Aurelian Amalson

Aurelian Amalson (named by his mother as Aurelian Wythe; born 16.III.1723) is the natural and extramartial and posthumous son of Chrysostom Wythe, Count of Woodshire and his employee and field worker, Amalie Madison (still living).

On 16.III.1723, Amalie Madison gave birth to a baby boy. She had claimed the boy, which she had named Aurelian Wythe, was the natural son of Chrysostom Wythe, and that the late lord had promised her a marriage. Due to lack of evidence of paternity at this point, the local registrar in Woodshire refused to register the name "Aurelian Wythe" (including registration of nobility), and instead registered the boy as Aurelian Amalson.

Amalie Madison appealed the decision, on the grounds that out-of-wedlock children were part of the nobility of Shireroth historically and traditionally, and that Aurelian ought to know his lineage and respect for paternity. She called upon the Wythe family to allow DNA testing.

In a quirk of matters, the appeal reached the chief justice of Woodshire Village Judex, being Lord Cassian Caspar Chrysostom Wythe, Count of Woodshire, Viscount of Solaris, Viscount Holly-Wythe, and grandson of the late Chrysostom Wythe. Before recusing himself (if there was something Lord Cassian had passion for, it was the respect for the administrative justice system), he quipped to Ms Madison, "If we allow this, there is no telling how many more bastards will come to suck the teat of my dearly departed grandfather".

The puisne justice of Woodshire Village Judex denied the case on the matter, without considering its merits, on the grounds that paternity had not been established.

At this point, Madison began her PR campaign to get recognition for her son. By XIII.1723, Chrysostom's disgraced son Lord Edan Naftali Wythe agreed to Amalie Madison's request of DNA testing Edan and Aurelian to see if they have the same paternal DNA markers. Edan was the only one from Chrysostom's family who agreed to DNA testing. In the end, the results indicated that Edan and Aurelian shared the same male-line mitochondrial and chromosomal markers, indicating with 99.6% probability that Edan were first-degree relatives of one another on the agnatic line. The results from more specialized testing showed that by all probabilities, Chrysostom was indeed the father of the child, and all evidence suggested that Chrysostom's fathering of the child was his very last act on this earth before dying from heart attack mid-coitus with Amalie Madison, on 18.XII.1722.

Later in in 1723 AN, Amalie Madison was approached by a member of the Order of the Paladins, offering a generous stipend for the upkeep of the child as well as a guaranteed place in the Shirekeep Benacian Institute in return for her son's participation in the N&H Future Leadership Programme once he had come of age.