Adelphe le Germain (Adelphe the German in French) is the Ventrue Prince of Évreux during the Medieval era.
Biography[]
Adelphe is a Ventrue elder, who participated in the creation of the knighthood, helping to create then a new social caste in the medieval society.
In 1194, the bishopric of Evreux is at the center of a treason from John Lackland of England, brother of King Richard Lionheart, against the French King Philippe-Auguste. Evreux and its bishopric was under the custody of John for the King of France. John organised a great banquet where 300 French knights were invited, only to be slaugthered savagely by John's forces.
At the same time many Ventrue vassals to the Grand Court, were destroyed, including Thibald, paying their alliance with the English Ventrue who support John's plans. The "Treason of Evreux" is since then a stain on the French Ventrue's honor, that started the decline of the Ventrue's power in Medieval Normandy, and they will even remember it even during the Hundred Years War, settling many Ventrue Clan griefs during it.
King Phillipe-Auguste used the Treason of Evreux as a casus belli to retake Normandy from the hands of the English Plantagenets during a ten-years war, and he sacked the city of Evreux, killing every remaining English men in the area. Adelphe got his nickname of "the Fratricide" by participating to the purge of many English Ventrue in revenge for the Treason of Evreux.
The Prince of Evreux is close to Aymeric de Sées and his influence on the Échiquier de Rouen is important even if he never sits there and prefer to send an envoy. He is also a great supporter of the Grand Court and of Prince Geoffrey du Temple of Paris, to whom he gave his allegiance. With the recent problem that represents the Elm Alliance, it is more than certain that he will lead the fight to take back the city of Caen.
References[]
- DAV: France by Night p.106,110,112