Felipe-Maximillian de Almagro
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| Full Name | Felipe-Maximillian de Almagro |
| Birth Date | 1711 AN (51 AN years) |
| Parents | Maximillian de Almagro & Clara Paige |
| Family | Almagro family |
| Occupation | Officer, Federal Commissariat Service; businessman |
| Military Service | Federal Commissariat Service |
| Military Rank | Brigadier-General |
| Political Affiliation |
 Federal Humanist Party (inactive) |
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| Known For | Member of the Almagro family |
| Residence | Beaufort, North Lyrica |
| National Origin |
 Nouvelle Alexandrie |
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Felipe-Maximillian de Almagro (born 1711 AN) is a New Alexandrian officer of the Federal Commissariat Service and a businessman of the Almagro family, one of the Federation's foremost Federal Humanist political dynasties. The second son of the diplomat and former Vice-Premier Maximillian de Almagro and a grandson of the former President of the Government Felipe de Almagro, he is unusual within the family for having never held or sought public office, keeping instead to the family's commercial affairs and to a career provisioning the Federal Forces, in which he rose to the rank of brigadier-general. He is a first cousin of Federico Augusto de Almagro y Strong, who served as Vice-President of the Government from 1749 AN to 1760 AN.
Biography
Felipe-Maximillian de Almagro was born in 1711 AN in Beaufort, the North Lyrican seat of the Almagro family, the younger of the two sons of Maximillian de Almagro and Clara Paige. His elder brother is Raoul de Almagro, born in 1708 AN. Like his brother, he was raised and educated in the Humanist manner in Raspur, the schooling his father had arranged for both boys as members of a house then rising through the Federal Humanist Party. He holds Constancian nationality by blood descent, in common with the senior line of the family.
He came of age inside one of the wealthiest and most politically prominent families of the Federation. His grandfather, Felipe de Almagro, had risen from bondage in the Alexandrian diaspora to the Presidency of the Government and a Hierophancy of the Humanist Movement; his father held the Department of Defense and the Vice-Premiership before leading the opposition and, later, representing the Federation as its ambassador to the International Mandate.
Unlike his father, his brother, and his cousin Fred Strong, Felipe-Maximillian did not enter the national-level cadres of the Federal Humanist Party. He built no parliamentary career and his name is absent from the party's rolls and the records of the Cortes Federales. Where his grandfather had led the party's technocratic wing and his father had aligned with the Traditionalists around Augustus Strong, he took no part in the family's factional politics at all, remaining nominally on the membership of the FHP Regional Sector Party in North Lyrica but otherwise uninvolved in its organizing cadres.
He devoted himself instead to commerce and supply. The Almagro fortune had been built into the Honourable Company over three generations and the estates of their North Lyrican seat, and he is listed as a registered trader attached to the Company's Beaufort Residency since 1745 AN; within the party's Beaufort circles he was known as the discreet keeper of the family's money rather than a figure of its public life. That same head for cargo and stores carried him into the Federal Commissariat Service, which provisions the Federal Forces, where he rose over the years to brigadier-general, a rank and position from which he exercised command over the service's department in the State of Vinveil, the capital of which was Beaufort.
He kept a private collection of antiquities and old books, a taste that ran in the family. He remained, as of 1760 AN, unmarried.
Personal life
Felipe-Maximillian de Almagro has largely avoided public attention. In 1760 AN, however, the chicha press reported a romantic association between him and Princess Phaedra, the youngest daughter of King Sinchi Roca II, drawing comment both on the nineteen-year difference in their ages and on the timing of the reports, which followed the Federal Humanist Party's departure from government.[1] The two were said to have become acquainted through the princess's patronage of the National Gastronomy Institute of Nouvelle Alexandrie, whose work in food and provisioning touched his own in the commissariat. The Royal Household made no comment on the reports.
