Michaelis d'Harmedon was a powerful sixth generation Roman Toreador and the former Prince of Toulouse.
Biography[]
An influential Toreador from Aquitaine, he managed to gain princedom of Toulouse around 731 by pushing his pawn the Duke of Aquitaine during combat between Ventrue and Assamites.
The Toreador elder helped to develop the Occitan culture, influenced by the Latin world that he was from. Acting very independently, he became one of the first rival to Salianna, as she was also rising to power. He rejected the ideals of the cour d'amour, which were rising everywhere in France, even against the advices of his childe Esclarmonde, then Prince of Carcassone, who he humiliated and even kicked for suggesting to join them.
Soon after, Salianna proposed to Esclarmonde to become the Queen of the Courts of Love of Toulouse, which she accepted.
From then dementia started to eat his mind and he became more and more unpredictable. Until a morning of the 1191 winter when he walked into the sun, crying tears of blood.
References[]
- DAV: Dark Ages Europe, p. 54
- DAV: France by Night, p. 136,137,215