Karl Bunbenic, however, was a devoted True Monarchist who intended to forge a path to the Dannunifian thrown. That situation, unfortunately, never arose during Karl’s lifetime. Trevor Bunbenic was born when Karl was near the end of his life as the fifth son, the other four having all died as infants. Karl attempted to raise his son, but ill health took Karl in 1769. Mostly True Monarchists and advisors to the Archduke educated Trevor, and when he himself became Archduke at seven years old, he was conditioned to believe that he would one day be King of Dannunifius.
Carlone was a busy port city in the 1780’s as Trevor came of age. He solicited stories from sailors and merchants who visited the Bunbenic Palace to form trade alliances and conduct business with the Bunbenic merchants.
Trevor and his island remained out of the spotlight until the ruling House of Danis ordered that a constitution be drafted in 1790. Trevor commissioned several documents that condemned that action as treason and “totally against the idea of divine right.” Trevor was praised for his work, and the measure was never seriously considered until the death of King Carlos V. At that time due to a lack of an heir apparent, key advisors begin drafting a Constitutional Monarchy despite Janos Degarto’s warnings of backlash.
The Treyland Principality of Carlone, under Trevor’s direction, rejected the Dannunifian Crown Protectorate’s decision to Crown Stefan Donox King of the New Constitutional Monarchy. The True Monarchist assumed command of the Royal Danis Army of Treyland stationed on the island and marched into Carlone on May 4, 1808. Archduke Trevor Bunbenic assumed the Principality and was installed as the First King of Treyland by Archbishop Donaldo Cardinal Degrasse. Trevor then declared the Royal House of Treyland as a true monarchy.
A two-year war was waged between Treyland and Dannunifius over the issue on the Monarchy. King Trevor quickly sought help from abroad but was rejected by Jamsterdavania and Stefanfang, who preferred to remain neutral than enter a Dannunifian internal affair. This was not the case for Deutscheslavania who had been waiting for just such an occasion to weaken the control of the Dannunifian monarchy.
King Rupert II of Deutscheslavania extended the hand of his third daughter, Princerina Gretchen Von Arthur, to King Trevor to cement a pact between the two nations. Bunbenic agreed to a marriage with the Deutscheslavanian Princerina adding a legitimate claim to the new thrown. The Marriage also resulted in the Treyland/ Deutscheslavanian Pact in 1810 in which Deutscheslavania pledged to support the Trelandic “House of Von Arthur” against threats to the crown.
Other nations were slow to recognize King Trevor’s Revolutionary Monarchy and national independence. King Trevor lobbied Riosland, a fellow revolutionary Monarchy, who finally recognized sovereignty in 1815 and was thusly mutually recognized by Treyland. Stefanfang agreed to recognize it if it agreed to remain neutral in its dealings with Riosland and Stefanfang and refrained from aiding Riosland in the First Rios/Stenfine War also in 1815. Vickberg recognized Treyland in 1816, after intense negotiations with the fiat monarchal prince Johannes Brahams. Veravania established an embassy in 1816. Jamsterdavania recognized an Independent Treyland as part of a clause in the Jamsterdavanian-Rioslandic Pact of 1817. Dannunifius finally ceded Treyland on June 18, 1818 when it recognized Riosland as part of an early Alliance between North Catlantic powers. This officially ended the war with a Treaty of Carlone that established a mutual non-aggression pact renewable at five-year intervals.
These political landmarks indicate King Trevor Bunbenic’s greatest accomplishments as King of his nation. History remembers him as the “Great Diplomat.” King Trevor is also credited with the creation of the Kingdom of Nordanis. Trevor divided the two main Royal Houses that formed in Treyland after his marriage to Princerina Gretchen Von Arthor and King Trevor Bunbenic. The first is the House of Bunbenic, which controls the southern Principalities of Gurion, Dexony and Normandia, which he gave to his cousins who were principle merchants in that region. House of Von Arthor (or Deutschtreish), which controls the four northern Principalities of Constanto, Carlone, Bellario and Cantanata, remained in firm control of the national monarchy for all of the Trelandic Monarchy’s history. The Ruling House of Bunbenic was split along these geographic lines. The Northern House became the Thelandic Von Arthor Line linking it to the Deutscheslavanian Von Arthor Line.
Nordanis, which nobles originally wanted to extend as part of existing principalities, was given a minor monarch subject to approval from the Thelandic Von Arthor monarchs.
In the 1820’s Trevor’s spent his time resigned to answering religious questions regarding the Church and its function in political affairs. He composed a treatise entitled “A study of Church Affairs in Monarchal Actions.” The subject of the document focused on unanswered questions from the Council of Sacia that was held in the 1600’s. King Trevor, along with King Stefan Donox of Dannunifius and King Rupert II of Deutscheslavania approached Pope Sylvestrius about an ecumenical council to address the issue. Pope Sylvestrius agreed citing other matters that too needed to be discussed.
The Council opened seven years later in 1827 and was to last until 1829. King Trevor was too attend, but died of complications from surgery a wound suffered in a riding accident on February 4, 1827. The Council of Sacia was opened on time, but a war between King Trevor’s successor King Hans Bunbenic, Trevor’s son, delayed the council, which eventually terminated in 1841.