House Hampshire

***"Our Blades Are Sharp, We Stand Ready."*** - **Lord Randall of Hampshire**.

### Heir

Ramsay Hampshire, Grenn Hampshire, Eddmund Hampshire, Annalise Hampshire, Jeyne Hampshire

### Allegiance

House Isenwood, House Barrister, House Abbottshire, House Cole, Fleetway Family

### Vassals

House Cornfield, House Pentmore, Sinclair Family, House Merryweather

## Strength

### Navy

100 ships; 60 ketch, 40 carrack

**House Hampshire** was founded in 223 CE following the **First Rebellion**, where a young sellsword and anointed knight, **Ser Randall of Seville** aided **Prince Stafford Pendragon** in becoming King, following the death of **King Julius II Pendragon**. For his loyalty and valor, the knight was rewarded with lands, lordship, and appointed **Lord Bishop of Hampshire** and **Defender of South Vale**.

## History

### Background

Following the **Death of King Romulus**, a dispute spread throughout the land as the fight ensued for the throne among his respective grandsons following the death of his eldest son and heir, and his untimely death amidst war with the **Balkan States**, leaving the princes to quarrel with deaths of the king's sons earlier in battle. The **Rebellion** and the **Funeral** travelled together. **Prince Robert Pendragon**, **Prince Stafford Pendragon**, **Prince Octavian Pendragon**, **Prince Joffery Pendragon**, and **Prince Ronald Pendragon**. Each son founded their own respective house, and the **Great Kingdom of Sternlands** broke into five smaller kingdoms, the **Kingdom of Easternlands**, the **Kingdom of Westernlands**, the **Kingdom of Vale**, the **Kingdom of Greenlands**, and the **Kingdom of the Isles**.

During the **Rebellion**, **Lords of East Hills** banded together under one flag and followed Prince Ronald Pendragon in the fight for the freedom of the east, and the formation of the reformation of the **Kingdom of Easternlands**, following which, King Ronald Pendragon founded **House Elmont**, and named his loyal vassals as noble lords of the kingdom, each head of a noble house, **House Ivanstar**, **House Corbray**, **House of Sinope**, **House of Brookside**, **House of Estonia**, **House Hilton**, **House Crowrich, House Abbottshire, House Isenwood**, and **House Torbel**.

In 202 CE, **King Ronald Pendragon** named **Lord Randall of Seville** as the **Lord of Dylanhold**, replacing the family who betrayed the king in favor of his elder brother, **King Joffery of Vale**. Lord Randall aided the king during the rebellion with a fleet of pirate ships and an army of sellswords from **Seville**. Lord Randall married **Lady Annalise of Dylanhold**, and formed a new breed of bloodline to the Family of Dylanhold, becoming its new lord.

### Lordship

Royal Matters spiced up following the **Rebellion**, and in 214 CE, **King Ronald Pendragon**, alongside his brothers, **King Joffery of Vale** and **King Stafford of the Isles** were poisoned, and two of three poisoned brothers died, while the other became paralyzed, following which the kingdom fell into another rebellion, as the three kingdoms fought with each other for control. The battle was also known as the **Earl of Three**, and subsequently, King Ronald's son, and formidable warrior in battle as well as stateman, Prince Jeffery stepped in as King, following which he named loyal vassals to the crown as strong holders of power for the coming years of rule, and named **Lord Randall of Dylanhold** as **Lord Bishop of Hampshire**, a newly created region stretching with the **Vale Borders**, by the **Eastern Watch**, the **Greenland Borders**, to the **Brown Hills**. Hampshire became the Northern Entrance of the East Hills, and the watchful eye of the eastern bay.

### Rise to Power

In 219 CE, Lord Randall founded the **House of Dylanhold**. Under the reign of **King Jeffery Elmont**, Lord Randall was appointed in the **Royal Council** as the **Lord of Ships** and **Royal Emissary to the Westernlands**, as well as holding the titles of **Lord Defender of the Eastern Watch**.

In 223 CE, King Jeffery Elmont died in a military campaign, and was succeeded by his dumbfounded son, **Prince Tommen**, as his older sons died alongside him, leaving his two youngest heirs to rule. Following the coronation of Prince Tommen Elmont, he was arrested and imprisoned by **Commander Renly**, the **Duke of Normundy**, founding the **Kingdom of Normundy** in the Fall of 227 CE. Few noble houses such as **House Ivanstar**, **House Hampshire**, **House Corbray**, **House Royne**, **House Torbel**, and **House Isenwood** stayed loyal to King Tommen. While Houses **Ivanstar**, **Torbel**, **Hampshire**, **Royne** and **Isenwood** remained in power and held the siege, House Corbray was slaughtered and raped, while few members fled to the **Free Cities**, the house was stripped of all titles and lands, riches and power. By the End of 227 CE, most of the houses swore loyalty to **King Renly**, **King of Normundy**. The **Count of Westernshire**, Count Elton Warwick, brother-in-law to King Tommen alongside the **Kingdom of Greenlands** marched on the **Capital of Normundy**, **Estonia**, ensuing in a two-year long campaign. While King Renly along with his sons were executed by King Tommen, he married the eldest daughter of King Renly, **Prince Falyse of Normundy**, ending the line of the **Duchy of Normundy**, and the beginning the Era of the Kings of Normundy, starting with **King Tommen of Elmont**. The King strengthened his alliance with matrimony, marrying his younger brother, a seventeen year knight, **Prince Arryn of Elmont** to King Robert Pendragon's second daughter, **Princess Elena Pendragon**. While the Greenlands laid secure, Normundy attacked Westernlands and executed **House Hardman**, **Royalty of the Westernlands**, securing the West with **House Warwick** replacing House Hardman.

By the beginning of 229 CE, ending a six year tyranny, King Tommen, Ruler of the Easternlands, Westernlands, and Greenlands, restored the **Great Kingdom** with the **Kingdom of Normundy**. The Kingdom broke into smaller kingdoms, each ruled by a ***Bishop***, under the Command of a ***Warden***, ruling the larger provinces. For his loyalty in the campaign, King Tommen appointed **Lord Randall** as the **Lord Bishop of Hampshire**. Following the Appointment as Lord Bishop of Hampshire, Lord Randall was appointed in the **East Watch Council** as **Lord of Knights**.