Baimund Kaligär

Kalikán Duke of Throvy, Zamiria, and Near Erserce. b 2526, Thrace; d 2573; ruled 2557 to 2573. Unlawfully seizes rule of Aurice from Duke Balamon, Slain in the Battle of Pytharnia of the Great Sky War.

• 2526 Baimund Kaligär born in Thrace

• 2557 Thrace elevates Kaligär to the throne of vice-royal duke of Throvy

• 2559 Creates title of Metropolitan of Aurice in 2559, to undermine power of the Old Nobility (Dukes and Barons). Appoints twenty seven new Metropolitans.

• Manditchite War (2562 to 2567) Ersercean Rebel, Manditch, allies with Bisontaurs and wages war against Aurice. Duke Baimund establishes the Grand Army of Aurice to fight the Brasen Horde of the east. Executes Manditch in Aurice rather than delivering him for execution in Thrace, contrary to wishes of the Kalikán rulers and this is one of his offenses they remember. Territory of Aurice expands as result of the war.

• 2563 Duke Baimund Kaligär decrees that all the provincial parliaments of Throvy are sovereign, that is, they may not be dissolved by the ruler. He does this to bring himself into favor with the local nobles of Throvy during the Manditchite War.

During the reign of Duke Baimund Kaligär, the Golden Book of Aurice was officially accepted, although it is believed to have originated during the Medibgóëse Prince-Governorships.

Thrace sought to destroy him for his many insubordinations. In 2568, the opening of the Great Sky War, Thrace officially outlawed Duke Baimund Kaligär. Thrace installed Duke Jafferund Agtaisund to replace him, but Agtaisund was unable to assume the mantle of control due to the loyalty of Kaligär's army and skyfleet. Both Kaligär and Agtaisund were slain at the Battle of Pytharnia (2573).

Duke Baimund Kaligär was slain in 2573 in the political intrigue in the immediate hours after the Battle of Pytharnia in the Great Sky War.

With the death of both the rebel and lawful dukes of Aurice, the King-Emperor of Thrace installed Duke Viceroy Stalcast Bijäl in 2574 who would in turn prove faithless as well to Thrace.

Sources

• The Battle of Pytharnia One Hundred Years Later, Ontairgain dalg Mehailgean, 2674 IR, Pivotal Battle of Pytharnia in GSW, Pytharnian Language, translated into Medibgóëse Language and Asbardian Language shortly after first publication.

See Also

• Chronology of Aurice
• Duke Thortain Balamon of Aurice
• Golden Book of Aurice
• Grand Army of Aurice
• House Bijäl
• House Kaligär
• Manditchite War
• Metropolitan of Aurice