Aurician Metropolitan
The office of Metropolitan was created by decree in 2559 by Baimund Kaligär, so the title is less than two hundred years old. It was awarded for enriching the city of Aurice, typically as a merchant. For this reason, they are neither nobles of the robe (ecclesiastical) nor of the sword (military) and are humorously called nobles of the coin. The Viceroyal Duke Baimund Kaligär wished to weaken the position of the nobles by packing the Senate with Metropolitans who would be loyal to him. Today only about half of the metropolitans are senators. Some lost their status after the Aurician Revolution as the Dukes, Counts, and Barons endeavored to weaken the voting bloc of the Metropolitans whom they disdained as they were neither nobles of the sword nor of the robe. These metropolitans who lost senatorial status were charged with loyalty to House Bijäl. The prospect of regaining senatorial status was ostensibly held out on condition of loyalty to the Noble Republic, but privately on condition of loyalty to the agenda of the older senatorial ranks whose power was largely in land-ownership rather than trade.
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