Breaking The Cycle

In Plantagenet England, during the early reign of King John, England was almost bankrupt due to the wars of Richard The Lion Heart. At the time a number of Dukes owed the king millions of crowns. The dukes funds was low and they did not wish to pay their king. They had already put much of their money toward the war against France during the reign of the Lion Heart. Other rich nobles fear what the king might do in his desperate need for funds.

After three years on the throne King John made peace with France and in turn years later France broke the treaty. King John raised taxes, increasing the cost of living to pay for the war. During the war the English soldiers had shortages of resources, food, weapons and gun powder. King John yet again raised taxes and many families who were once rich were now middle class citizens. The kings before King John followed the principle of vis et voluntas (force and will). All of England feared this, especially sense the king was desperate for money.

The greediness of King John increased severely. The courtiers stop coming to court because they noticed the king is secretly targeting rich families to bleed dry. This action itself was taken in account by other rich families who have not been targeted, yet. There was ten families that was amongst the richest in Europe. Among these ten families are the Barquettes, who are very rich and powerful, they fear they are next on the kings list of families to bleed dry. All ten head of these families met in secret. They put about $50 million crowns together and offer the money to the king. They decided to show the king the money and bilk him into giving them three dukedoms to do as they please. Hampshire, Sussex and Southern Surrey. For $50 million they knew that the king would do anything to bring his kingdom above water.

On a cool October day the ten heads of the families met up at the kings current palace (The Tower of London before it became a prison). The king was desperate enough to consider anything. His mother Eleanor of Aquitaine was not present at the meeting. The men was thankful because they knew she was intelligent enough to say no, what they were considering, no one has ever done in history. First the men presented the gold and the king practically melted at the many chests they brought some of the money in. Once they had the king right were they wanted him they presented the deal they wished to make. After two long weeks of waiting the king summoned them back to the palace. This time Eleanor of Anquitaine was present and trying desperately to plead with her son not to give them three dukedoms. However the money he was presented two weeks prior blinded him and clouded his judgment.

King John gave the men what they wanted. He signed a sacred document and sent it to the pope to sign. It was three dukedoms that took up a portion of southern England. They agreed that they can do what ever they wished with the dukedoms. Any person no matter title or rank would need permission to enter. At this time the king was laughing behind their backs saying they bought the poorest dukedoms in England. Yes, they laughed. They laughed indeed.

During the years that past the king was busy spending his money and sending money to his soldiers fighting in France. While doing this, the ten heads of the ten richest families was paying any strong men to build a massive wall around the dukedoms.

They gave their new land the name of Brookfield. The name is strong and the new land was becoming just that, strong.

Many decades later the wall was finished and people all around Europe came to see it. After sorting out the names of the families who helped build the massive wall, they were rewarded with residency in Brookfield. When the wall was finished the descendants of the ten families decided to give Brookfield a leader and they chose therichest family who had the deepest roots in England. They chose the Barquette family to lead them, and that they did. The Barquette family became one of the most powerful families in Europe. They decided the title of Duke was too common for them and they wanted to make a difference. They decided that the lead family should have titles that were unheard of before. Gregory Barquette became the Divine Duke of
Brookfield. His wife became the Divine Duchess and their sons became the Grand Dukes. Their daughters became the Grand Duchesses. Together they became the Divine family of Brookfield. The Divine family were treated like royal.

The educational system of Brookfield rivaled royal educations. Brookfield boys and girls were given a good education by far. By the time Henry III of England found out about the educational system and the riches and glory that Brookfield had, occupied his interest. He is the son of John of England and he was an ill minded king. All of England knew the king was ill minded and this worried the Divine Duke little.

Brookfield even run like a kingdom, but it is not. They have a separate army from the rest of England. Brookfield has a massive army of 600,000 special trained soldiers. Boys and girls are tained in many things and many courses. The Brookfielders mainly train their children in religion, business, all styles of combat and fighting, and many courses of studies. Both girls and boys have this training, but the men has a choice in joining the divine army. The Divine Army is so big because all children are trained in military and combat styles from the age of three. Brookfield also has it's own massive armada. Every defense a kingdom has, Brookfield has. Through the centuries Brookfield growth in strength has been a threat to England and each English king after King John found Brookfield to be a threat to the monarchy of England.

Brookfield is full of peaceful people. Through the years the divine council ensured the kings of England that Brookfield is no threat and that it is as much as the kings land as theirs, with the proper invitation of course.

The people of Brookfield are descendants from the ten families who purchased the land and of the families who help build the wall. Each family in Brookfield is rich due to the good trade with other countries. The wealth and strength of Brookfield grows each generation.

The kings of England fear Brookfield because the Divine Duke of Brookfield can conquer England and Europe if he pleases to do so.

If any Brookfielder leaves Brookfield to visit extended family or for whatever reason, they are treated with the highest respect and honor. ven in court, the Brookfielders who visit (which is very rarely) is treated with respect and honor.
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So yes, Kings are allowed to enter Brookfield, IF they have the proper invitation. The King can get in two ways, they can get invited by a resident or they can get invited by the Divine Family. And there you have it, the beginning of Brookfield. End Of Story lol.