King Henry II
Lived- 1946-2013
Ruled- 1977-2013
King Henry was born in 1946, and (after Graham II) the second longest reigning Aschlonian monarch. During his first years as king, he mainly used the power of the King to live a life of luxury, leaving the nobles below him in the feudal system to manage the country. He only really started to manage the country at the age of 52, when he reversed several of the policies of his predecessors, decreasing social benefits whilst also decreasing taxes. He replaced several of the nobles (whose bloodlines flowed back to the birth of Aschlon) with friends, which was deeply unpopular with the people. The majority of the replaced nobles had drastically increased social living standards in the areas they managed, and had been friends with the people they managed. Henryd Jefferson, a philosopher and fierce critic of the nobility, used this as an excuse to rile up feelings of pro-democracy. Henry’s vicious put downs of the ensuing protests further led to greater feelings of resentment towards him. In addition, several of the laws he made, such as Jame’s Law, allowed members of the Church to be only answerable to him, which was a heavy contrast to the past in which only the upper clergy were. This created even greater resentment towards him and the Church, and (in 2007) the tensions boiled over and led to the Revolution. He lost the ensuing war, and he and his legitimate bloodline, was executed.