Guarionex II
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| Full Name | Guarionex II |
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| Birth Date | 9.VII.1685 AN (76 AN years) |
| Birth Place | Guánica, Boriquén |
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| Spouse | Cacica Taiguey |
| Children | Kaonabo, Duke of Guánica (heir) |
| Family | House of Guarionex |
| Occupation | Cacique; Prince of Boriquén |
| Known For | Securing the accession of Boriquén to Nouvelle Alexandrie; founder of the House of Guarionex as a princely house |
| Religion | Yukiyu Atabey |
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| Residence | Guánica, Boriquén |
| National Origin |
 Nouvelle Alexandrie |
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Nouvelle Alexandrie |
Cacique Guarionex II (born 9.VII.1685 AN) is a Wakara sovereign and statesman who serves as the 1st Prince of Boriquén and 1st Duke of Guánica in the Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie. As the hereditary head of the Wakara people and viceroy of the Region of Boriquén, he negotiated the accession of the Wakara homeland to the Federation through the Plan de Hato Rey in 1717 AN, and he is the founder of the House of Guarionex as a recognized New Alexandrian princely house.
Guarionex II inherited the cacical dignity on the death of his father, Cacique Guarionex I, in 1706 AN, as the lands around Lake Cherusken were falling into a long period of disorder. Defeated within two years by militias that had overrun the Wakara during the collapse of order in the Green, he spent the following decade as a cacique without a settled territory, holding together what remained of the Wakara nobility. In 1717 AN he petitioned Nouvelle Alexandrie for protection, and his negotiation with the federal government produced the Plan de Hato Rey, the agreement that recognized the Wakara people, established the Region of Boriquén, and created his princely and ducal titles.
He is the hereditary viceroy of the region, and since 1723 AN has presided as the Taino, or speaker, of the Areyto Legislativo de Boriquén, the region's legislature, an office distinct from that of the elected Regional Governor. In 1759 AN the betrothal of his granddaughter, Cacica Anacaona, to Prince Inti, second in line to the New Alexandrian throne, drew the House of Guarionex into the orbit of the reigning House of Inti-Carrillo.
Early life and the fall of Boriquén
Guarionex was born at Guánica, the holiest city of the Yukiyu Atabey faith and the traditional seat of the cacical house, the second of that name to lead the Wakara. His father, Cacique Guarionex I, is remembered for a period of stability along the shores of Lake Cherusken, during which the Wakara held their lands against the pressures of the surrounding Green.
That stability did not survive the succession. On the death of Guarionex I in 1706 AN, the young cacique inherited a cacicazgo already under strain, and by 1707 AN the Wakara heartland had been overrun. The forces that broke Wakara resistance were remnants of the old Verionian Empire and other marauding regional militias, backed in part by the then-Bassarid Empire; several of these bands later coalesced into the Confederacy of the Dispossessed. The years from 1708 AN to 1712 AN were remembered in Boriquén as a time of anarchy, when Hato Rey and the coastal towns changed hands repeatedly and the machinery of Wakara government all but ceased to function.
Cacique in the years of anarchy
Through the years of disorder, Guarionex II governed as a cacique in exile within his own country, moving between the interior settlements and the sacred precincts of Guánica that the militias were reluctant to desecrate. He kept the confidence of the surviving Wakara nobility, the nitainos, and of the bohiques, the priest-jurists of the Yukiyu Atabey faith, and his authority as the rightful cacique remained intact even as his territory contracted.
Around 1712 AN he married Cacica Taiguey, a marriage that steadied the house during its most precarious years and secured the succession. Their son and heir, Kaonabo, was born in 1720 AN, after the region's fortunes had turned.
Accession and the Plan de Hato Rey
By 1716 AN, the disorder in the Green had drawn the attention of Nouvelle Alexandrie, whose forces moved into the region during Operation Purple Splendor. Rather than resist an advancing federal power, Guarionex II judged that the survival of the Wakara lay in an alliance with it, and he opened negotiations with the Secretary of State, Maximinus Kerularios.
The negotiations, in which the cacique was supported by First Minister Yucahúké Busiri, concluded with the signing of the Plan de Hato Rey at Hato Rey on 23.VI.1717 AN. Boriquén thus entered the Federation not by conquest but at the request of its own cacique. The Plan recognized the Wakara people, their language, and their faith; extended federal citizenship to them; and established the Region of Boriquén, with its nobility and institutions integrated into the New Alexandrian order. Boriquén was admitted as the eleventh Region of the Federation in 1718 AN under the Boriquén Admission Act, 1718, with the regional government standing up and the Act receiving royal assent in 1719 AN and the regional constitution adopted in 1720 AN.
Prince of Boriquén
The Plan de Hato Rey created Guarionex II the 1st Prince of Boriquén and 1st Duke of Guánica in 1717 AN, titles by which the Federation recognized the pre-existing sovereignty of the cacical house; the Wakara peerage was formally integrated into the federal nobility in 1719 AN. The principality is one of the few non-royal princely dignities in Nouvelle Alexandrie, held outside the House of Inti-Carrillo, and its creation is cited in the federal nobility as an example of the Federation's practice of incorporating the standing of the peoples it absorbed.
As Prince of Boriquén, Guarionex II holds the hereditary office of viceroy of the region and, since 1723 AN, presides over the Areyto Legislativo de Boriquén as its Taino, or speaker. The office is ceremonial and legislative rather than executive; the administration of Boriquén rests with the elected Regional Governor, an office first held by Yucahúké Busiri and, since 1750 AN, by Joaquín Torres of the Wakara People's Party. In his decades presiding at Hato Rey, the Prince has come to be regarded as a symbol of continuity between the old Wakara order and the Region's place within the Federation.
Marriage and issue
Guarionex II married Cacica Taiguey around 1712 AN. Their son and heir apparent, Kaonabo, born in 1720 AN, holds the title of Duke of Guánica by courtesy and is the designated successor to the principality. Kaonabo and his wife, Higuamota, are the parents of Cacica Anacaona, born in 1755 AN.
In 1759 AN the Royal Household and the House of Guarionex announced the betrothal of Anacaona to Prince Inti, the only child of Crown Princess Sayari and second in line to the throne of Nouvelle Alexandrie. The two children were born within days of one another in 1755 AN, and each stands second in line to their respective inheritances. The match joined two lines associated with the sun, the Intic and the Wakara, and was read as a further binding of Boriquén into the Federation and of the House of Guarionex to the reigning House of Inti-Carrillo.
Styles, titles, and honors
- 9.VII.1685 AN to 1706 AN: Guarionex, heir to the cacical dignity
- 1706 AN to 1717 AN: The Cacique of the Wakara
- 1717 AN to present: His Serene Highness The Prince of Boriquén, Duke of Guánica
As Prince of Boriquén, Guarionex II holds the style of His Serene Highness, the princely style borne by the heads of the non-royal princely houses recognized by the Federation. The subsidiary dukedom of Guánica carries a grandeeship, and the heir apparent who bears it by courtesy is styled The Most Excellent Lord.
See also
- House of Guarionex
- Prince of Boriquén
- Boriquén
- Plan de Hato Rey
- Wakara people
- Nobility of Nouvelle Alexandrie
