Beltrum Kingdom

Summary
Beltrum Kingdom (べルトラム王国) is one of the major power in the Strahl Region with history span of three generation, it has direct border with the warmongering Proxia Empire on the north, their allies Galarc Kingdom on the east, the isolated Centostella Kingdom on the southeast, unknown wilderness on north west, and the sea at the south.

Government
The current de facto ruler of Beltrum Kingdom is the House of Arbor, however the royal family traditionally rules the nation with the help of the noble as their vassals.

The government and bureaucracy of Beltrum is managed by the nobles and their knights. These positions are inherited by their families. Beltrum is also known to coordinate to remove weaker families from the nobility if they threaten the status quo.

In essence, the nobility discriminates against commoners to the degree of torture, rape and murder. They also collude with each other to destroy noble houses that are gaining merit through talent. This nepotism has allowed corruption to fester within the kingdom and rot it from the inside, and for talented individuals such as Aria, Lucius and Rio to abandon Beltrum and either work for foreign entities or actively sabotage Beltrum.

The current Royal Family are
 * Duke Arbor's faction- comprehend almost a half of Bertram's nobles.
 * Duke Huguenot's faction - comprehends a third part of Bertram's nobles.
 * Duke Fontaine's faction - a sixth part of Bertram's nobles. They are also known as the King's faction. They are a loyalist faction to the royal family.

Chronology

 * Year 991 of the Holy Era:
 * Flora Beltrum was appointed as the priestess in charge of performing the ritual to pray for the prosperity of the kingdom. Flora was kidnapped during the purification ceremony. Helmut Arbor was forced to resign from his position and Charles Arbor, who was in charge of the security was demoted. Alfred Emerle took the position of commander of the Royal guards.
 * Year 996 of the Holy Era:
 * Rio was charged guilty for the attempted murder on Flora during the outdoor drill. He became the most wanted criminal in the Beltrum kingdom, his bounty is still active.
 * Year 1000 of the Holy Era:
 * The Beltrum army suffered a crushing defeat against Proxia Empire in a dispute. The Proxia Empire occupied strategic bases and territory.
 * Duke Arbor's faction risen, they pursued the responsibility of the loss of the recent territory. They rebuked the weak policies of the King and Duke Huguenot's faction on the empire.
 * Duke Huguenot's faction and Flora escaped from the royal capital to Rodania. They're being viewed as rebels.
 * Shigekura Rui, a Hero was summoned in Beltrum's royal castle.
 * Celia Claire was abducted by an insurgent in her wedding to Charles Arbor.
 * Charles Arbor lead 5000 strong army, Sword King Alfred Emerle and the Hero Shigekura Rui to the Galarc border to capture the escaping princess Christina, only to be defeated by Galarc Honorary knight Amakawa Haruto, Alfred and Charles are captured as POW.

Royal Family

 * Philip Beltrum
 * Cristina's and Flora's father, his appearance wasn't described, between thirty and forty years, total number of wives between two and infinite, his only appearances in the novel were when he took back from duke Arbor the right to command the royal guard from him as a punishment for allowing Flora's kidnapping, when ordering Rio to assist the royal academy and when treating Flora as a fool for not understanding their necessity of framing Rio.


 * Beatrice Beltrum
 * Cristina's and Flora's mother, appearance unknown, age unknown, we don't know either if there is some more child besides Cristina and Flora, she was present when Rio was ordered to assist the royal academy but never appeared again.


 * Christina Beltrum
 * 1st princess and first in line for the throne


 * Flora Beltrum
 * 2nd princess, shy and quiet


 * Philip's second wife
 * Helmut Arbor's daughter, name unknown, age unknown, appearance unknown, total number of children unknown, she never appeared in the novel.


 * Loris Beltrum
 * Cristina's and Flora's little sister of a different mother, she's the second wife's daughter and Helmut's granddaughter, she was ordered by Helmut to seduce Rui to make their child the next king and that way replace the royal family with the Arbor family, because Rui was summoned with his girlfriend Akane she doesn't have success on it, appearance unknown, age unknown, probably younger than Flora, personality unknown.

House Huguenot
One of the three duke houses inside Bertram, the leading family of the Hugenot faction, in the conservative side the same as Phillip.

The current known member are:
 * Gustav Huguenot
 * Current head of Hugenot family, in his forties, total number of wives unknown, total number of children unknown, at least Stewart, Stewart's little brother and Latifa, his objective is to be the noble with more influence in the Bertram kingdom, he was the one who pressured the royal academy to falsify what happened to Flora as Rio trying to kill her in order to protect his influence in the kingdom, he sent Latifa to kill Rio, by Latifa's words her assassination targets were near the two digits already, later he would have to run away from Bertam's capital falsely accused of being a rebel, I'm personally happy of knowing this guy learnt how it feels being framed and having to run away for your life, he made Flora the leader in name only of the nobles that want to recover Bertram from the Arbor family in order to recover their former positions in the kingdom, while he became the leader on fact, his current objective is to have Hiroaki and Flora as a puppet king and queen with him making all the decisions the same way Helmut wanted to do with Cristina's and Flora's father, he may not want the throne for himself but he still wants every tiny bit of authority and power he can grasp to make the country go in the direction that benefits him the most, when Cristina said in volume 11 that this guy's was the reasonable level of ambition I really wanted to go there and ask her "Reasonable? You sure?", when he met Cristina in volume 13 his first thought was to lament that she isn't as easy of use as Flora, but he still was decided to use her as much as he can and to lead Cristina's decisions with the help of others nobles in the direction he wishes as much as he can, and he was completely decided to use Celia to gain Rio's group for their side one way or another until Cristina warned him that if he recruits them forcefully Rio would become their enemy, the next day after seeing that Rio has a very good relationship with Lizelotte and that doing something to Rio may end with Lizelotte retiring her support to Restoration (support that at least for Hugenot is as important or even more as Galarc kingdom's support), displease Galarc's King, endangering their agreement of support, and because of how fearsome is Rio himself that isn't only strong but is very well connected too and can gather a group of demon sword users around him, then he begins to wonder if Cristina's warning was she looking at the future, but he still is completely decided in his head to make Rio connected to Restoration one way or another.


 * Stewart Huguenot
 * Gustave's first son, Rio's and Cristina's kouhai, Flora's classmate, one of the person that bullied Rio the most and was always bringing other with him to bully him more together, the one that accused Rio of making him crash with Flora making her fall from the cliff, if you want to know about his personality you should read Latifa's gaiden.


 * House Rodan

Rodan is a marquiss ranked noble family, the ruler of Rodania's territory where the Restoration set up their base, close acquaintance of Duke Huguenot


 * George Rodan Alphonse's father, age unknown, appearance unknown, total number of wife and children unknown, the second noble more powerful inside Hugenot faction, the governor of the territory that Restoration is using as its base right now.


 * Alphonse Rodan  Marquis Rodan's second son, Rio's and Cristina's classmate, the one that was always bullying Rio together with Stewart and their friends.

House Albert

Albert Household are an Earl class noble household affiliated with Restoration and Huguenot faction

Current known member:
 * Dorothea Albert

House Brandt
Brandt Household are an Earl class noble household affiliated with Restoration and Huguenot faction

Current known member:
 * Raymon Brandt is the captain of Restoration knights.
 * Elise Brandt  is the daughter of the Brandt household and also Rio's classmate back in academy, she's part of Roana clique and she used to secretly tried to court Rio in school before turning back on him and start spreading bad rumor after Rio ignoring her

House Dandi
 Dandi Household  are a Baron class Noble family that part of the restoration, though they are only a lower nobility that just barely able to be called nobility, they managed to shrewdly engaged their daughter to one of the teleported Japanese

Current known member:
 * Dierk Dandi
 * Rosa Dandi

House Belmont
 Belmont Household  are a Baron class Noble family that part of the restoration, they are only a lower nobility that just barely able to be called nobility, and also approached one of the teleported Japanese while the rest of the nobility busy trying to get closer with Rio and Liselotte

Current known member:
 * Gilbert Belmont 
 * Mikaela Belmont

House Arbor:
One of three duke houses inside Bertram, the Arbor's faction leading family and a militaristic house.

Their current known member are:
 * Helmut Arbor
 * current head of the Arbor family, Charles' father, at least in the middle of his sixties, appearance unknown, his objective was to become someone with more authority than the king himself and to have the royal family as his puppets that do as he says and that way to be at least in fact the one that rules the country, when Cristina's and Flora's grandfather was still the king and was already senile he convinced him of giving him the command of the royal guard and the right to designate its members, by giving important post in the royal guard to other nobles he won for his side the majority of Bertam's nobles, after Flora's kidnapping Philip took back the right to command the royal guard from him making him lose a great part of his influence, but he didn't gave up, he kept working in order to regain his influence, five years after he recovered enough influence for Philip to need the duke Hugenot's help to stop him from imposing his politics, at that time all the factions were discussing what to do about the Proxia empire in the north of Beltrum, Helmut wanted to strengthen the army to oppose them but Philip and Hugenot wanted to stay as until now, if it has been known that because of Stewart Flora almost dies Hugenot would have lost a part of his influence and he wouldn't have had strength enough to not let Helmut to take control again of the army to prepare for a future war with the Proxia empire, as Reis' planned, so they framed Rio to protect Hugenot's influence from falling and to not allow Helmut to take for him the power that Hugenot lost, two months before the heroes summoning they pacted with Reis to let him take control of some region of Beltrum's north to after that blaming Philip and Hugenot's conservative politics of the defeat against the Proxia empire and that way take from the them the right to command the royal guard and the national army and using them to put the country under his control, in exchange of that they would break the alliance with Galarc kingdom, what by Reis plan would have allowed the Proxia empire to destroy Bertram kingdom without the Galarc Kingdom being able of hindering them, this is treason no matter how you look at it, he accused falsely all the nobles of Hugenot's faction of being rebels to purge them with that as excuse, forcing them to run away with Flora and the stone that summoned Hiroaki from the capital to the Marquis Rodan territory that borders with the Proxia empire in the north and with the territory of Lizelotte's father in the east, after the hero summoning he changed his objective from having the royal family as his puppets to replace the royal family with his by making his granddaughter Loris to seduce Rui and making their child the next king, but he didn't succed in this because Rui has his girlfriend with him.


 * Charles Arbor
 * Helmut's son, the guy that tortured Rio in volume 1 and later lost a duel against him in one hit, Celia's former fiancee, in the middle of his thirties, six wifes, number of children unknown, personality an asshole.


 * Helmut's youngest daughter
 * She is married to Philip III as a royal concubine. Her daughter is Loris Beltrum.

House Fontaine
Their current known member are


 * Garcia Fontaine former head of the Fontaine family, Roana's grandfather, age unknown, at least in his sixties, number of wifes unknown, number of children unknown, the principal of the royal academy, the one that falsified the students' testimonies to frame Rio.


 * Duke Fontaine the current head of family, mentioned only


 * Roanna Fontaine the duke's daughter that hangs around with the royal princess, now became engaged to the hero



House Emerle
Earl ranked house from the Bertram kingdom

Current known member:


 * Alfred Emerle the earl's second son, the strongest knight on Beltrum and also famous in the whole region, called The King's Sword


 * Vanessa Emerle Princess Christina Royal Escort

House Claire
Family famous second only to Fontaine in magic, earl ranked family, considered as neutral family and loyal to the country and royal family, their influence keep rising after their first daughter Celia Claire keep turning great achievement on magic research and invention one after another, the only nice noble family to Rio simply because they are a bunch of nice people.

Current known member:


 * Laurent Claire a doting father, a stupidly doting father, Celia's father, in his forties, the one that helped Flora and Hugenot faction to scape from the royal capital, he helps the Fontaine faction to keep in contact with the Hugenot faction to work together to give back to the king his legitimate power, the Arbor faction threatened with destroying his house accused him of treason for cooperating with the rebels if he doesn't become a spy for them and helps to discover other nobles of the Fontaine faction in contact with Restoration, he was forced to give Celia as Charles' wife to use her as a hostage to ensure his cooperation with the Arbor faction, after Celia escapes he lends his help for scaping the capital to Cristina too after she comes back from the evening party but Charles suspects him and then he needs to trust in Rio that appeared in a good moment for taking Christina to Rodania.


 * Celia Claire the best magician on Strahl region at the current era, she graduated from the academy at 12, becoming lecturer and also researcher of magic that keep inventing magical artifact



Former Houses
House Governess  a fallen noble family, the only known member are Aria Governess that choose to become adventurer (raise to 1st ranked adventurer) and leaving the country, only to become the grand chamberlain of neighboring country Duke family

House Orgueille, infamous for their member Lucius Orgueil that once become the candidate of King's Sword aside Alfred Emerle, and then founded the strongest mercenary group in Strahl region, The Griffon

Military
In their army they have usual types of soldiers like Foot Soldiers, spearmen,

They have many new and old knight orders, mostly made of nobles and also nobles with no skill in Martial Arts will become sorceress. The join the Sorceress Squad.

The highest rank in the army is commander of the royal guard and the position of general is usually held by the king, very rarely any noble is given such a position.

here are the known Knightly orders of the Beltrum Kingdom:

Charles’s Newly formed Knight Order:

Royal Guard: are the very best and most strongest knights in the entire kingdom, who are responsible for protecting the king and the royal family.

Aerial Knights:

In the web novel there were two knight divisions in the Bertram Kingdom. The Kingdom Knights served as the core of the regular army and served to protect the country while the Imperial Guards exclusively served the Royal Family and court. The total number of knights active in the Kingdom numbered 6000, 90% of them were affiliated with the Kingdom Knights with the remaining were Imperial Guards.

The knights and mages serving as knights held considerable power and influence just falling short of that of nobles. The selection process was harsh because anyone regardless of social position was allowed to apply. In only one generation, a nobody could receive peerage of a knight and overnight have their name included amongst the nobles. In other words, becoming a knight was a gateway to nobility. It also held the highest employment rate for nobles.

As noted before, there were two possible paths in knighthood, Kingdom Knights or Imperial Guards. So what made them different? It was the hierarchy of their members. The rank of Kingdom nobles from lowest to highest were as follows: knight, mage, baronet, baron, viscount, count, marquis, and duke.

Among senior knights and mages, only a small handful were granted higher nobility while the others could only ever reach viscount or count.

Only nobles who were counts or higher in rank received their own territory in the Kingdom. Lower nobles and knights received a small portion of a higher noble’s land to help govern.

Members of the Kingdom Knights primarily composed of commoners and lower class nobles. On the other hand, the Imperial Guards comprised of mainly lower to upper class nobles.

Beltrant
Beltrant (べルトラント) is the royal capital of the Beltrum Kingdom.


 * Beltrum Palace - Beltrum royal palace where the royal family resides, also the center of the nation governing facility
 * Beltrum Kingdom Royal Academy - The only educational institution on the nation, teaching all things from general knowledge, manner, magic, and military, it run under Fontaine family care.
 * Slums - The slums were located in the outskirts of the district outside the castle, and while there was no entry fee, the state of law and order was the worst of all the districts outside the castle walls. They'd fallen out of reach of the government's supervision and become a lawless area left to its own devices as a result. One never entered the slums willingly, unless you had no choice but to live there.

Cleia
Cleia (クレイア) is the capital city of House Claire territory where their family mansion located, it is situated on the eastern part of Beltrum territory close to Rodania.

Rodania
Rodania (ロダニア) is the capital city of House Rodan territory, it is located in the border, meeting directly with neighboring country Galwark kingdom, there's a road from here connected straight to Galwark commerce city Almond, Rodania also the base of the resistance group Restoration

King's Sword
King's Sword (王の剣) is the title given to Beltrum kingdom's strongest knight.

Trivia

 * The biggest characteristic of Beltrum kingdom according to other country are their haughty nobles that full of pride just by being a noble, obnoxious and selfish.


 * It's unknown if they had any prior relationship with the Karasuki Kingdom, but the Beltrum Kingdom majorly screwed up by pinning one of their own nobles' blunder against the princess on Rio, whom is the blood heir to the Karasuki throne; though luckily the kingdom, Rio didn't elaborate on this to his grandparents (the current rulers).