Arthur II of Ebenthal

Arthur II
Arthur II in February 2023
King of Ebenthal
Reign	29 December 2019 – present
Predecessor	Mateus I
Heir presumptive	Heitor, Prince Royal
Prime ministers	See list The Duke of Aureanburgh The Prince Fernando The Duchess of Zerrenthin Henri Sãens The Baron of Sommerlath
Duke of Marienbourg
Reign	26 December 2022 – present
Predecessor	Position established
Heir presumptive	Prince Pedro
Minister-Presidents	Gustave Lynch
Born	28 January 1998 (1998-01-28) Fortaleza, Brazil
Consort	Guilherme, Prince Consort
Names Arthur van der Bruyn
House	Bruyn
Father	Armando, 5th Baron of Roches
Mother	Marilia IV of Marienbourg
Religion	Atheism
Occupation	Historian, Professor, Parliamentary Assistant
Signature
Alma mater	Estácio de Sá University
Military career
Allegiance	Baustralia
Service/branch	Baustralian Navy
Rank	Chief Petty Officer
Other offices Secretary-General of the Conference of Santiago In office 5 January 2022 – 5 July 2022 Preceded by Oscar I of Karnia-Ruthenia Succeeded by Thomas I of Quinta Velha Regent of Achsen In office 10 December 2020 – 10 June 2021 Preceded by Office established Succeeded by Bruno I As King Chairman of the Volkshaus and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs In office 5 July 2020 – 25 June 2023 Premier Karl-Albrecht Preceded by Offices established Succeeded by Offices abolished Minister of the Imperial and Royal Household of Karnia-Ruthenia In office 10 March 2018 – 25 April 2019 Monarchs Oscar I Preceded by Ari Thomaz-Rocha Succeeded by Sânia von und zu Freiburg Kingdom of Manso's Senator In office 28 October 2018 – 2019 Monarch Marina I Member of the House of Commons (Baustralia) for Bowmanton Incumbent Assumed office 20 November 2022 Monarch John I King of Roschfallen Reign 28 January 2014 – 29 December 2019 Predecessor Throne established Successor Fernando I Sovietian Emperor Reign 8 July 2020 – 4 November 2022 Predecessor Throne established Successor Andrey I

Arthur II (Fortaleza, Brazil, 28 January 1998) is King of Ebenthal and Duke of Marienbourg, where he is known as Arthur V. He was the founder and first King of Roschfallen, Emperor of Sovietria, and Regent of Achsen. He served as Secretary-General of the Conference of Santiago and Chairman of the Volkhaus of the Nuremberg Commune. Born in Fortaleza, Brazil, he is the fourth of six children and only son of Armando, 5th Baron of Roches, head of the Portuguese baronial House of Bruyn, and his second wife Princess Marilia of Marienbourg. He is also a micronational theorist being the creator of the Nomadic Micronation Theory. The Monarch is married but, without children, his succession to his thrones lies with the collateral branches of his family. A prestigious micronational royal, in 2020 he joined the select Micropolitan Club and Lounge.

During his almost six years of reign, the country consolidated itself among the microstates not recognized by the United Nations of South America, but his last years of reign were marked by growing instability. As he reports, in June 2019 Arthur staged a coup d'état, suspending the constitution and parliament and assuming autocratic powers, leading to the political exodus from Roschfallen. Isolated, on 29 December 2019 Arthur abdicated the throne of Roschfallen and accepted an invitation to become King of Ebenthal. Since then he has been able to raise Ebenthal among the largest micronations on the continent, participated in the establishment of the Brazilian sector and co-founded the Conference of Santiago. His performance earned him renewed prestige and ensured his participation and influence in the politics of many other micronations. On 26 December 2022, wishing to have a micronation of his own creation, Arthur founded the Duchy of Marienbourg.

As a constitutional monarch, Arthur is the symbol of his realms's unity and permanence. Despite his position, he wields considerable political power, and his political influence reaches out to other micronations. He holds noble titles in Sealand, Karnia-Ruthenia, Sildavia and Quinta Velha, and hold or held political offices in Baustralia, where he currently is ex officio a member of the House of Commons, Vishwamitra, where he was a Privy Councillor, Schneeblutig, Achsen and the Lateran State, where he temporarily exercised the role of Regent, and the Nuremberg Commune, where he was the Chairman of the Volkshaus. A prominent micronationalist in South America, Arthur has been internationally praised for the degree of development he brought to Ebenthal after assuming the throne of that country, and for his professionalism and creativity. He is the mastermind of the Conference of Santiago's Incentive to Secessionist Micronationalism Campaign and the founder of the Micronational Trade Organization. He is a leading figure in micronational economy in South America.

Biography

Early life

Arthur van der Bruyn was born on 28 January 1998 in Fortaleza, Brazil. He is the fourth child and only son of Armando, 5th Baron of Roches, legitimate and direct heir to Portuguese noble title created in 1871 by King Luís I of Portugal, to his second wife, Princess Marilia of Marienbourg, from an old Portuguese-originated family of Brazilian farmers from Minas Gerais currently occupying the throne of Marienbourg. Through his father, Arthur is a member of the House of Bruyn, a Portuguese family of Dutch origin which goes back to the nobility and royalty of Scotland, England, Hungary, France, Luxembourg, Holland, among others, through its cognatic connection with the Scottish Clan Drummond and the Clan Sinclair. He is also great-great-great-great-grandson of King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy through his paternal grandmother in a illegitimate. Three months after his birth, as his parents had divorced, he moved with his mother to Rio de Janeiro, where her family had been living since 1974.

Education

Arthur began his education at the Nosso Lar school at age of 2 in 2000, staying there until he was three years old. From 3 to 5 years old, he studied at the Montessori Education Center. From there, he remained until the age of 10 in the Abolição School, from where he passed to the Ary Quintella School, where he completed elementary school. After completing the elementary, Arthur studied at the Rezende-Rammel Institute, where he graduated in mechatronics. Later, after considering mechatronics engineering at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and placing 3rd for the political science class at Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, he studied history at Estácio de Sá University, where he graduated as a bachelor and licensed professor in 2022. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in Brazilian history at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences.

Attending English classes since 2004, when he was six yeals old, Arthur is fluent in the language, although he considers himself an autodidact, stating that the school's teachings on English language were very poorly done and claiming he has learned the language from video-games and music. He attended Spanish classes as well, from 2011 to 2014, being fluent due to the ease of similarities with his native Portuguese language. He also claims to understand French, Italian, Galician and Romanian to some degree.

Career

A year after becoming King of Roschfallen, Arthur started working as a freelancer in the field of mechatronics, in which he had graduated. In 2016 he was hired by a commercial enterprise dedicated to decorative articles as a commercial manager, doing the shop's marketing, managing social networks and dealing with suppliers. In 2018 Arthur resigned his position a little before the company's closure and went to work as private teacher of history, geography, portuguese and english to five alumni at time until early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic prevented him from continuing his work. Nonetheless he was employed as history and geogrpahy assistant teacher at the Ary Quintella College on which he previously studied. In early 2021 Arthur was hired for a limited time as a historian by the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro's Department of Culture, being in charge of the guided tour of the Tiradentes Palace, for translating historical texts into English and working as an office assistant. In the exercise of his role, he gained notoriety when he was interviewed on national television by TV Globo. In 2023, at the end of his contract with the Assembly, Arthur was indefinitely commissioned as a Parliamentary Assistant in the Department of Culture.

Relationship

Since 2015, Arthur has openly identified himself as a gay. He has had two former relationships with two same-aged men and since 2016 he has been dating Guilherme Couto, a bisexual programmer from Rio de Janeiro. Upon assuming the throne of Ebenthal in 2019, Arthur created Guilherme Prince of Couto, later revising his title to Prince Consort in an Additional Act of Constitutional Amendment. The couple officially engaged in 2022.

Reign in Roschfallen

Arthur when he was King of Roschfallen.

Origins

Arthur became aware of micronationalist politics in 2014. That year he and two friends, Adrien Preuss and Alecsander Carvalho, founded Kingdom of Roschfallen at the NationStates micronational RPG browser game. Initially created as a fictional ideal country project, after the departure of Preuss and inspired by Sealand, Arthur began efforts to transform Roschfallen into a secessionist micronation, assuming for himself the title of King of Roschfallen on his birthday. Along with other friends, some already known and others he met through NationStates, Arthur organized the structures and institutions of the new micronation and firstly introduced the concept of Sovereignity Concession. During this period, discussions between Arthur and a group of nobles resulted in a internal crisis which culminated in the secession of Gros Morne, part of Roschfallen's core territories, and the establishment of the Kingdom of Ebenthal , in conjunction with the exodus of a third of the Roschfallenian aristocracy.

Once the Roschfallen government was solidified, Arthur sought to regain the support and prestige lost by the conflict and founded the Liberal League, an organization that brought together micronations that emerged from NationStates under the precepts of liberalism. Eventually, however, the League was dismantled by the political inactivity of much of its members. The final straw was when the Arabic Empire, one of the league's member states, adopted nazism as an official state ideology, prompting Roschfallen to cut ties with that state and support its former separatist rival, Ebenthal.

Inactivity and resurgence

During his reign in Roschfallen, King Arthur II was created a Baron in Sealand.

Despite being successful in the conflict against the Arabic Empire and strengthening the Liberal League alliance, the group was increasingly inactive and both issues reflected in Roschfallen's political activity, with Arthur becoming increasingly reclusive until the mid-19th century. 2017. That year Arthur was approached by Emperor Oscar I of Karnia-Ruthenia who not only encouraged him to resume full political activity in Roschfallen, but also offered for the Karno-Ruthenian Empire to annex the kingdom, which would become an autonomous state. Despite the rejection of the offer, Oscar and Arthur became great friends and confidants. In 2018 Oscar appointed Arthur as Minister of the Imperial and Royal Household of Karnia-Ruthenia.

Back on the micronational political scene, and with the help of his new Karno-Ruthenian allies, Arthur restructured Roschfallen and renewed its political class. The country adopted a feudal model and began its projection beyond the old Lusophone sector, establishing diplomatic relations with several micronations. Arthur also accepted to become a Senator in the Kingdom of Manso for the Liberal Party, between 2018 and 2019, and assumed for himself the Regency of Schneeblutig, one of the former member states of the Liberal League; in context, Arthur and Queen Maria I of Manso discussed becoming co-Emperors with Schneeblutig, but the idea was dropped. However, as the Monarch was forced to dedicate himself more to other aspects of his life, he ended up resigning his positions in Karnia-Ruthenia and Manso, dedicating himself politically only to Roschfallen.

Late reign and abdication

In the last year of his reign, in 2019, Roschfallenian politics was exhausted by the number of structural changes enacted by King Arthur without parliamentary consultation or support, which made him increasingly unpopular. The visible revolt on the part of the feudal lords reached such a limit that, seeing himself cornered, Arthur chose to execute a self-coup d'état, closing the Council of Fools, the parliament of Roschfallen, and instituting a absolute monarchy, believing that only by supreme centralization of power could he bring order to national politics, when it was obvious that he had lost all support. His move, however, backfired, and culminated in a further exodus of aristocrats and politicians and the secession of about three-fifths of Roschfallen's territory.

Disillusioned with the situation, Arthur did not immediately abdicate, but removed himself from micronational politics. Coincidentally, during this same period, he received an invitation from Lord Raphael Sousa, 1st Duke of Aureanburgh, then Regent of Ebenthal, to assume the throne of that country, which had been without a king since September at the time of the Mateusian Crisis. After conversations with Raphael and the High Inquisitor of Roschfallen, Fernando Degani, on 29 December 2022 Arthur abdicated the throne of Roschfallen, as well as renounced his family's rights to that throne, and was succeeded by Fernando. Then he contacted Raphael and formally announced that he accepted the proposal, becoming King of Ebenthal.

Reign in Ebenthal

Early reign

The early reign of Arthur II was marked not only by reforms, but by Santiago-Mansean Conflict, in which he played a grand role.

Assuming the throne of Ebenthal under the name of Arthur II, he took oath to the country's constitution and and began a long process of reorganizing the administrative structure and aesthetics of the micronation according to his vision and as had been agreed with the former Regent of Ebenthal, the Duke of Aureanburgh. The beginning of his reign is described as very centralizing and reformer. Due to his personal connections with heads of state of renowned South American micronations and with micronational politicians from beyond the continent, Arthur II established a new foreign policy for Ebenthal, taking the country out of isolationism and bringing it to the center of micronational political actions of the South America, transforming it in a micronational great power and establishing the House of Bruyn as one of the most illustrious dynasties of continental micronationalism.

On 23 March 2020 Arthur was one of the original co-signers of the Treaty of Persenburg, probably the most important intermicronational document of micronationalism of Brazilian origin, having been mentioned in an article in the Brazilian mainstream media. The treaty established the secessionist Brazilian sector, removing Ebenthal from the Lusophone sector once and for all. In April of that year Arthur also signed the Treaty of Santiago, turning Ebenthal into one of the founding states of the Conference of Santiago, which grew to become the most influential intermicronational organization of the Americas. In the wake of his achievements as King of Ebenthal, confirming his intermicronational prestige, Arthur was invited to join the exclusive Micropolitan Club and Lounge.

During the negotiations of the Treaty of Persenburg and as a direct result, there was a split in Brazilian micronationalism between supporters of the treaty and those disaffected with it; this last group was led by Queen Marina I of Manso. On 13 April 2020, in order to try to calm things down, King Arthur II suggested to Queen Marina that a meeting be held between members of the newly founded Conference of Santiago and the Government of Manso so that clarifications could be provided. At the meeting, which took place via virtual hangout, however, both the Mansean monarch and the King of Bauru began to utter offenses against the Conference representatives. After a personal insult that the King of Bauru made to the King of Ebenthal, the latter abandoned the meeting, resulting in a long-standing diplomatic and sometimes bellicose conflict known as the Santiago-Mansean Conflict.

Democratic reforms

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Portrait of Arthur II as King of Ebenthal.

After a few months on the throne of Ebenthal, having consolidated his position, King Arthur II began a "second round" of reforms, this time structural, giving up some of his constitutional powers to the parliament, abandoning his strictly centralized policy, aiming to transform Ebenthal into a democracy. On 29 June 2020 the Moderate Party government headed by the Prime Minister Raphael Sousa fell and in its place the Conservative Party assumed. In October of that same year, the Conservatives were responsible for implementing the October Reform Act, stripping monarch from the power to freely appoint the speaker of parliament, which was transferred to the Prime Minister; such a reform was envisioned by the King as part of his reform package. On the 2nd August of that year, King Arthur was responsible for creating the Conferential Doubloon, the official currency of the Conference of Santiago, which became the currency with the greatest intermicronational circulation in the Americas, initiating to the Ebenthal's economic policies.

Despite the initial advances in pursuing a series of reforms, many of which under the Monarch's guidance, the Conservative government sought to prevent the King from pushing his democratic reforms by voting against or posponing them in order to keep the aristrocatic hegemony in the government. As a result, this brought the King closer to the leader of the Worker's Party, Lady Gabriela Amorim, 1st Duchess of Guterfolg. On 8 March 2021 his party, in coalition with the Moderate Party, the Worker's approves the Bicameral Act, which was the main reformist milestone of Arthur II's reign, abolishing the aristocratic exclusivity, which allowed only titled nobles to be part of the government, allowing the political participation of commoners, and creating a democratically elected lower house and a noble-exclusive upper house. This approval, not by chance, coincided with the appointment of Gabriela as the first female prime minister. However, the Monarch's influence on the implementation of the Bicameral Act is questioned by members of the Conservative Party, while it is neither confirmed nor denied by the Worker's and Moderates.

Following the Bicameral Act, King Arthur also gave up on the power to freely appoint the Prime Minister among the members of the majority party in the lower house, transferring this competence to the party in power. The last great democratic reforms of the reign of Arthur II were the Federative Act, implemented in November 2021, and the controversial Unitary Act, implemented in February 2022. The former, approved in the first government headed by a commoner, emerged from the Arthur's desire to politically recognize the fait accompli of the low degree of political activity in half of the Ebenthal's then-principalities by abolishing them. In this same period, pressured by left-wing elements of the government, the King decriminalized the Republican Party, that he had criminalized at the beginning of his reign. The latter, however, profoundly threatened the power of the regional aristocracy by abolishing principalities, turning them into provinces, and deposing their princely families. With this King Arthur II hoped to effectively transform the country into a democratic constitutional monarchy. The reform, however, sparked a constitutional crisis with separatist threats from the Conservative government of New Switzerland, whose entire government refused to accept the deposition of their monarchy, clashing with the central government, which in turn was unable to deal with the situation, prompting the King to resolve it personally through private conversation with Antônio I, Prince of New Switzerland, reaching an agreement which was presented to the government in the form of a Royal Decree.

Succession and heir

King Arthur II and his nephew and heir Heitor, Prince Royal.

During the early years of his reign Arthur had to deal with uncertainty about his potential succession. His immediate heir, according to the succession laws in force at the time, which included absolute primogeniture, was his elder sister, Princess Élida, whom, however, was involved with micronational activities. Despite having no intention of abdicating and not experiencing life-threatening health problems, Arthur grew concerned about this situation and, in April 2021, questioned his nephew Prince Heitor, son of Élida, who was very interested in matters of geography and history, if he would like to be his heir. With the child's assent, Arthur immediately asked his sister to waive her inheritance rights in favor of her own son, which she promptly did. As Heitor became Prince Royal and heir apparent to the throne, Arthur initiated him into micronational politics and the boy participates in government events with relative constancy ever since.

Later, however, still concerned about his royal house's lack of dynastic activity and seeking to secure the succession to the throne in his family, in October 2021 King Arthur II issued a Royal Decree amending the succession rules instituting the Semi-Salic Law, by which all men would succeed to the front of all women, while still allowing for the princesses to pass on her rights, thus assuring a male-preference primogeniture. The measure was harshly criticized as sexist by the Worker's Party and the Republican Party. The Monarch, however, justified it with the disinterest of his sisters and nieces in micronationalism in contrast to the interest of his nephews; therefore it would make sense to place them closer in the line of succession. In an interview with The Malmündian Mail Arthur expressed his desire to eventually see his legacy carried on by his family, in the event of not having children, by his nephews. He reaffirmed, however, that he has no plans to step down from the throne, but that there is a secret protocol to be followed should he be forcibly removed from the throne to secure his succession by a member of his family.

Intermicronational prestige

Page from the Almanac of Vetrolin depicting the House of Bruyn.

On 1 August 2020, on Karnia-Ruthenia's Empire' Day, Emperor Oscar I of Karnia-Ruthenia asked Arthur II whether he would prefer a hereditary peerage or receive the Order of the Edelweiss, Karnia-Ruthenia's most prestigious commendation. The Ebenthali monarch and former minister of Karnia-Ruthenia opted for the title and was created Prince of Engern-Tonna. Subsequently Arthur was ennobled with the title of Duke of Damão in Vishwamitra and Duke of Zëgret in Sildavia. The micronational reach of his prestige eventually reached political heights when on 5 January 2021 he was invited to become Regent of the Hanseatic and Confederate States of Achsen and tasked with finding that country a new monarch and organizing its government. The day after his appointment as Regent of Achsen, between 6 and 17 January, Arthur founded the Independent State of the New Southern Rhine as part of the Conference of Santiago Derivative Program, organizing his government and delivering it the noble and politician Ebenthali Jonathan, Marquis of Rozandir, who became re-King of the New Southern Rhine, which was nevertheless kept under Ebenthal's sphere of influence, being seen as a Client State.

Later, on 2 June, Arthur II, along with the Karno-Ruthenian monarch Oscar I, hatched a plan to bring political activity to the Sultanate of Harram, historical ally of Ebenthal and Arthur personally, from when he was King of Roschfallen. That day they deposed Sultan Omar V and installed Prince John of Ebenthal, Arthur's cousin, on the throne of Harram. John's reign as Sultan Hassan III was short, however, as on 8 August of that same year, Arthur and Oscar again intervened in Harram's entire politics by deposing him and installing the former Emir of Takia as Sultan Hassan IV of Harram. Between the end of June and the beginning of August, Arthur, Oscar and the King Fernando I of Roschfallen concluded the Treaty of Viden whereby the Lateran State would become independent from Karnia-Ruthenia under the protection of Ebenthal, Ferdinand would abdicate the throne of Roschfallen and the country would enter the Karno-Ruthenian sphere of influence. Not long after, in October 2021, Arthur left his post as Regent of Achsen with the accession of King Bruno I to the throne of that country.

Reign in Marienbourg

At the end of 2022, after reflecting for a few months, Arthur II decided to create a micronation that was "100% his", that is, compared to the Kingdom of Ebenthal in which, despite him being King, he is not the founder. In 26 December, the King approached his late grandmother Princess Maria's two brothers Edison and Anthony to explain to them about the micronational political practice. Arthur convinced his great-uncles to sign a sovereignty concession treaty in which they pledged to grant him sovereignty over their properties in the Minas Gerais municipality of Poços de Caldas for as long as they stay subjects of Arthur in the micronation that he would found from those lands. This provided that Arthur hold and keep his position as monarch over those lands. In possession of the sovereignty of those lands, on 9 January 2023 Arthur formally proclaimed his independence from the municipality of Poços de Caldas and Brazil and founded the Duchy of Marienbourg, proclaiming himself sovereign Duke.

Secretary-General of the Conference of Santiago

First flag of the Conference of Santiago.

Arthur II was one of the original signatories of the Treaty of Santiago and therefore Ebenthal was one of the founding states of the Conference of Santiago. From the beginning, Arthur aligned Ebenthal's foreign policy with that of the Conference, helping to bring overseas recognition to the organization. The monarch also took the lead in several matters such as the attempt to resolve the conflict with Manso that led to a diplomatic crisis and the creation of the Conferential Doubloon, the organization's official currency and South America's first convertible micronational currency. Arthur was also the mastermind of the Conference of Santiago Derivative Program, the program to help new micronationalists in the creation and management of a secessionist micronation, called in Portuguese a derivatist or derivative.

When the post of Secretary-General of the Conference of Santiago was created and Oscar I of Karnia-Ruthenia was elected as the first occupant of that post, Arthur began to act de facto as his deputy. On 5 January 2022 Arthur was elected Secretary General of the Conference of Santiago and began his term. In the first months of his term, Arthur worked for the expansion of the Conference beyond the South American continent in accordance with the Statute approved in August 2021, which provided for the end of the organization's regionalization. His effort was rewarded with the entry of two Canadian, two American and one Indian micronations. Arthur also worked to increase the intermicronational prestige of the Conference of Santiago and establish relationships with it with other intermicronational organizations of global or regional relevance. He represented the Conference of Santiago in the 2021 ASAM Radiator summit with ASAM and GUM, brought important members of the Micro Francophonie for the Conference and enrolled the Conference in Santiago at MicroCon 2022.

Personal views and interests

Arthur van der Bruyn with Antônio, Prince Imperial of Brazil at the 3rd Monarchical Meeting of Rio de Janeiro.

Politics

Politically, Arthur has avowedly identified as a social democrat and a centrism on the political spectrum. He is an avid supporter of what he calls "individual liberty, with common sense", advocating LGBT rights, cannabis legalization and religious freedom associated with secularism. On the other hand, he is a strong proponent and advocate of the death penalty. Formerly a supporter of it, Arthur no longers defends unrestricted freedom of speech and freedom of press, claiming that such unchecked freedoms could pose a potential danger to society in the form of spreading disinformation and threats to social order, citing as an example how American law allows for Nazi demonstrations. He also declared that he no longer supports the right to keep and bear arms, although he states that he is inclined to accept the idea as long as there are strict controls and restrictions on the type of weapon and the necesity to carry it.

In contrast to his defense of religious freedom, Arthur emphasizes the defense of secularism and is openly opposed to ultramontane religious views that harm other individual freedoms and actively works to remove religion from political discussions at home. As both King of Ebenthal and Duke of Marienbourg, Arthur has fight protestant cults and has issued decrees against neo-charismatic protestant denominations whose actions are interpreted as contradicting the same constitutional guarantees of freedom that he swore to defend; for example, cults protesting against LGBT marry rights, which are constitutionally guaranteed.

On the matter of government, Arthur is a staunch monarchist (since 2011) and advocate of the parliamentary model of government, supporter of the restoration of the Brazilian throne to the House of Orléans-Braganza. In 2013 he co-founded the Brazilian Monarchist Blue League (Portuguese: Liga Azul Monarquista Brasileira), a political activist organization based in Rio de Janeiro with cores in Manaus and Fortaleza which acted in close relationship to Prince Antônio of Brazil, brother to the Head of the Brazilian Imperial Family and currently the third on the line of succession to the Brazilian throne, and that he was responsible for the bill for holding a referendum for the restoration of the republic in Brazil, which was submitted to the Federal Senate of Brazil in 2017, having been definitively rejected by the Commission on Human Rights in 2020, after having been analyzed by 36 senators. He currently leads the Movimento Monarquista Independente (Independent Monarchist Movement).

Religion

Arthur currently identifies as an atheist. Upon his birth, though, he was baptized as a Antiochian Orthodox, due to the fact that both his Roman Catholic father and Umbandist mother were divorced of each other and had previous divorces each one of them, so their children couldn't be baptized in a Roman church. Living with his mother and stepfather, both Umbandist practicioners, Arthur grew heavily influenced by the spiritist dogma and used to some of the Umbanda practices such as spiritual possession and religious offers and frequently accompained his mother in spiritist and umbandist temples at parties.

Some of his mother's umbandist and spiritist influences that Arthur took for life are the belief in reencarnation, fairly common among Brazilians (Brazil holds the larger Spiritist community in the world), as well as the belief in spirits and in a spiritist version of afterlife. Arthur also has been influenced by his family's Catholic backgroud, but, open-minded, while he likes the figure of Jesus Christ, he doesn't recognize him either as the messiah or son of God or as bearer of any kind of supernatural ability. Despite his belief in spirits and afterlife, Arthur has constantly claimed to do not believe in God or "any kind of deity" as said; instead, he often search for some kind of metaphysical and rational explanation for the existence of such things and study physics as a mean to understand the universe and, eventually, reach philosophical conclusions on wether the existence of a god, according to his personal views, is possible or not, and thus why he identifies as an atheist and not as an agnostic.

Interests and hobbies

Arthur has repeatedly declared his love of history, particularly Brazilian, Portuguese, Iberian and Islamic history, having a degree in history with a specialty in the history of imperial Brazil. In addition, he has a myriad of interests that he pursues as far as possible such as geopolitics, numismatics vexillology, cartography, linguistics, literature, biology, philosophy, physics, astronomy, music and occultism and esoterism, besides being a regular player of online games and RPG. Arthur considers himself a polymath.

In literature, Arthur's favorite author is Howard Philips Lovecraft, an American author in the genre of cosmic horror, which is one of Arthur's favorite literary genres along with com political history, science fiction, fantasy and romance. His favorite book is Bram Stoker's Dracula. Arthur's taste in music changed throughout his life and was heavily influenced by his mother. His favorite music genres include heavy metal, hard rock, metalcore, Brazilian popular music, new-age, old samba and symphonic classical music, your favorite singer being openly Norwegian vocalist Jorn Lande. Arthur is still a big fan of artists like the band Disturbed and the supergroup Ayreon, and singers like w:Loreena McKennitt and Djavan. Since 2011 Arthur has been a player of the RPGs Dungeons and Dragons and Tormenta, occasionally GMing sessions. Also, since 2011, he is an active editor of English Wikipedia.

The son of a Umbandist ceremonial magician mother, despite considering himself irreligious, Arthur developed a deep interest in occult and often studies things related to the occult, shamanism, animism, spiritism and esotericism, while he avoids practicing these arts. According to priests of Umbanda and adherents of Spiritism, including his own mother and paternal grandmother, Arthur is a medium and protected by Omolu, Yorubá deity of disease and healing. In occultism, Arthur considers himself an adept of the left-hand path and has many esoteric objects inherited from his mother with which he intends to learn magical practices in the future.

Titles, styles and honours

Styles of Arthur as King of Ebenthal
Reference style	His Majesty
Spoken style	Your Majesty
Alternative style	Sire

Styles of Arthur as Duke of Marienbourg
Reference style	His Serene Highness
Spoken style	Your Serene Highness
Alternative style	Sire

Titles and styles

• 28 January 1998 – present: His Excellency The Hereditary Baron of Roches
• 28 January 2014 – 29 December 2019: His Majesty The King of Roschfallen
• 29 December 2019 – present: His Majesty The King of Ebenthal
• 8 July 2020 – 4 November 2022: His Imperial Majesty The Emperor of the Sovietian Workers
• 26 December 2022 – present: His Serene Highness The Duke of Marienbourg

As King of Ebenthal his full style and title is: "By Grace of God and Popular Will, His Majesty Arthur II, King of All Ebenthal either side of the Mountain Range and Beyond, Defender of the Independence, Lord of the Northern Hills, Prince of Triunphus, of Engern-Tonna, of Blumenau, Duke of Abbās, Refoles, Zëgret, Count of Bruyn, Count-Baron of Sealand, Fidalgo and Hereditary Baron of Roches in Portugal".

Honours

National honours

As King of Ebenthal and Duke of Marienbourg, Arthur is Grand Master of the following orders:

• Grand Master and Sovereign of the Order of Prince Ludwig Gaston
• Grand Master and Sovereign of the Order of the Cross of Saint James
• Grand Master and Sovereign of the Order of the Ebony Crown
• Grand Master and Sovereign of the Order of the Blue Blood
• Grand Master and Sovereign of the Order of Lady Mary
• Grand Master and Sovereign of the Royal Ebenthali Order
• Grand Master and Sovereign of the Order of the Orange Blossom
• Grand Master and Sovereign of the Order of the Oak Throne
• Grand Master and Sovereign of the Order of Mines and Baths

Foreign honours

Arthur has also been decorated with a number of other honours:

• Achsen:
  • Grand Collar of the Order of Aracy
  • Grand Collar of the Order of the Niveous-Crimson Tail

• Badakhshan: Knight of the Sulime Imperial Order of the Lotus

• Brazil: Recipient of the State of Rio de Janeiro Educational Merit Medal

• Brazilian Imperial Family: Commemoration Pin of the Acclamation of the Imperial Family

• Conference of Santiago: Recipient of the Medal for the Conferential Merit

• Harram:
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Hassan the Great
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Eastern Star

• Karnia-Ruthenia:
  • Knight of the Order of the Edelweiss
  • Knight of the Order of St. Stephen
  • Knight of the Order of St. Peter
  • Knight of the Order of Oscar
  • Knight of the Order of St. George
  • Recipient of the Imperial and Royal Wedding Commemorative Medal

• Kongolese Royal Family:
  • Knight of the Order of the African Star
  • Grand Companion of the Order of Christ

• Luna: Knight of the Order of the Constellation of Cancer

• Mauritia:
  • Knight of the Merorial Order of João Santana
  • Knight of the Order of Schkoppe
  • Knight of the Order of the Assum Preto
  • Recipient of the Burgundy Vengeance Medal

• Mimas:
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saturn
  • Commander First Class of the Order of Saint Walpurgis and the Second Monarchy

• Monmark: Knight of the Order of the Crowned Lion

• New Southern Rhine:
  • Knight of the Order of Frederick Barbarossa
  • Knight of the Order of the Katarinensisch Crown

• Nossia: Officer of the Order of the Just and Serene Crown of Nossia

• Occidia: Recipient of the Cross of Independence

• Quinta Velha: Knight of the Order of General Varela

• Rino Island: Recipient of the Cruz del Sur

• Roschfallen:
  • Grand Cross of the Order of the Golden Triumph
  • Grand Cross of the Order of the Magnum Heart

• Rubrayev:
  • Grand Cross of the Order of the Purple Lung
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Presidente Prudente

• Sabia and Verona: Commander of the Order of the Baphomet

• Schneeblutig: Grand Cross of the Order of Peterstaad

• Sealand: Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Sealand

• Sildavia and Borduria:
  • Stranger Knight of the Order of the Black Pelican
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Ottokar
  • Recipient of the Foundation Medal of Sildavia
  • Recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the First Queen's Day
  • Recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the Cotton Jubilee
  • Stranger Knight of the Order of the Bordurian Eagle

• Sovietria:
  • Grand Recipient of the Order of Trotsky
  • Grand Recipient of the Order of the Scepter and the Sickle
  • Grand Recipient of the Order of the Yellow Banner

• Taslavia: Knight of the Order of the Taslavian Eagle

• Upper Shwartz Morgen Lorgen Land: Recipient of the Silver Cross of Friendship

• Villa Alicia: Knight 1st Class of the Order of St. Joachim

• Znatsnaz: Commander of the Order of Gionata Giackovseen XIII

Forfeit honours

Arthur also willingly gave up or was disconnected from the following orders:

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Kingdom of Roschfallen: Grand Cross of the Order of the Black Fleece Grand Cross of the Order of Vissen the Mad Vishwamitra: Stranger Knight of the Most Exalted Royal Family Order of Vishwamitra Royal Knight of the Most Auspicious Order of the Sanghamitra Knight Grand Cordon of the Most Illustrious Royal Order of the Crown of Vishwamitra Grand Commander of the Most Gallant Order of Mahabali Karthika Padaka Member Special Class of the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit Recipient of the Royal Vishwamitran Chain Recipient of the National Service Medal Recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the First Anniversary of the Vishwamitran Monarchy Purvanchal: Knight Companion of the Most Exalted Supreme Order of the Royal House of Purvanchal Grand Knight of the Most Noble Royal Family Order of Purvanchal Grand Commander of the Most Noble Royal Family Order of Purvanchal Grand Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of the Rajpramukh Dhrubajyoti Roy Beltola: Member 1st Class of the Most Esteemed Royal Family Order of Beltola Madhya Prant: Member of the Most Esteemed Royal Family Order of Madhya Prant Kamrupa: Knight of the Most Esteemed Order of the Royal Family of Kamrupa Commander Grand Cross of the Premier and Exalted Order of Kamrupa Arabic Empire: Commander of the Order of Werner Junck

Noble titles

•       Relinquished or former title(s).

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Date Country Style and Title 28 January 1998 – present Portugal His Excellency Fidalgo Arthur van der Bruyn (The Hereditary Baron of Roches) 25 March 2021 – 2 November 2022 Vishwamitra His Grace The Duke of Damão 25 February 2017 – present Harram His Grace The Duke of Abbās 5 November 2022 – present Quinta Velha His Grace The Duke of Refoles 23 March 2020 – present Roschfallen His Highness The Prince of Triunphus 1 August 2020 – present Karnia-Ruthenia His Highness The Prince of Engern-Tonna 26 January 2016 – 28 January 2020 Sealand His Grace Arthur van der Bruyn, Baron in Sealand 28 January 2020 – present Sealand His Grace Arthur van der Bruyn, Count in Sealand 26 April 2021 – present Sildavia His Ducal Serene Highness The Duke of Zëgret 10 September 2017 – 13 April 2020 Manso His Excellency The Marquis of the Water Valley 25 December 2022 – present Lifréia His Serenity The Count of Bruyn

Military appointments

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Ebenthal Commander-in-Chief and Generalíssimo Royal Reserve Force Vishwamitra Honorary General (RELINQUISHED) Royal Vishwamitran Army Baustralia Chief petty officer His Royal Navy Karnia-Ruthenia Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor Karno-Ruthenian Army Karnia-Ruthenia Honorary Colonel of the Imperial and Royal Regiment of Hussars Karno-Ruthenian Army

Ancestry

The ancestry of King Arthur:

Ancestors of Arthur II of Ebenthal

16. Bernardino van der Bruyn (1838-1906)**               8. Henrique van der Bruyn, 3rd Baron of Roches (1886-1950)                       17. Maria Macedo Brum ()               4. Mário van der Bruyn, 4th Baron of Roches (1912-1994)                             18. Fernando Martins Leite ()               9. Isabel Leite Brum (1888-1963)                       19. Maria Leal da Costa               2. Armando van der Bruyn, 5th Baron of Roches (1961)                                   20. Manoel Marques Barbosa (1865-1899)               10. Armando Marques Barbosa (1899-1980)                       21. Justina Martins Marques (1873-1946)               5. Lidalva Barbosa de Souza Savoy (1930-2010)                             22. Antônio de Souza (1878-19??)**               11. Maria Perpétua de Souza Savoy (1904-1934)                       23. Leonília Savoy (1882-19??)**               1. Arthur II of Ebenthal                                         24. Almerindo de Oliveira (1869-1940)**               12. José de Oliveira (1901-1974)                       25. Marianna de Oliveira (1870-1952)**               6. José de Oliveira Filho (1933-2011)                             26. TBD               13. Maria Sant'Anna de Oliveira (1915-1981)                       27. TBD               3. Marilia Carvalho Oliveira (1966-2018)                                   28. TBD               14. Geraldo Fernandes de Carvalho (1909-1962)                       29. Ana de Carvalho (1889-19??)**               7. Maria Carvalho Oliveira (1933-2014)                             30. João Vieira Gomes (1841-1939)**               15. Francisca Carvalho (1915-1990)                       31. Sabina (1842-1953)**

References

Arthur II of Ebenthal House of Bruyn Born: 28 January 1998
Regnal titles
Preceded by Mateus I As High King	King of Ebenthal 29 December 2019 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by New title	King of Roschfallen 28 January 2014 – 29 December 2019	Succeeded by Fernando I
Preceded by New title	Sovietian Emperor 8 July 2020 – 4 November 2022	Succeeded by Andrey I
Preceded by New title	Duke of Marienbourg 26 December 2022 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Royal titles
Preceded by New title	Prince of Blumenau 17 January 2021 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Prince Paulo	Prince Imperial of Schneeblutig 14 January 2016 – 1 April 2020	Succeeded by None Title vacant
Noble titles
Preceded by New creation	Prince of Engern-Tonna in Karnia-Ruthenia 1 August 2020 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by New creation	Prince of Triunphus in Roschfallen 23 March 2020 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by New creation	Duke of Abbās in Harram 16 February 2017 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by New creation	Duke of Damão in Vishwamitra 25 March 2021 – 28 October 2022	Succeeded by None Changes in system
Preceded by New creation	Marquis of the Water Valley in The Manso 2018 – 2 April 2020	Succeeded by None Title voluntarily relinquished
Preceded by New creation	Count of Sealand 28 January 2020 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by New creation	Baron of Sealand 26 January 2016 – 28 January 2020	Succeeded by Dignity elevated
Preceded by Armando Brum	Hereditary Baron of Roches and Fidalgo in Portugal 28 January 1998 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Oscar I of Karnia-Ruthenia	Secretary-General of the Conference of Santiago 5 January 2022 – 5 July 2022	Succeeded by Thomas I of Quinta Velha
Preceded by Office established	Regent of Achsen 10 December 2020 – 10 June 2021	Succeeded by Bruno I (as King of the Hanseatics)
Preceded by Office established	Chairman of the Volkshaus 5 July 2020 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Office established	People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs 5 July 2020 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Office assumed	Kingdom of Manso's Senator 2018	Succeeded by None Relinquished office
Preceded by Ari Thomaz-Rocha	Ministry of the Imperial and Royal Household 10 March 2018 – 25 April 2019	Succeeded by Sânia von und zu Freiburg
Preceded by Office established	Chairman of the Liberal League 8 August 2014 – 27 April 2016	Succeeded by None Office abolished
Preceded by Office assumed	Privy Councilor of Vishwamitra 10 July 2022 – 2 November 2022	Succeeded by Office relinquished
Preceded by Office assumed	Consul-General of Vishwamitra in Rio de Janeiro 29 September 2021 – 2 November 2022	Succeeded by N/A
Preceded by Office assumed	Chargé d'affaires of Vishwamitra to Brazil 5 April 2022 – 2 November 2022	Succeeded by N/A