#OC: Marquess Esteban Felipe Cotoner y Camões

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The Cotoner Family Aesthetic.

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Aquellos que buscan el control para una utopía en medio del caos, manteniendo el poder en sus manos para guiar a las pobres ovejas.

Una familia, un legado transmitido de generación en generación. Los que están en la cima están destinados a brindar satisfacción, sin importar el costo.

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Hombres y mujeres que llevaron esta Cruz con orgullo, con mentes agudas y voluntades inquebrantables. Fue gracias a ellos que la Orden llegó hasta donde está, y aún con tantos... Obstáculos, resurgieron de los pedazos rotos dejados por estos anarquistas. Somos la cara de esta victoria, somos la prueba de que nunca podrán detener nuestro poder ni nuestra verdad. Lucharemos hasta que caiga el último de nosotros.

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The House of Cotoner is a Spanish Noble House known for it's services towards the crown and army until the XX Century. Two of it's branches, however, are composed by Templars and their allies.

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Hailing from Siena, in Tuscany, the family was of good wealth and held status of Lordship, having moved from Italy to the Kingdom of Marjoca in the 14th Century. It is speculated the branch of the family that stayed in Tuscany becamed part of the Tuscan Rite.

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Bernardo Cotoner was the first ever registrated member of the Family in Spain, and while his role within the Order were not reported, surviving letters reveal he made plenty of donations to the Order, along with having in his inner circle, many noticable Master Templars of the time.

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His son, Nicolas Cotoner y Genovard would continue his father's steps, assuring the Family's closiness to the Order at each generation. It is known Nicolas Cotoner had three sons, one of which would achieve a great high-rank within the military of the Kingdom of Marjoca. From then on, it was clear the Family had bigger plans for themselves.

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It was Nicolas' Great-Grandson, Antonio Cotoner y Vallobar who would rise the family's status. His bloodline, now having been part of the Rite for at least 3 generations, made his life philosophy be the Tenets of the Order. He was a brilliant man with grand ideas, well-read and ruthless, he quickly climbed the social leader, and was appointed Ambassador of Marjoca by Phillip II. With this influence, he would become one of the trusted man of the Spanish Grandmaster Alonso de Santiago.

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He would go to have four children. Three of which would continue their devotion to the Spanish Rite. His youngest son, Bernardo Luis Cotoner y Ballester would become an Inquisitor appointed of the Kingom of Sardina, and General Inquisitor of the Kingdoms of Marjoca, Aragon, Valencia and the County of Barcelona. A Master Templar, acting under the instructions of the Grandmaster up until his death by the hands of the Assassins in Sicily.

His older son, Marc Antoní Cotoner y de Santmartí, would marry a fellow Templar, Señorita Teresa Augusta de Oleza, giving birth to Rafael Cotoner y Oleza and his brother, Nícolas Cotoner y Oleza, to whom both would rise as Grandmasters of the Order of Malta, an affiliated organization allied with the Order.

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Both would go to have children and descendents, to who the noble Templar Marcos Antonio Cotoner y Sureda , Nícola's grandson would be mentioned. After the increase expand of the Assassins Influences across Spain, he was the one responsable for killing all Assassins that were active in Palma de Mallorca, making the Brotherhood temporarely retreat from the Balearic Islands.

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Another one of Antonio's children was Marta Alejandra Cotoner y Santmartí, Marc's younger twin sister. She was not a famous Templar Master, but she was reported to work her influences and charms on the Court, particularly the favour of King Phillip II and his wife, Elizabeth of Valois. It was speculated she had many affairs within the Court, and many of her surviving letters indicate she took the role of an informant. She is credited as one of the responsables to uncover the allies of the Assassins, many of which were condemned to death. Most of her descendents, nowdays, refuse to part-take in anything related to the Order or the Brotherhood, the most noticable one is Fernando Cotoner y Chacón, Lieutenent at the Carlist Wars. While taking part of the conflict in the Moderate Party, he still had many of the Rites Principles within him, seeing by his refusal to assist the Assassins. It is believed this comes from his Grandfather, another Cotoner from the Templar Branch.

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They have been involved since the begining: The Inquisition, the Patronship of the many Conquistadors, such as Francisco Pizarro, Diego Columbus, and many other Templar Allies. The "Purge " orchastrated by The Assassin's Mentor across Spain, almost whipping off all their influence. The conflicts with The Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman Brotherhood in the mid 17th Century. The search for the Tizona, the Sword wield by El Cid and believed to be a Piece of Eden, in the 18th Century... And the Carlists Wars, their most recent plan. Reach the control of the crown, bring Don Carlos to the throne, and wipe off Isabella, seeing how the Queen and her mother sympathized with the Assassins and their cause.

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However they were ruined by those bastard traitors. The off-spring of that wench who married the Assassin. The Morisco.

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Yet still, their legacy continues, with the current Head of the Family Branch being Master Esteban Felipe Cotoner y Camões, Marquess of Villamayor, and his children. And they will make sure that nothing stands in their way, even in another Kingdom...

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