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The Hohenstauffen period is the time in the history of the Kingdom of Aloria when it was ruled by the House of Hohenstauffen after the 30 year Regency. The Hohenstauffens were one of the most powerful noble houses during the autocratic era of the Dundorfian Kingdom, and they were elected to the Alorian throne as the condition imposed by Dundorf for its formal recognition of the annexation of the Kingdom of Caermoel by Aloria. The Hohenstauffen period continued the Alorian golden age started during the regency, and it is during this time that Aloria achieved its greatest territorial extent since the medieval Alorian Empire. During this era Aloria's nobility became thoroughly Dundorfianized, similarly to the other vassal states of the Reich, and Alorian aristocracy was represented in the governing institutions of the Second Dundorfian Confederation and could even participate in the election of the Kaiser. Although Aloria remained an independent state, these factors paved the way for the annexation of Aloria, together with the other vassal states, into the Dundorfian Empire.
History[]
As part of the agreement that allowed Aloria to annex the Kingdom of Caermoel, a Dundorfian noble was to be placed on the Alorian throne, and the House of Hohenstauffen was decided as Aloria's new dynasty. Prince Karl Otto von Hohenstauffen, the third son of the Prince of Oderveld, was elected as the King of Aloria in 1736 in return for the Reich's recognition of Aloria's annexation of Caermoel. In 1737 he was crowned as Siarl X of Aloria and founded the cadet branch of Hohenstauffen-Schleskau. His coronation as Alorian king was preconditioned on his descendants adopting the kingdom's Aurorian faith. The Hohenstauffen family would rule over Aloria until Queen Marred I of Aloria died without issue in 1824.
Siarl X was succeeded by his son, Pedr I the Great (1741–1757). He is considered the creator of the vaunted Alorian bureaucracy and the standing army, which he developed into one of the most powerful in Artania, although his troops only briefly saw action during the Third Alorian-Rutanian War (1752-1754). His brother and succesor Siarl XI continued the policy of his predecessor.
In 1763 Siarl XII became king. As crown prince he focused on philosophy and the arts; yet, in the first year of his reign he ordered the Alorian army to march into Bozarland. In the Fourth Alorian-Rutanian War, also known as the Great Artanian War (1764-1779), Siarl XII succeeded in conquering Bozarland from Rutania and holding his new possession against a coalition of Rutania, Dorvik, and Luthori. Bozarland, a region of rich soils and prosperous manufacturing towns, greatly increased the area, population, and wealth of Aloria. Success on the battleground against Rutania and other powers proved Aloria's status as the greatest power of Northern Artania.
Siarl XII was succeeded by his daughter, Ysabella II. She married her cousin Prince Pedr, and her husband became her co-monarch, known as Pedr II, although he would only rule in name. Despite the couple being the face of the Alorian royals, King Pedr II suffered from religious mania and melancholia which acute mental illness made him incapable of handling state affairs. Ysabella and Pedr continued the work of their predecessors to create a centralized state governed from the capital in order to sweep away the remnants of feudalism which had persisted in parts of Aloria. Ysabella II was one of the most powerful women of her era. She created a supreme court with the sole responsibility of upholding justice in her lands. These reforms strengthened the economy and the state in general. She also spent exorbitant sums of money on grandiose baroque projects like palaces and museums. Consequently, she has long been considered the archetypal absolute monarch of early modern Artania, and her enlightened absolutism is considered the birth of modern Aloria. It was also during the reign of Ysabella and Pedr that the Alorian Hosian Church was born as an independent denomination, when the monarchs severed ties between it and the Archpatriarch of the Holy Apostolic Hosian Church of Terra.
Ysabella II was succeeded by her only child, Marred I, who only reigned briefly. At her death, without issue, on 30 April 1824, the Alorian line of the Hohenstauffens became extinct, and the succession passed to Siôn Tudur, the Duke of Battenburg.
Colonization of Dankuk[]
The Hohenstauffen era also saw the beginning of Alorian Colonization in Dankuk, after early attempts to open Gobae to Alorian trade during the Regency. The Royal Alorian Charter Company of the East was established in 1795 and was responsible for the creation of the colonies of New Caermoel and New Cyrmertraeth in New Aloria as well as Port Arthwr. In 1799 New Craigtref was established as a penal colony under the direct supervision of the royal government, while the last colony, Kinnock Island, would only be established in 1821.