Royal Houses of Cattala

House Celestine
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House Bonnecelli
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The House of Bonnecelli is the royal house of the United Kingdom of Cattala. Their seat is Celeste, and their sigil is a white eagle on royal blue. It is the richest and most powerful house in the kingdom, and all other houses in the country are sworn to it. The House of Bonnecelli claims the crown of Cattala through its maternal lineage to the deceased House of Celestine.

It's status as the royal house was established by Lord Chancellor Harrison by parliamentary proclamation on the 15 July 1949, when the temporary government declared the restoration of the monarchy under House of Bonnecelli after the 1949 Cattalian Referendum confirmed that the public wished for the country to return to being a kingdom. King Marco VI ascended to the throne on the 11 May 1951 and became the first native monarch from outside of the House of Celestine since the country unified more than 700 years earlier. Currently, the most prominent member of the House of Bonnecelli is Queen Alexandra V, the reigning monarch of Cattala.

The Bonnecelli lineage can be traced back to an old family of lords on the wave-battered island of Oriastone, off the coast of Cape Point, who grew in strength and wealth due to shipping and quickly became important land owners across the northern coast of Cattala and in Hellas. A cadet branch, House Bonnecelli of Oriastone, continues to control the island to this day. The family has been pledged to the House of Celestine for nearly 700 years, having supported the Celestinian attack against southern rebels. By 1838 the Bonnecelli's owned industrial sites across the country and were one of the wealthiest aristocratic families in the realm. The union of the two houses strengthened the deposed King Harold's hand financially and was a leading factor in the monarchy's return to power after the revolution of 1917, instead of a communist or republican takeover such as the ones occurring in Russia and Germany. The wealth of the Bonnecelli's, gave the monarchy the financial strength to restore order and a government to the newly-independent island kingdom.