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| - His Imperial and Most Illustrious Lutheran Majesty, Ferdinand II, Defender of the Faith, by the Grace of God, Emperor of Hulstria, His Royal Northern Highness Great Prince of Trigunia, His Royal Highness Grand Duke of Sisula, His Royal Majesty King of Pulond (b. Febuary 18th, 2870, Schloss Fliederbrunn, Kien, Hulstria - d. December 14th, 2977) was the reigning Emperor of Hulstria, Great Prince of Trigunia, and Grand Duke of Sisula from 2906 to 2977. For a short period of time Ferdinand II was claimant to the throne of Deltaria as Czar prior to the Treaty of Heinrichgrad. Ferdinand II was the first son and child of Maximilian VII of Hulstria, and Idda, Countess of Savonia. Kaiser Ferdinand was the eldest out of three kids and was the older brother to Archduke Leopold and Archduchess Charlot
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| - His Imperial and Most Illustrious Lutheran Majesty, Ferdinand II, Defender of the Faith, by the Grace of God, Emperor of Hulstria, His Royal Northern Highness Great Prince of Trigunia, His Royal Highness Grand Duke of Sisula, His Royal Majesty King of Pulond (b. Febuary 18th, 2870, Schloss Fliederbrunn, Kien, Hulstria - d. December 14th, 2977) was the reigning Emperor of Hulstria, Great Prince of Trigunia, and Grand Duke of Sisula from 2906 to 2977. For a short period of time Ferdinand II was claimant to the throne of Deltaria as Czar prior to the Treaty of Heinrichgrad. Ferdinand II was the first son and child of Maximilian VII of Hulstria, and Idda, Countess of Savonia. Kaiser Ferdinand was the eldest out of three kids and was the older brother to Archduke Leopold and Archduchess Charlotte of Hulstria; he additionally was the the brother-in-law of Princess Lucinda of Drania and Matvei, Count of Lensk, his siblings's respective consorts. Ferdinand II was uncle to Queen Regina I of Drania and King George VII of Talmoria. Ferdinand's paternal grandparents were Klaus Gustav IV of Hulstria and Janne II of Vorona and maternal grandparents were Grand Duke Osmund III of Valonen and Amanda, Marquise of Øivine. Ferdinand's paternal great grand-parents were Godric II of Hulstria and Roberta, Viscountess of Ayelsbury and his maternal great grand-parents were Konrad I of Vorona and Cecilia Gorsky. Ferdinand II was also cousins with George III of Luthori, Valdemar II, pretender to the throne of the Vorona Archduchy, and Constantine I of Tukarali; Ferdinand was also distant cousins with Henrietta, Queen-Consort of Endralon and Tenno Kenji Ishida of Sekowo. Ferdinand II additionally was the maternal grandfather to Alexander I of Rutania. Ferdinand II of Hulstria was married to Princess Harriet, Duchess of Southborough until her death. The imperial couple produced four issues; Rainer V of Hulstria, Archduke Heinrich of Hulstria, Archduke Maximilian of Hulstria, and Aleksandra, Queen of Rutania. Ferdinand II ascended to the throne following his father's abdication due to illness in 2906; he assumed the throne at a rather young age at 36 years old. As Emperor and Great Prince, Ferdinand II saw through the reinstatement of the Hulstro-Trigunian personal union, several domestic reforms in both nations, and a great war in the 2960s. Ferdinand's early years saw the Imperial Court grow closer to the International Monarchist League and to other reigning monarchies on the continent of Dovani, mainly the House of Santiago in Drania and to the Hemmingways in Talmoria; these friendships eventually lead to the formation of the "Imperial Consortium" between the monarchies following the "Three Monarchs Conference" in Kien. The friendship included marriages as well; Ferdinand II married the daughter of George VI of Talmoria and Ferdinand's younger brother, Archduke Leopold of Hulstria married the sister of Carlos I of Drania. In Greater Hulstria, the Hulstro nobility saw an increase of representation and power in the Imperial Diet with the likes of Isolde von Smaragdwald and Hieronymus von Büren gaining power; other nobles like Gisela von Hortensiengau, Theresia von Maringhelm, and Gottlieb von Hinterschnee would also make their marks. The Hulstrian political specturm additionally saw a three decade Christian democrat Staatsminister-ship with Jurgen Marquering, the last major power trip of the christian democrats in Greater Hulstria. In the Great Princedom of Trigunia the "Mashkov Reforms" led by R.D. Mashkov, 1st Duke of Petrovgrad, the leader of the Trigunian monarchist bloc, the Molodaya Trigunskoye Partiya, helped the Great Princedom regain its economic and political power on the continent of Keris. However the Duke of Petrovgrad, considered a national hero in the Great Princedom, died in a car accident in the early 2920s, plunging the monarchist cause into doubt in Trigunia for awhile but soon recovered; his son would later to follow in his footsteps become the Viceroy of Trigunia as well. The Mashkov name since his death has become a fixture in Trigunian politics and arguably the most powerful family on Keris besides the Rothingrens. The two families enjoy a very productive and special relationship. The conservative rule in Trigunia with the Mashkovs eventually found its way to Greater Hulstria; with the absence of christian democrats in the Imperial Diet parties such as the Kaiserliche Hulsterreichische Partei, Faschistische Gewalt-Partei, and the Ausgehenapparat der Luskismus eventually formed a centre-right, conservative bloc in the Imperial Diet. The Ausgehenapparat der Luskismus were a faction formed from the members of the House Lusk that left their homeland in Central Macon to come to Greater Hulstria; the Lusk remained close friends with the Rothingrens through their political career but left the political scene in the late 2940s; they now continue to be members of the Hulstrian nobility. With that being done the Imperial Knights party replaced the Lusk in the conservative government, known as the "Imperial Conservatives", a coalition government that would serve for nearly a century. At the end of his reign in 2977 Ferdinand II was the longest reigning monarchy in Hulstrian and Trigunian history; he was also at the time the oldest monarch in Terra, both in terms of age, and length of reign. When Augustin-Bernard I Rildanor died in 2945, Augustin was the oldest monarch on Terra, reigning from 2876 to 2945 but Ferdinand quickly took that mantle, and eventually reigned longer than Augustin-Bernard I. The King of Rildanor was a cousin of Ferdinand II through Godic II of Hulstria's daughter, Matilda, Archduchess of Hulstria, and her consort, Hénri III of Rildanor. It should be noted however that Augustin-Bernard I is not in line of succession to the Hulstrian throne as his dynasty, the House of Orléans-Vasser, is of Orthodox Catholic religion. The two monarchs enjoyed a cordial relationship in the International Monarchist League and the two nations were bound by the Hulstria-Rildanor Fellowship Treaty, establised originally between Alexander I of Hulstria, and Hénri III of Rildanor.
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