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Name: Henri II de Montpellier / Henry II of Montpellier

Alias(es): Henri la Reformateur / Henry the Reformer

Title(s): Seigneur Henri de Montpellier. High Offcer in the Regiment of Languedoc.

Allegiance(s): Officially he serves King Francis I of France, but has troubles upholding his loyalty to him.

Gender: Male.

Age: 35, born on the 23rd of September 1499

Family:
Father - Guillaume XI de Montpellier
Mother - Isabella of Majorca - Deceased
Older brother - Jean VII de Montpellier
Older brother - Vincent de Montpellier
Younger sister - Marie III de Montpellier

Appearance:

Henri is about 1.68m tall and has a healthy build for his age and lenght. He is no example of physycal condition nor an abomination of it, and has a young and balanced look to his movements due to his battlefield experiences.

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Henri II de Montpellier was the third Son of Guillaume XI de Montpellier, since long lords over the city and the province of Languedoc in the South of France. Despite the dent in their lineage after the marriage with King Peter of Aragon in the 13th century, their line has carried on proudly. However, as a third son, Henri found himself as unwanted in the court of his father during his earlier years, where he was ignored in the favour of his two elder brothers. As his mother had died many years before during the birth of his younger sister Marie III, he did not find the attention he wanted there either. Instead he turned to faith, becoming a devout Huguenot, a French Reformatsits based on the works of Jean Calvin. Even though his family too had accepted this new faith, none of them was as devout as he was, which only increased the strain between them. When the Italian wars recontinued in the form the War of the Leage of Cambrai, he decided to leave his father's household as a 15-year old and join King Francis I on his campaigns in Northern Italy. One year later he fought on the French side in the Battle of Marignano where a decisive victory was achieved against the Swiss mercenaries that had assailed them, and was greatly inspired by the presented tactics. The previously so invincible Swiss pike squares, impenetrable to both infantry and cavalry, a formation that could shrug off ranged attacks, had been completely slaughtered by heavy gunfire and repeated cavalry charges. This clearly was a turning point in history for the young man, who gained a new interest in life except his faith. Becoming a promising officer in the French army he wisened up about the art of war, and started forming his own theories of how battle would be most efficiently waged over the years.

With the continuation of the Italian Wars in 1520 he once again campaigned with King Francis I, managing several resounding successes untill he fought in the disastrous Battle of Pavia. During the chaotic battle he was one of the many French nobles taken prisoner by the Spanish and Austrian forces, and was held for ransom. He spent a few months in enemy companionship untill his father bailed him out, where he received a dire reprisal for his misdeeds. During the many years he had been away from home, a repressive policy by King Francis I against the Reformist Huguenots had destabilized the situation in the South, and his expensive ransom was not heling at all. Leaving home as soon as was polite he travelled to Paris where he started writing his theories about modern warfare and tactics into an unorganized collection of notes. Henri II had formed a great desire to reform the French army to a model that would work more efficiently and would be more flexible. He intended to increase the firepower that had proven so important during the Battle of Marignano and that had been so sorely lacking during the Battle of Pavia, partially due to the early hour and the obstructive terrain. He wanted to arm the cavalry with pistolts and lances to enable them to deliver their shock at range and up close and personal, to preserve their strenght.

As the Italian conflict renewed in 1526 in the form of the Leage of Cognac, he once again campaigned with his King. This campaign however ended swiftly for him as a point-blank musket round managed to incapacitate him indefinately during a skirmish near Genoa, and he was sent home once more. Arriving at his family estates he grew increasingly spiteful of King Francis' reign, as his initial elan wore off as he lost more and more conflicts and increasingly repressed the Protestant population, which was steadily growing to large numbers. It was at this time, in the year 1530, that he decided to move to England, where the Protestant cause seemed to be gaining a lot of influence at the Royal Court, and where he intended to reform the military and aid the Protestant Cause.

Upon his arrival he was tolerated in the Court, but never taken too seriously by King Henry VIII concerning his military advices, and as a result much ignored. Growing spiteful of his achievements both here and at home, he spent the years there working on his theories in all freedom, slowly gatheringmore influence for them amonst contemporary men of the English military. When the English went to war against France under Henry VIII, he refused to answer the call to arms from King Francis I, nor aided the English directly, and stayed home, instead furthering the Portestant cause after the major breach with the Vatican had occured, and a new Anglicanistic Church had been founded.

Strangely it has never really seemed as a matter of importance to him to get married, except as a mean to achieve something greater, and never really longer for it either. However, with the recent death of King Henry VIII and the chance to change England for good into a Protestant realm with both the impressive fleet it already boasted and a new invincible army did seem very interesting to him, opening several new perspectives for the future. However, remaining temperate as ever, he will not strive for impossible things. He will do anything to achieve his goals; to make Protestantism in England the dominant religion, and to modernize the English army, boh in organisation and in efficiency on the field.

Personality:
Henri is a bit of a rough and stubborn man, focussed on his goals. He is friendly and can even be charming in his own way, but most of the time he is striving to achieve whatever he thinks is worth of achieving, and as a result can be a deceptive man. He is both a military thinker on the field as in the court, and it shows. He is generous and well-intentioned though, however harsh he may seem, and is very much influenced by the Protestant ideals. He is a pragmatic man who is convinced of his own ideals and cause, and may show radical traits when executing his agenda.

Skills:
° Master tactician
° Decent Strategist
° Good soldier and commander
° Good with words
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Yay! Excitement~
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Just saying that perhaps you didn't check here again because I edited the CS into my post instead of posting it anew.
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It looks good to me, but you do know you don't have use a historical painting as his image, right? But if you want to that's fine.
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Are we gonna start any time soon you think Anastasia?
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Roran...your character...we're going to have so much fun :P (not saying am not going to have fun with you as well Parti, or Ana, or Fab, or Aeroplane, just saying we're going to have a lot of fun, you know, like I will with everyone else...not saying that I will specifically have more fun with Henri than I would with the next Dick, Joe or Tom, I'm just...you know...stating the obvious...yeah...that...I'll stop now.)
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But nobody's having fun if we don't start! Hint hint!
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Are we going to have some fun? I do think so, regardless of this RP starts or not... >:)
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Hey! You guys~! >.< I working on an intro, but I just wanted to make sure we had enough people willing to get into it, unlike before.
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I'm happy waiting until Saturday since am doing lots of work this week and can't really post much, so take your time and make this intro post good ;)
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But I don't wanna wait! It's boring to be in 3 RP's when none of them have started!
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Haha, waiting makes it all sweeter in the end. The longer you wait for your wine the better it is, they say.
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Yeah but I want something to do!
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Going to post a female character sheet in a moment if you're still accepting.
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The Lady Catherine Howard

She is a pretty young creature, with wit enough to do as badly as the others if she were to try

Catherine Howard is the Daughter of Lord Edmund Howard, Neice to the Duke of Norfolk Thomas Howard, and The Lady Elizabeth Howard; thus the first cousin to Queen Anne.

Catherine was born in Lambeth to Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, and given her family name she was of Aristocratic Pedigree. But her Father was not wealthy owing to Primogeniture and his large birth family (being one of 21) he was one of the poorer Howard’s. When her father married Catherine's mother she already had five children from her first husband and went on to have another six, Catherine being about her tenth child. As a result, her father was often reduced to begging for handouts from his more affluent relatives. In 1531, he was appointed Controller of Calais.
After the death of her mother during her early childhood, Catherine was sent to live in the household of her step-grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk. The Dowager Duchess presided over households at Chesworth House, near Horsham, and Norfolk House, at Lambeth, comprising numerous male and female attendants along with her many wards, usually the children of aristocratic but poor relatives. While sending young children to be educated and trained in aristocratic households other than their own was common for centuries among European nobles, supervision at both Chesworth House and Lambeth was lax. The Dowager Duchess was often at Court and seems to have had little direct involvement in the upbringing of her wards and young female attendants.

As a result of the Dowager Duchess’s lack of attention, the Wards of her household were not always the best behaved, with many becoming sexually adventurous and acting in appropriately with one another. Many pursued Catherine, including the music teacher Henry Mannox, the Duchess’s secretary Francis Dereham and many other Wards. Catherine was a flirty youth, and much full of life she would find her attention wandering when she was a study, and would often make jokes.

When Queen Anne’s relationship with the King began to take a turn, the Duke of Norfolk (not wanting to lose his families position within the court and to keep their influence) went to Lambeth and called his niece to Court to be one of the Queens ladies, but more so to tempt the King and keep in his favour. It worked, and King Henry bestowed gifts, land and cloth upon Catherine. She gained quite the attention, being young and frivolous, loving the lavish feasts at Court. It angered her cousin, but Catherine spurred the Kings Advances, preferring herself one of his courtier’s, Thomas Culpeper. But King Henry, a competitive man, stole away Culpeper on his campaign in France, parting the young lovers.

Catherine was a lively spirit, deemed sunny and beautiful by the court. French ambassador Charles De Marillac said “A young lady of extraordinary beauty and superlative grace” Some may deem her as an empty headed foolish girl, with a favour for only dancing and merry making, and there is a certain amount of truth to that. But under the guidance and from watching her cousin closely, Catherine is not the fool. Many people trust a girl with a pretty smile and flamboyant air, what harm could she be? But the stark contrast in personalities between her and her cousin the Queen, people forget the Howard and Boelyn tie.

Catherine is skilled in matters of the arts. She can sing and dance well, and has a love for poetry and painting. She is also very skilled in cards and horse riding, and loves hunting. She was raised a Catholic, but Catherine is not devout, and she often says “I speak so little to god he would not know who I am”.

Family members:
Father: Lord Edmund Howard, third son of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk
Mother : Joyce Culpepper
Brother: Sir Charles Howard
Brother: Henry Howard
Brother: Sir George Howard
Sister: Lady Mary Howard
Sister: Lady Margaret Leigh Howard
Half siblings: Isabel, Margaret, Joyce, John, and Ralph Leigh from her mother's first marriage to Sir Ralph Leigh Esq
First cousin: Anne Boleyn on Howard side of family
First cousin: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
First cousin: Mary Fitzroy, Duchess of Richmond ( sister of Henry Howard and wife of Henry's illegimate son Henry Fitzroy)
Uncle: Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk
Aunt: Lady Margaret Bryan
Aunt: Elizabeth Howard (mother of Anne Boleyn)



Mostly fact, but altered a bit to suit the story.
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Holy hell, that's a large family.
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Hmmm.... Might I join as a man of the cloth (cough cough).
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The Lady Catherine Howard accepted.

Innovative Engimas: Sure. We don't have any of them yet~ It should be interesting!
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Looking forward to the intro. (nudge nudge)
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