Senatorial Inquisition

The Senatorial Inquisition is an agency of the Senate of the Lakes (but outside it), charged with investigating and prosecuting criminal activities against the Order of the Holy Lakes, by members of the Order of the Holy Lakes, or others who have sworn fealty to the Order.

It was established on 18.III.1720 by the Chancellor Li Naomiai to aid in investigating whether members of the Order of the Holy Lakes could be found criminally culpable for treason or other crimes against the Order of the Holy Lakes during the 1719–1720 Hurmu civil conflict as well as the events leading to, during and in the immediate aftermath of the Evacuation of Moorland.

Janek Tryggve, Knight of the Holy Lakes and Jurist of the MTO Court, and former Senator, was its first Chief Inquisitor until his death in 1735.

Findings in relation to the Moorland affair were presented to the Twelfth Senate during the first month of 1730 AN.

Investigations

Contentious

• None

Closed

• Salome, Princess of Hurmu, Princess among the Lakes, Kaiseress of Shireroth, etc. For war crimes (investigation open since 1737). See Proceedings in the Senate of the Lakes against Kaiseress Salome.
• Knotaric, Knight of the Holy Lakes. Having waged war against Normark, associated with the Stripping Path. Closed without charge due to the death of the person investigated.
• Ezabel Kaaq, Lady of the Holy Lakes, and Minister of Health in the cabinet of Annika Raudsepp. (Released after trial. On 5.XIII.1726, the Senate sentenced her to social harmonization therapy under the care of the government of Northern Coria.)
• Mantric, son of Dunric, Knight of the Holy Lakes. Commissioner of the District of Moorland, associated with the Confederacy of the Dispossessed. Expelled from the Order in 1730
• Temüjin Tokaray Erdenechuluun al-Osman, Knight of the Holy Lakes, left the District of Moorland in the hands of the Confederacy of the Dispossessed. Expelled from the Order in 1730.

See also

• Order of the Holy Lakes v Raudsepp et al.