House of Komnenos-Palaiologos
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The House of Komnenos-Palaiologos (in Greek:Σπίτι του Κομνηνού-Παλαιολόγος and French:Comnène-Paléologue) is a Esquarian royal house of Diadochian-Greek-French origin, a branch of the Diadochian Komnenos dynasty.
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History
Wealth
Residences
Assets
The House of Komnenos-Palaiologos has long had the reputation of being one of the wealthiest royal houses in Pandos if not the defacto wealthiest, largely due to their vast assets, business investments. They are rumored to have a large stake in Diadochia Petroleum as well as other major conglomerates both within Diadochia and abroad. Unlike other royal houses in Pandos there has always been a separation in Diadochia between what was owned by the state and used by the head House of Komnenos-Palaiologos in their office as monarch, and the personal investments and fortune of the House of Komnenos-Palaiologos. The Imperial Family is presently exempt from income, inheritance, and personal tax. The Emperor does however reimburse the government for the stipends it grants to many member of the Imperial House.
The Imperial Crown Lands is the largest property owner in all of Diadochia, with holdings worth 95.8 billion as of 2013. The Imperial Crown Lands is held in trust for the Imperial family, and cannot be sold or owned by the Sovereign in a private capacity. The profits of the Imperial Crown Lands do not go to the Monarch but are surrendered to the Treasury in return for the Civil List and Grants-in-Aid.
The assets of the Monarch and the Imperial family are divided into three main categories, Crown Properties: semi-private assets owned by the Imperial Family, put at the disposal of the Emperor but not personally owned by him; State Assets: owned by the state and put at the disposal of the Emperor and the Imperial Family, it includes Crown Palaces, imperial Regalia and crown jewels, and the imperial Diamond Fund, jewels put at the disposal of the Empress Consort; and last Private Assets personally owned by the House of Komnenos-Palaiologos tied up in Komnenos-Palaiologos Support Fund and expanded by the Duchy of Macedonia and the Duchy of Bithynia, ancient lands that provide personal assets to the sovereign and his heir apparent.
The three main categories, they are:
- Crown Properties
- The Imperial Collection
- Imperial Crown Lands (Privately owned by the Emperor but relinquished to the Treasury for the civil list)
- State Assets
- Imperial Residences held by the state (note that some of the palaces listed on the link are privately owned by the Imperial Family)
- The Imperial Regalia of Diadochia
- The Imperial Diamond Fund of Diadochia
- Private Assets:
- Komnenos-Palaiologos Support Fund (Oversees all the private expenses)
- The Land and assets from the Duchy of Macedonia (Held for the Private Expenses of the Emperor)
- The Land and assets from the Duchy of Bithynia (Held for the Private Expenses of the Crown Prince)
- The Empress's Personal Collection
The Imperial Family and the Imperial House
Branches of the Imperial House
- House of Arcadia
- House of Troad (legitimized)
- House of Kypria (legitimized)
- House of Pontus (senior prince of the Blood)
- House of Lusitanie
Lands and Titles
Titles and styles of the Sovereign
Succession
Heraldry and Symbols of the Imperial Line
The heraldry employed by the Emperors of Diadochia and the Imperial Family of Diadochia is incredibly elaborate and detailed. The Imperial heraldry has varied over the course of a thousand years. The evolution of Imperial heraldry has gone hand in hand with the evolution of the role of the Emperor in Diadochian history; with at various times the Emperors of old sought to stress unity by adding a newly acquired state or nation's arms to their Imperial Coat of arms.
Coat of Arms
Arms of the Diadochian Empire=
The arms of the Diadochian empire are very elaborate. The arms can be divided into three parts, the Greater Coat of Arms (the most elaborate), the Middle Coat of Arms, and the Lesser Coat of Arms, which features a double headed eagle and is also known simply as the Imperial crest because of its association with the Imperial line.
The Greater coat of Arms of the Diadochian Empire features the Major kingdoms and states ruled by the Emperor, represented by their respective arms. The Middle Coat of Arms displays some and so does the Lesser Coat of Arms, but not to the elaborate extent that the Greater Coat of Arms does.
Personal Arms of the Imperial Family
The Imperial family has for centuries displayed personal arms distinct from the Arms of the Diadochian Empire. The use of Personal Arms has its origins around the same time that the Coat of Arms of the Empire became much to elaborate, causing the need for Personal arms, to represent the Emperor, Empress, Crown Prince, and other members of the Imperial Family.
