Henry I the Lion, king of Ruritania

Henry the Lion appears in the Hopeverse (in Heart of Princess Osra) as a decisive and stern early eighteenth-century king of Ruritania, the father of Rudolf III. In the Arramverse he was the son of King Rudolf II (died 1697) and was appropriately active in warfare as a teenage Crown Prince. We are told he led Austrian forces which broke the (entirely imaginary) Ottoman siege of Trieste. This would have been possible since the 1680s and 1690s were a period of extended warfare between the Hapsburgs and the Ottomans. Most of Henry's military career would have been during the War of the Austrian Succession (1701-14) when it is likely he would have been an ally of the Empire against Ruritania's traditional enemy, Bavaria, and Louis XIV of France. He was according to Mr Pokolotsky, the chef de protocole of the Rothenian government in 2000, the subject of a Bavarian assassination plot, and personally executed the assassin with his dress sword. He is assigned a death in 1731 in the Arramverse.