House of Windenburg

The **House of Windenburg** is the royal house reigning in the Kingdom of Windenburg. Its founder was King Henry I, who conquered all the lands that would shape the country and established himself as the monarch.

In its legitimate line, the House of Windenburg became extinct after the death of King Henry I's daughters Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary. However, every person living thinks that King Henry II, Prince Derrick and Princess Isabelle were in fact legitimate children of King Henry (ignoring the fact they are the offspring of Queen Revenna's affair with King Arthur (King Henry's wife and illegitmate half-brother, respectively)). Because of that, the House of Windenburg continues reigning in the Kingdom.

## Official members

To be a member of the House of Windenburg, a person has to be born with the surname "Windenburg", get it bestowed, or marry into the family. Being born with the surname "Windenburg" means the parent someone gets the surname from posses a higher title than their spouse (for example, Queen Alice May is a Windenburg because her Windenburg mother possessed the title of Queen Regnant, which is higher than her father's title of Prince Consort).

### Royal Family

The Royal Family of Windenburg is part of the House of Windenburg. The current head of the House is Queen Alice May. Its current heir is Prince Cedric (although, he is not the Heir Apparent). Dowager Prince Consort Jabari also belongs to the House through his marriage to the late Queen Amira. Dowager Queen Evangeline similarly belongs to it because of her marriage to the late King Henry IV.

### Previous Queen's Family

As legitimate descendants of King Henry IV, the previous Queen's siblings are also members of the House: Duke Kellan (and his son Lord William), Earl Charles (and his children Lady Cambridge and Lord Felix), Marchioness Consort Bellatrix of Sulani and Baroness Diana (and her son Lord Vincent). Princess Bellatrix's children would not be members of the House of Windenburg since they are members of the House of Sulani as heirs to the Marquisate of that kingdom. Their consorts (respectively, Duchess Megan, Countess Fallon, and Baron Consort Abraham) are members by marriage.

### Other members

Every noble in the Kingdom of Windenburg is given the surname "Windenburg" and thus is considered a member of the House. Currently, every noble title holder in the country is Aunt or Uncle to the queen, except for Marchioness Ezra (who is the daughter of the late King Henry IV's youngest sister Princess Anna). Ezra and her son Lord Winston are considered members of the House, alongside Marquess Consort Jaiden by marriage.

Other nobles with the surname "Windenburg" are Lady Nora and Lord Robert, formerly from the Earldom's household.

People who were born with the surname "Windenburg" but who later changed it when they married someone from another kingdom with a higher title (such as Lady Sadira Windenburg, who became Queen Sadira Brindleton; Lady Aurora Windenburg, who became Duchess Aurora Sulani; Lady Gina Windenburg, who became Duchess Consort Gina Hsu; Lord Connor Windenburg, who became Baron Consort Connor Guāng Xī ;and Lord Romeo Windenburg, who will become Marquess Consort Romeo Hsu), could be considered members of the House, as they were born into it. However, possibly their spouses would not.

## Agnatic members

*NOTE: This is NOT how, in the game, a person is a member of the House. This is only out of curiosity and in relation to the real world.*

In the real world, belonging to a Royal House is defined by agnatic-descent; this means a person belongs to their father's House, and he belongs to his father's House and so on. Usually, when a Queen Regnant passes away and a child of hers becomes monarch, the Royal House would change to the name of his father's House. For example, Queen Victoria was a member of the House of Hanover, but her son and successor King Edward VII was a member of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, as it was his father's House.

There are cases where a monarch combines the name of their father and their mother's Houses. For example, when Queen María II of Portugal (of the House of Braganza) died, her son did not take the fame of his father's House (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). Instead, it was created the branch of "Saxe-Coburg-Braganza", although it was commonly used the simplified and tradicional form "Braganza".

Other people, such as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, used entirely their mother's House as surnames.

So, if the House of Windenburg would be based on agnatic-descent, there would be at least fourty-seven people members of the House by blood, fifteen of them being alive:

* King Henry I of Windenburg.
	+ Princess Elizabeth of Windenburg.
	+ Princess Rayna of Windenburg.
	+ King Henry II of Windenburg.
		- Princess Maira of Windenburg.
		- King Kellan of Windenburg.
			* Queen Emily of Willow Creek.
			* King Henry III of Windenburg.
				+ Princess Mira, Baroness of Willow Creek.
				+ King George of Windenburg.
					- King Henry IV of Windenburg.
						* Queen Amira of Windenburg.
						* Princess May of Windenburg.
						* **Prince Kellan, Duke of Windenburg**.
							+ **Lord William of Windenburg**.
						* **Prince Charles, Earl of Windenburg**.
							+ **Lady Cambridge of Windenburg**.
							+ **Lord Felix of Windenburg**.
						* **Princess Bellatrix Windenburg, Marchioness Consort of Sulani**.
						* **Princess Diana, Baroness of Windenburg**.
					- Queen Cora of Willow Creek.
					- Princess Anna, Marchioness of Windenburg.
				+ Princess Eliza, Marchioness of Windenburg.
				+ Queen Aria of Oasis Springs.
		- Prince John, Marquess of Windenburg.
			* Duchess Carol of Windenburg.
			* Marquess Louis of Windenburg.
				+ Marquess Ross of Windenburg.
					- Baron Consort Matthew of Willow Creek.
						* Lord Lucas of Willow Creek.
						* **Baron Maxwell of Willow Creek**.
							+ **Lady Collette of Willow Creek**.
					- Marquess Consort Franklin of Brindleton Bay.
						* **Marchioness Kalia of Brindleton Bay**.
						* **Dowager Baroness Kristina of Brindleton Bay**.
						* **Lord Aaron of Brindleton Bay**.
				+ Earl Keith of Windenburg.
					- Earl Derrick of Windenburg.
						* Earl Gianni of Windenburg.
							+ **Lady Nora of Windenburg**.
						* **Lady Gina, Dowager Duchess of Oasis Springs**.
						* **Lord Robert of Windenburg**.
	+ Prince Derrick of Windenburg.
		- Lord Bryce of Windenburg.
			* Baroness Reyna of Windenburg.
	+ Princess Isabelle of Windenburg.
	+ Princess Mary of Windenburg.