Foxcourt
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| Location | Northeast Bowcourt |
| Government | Administered on behalf of the Marquessa of Bowcourt |
| Population | |
| Languages –Common |
50% |
| Taxes – Property Tax: |
% per annum |
| Imports | |
| Exports | Sheep, Wool, Warpstone and Treachery. |
County Foxcourt is the largest vassal area of Bowcourt. Its lands are primarily cultivated farmlands and the formerly forested land know imports wood. The northern borders reach into the hills and mountains and provide access to the famous Warpstone mines. It formerly encompassed the vassel regions of Newcourt and Faircourt but in recent times these lands are direct vassels of Bowcourt.
Foxcourt is a very old county that has been civilised for 1000 years or more which is 200 years prior to the establishment of the Western Kingdom – the area was an elven march at the time. The lands are rich and fertile having benefited from informed and planned cultivation, pasturing and retention of numerous woodland areas and there are windmills, lots of towers, millponds, manmade lakes of water reserves, good sized towns, roads, several castles and the well-built city of Foxcourt.
Places
Governance
Prior to 805WK - the county was previously controlled by the de Foxcourt family who held the position of Count on behalf of the Marquessa of Bowcourt
As of 805WK - the county is currently administered by William Fortbrass a cousin of the Marquessa of Bowcourt on her behalf.
People of Note/Importance
- Ct Richard "Tricky Dicky" Foxcourt, currently in exile despite being reduced to ashes during the Middle Duchies War.
Historical Counts of Foxcourt
- Fulk, Count of Foxcourt
- Damien, Count of Foxcourt
Trade
Religion
Magic
Crime and Punishment
Mundane Crime
Magical Crimes
History
The de Foxcourt family in 500wk
Fulk I of Foxcourt - (Count of Foxcourt from 440 to 480), (b420-d509) - (M-445) – Lizeth (nee de Sant-Michel) of Foxcourt (b422-d536). Their children were;
- Anya of Foxcourt (b446-d538)
- Elise of Foxcourt (b448-d528) married the Olivier de Chagny, the Count of Chagny in 468
- Fulk II of Foxcourt - (Count of Foxcourt, 480 to 499) (b450-d499)
- Damien of Foxcourt - (Count of Foxcourt, 499 to 501) (b451-d501)
- Alexandre of Foxcourt (b453-d497)
- Capucine of Foxcourt (b455-d542)
- Marc of Foxcourt (b456-d522)
Pre 805
The current de Foxcourt family
Jolie de Foxcourt (nee de Saint-Michel), (b736-dTBA) – She appears to be around 45 due to her unique local heritage. She is a feisty jet black dark haired old lady who has little in the way of sense of humour.
Jolie has been the matriarch of the family for decades and the senior family member since the death of her husband Fulk VI de Foxcourt (Count of Foxcourt from 755 to 785), (b733-d799). Jolie had 5 children (inc a set of triplet girls) with only 1 son - Richard de Foxcourt (aka Tricky Dicky) who was dispossessed of his lands in 805 after being found guilty of crimes against the kingdom and tried in abstentia. The Foxcourt lands have subsequently been removed from the de Foxcourt family.
- Richard de Foxcourt (Count of, 785 to 805) (b760-dTBA )
- Elaine de Foxcourt (b761-dTBA) She is married to Selent de
- Louisa de Foxcourt (b763-dTBA) Blonde hair, green eyes, 5ft 5. Divorced by Decree in 806 from Alfonse de Lafère
- Analise de Foxcourt (b763-dTBA) Blonde hair, green eyes, 5ft 5. Divorced by Decree in 806 from Jean de Vallière
- Corinna de Foxcourt (b763-dTBA) Blonde hair, green eyes, 5ft 5. Never married
805
In the Autumn of 805, in the aftermath of the assassination of Duke Frederick of Aquila a jury of his peers found Count Richard guilty in absentia on charges of sedition and passed sentence of exile (to be at least 1000 miles from the Western Kindom) upon pain of death. (Not that there was any evidence, or indeed any indication that Richard was involved in the assassination, rather that the political climate in the Kingdom in the weeks after the Duke's death was such that nobles needed to be seen to act, and Foxcourt made a convenient target... and he was no doubt guilty of many things, if not this).
The County of Foxcourt was left vacant and administered by William Fortbrass a cousin of the Marquessa of Bowcourt.
At Samhain 805 the Marquessa declared that Newcourt and Faircourt were to become her direct vassals.
Post 805
The now deposed de Foxcourt family have been allowed to retain their family manor ‘Fulken's Rest’ just outside of Foxcourt but have had all their other holdings stripped from them and returned to the Marquessa.
Fulken's Rest manor is a much smaller than the castle that the de Foxcourt family have enjoyed for the last 800 years but there is only a few of them now and most of the staff stayed at the castle. Only the immediate family, a footman named Giles and a maid/cook named Helga came down with them to ‘Fulken’s Rest’.
Fulken's Rest’ is 16 miles north of Foxcourt and lies on the banks of the Reynar River and which runs at the feet of the Jarvet Hills (a collections of small hills based around a long extinct volcano which has left a caldera in the hills that has filled with water to become a highland lake named Lake Ellabell.
There is a small stream that flows down from the lake atop Mt Jarvet (2000ft) and it flows down to join with the Reynar River, along the way creating a waterfall named the Red Fox Falls as the rock behind the waterfall is a deep red Travertine stone.
On the flanks of Mt Jarvet and its near hills are a few buildings and several towers dating back many centuries as well as a few ruins.
Three of the remaining intact standing towers on Jarvet Hill are Damien’s Folly which has a small telescope in the roof, Anya’s retreat which was used in 650 by Lady Anya when some raiders came into the county over winter and tried to take hostages and valuables (she and her followers fled to here and lit a beacon fire to signal help), and Zubina’s Roost which in the past used to house avians that flew here many years ago – avians like griffons of the elven royal guard etc.
General Notes
The de Foxcourt family are most aggrieved to have been demoted to such a low rank in what was their county and are very hostile to anyone coming around. The recent divorces of Louisa and Analise have caused yet more angst and ill will in the family who feel they are being unfairly tarred with the smear of Richards dishonour.
