Fejedelem's Coup

The Fejedelem's Coup took place in Lefdim on 9 Empery 1769 (Vaestic date 1:352:1:26) against the last Prince of Lopocka, Vladimir III, initiating an end to the post-Neritsovid Lefdic political order. The pièche High Captain Kugoza Ipdut led his men to storm the Lanternlight Palace in Chiklar just before dawn, seizing and summarily executing the Prince. At noon the next day an official proclamation was read pronouncing Vladimir deposed and executed in the name of the Terophatic Emperor Spytihnev III, while Ipdut was declared Procurator. Ipdut made an additional address claiming in ambiguous terms he was now a 'fejedelem', the exact significance of which remains debated in light of his regime's eccentric Neo-Chotarian programme, which had actually preceded even the Chotarian Restoration in Lacre. The subsequent 'Procurator-Fejedelemate' lasted until its ousting by Terophan in the Imperial War in 1771.