastard. ''If we hide all the bastards, there would be no court left,'' he said once.

At the time Geoffrey was only ten years old, and didn't know much about religion. He simply followed whatever his father did. Nothing of interest happened in his younger years, it was much the same as any other noblemans child. He was only slightly hampered by the mark of a bastard, but managed to get through the education and training a nobleman needed without much problems. He would never get the respect that a blue blooded nobleman got, but being purple blooded was good enough for him. During his younger years he showed exceptional skill with a mace and shield, as well as the flail. His skills with a sword were mediocre at best. Over the years he improved vastly, but would never reach the skill the other knights-to-be had. He felt indifferent about this. 

At Geoffrey's coming of age, he left his birthplace with his fathers blessing. He wandered Europe, and when he was 18 he had a long stay in the Jagiellonian kingdom. In 1529 he here witnessed the inauguration of the Duchy of Masovia into the Polish array of lands. In 1531 he fought in the battle of Obertyn, a battle between Moldavian and Polish soldiers, on the side of the Poles. They emerged victoriously and recovered long lost lands from Moldavia namely Pokutia. The only thing Geoffrey had to say about it was that warfare had obviously changed a lot. In late 1531 he thanked the Poles for his stay and travelled to Pomerania, where he boarded a merchant ship to England. 

In England he was welcomed by the court as a welcome addition, for reasons unknown to Geoffrey as he didn't consider him welcome, nor an addition. Never the less he has stayed there for some time, offering his services whenever they were needed. Which, granted, was not that often. However, recent events such as the death of the King has led Geoffrey to believe that now is the time that he gets called to duty. If this were the case he'd swear fealty to the Queen, as he considered England as much his home now as he did Poland during his stay there.

Personality: Geoffrey is an angry person, unknown to the concept of love thus far as his life has only consisted of education, training and political and military campaigns. There was not much time for anything else than being angry. Over the years however he has calmed down in England and is much less angry. He is also very realistic and doesn't deal in ''humble'' or ''arrogant.'' He knows his skill set well and is not afraid to tell someone he is good at this, or bad at that. 

He knows some political talking rules and can easily switch between knightly talk and warfare talk, however since he is not that experienced some slip ups are to be expected. Secretly these slip ups would shame him very much, but he wouldn't let that shine through.

Skills:
- Experienced warfare himself
- Very good with a mace/flail and shield.
- Very average with other weapons, mediocre with the sword.
- A good rider.
- Rides well even with heavy armor.

I hope this is good enough :)