Principality of Bousatre

The Principality of Bousatre was a client-kingdom under the Yutemond Senate, tenuring from 859 BE till around 890 BE.
== Background ==
After the assassination of Ulpia Minor in 859 BE, the Bousatre local chiefs installed Richard the Elder, a distant relative of the old Bousatre kingdom as their king as to override the many governors sent by the Senate.
The Bousatres were reluctant in going to war with the well-developed major colonist state known as the Yutemond Imperial Kingdom, whose rulers already considered themselves empresses of the known world. With this in mind, Richard the Elder made peace with Queen Rosamund the Great in her early reign (831 - 840 BE) who was already popular with the senate and her people.
The peace treaty included Richard the Elder's children to be installed as Yutemond's second client kings (after the Kingdom of Reovell which was abolished in 776 BE), prior to Queen Isabella's death and defeat and resulting in the annexation of Reovell by Ulpia Caesaris.
=== Relations with Richard II with Armin ===
Armin acted as Rosamund's advisor on matters of state, and seems to have had an influence upon foreign policy. Two of her letters to governor Richard II have survived, and during his lifetime the Yutemond Empire generally had peaceful relations with the Boustare fuedal lords within a Boustare–Yutemond senatorial alliance pact.
In his first short letter to Richard, Armin expresses his highest joy and congratulations to the new lord on the occasion of his ascension to the Bousatre throne after the death of his father Richard the Elder the Old 873 BE. There was a seal on the back of the letter.
In his second letter to Richard, written in response to his letter, Armin expresses in superlative terms his joy at hearing that the lord is in good health and that he sends assurances of his sincere friendliness and attachment towards Queen Rosamund the Great. He quotes the empress as saying, "with the old lord we were like brother and sister, and if it pleases the All-Merciful Gods, with this lord we will be as mother and son." With this letter, Armin sent Richard the gift of two pairs of linen shirts and pants, some belts, six handkerchiefs, and a hand-towel, with a promise to send a special linen robe in the future.
There are reasons to believe that these two letters were more than just diplomatic gestures, and that Rosamund's references to sisterly or motherly feelings were not a mere tribute to political expediency. The letters also suggest Armin's strong desire to establish personal contact with the sovereign governor of Bousatre.
== Extinction ==
Richard the Younger failed to sire any legitimate children as he died unmarried and died unexpectedly, as a result Queen Rosamund the Great annexed the Principality of Bousatre and named it a province of the Yutemond Imperial Kingdom once again in around 890 BE, abolishing the short-reigned principality. Only five years later, Armin of Hata died in 895 BE.
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Category:Houses
Category:Boustares
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