King Reginald II

Reginald Bernhardt Jorn Gauss (603—652) was the King of Osteria from 628—642. Under his reign, Osteria weathered the Second Great Plague, which took his father, King Sigismund IV, and put him on the throne instead of his expected elder brother, Sigismund Hotspur. Reginald witnessed the dissolution of the Osterik Protectorate, during the Fifteen Years War, which sparked amid a conspiracy to usurp his crown, led simultaneously by Natalia the Impaler and Duke Reinhold von Leitner. Reginald's reign was plagued with plagues, economic turmoils, and the question of his fertility during his marriage to Queen Godelieve, but he was remembered as, despite his misfortunes, an effective and shrewd ruler who managed to keep the powder-keg of Osteria from erupting for nearly two decades. Reginald spent the remainder of his life in exile, traveling Fadrean, obstinately dodging assassination and slyly feeding the rumor that he was planning to reclaim his rightful crown—but died to illness while sailing throughout Cathopica, ten years after he was deposed by his brother King Leonhard I.