Domain: Saint Louis, MO
Status: Acknowledged, Cherished, Honorable, Influential, Respected
Dignitas: The Iron Circlet
Biography:
1540/00 My sire Alain Sable searched to find his blood relatives and his research had gone far when he found my family. There was a large group outside of Paris, France under the name of Cladwell and also the three brothers who were Huguenots who left France to Scottland and took the surname of Cladwell.
1500/02 My mother Mary Jo gave birth to triplets boys, Charles, Jean and me, Stephen. Father came home frequently during this period, but only for brief visits. He thought he could get away with a life style of chasing women but my mother had other ideas.
1505/00 None of the family up to this period attended any regular school. But all were well educated privately. I was the exception.
1505/01 Members and Dependents 1. THE COMMUNITY OF AVE MARIA COLLEGE The instruction and discipline of the students of Ave Maria College were entrusted to a Master, assisted by a Chaplain, who directed the spiritual life of the boys. Prescriptions regarding the admission and government of the six fellows or bursars were set forth by John of Hubant not only in the Statutes but also in various deeds. I being one of two small boys, sort of beneficiarii, lived with the regular fellows, and a servant worked in the College. Besides the Master, the Chaplain, the six bursars, the two small boys, and the servant, the College had other inhabitants, certain dependents, whose support was among the duties and obligations of the regular members of the College. These dependents of the College were six poor students or beneficiarii, ten poor old women, and ten old tradesmen. Ave Maria College, the importance of which is so minimized by some historians, had an internal organization of regular and dependent personnel that cannot be found in any other mediaeval college. The founder found a happy way of eliminating academic isolation in the regular subjects of his college: the presence of the "sad realities" of poor old people and needy students was a constant reminder that the purpose of all study is the improvement not only of the human mind but of a feeling for mankind. The aim of the foundation was greater than only studying logic; the members of the College were to live united in brotherly love and mutual charity.
1514/01 One of the regular fellows, was found drowned in the river near Rivers Bend, and it was said that I strangled him and threw him in the water. Again, this was never investigated, and the entire family was indignant at this gossip. Servants who spread the story at once retracted it. It seems those who have nothing to say make up what they want. The truth of the matter about the handsome man is this. I wanted him and he rejected me. We were swimming down in the river and beings it was just men we were naked. The thrill I got brushing up against his manliness was too great for me to not act upon it. My actions took him off guard and he swam away from me into the strong current. He never saw the log that hit him in the head. He went under the water. I swam for him but it was to late. I searched the riverbank until I found his naked body washed up where the current dumped him. I then fetched his drawers and put them in the water and then on him. All this was just a simple accident.
1515/00 I was fifteen when I began to manage the land since I was no longer welcomed at the college. I worked along with my cousin Augustan, and gradually I took over the management completely. Even at the tender age of fifteen I had proved well suited to the job and restored order among the slaves, and doubled the output. Throughout my life I remained the true manager of the property, even though Mary, my younger sister, inherited the legacy.
1518/00 At my eighteenth birthday supper, an unfortunate accident took place with a new pistol at which time poor Augustine was shot in the head and killed by me. Really I was just showing him the pistol and it went off. Of course he should not have been saying that I had committed an unnatural act against God and nature. I know there was nothing unnatural about what I did.
1530/00 My sire thought that Paris has a fascinating history, but rather bland for kindred. A few years after his arrival, Alain Sable helped encourage education and economic growth. Nothing large really and there were probably other kindred doing the same, but he wanted these things for our family. Alain Sable moved to Paris to find family and was there for some time (until 1699 in fact) mostly in seclusion.
1532/01 I not only made huge profits at Rivers Bend, I also went into merchandising and made a considerable fortune in that endeavor. I bought up property all over Paris, which I left to Lucy May, even though she was the designee of the Cladwell legacy and thereby stood to inherit a fortune larger than my own.
1533/00 In 1533, when Mary was seventeen, she, Charles, Jean and I bought a piece of property on First Street to the west of the Bastille lies a triangular area with its base along the river up to the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) and its apex just short of the Place de la République to the north. It keeps its name—le marais (“the marsh”)—from the Middle Ages, and, because it became the market garden of Paris, it gave its name to all market gardens in France (culture maraîchère). and hired Frederick Monahan, the Irish architect, to build a house there, which is the present Fairwood home. The purchase was my idea, since I wanted a permanent city residence.
1534/13 Mary and I had quarrels, which drove me into Paris, away from Rivers Bend, though I never neglected my duties there. Even though Mary drove me away, certainly (my daughter) Lucy May brought me back, for I was always swooping down upon her with cartloads of gifts and stealing her away for weeks on end in Paris.
1534/14 Though this devotion to my daughter Lucy May did not prevent me from getting married, in 1534, to a Cladwell cousin, a descendant of Maurice and a celebrated beauty. Her name was Debra Cladwell, and I so loved her that I commissioned no less than ten portraits of her during the first years of our marriage. We lived together in the First Street house in complete harmony with Charles and his family, perhaps because in every respect Charles deferred to me.
1534/17 My sons Justin & Martin certainly thought that I loved their mother; and at Debra's funeral, I was distraught. I comforted Debra's father and mother for hours after; and took time off from all business pursuits to remain with my daughter Jeannette, who "never recovered" from her mother's death.
1536/00 Louie Richardson came to Paris in 1536 at the age of twenty and he became an employee of mine, just as Robert had once been, for me. Louie worked for me until my supposed death.
1536/01 Louie Richardson said that I had initiated him in the erotic secrets of life, and not only had I taught him how to be an attentive lover, I also took him to Storyville the notorious red light distinct of Paris--and introduced him to the better houses operating there.
1572/08/25 St Bartholomew's Day, when thousands of Huguenots were suddenly massacred by government forces in Paris and elsewhere in France.
1598 The Edict of Nantes in 1598 gave almost complete religious freedom. It was during this period that three brothers Claude, Jean and Stephen are said to have fled the France --where the Huguenots had been most concentrated -- and fled to Scotland, assuming the Caldwell surname.
1600/09/22 In 1600, Alain Sable took me as his first childe, Alain thought I was a lovely childe, but more sedate than Laurent. I had my moments, but was much more suited to intricate politics and obscure studies. We lived well together for almost a hundred years. Really no one bothered us.
1600/01 I was flirtatious and a joy to be around. I was also incredibly bright and had the same knack for impressing people that Alain had as a mortal. I was told that the Cladwell family is descended from the same branch that Alain's.
1600/02 Alain's only rule was do not embrace anyone except your own mortal descendants.
1668/00 The Rakkasha thought it is imperative that they studied me in some detail. As late as the 1940’s, fascinating information about me was recounted to them. There are numerous public and recorded mentions of me, and there are three oil portraits of me in American museums, and one in London. So I try to keep a low profile now.
1668/01 My black hair turned gray while I was still quite young, and my numerous photographs as well as these oil paintings show me to be a man of considerable presence and charm, as well as physical beauty. Some have said that I resemble my opera singer father, Burton McNamara.
1886/01 I wanted to get out and see more. A disagreement came, when I started getting restless. I was anxious to meet other kindred and put what I had learned into practice. I was given permission to embrace my 1st childe Cyril Cladwell
1915/00 I took off for New York maybe around 1915. Off to make my own life and use the fortune I had acquired. Off to see the world and to be myself.
3rd Gen Enoch Childe of Caine
4th Gen (3000bc) Veddartha Childe of Enoch
5th Gen (835bc) Mercuris the Golden Childe of Veddartha
6th Gen (250bc) Themis Childe of Mercurius the Golden
7th Gen (300ad) Gabriel O’Connel Childe of Themis
8th 7th 6th Gen (1490ad) Alain Sable Childe of Gabriel O'Connel
9th Gen (1600ad) Stephen Caldwell Childe of Alain Sable
10th Gen (1886) Cyril Caldwell Childe of Stephen Cladwell
7th Gen (1872ad) Renneau Fairwood Childe of Alain Sable