War of the Golden Seat

The War of the Golden Seat (also known as the Second Crisis of the Golden Seat), was a conflict between Duke Jan the Wise of Joraje, and Hejnrik II of Jehnidy. Ultimately the Loren family would prove successful in the feud, and the House of Jehnidy would be removed as a threat for some time.
=== Background ===
Following the First Crisis of the Golden Seat, Jan the Wise of Loren, Duke of Joraje, began measures to ease the tensions between his house and the Great House of Jehnidy. As a part of these efforts, he sent his second cousin, Emma of Korchenoy, to marry Hejnrik of Jehnidy in 410. However, in 411, Emma annulled their marriage, and fled back to Duke Jan in Lorenvald. When Hejnrik demanded her return to Mibram, Duke Jan refused, and in response. Hejnrik constructed a second chair of gold, to insult the Duke. 
Following a short bout of insults and demands, made by both parties, Duke Jan raised an army. Unlike the First Crisis, his call to arms was answered, most notably by the Sternberk and Brehša families. In response, Hejnrik raises his own force, and the two armies march to war
=== First Phase ===
In summer of 412, Jan and his forces cross the Orat and march on Mibram, intending to capture the city and end the crisis quickly. However, the siege is ultimately unsuccessful, and Jan was forced to break camp and march on Mettl, a market town nearby. By the end of the campaign season, Lorenist forces had subdued Niza, and Kredewe, and during the final battle of the campaign, outside Glostok for control over the Ten Lordships, Jan's army captures Lephold z Ustyn, Hejnrik's brother, and commander of the Jehnidy army.
=== Second Phase ===
Following the beginning of the campaign season of 413, Hejnrik invaded Karred with an army of his own, comprising of knights from the Silver Hills and the Westmarch. His aim was to bring multiple large Karredesh cities under his control, to pressure Jan of Loren to acquiesce to his demands. He was repulsed at Neubrach and Savahoff, but he captured Dobrel, along with a number of market towns and countless villages. From these he demanded supplies and military support, under threat of being sacked
However, on the 30th day of the campaign season, Hejnrik's force was met near Beldymhof by an overwhelming number of knights, mostly from the House of Sternberk and the House of Loren, as well as many archers from Brehsza. Here he would be forced to flee back toward the Westmarches, across the River Orat and out of Karred. The rapidly pursuing Lorenist force then caught and defeated the Jehnidyist army at Eshkonitze, killing or enslaving its footmen, and taking its knights as hostages. The Jehnidyist army would be crushed, as would Hejnrik's aspirations of Ducal office.
=== Aftermath ===
Following the 413 victory at Eshkonitze, Hejnrik was imprisoned, spending the rest of his days as a hostage in Jan's court, until he died of a stomach illness in 416. The Lorenist victory greatly increased the confidence of the Great and Lower Houses in the House of Loren, and they would remain in power for three more decades. 
The Jehnidy family would be bankrupted by the expenditure required to create two chairs of solid gold as well as support its army. It would not recover financially until the early 500s, and would be hereafter removed as a threat to the rule Jan the Wise, though it would resurge in the following decades to contest the Loren dukes. To pay its debts, Ulrich of Jehnidy was forced to sell many of its mines and holdings in the Silver Hills to the newly-founded Hôrak family, allowing for their rapid rise to power.
The most significant, and as described by some, "the most humorous" legal change after this event would see a law instated which commands that anyone who commissions, produces, manufactures, or supplies goods for a chair made of, or inlaid with, gold, is to be executed on charges of high treason.
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