House of Guarionex
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| Country |  Nouvelle Alexandrie
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| Region | Boriquén |
| Place of origin | Guánica, Boriquén |
| Progenitor | Cacique Guarionex I |
| Principal titles | Prince of Boriquén Duke of Guánica |
| Founded (AN) | 1717 AN (recognition as a princely house by the Plan de Hato Rey) |
| Current head | Guarionex II, Prince of Boriquén |
The House of Guarionex is a Wakara princely house of the federal nobility of Nouvelle Alexandrie, seated at Guánica in the Region of Boriquén. It holds the principality of Boriquén together with the dukedom of Guánica, the latter carrying a grandeeship of the federation. The house descends from the cacical line that ruled the Wakara before their homeland entered the Federation, and its present head is Guarionex II, the 1st Prince of Boriquén, who negotiated that accession through the Plan de Hato Rey.
Unlike most of the federal nobility, the house holds a princely title from outside the reigning House of Inti-Carrillo, one of the few such dignities in Nouvelle Alexandrie.[1] Its standing rests on the sovereignty the cacical house held before 1717 AN, which the Federation recognized rather than created. In 1759 AN the betrothal of the head's granddaughter, Cacica Anacaona, to Prince Inti, second in line to the throne, drew the house into a close connection with the royal line.
Origins
The House of Guarionex takes its name from the cacical dignity of the same name, borne by the ruling chiefs of the Wakara at Guánica, the holiest city of the Yukiyu Atabey faith. The line long predates the Federation, and the house counts its dynastic founder as Cacique Guarionex I, who held the Wakara lands around Lake Cherusken through a period of stability before his death in 1706 AN.[2]
The cacicazgo did not long survive him. His son, Guarionex II, inherited a cacicazgo already under pressure and lost the heartland within two years to militias that had overrun the Green. Through the years of anarchy that followed, the house held together the Wakara nobility until, in 1717 AN, Guarionex II secured the survival of his people by bringing them into Nouvelle Alexandrie. The Plan de Hato Rey recognized the cacical house as a princely house of the federal nobility, and the ancient dignity of the Wakara chiefs was carried into the New Alexandrian order.[3] The house stands at the head of the Wakara peerage that entered the federal nobility in 1719 AN, among them the House of Tavárez, Dukes of Bayamón, and Orocobix Guainía, Count of Utuado; the Plan's Wakara co-signer, Yucahúké Busiri, was created Duke of Yabucoa.
Titles
The principal title of the house is the principality of Boriquén, held with the subsidiary dukedom of Guánica. Both were confirmed on Guarionex II by the Plan de Hato Rey in 1717 AN. The principality is a non-royal princely dignity, an exception to the general reservation of princely rank to the House of Inti-Carrillo; the dukedom, like all ducal titles in Nouvelle Alexandrie, carries a grandeeship. As the head of a non-royal princely house, the reigning Prince of Boriquén is styled His Serene Highness, while the heir apparent, who bears the dukedom of Guánica by courtesy, is styled The Most Excellent Lord.[4]
The titles descend together by the hereditary rules of the federal nobility, registered through the Department of the Interior. By the custom of the house, the heir apparent bears the dukedom of Guánica as a courtesy title during the lifetime of the reigning Prince.
The princely line
As Prince of Boriquén, the head of the house holds the hereditary office of viceroy of the region and presides over the Areyto Legislativo de Boriquén as its Taino. The office is distinct from that of the elected Regional Governor, who exercises the executive government of the region.
Guarionex II, the 1st Prince, has held the headship of the house since its recognition in 1717 AN. His heir apparent is his son Kaonabo, Duke of Guánica, and the line continues through Kaonabo's daughter, Cacica Anacaona.
Genealogy
Relationship with the House of Inti-Carrillo
The betrothal of Cacica Anacaona to Prince Inti, announced in 1759 AN, is the first marriage to connect the House of Guarionex with the reigning House of Inti-Carrillo. Anacaona and the Prince were born within days of one another in 1755 AN, and each stands second in line to their respective inheritances. The two houses are each associated with the sun, in the Wakara and Intic traditions, and the match was read as a further binding of Boriquén into the Federation.
Heraldry
The arms of the House of Guarionex are shown in the infobox above.
Principal members
| Member | Position | Since |
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| Guarionex II | 1st Prince of Boriquén; head of the house | 1717 AN |
| Kaonabo, Duke of Guánica | Heir apparent | 1720 AN |
| Cacica Anacaona | Betrothed to Prince Inti | 1759 AN |
See also
- Guarionex II
- Prince of Boriquén
- Boriquén
- Plan de Hato Rey
- Nobility of Nouvelle Alexandrie
- House of Inti-Carrillo
