The Rosemoor Convention

[Ivoreyy 2303]

It is in these desires, Odus, that the present course of actions has shown me the true need to uplift the silent majority, whose namesake I take on this responsibility, for the betterment of their lives and their posterity. I grow ever more inspired by the generations who will take our place, as well as the generations preceding us, that this moment in time, no matter the odds or cost, must be afforded to bridge the long chasm that has plagued humanity. When I look at the faces of the people, the atmosphere of the peoples, it has been to my need that we must rescue what has been lost, to reclaim the sacrifices of those who have died in this spirit, and look toward the future prospects that we will achieve all that we set our sights toward.

Circular Letter; Tenth Response of Emperor Joseph, 1717

 

THE ROSEMOOR CONVENTION

 

 

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There lies no rightful justification for the disqualification of women from their birth-given inheritance - all that remains within our Empire now, as told by the Orenian Law of Patrimony, are the remnants of a long withstanding backward and oppressive regime. We now hold the torches of our predecessors; of the women who have shaped Oren and Humanity for the better, and through their legacy we campaign for equality. One needs only to look as far as the figures of the Providence museum, the busts of those who have stood before us, to understand the roots of the Rosemoor Convention. In the wake of our late Empress-regnant, the great Anne I, I call upon the House of Lords to recognise what has been historically ignored - the true potential of women.

 

We serve now as comrades in arms for our Army; as fellow servants of the state. With Oren we fight in the pursuit of Providence, of all that is good and righteous in God's eye. We ask to be recognised as equals beneath the law.

 

No longer shall patrimony dictate the succession of peerages.

No longer shall those factors beyond her control, her very state at birth, decide if she is capable. 

No longer shall she be seen as beneath her peer.

For we are equal.

 

 

Someday, and be it someday soon, I hope that I may be able to look upon my own great-granddaughter and tell her that beneath Our law she possesses the same right to inheritance as her brother. 

 

I wish to tell her that she is free, that she is equal, and that God blesses her devout service; it was he who granted her the wit and dutiful spirit she carries.

 

BILL OF THE IMPERIAL DIET

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The Rosemoor Bill, 1828

Introduced in the House of Lords

With intention of passing in the House of Lords

  

INTRODUCTION

 

The grounds of Imperial Peerage Succession have historically been upon the basis of patrimony - disqualifying female heirs on the sole basis of their sex. With the legacy of The Holy Orenian Empire’s first Empress Regnant in mind, Anne I, alongside that of other powerful and influential women in this state, there can be no moral basis observed to exclude the peerage right to inheritance of female children. 

 

That being said, it is therefore within the intrinsic values of this Empire to solidify the principles of equality and liberty of all citizens within the laws of peers. The eldest child of any given peer should be granted their right of inheritance, irrespective of gender. 

 

SECTION 1:

On the succession of Imperial Peers

 

1. CH 306 of the ORC shall be renamed from “On Patrimony” to “On Succession”

2. (ORC 306.01) Imperial Succession of the Non-Imperial and Gentry shall be amended as following

   1. 306.01A - The obligatory heirs are the children and the children’s descendants of the given peer.

      1. Inheritance of peerages shall be followed in absolute primogeniture succession. 

   2. 306.01B - In the absence of the above, parents and ascendants regarding their children and descendants. 

3. 306.01C and 306.01D shall be removed from the ORC

 

SECTION 2:

On the Implementation of above amendments 

 

1. The amendments described above shall come into effect for the next born generation in the line of succession of a peerage title

   1. No current heir or future heir shall be disqualified in the instance of an elder female sibling

   2. The law shall only apply to those born onward from the year this Bill becomes an Act of the Imperial House of Lords

 

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HIH The Princess Imperial and Countess of Rosemoor

[Hanrahan 2983]

John Napier, President of the House of Commons huffs.

 

"This is far too long overdue. They should have done something like this in the 18th century.."

[Urahra 5777]

Tanith Vursur perks up, recalling the open letter she wrote now over 58 years ago.

 

"Maybe the bright future I hoped for is still possible..."

[Levicourpos 465]

Aimee nodded her head at this, "About time!" she said aloud to her children.

[Minuvas 3193]

"They've run a few balls and now they wish to rule an Empire. The traditions of this Empire are exhausting quickly. One Empress was too much, and cost us our largest vassal. I'm not sure we can suffer their 'leadership' again.

 

Horen passsed his leadership unto his son's to lead man, not his daughters" He laments from his office, keeping his thoughts private. 

 

"Well, I suppose It is up to the peers now"

[Axelu 4333]

Princess Helena, the Countess of Rosemoor's own daughter, privately affirmed her support for the deserved progress of her sex, too long undermined in its capability and purpose.

 

"Any lack of temperament displayed by a few rowdy ladies, limited as those of their stock are, should not limit the many,"  commented the Holy Dame to her imperious mother, muttering a slightly agitated, "By Golly," posthaste. 

 

Elsewhere, an aged crone might have scoffed, lamenting after about how, no longer, are elves required to clip their ears and women burned for their beliefs in science.

[amyselia 2962]

Claude donned a savoyard smirk, "Bonne! After this is passed, I can outlaw the showing of shoulders!"

[Guzr 2050]

Holy Sir Edwin is seen handing out Rosemoor cockades! 

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[aldskar 842]

Juliya commended her grandmother, later pinning a Rosemoor Convention brooch upon her dress.

[Sham404 518]

Edric laughs, hearing that the Orenians do not even treat their citizens with equal rights. 

"And who were they calling barbarians, again?" He muses.

[Nectorist 12869]

9 minutes ago, Sham404 said:

Edric laughs, hearing that the Orenians do not even treat their citizens with equal rights. 

"And who were they calling barbarians, again?" He muses.

“Yeah, he’s been like that for a few months… laughing, talking to himself, going off on these strange rants. I fear they’ve only worsened,” says the morbidly obese Jared Dune, a frequent visitor of the north, to several international humanitarian aid workers as they walk around Norland.

[ARCHITECUS 4788]

”Indeed, gone are the times when the nobility were still but war chiefs in medieval tabards.“ Jerome Foster addresses to the author. “But I must ask you, what is it that makes the late Anne Augusta, in your eyes, great?“

[Levicourpos 465]

52 minutes ago, Minuvas said:

"They've run a few balls and now they wish to rule an Empire. The traditions of this Empire are exhausting quickly. One Empress was too much, and cost us our largest vassal. I'm not sure we can suffer their 'leadership' again.

 

Horen passsed his leadership unto his son's to lead man, not his daughters" He laments from his office, keeping his thoughts private. 

 

"Well, I suppose It is up to the peers now"

 

Speaking to nobody in particular, the coincidentally she seemed to have spoken words that, though in private thought, would contradict Mr Minuvas'.

 

"Bah, the men that judge the flaws in leadership of the women before do little to recognise that, not only have there been limited examples of women in leadership - solely due to their prevention - but that they seem to base their thoughts and values illogically. For oft they do attack the Empress Anne I for the few, small, insignificant bumps in their tenure yet seem to neglect the thought of the COUNTLESS incompetencies of their male predecessors!"

 

The Dowager cooed, narrowing her eyes, though her thoughts kept private.

[monkeypoacher 8055]

Holofernes Harrenid reads the bill as a white-frocked nurse drains the ulcers from his varicose legs.

 

"A transparent aristocratic coup, with only the flimsiest pretense of pandering progressivism. Women of the Empire already have the franchise, equal opportunity in government, and pecuniary incentives for divorce. Now, satisfied by nothing else, the Ball Cabal hopes to rewrite the laws of succession so they may take hold of the last holdouts of good Canonist government. This Empire will see ruin before it is ruled by the coddled firstborn daughters of palace concubines," he says, a retching cough ready to leap up the back of his throat.

 

 

 

 

[veganwalmart 1059]

One Alina Isidora Basrid grinned uncontrollably as she read her grandmother’s bill, her eyes filled with pride as she pinned the missive to the wall above her bed at Woldzmir. For the next several days, the cocoa-haired Lady could not be heard talking if not about the bill.