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{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable
|name             = Kiriya Mountbatten
|birth_name=
|honorific-suffix = [[Order of the Garter|KG]], [[Order of the Bath|GCB]], [[Order of the Lucis Empire|CLE]], [[Deputy Commander|DC]], [[Order of St. Michael and St. George|CMG]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]]
|image            = SirKiriyaMountbatten.jpg
|image_size       = 280px
|alt              = 
|office           = [[Chief of Defence Staff (GL)|Chief of Defence Staff]]
|monarch          = [[Georgius V]]<br/> [[Regis Lucis Caelum CXI]]
|deputy           = 
|term_start       = 13 July 1955
|term_end         = 15 July 1965
|predecessor      = [[James Roberts (RAF Officer)|Sir James Roberts]]
|successor        = [[Richard Dickson|Sir Richard Dickson]]
|office1          = [[First Sea Lord (GL)|First Sea Lord]]
|monarch1         = 
|primeminister1   = [[Winston S. Churchill]]<br/> [[Frederick Eden]]<br/> [[Alexander Douglas]]<br/> 
|term_start1      = 16 April 1953
|term_end1        = 19 October 1963
|predecessor1     = [[Gregory Albemarle|Sir Gregory Albemarle]]
|successor1       = [[Charles Lambert|Sir Charles Lambert]]
|office2          = Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, Asianna Command
|leader2          = 
|term_start2      = 19 June 1935 
|term_end2        = 16 April 1965
|predecessor2     = ''Position Established''
|successor2       = [[Klankain Auchinleck II]]
|office5          = Governor-General of the Southeast Asianna Occupation Region
|term_start5      = 10 July 1945
|term_end5        = 15 June 1950
|predecessor5     = ''Position Established''
|successor5       = [[Klankain Auchinleck II]]
|majority5        = 
|birth_date       = 30 November 1900
|birth_place      = Blenheim Palace, Lucis, United Kingdom
|death_date       = 25 April 1980
|death_place      = [[Mullaghmore]], Niflheim
|party            = 
|spouse           = [[Pamela Henderson]]
|children         = [[Marina Nox Fleuret|Marina Mountbatten]]<br/> [[Rinna Mountbatten]]
|parents          = Lord Alexander Mountbatten (father)<br/>Lady Victoria Mountbatten (mother)<br/>
|residence        = 
|alma_mater       = [[University of St. Georgius|Royal University of St. Georgius]]
|website          =
|signature        = 
| allegiance = [[Great Lucis and Accordo|United Kingdom]]
| branch = [[Royal Navy (GL)|Royal Navy]]
| serviceyears = 1921 - 1955
| rank = [[Admiral of the Fleet]]
| commands = {{wp|Commander-in-Chief of the Forces|Commander-in-Chief of the Lucis Army}}
| battles = [[Second Europan War]]<br/> [[War of Lorican Aggression]]
| mawards = [[Order of the Garter|Knight of the Order of the Garter]]<br/> [[Order of the Bath|Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]<br/> [[Order of the Lucis Empire|Commander of the Lucis Empire]]<br/> [[Order of St. Michael and St. George|Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George]]<br/> [[Distinguished Service Order]]<br/>
}}

'''Kiriya Mountbatten, First Sea Lord''' (30 November 1900 - 25 April 1980) was a Lucian Royal Navy officer and statesman. He is known as the granduncle of Queen [[Lunafreya Nox Fleuret]]. During the [[Second Europan War]], he was [[Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, Asianna Command]]. He is often known for his disagreements with the [[Concordian Southeast Asianna Command]], in which one of the controversial events was the Concordian command going against Mountbatten's plan to send Allied forces to Joyonghea. Despite numerous attempts to place him out of command, Mountbatten's record remained untarnished.

From 1955 to 1965, Mountbatten was First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father some forty years earlier. Thereafter he served as Chief of the Defence Staff until 1965, making him the longest-serving professional head of the Lucis Armed Forces to date. During this period Mountbatten also served as Chairman of the Europan Military Committee for a year.

In 1980, Mountbatten, his grandson Nicholas, and two others were killed by a bomb set by members of the Provisional [[Niflheimian Republican Army]]. In response, the Lucis Army, along with the [[Secret Intelligence Service (GL)|MI6]] arrested and executed its perpetrators. 

==Early Life==

==Military Career==

===Second Europan War===

===Controversy with the Concordian High Command===

During the [[Second Europan War]], Mountbatten often had disagreements with the Concordian High Command, particularly with General [[Donald MacArthur]]. Mountbatten was responsible for militarizing [[Nihhon-koku]] as the place to manufacture military equipment to be used for the operations in Asianna. Some members of the Concordian command believed that they could manufacture military equipment better. Nonetheless, Mountbatten ordered Concordian factories to manufacture equipment when the [[Battle of Nihhon-koku]] took place. 

Mountbatten also directed the plans for the Island Hopping Campaign, in which he also allowed the militarization of the [[Free Quenminese Movement]]. With the Lucis Parliament and his support, the [[Free Quenminese Army]] was established in 1935 with General [[Hồ Ngọc Quyết]] appointed as Chief of the Free Quenminese Army by him. This was met with many objections from the Concordian High Command, stating that the Free Quenminese are "cannon-fodders" and did not have the tenacity to fight a modern war. Some called them irregulars who were nothing but militiamen. Initially armed with a few [[First Europan War]] equipment and some 1920s weaponry, Mountbatten supplied the FQA with Concordian Arms, which was met with backlash from the Concordian High Command. Mountbatten had also been instrumental in the Allies recognizing the [[Free Quenminese Government]] as the legitimate ruling government of Quenmin during the war.

Despite it, the FQA received support from different Commonwealth countries. Zanarkian General [[Klankain Auchinleck]] was a supporter of the FQA and was often deployed to fight alongside with them, including the famous [[Battle of Barclay Atoll]], in which the FQA managed to free 55% of the island.

In March 1940, Mountbatten requested a force of Lucian and ZANAC forces to liberate Joyonghea from Quenminese control. However, several members of the Concordian High Command, including Generals [[Donald MacArthur]], [[Elliot Henderson Wallace]], [[Isaac Lawrence]] and [[Peter Samuel Bolivar Barton]] were opposed, given that Joyonghea can be liberated by another Allied power, just not the force that was assigned to liberate Joyonghea because they believed that the [[Fifth Zanarkian Imperial Force|5th ZIF]] and the [[Lucis 11th Army]] would be needed for Concordia's role in the Island Hopping Campaign towards Bactieu. MacArthur attempted to reverse the decision to move the armies heading to Joyonghea into helping them liberate Malayia, and heading into Bactieu by stating that "Quenmin is the proper objective and key to winning the war, and not Joyonghea."

Despite this, Mountbatten disagreed and still kept his sights on liberating Joyonghea because the Joyonghean Peninsula was vital to the Allied Cause of attacking Quenminese-occupied Lorica. Mountbatten had previously sent the Rubrumian-Jutlandish [[Task Force Gimle]] to the [[Teulabia Campaign|Teulabian Region]] to help the Joyonghean-Trabian resistance against the Quenminese. He hoped that the force would be finished in time for them to support the Allied forces already in Joyonghea by 1943. 

Rumours surfaced that MacArthur and a group of Generals plotted to remove Mountbatten out of his command as [[Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, Asianna Command]] and have himself take over. However, there was not a universal support for this move and that Prime Minister [[Winston S. Churchill]] remained confident with Mountbatten's handling of the Asianna Theatre. In the end, Mountbatten's plan to liberate Joyonghea was pushed, spoiling MacArthur's plan for a quick end to the Island Hopping Campaign. By July, [[Operation Bugger]], the Allied Invasion of Quenminese-occupied Joyonghea began. The move eventually made [[Joyonghea]] side with the Allies. The controversy also gave a negative view of MacArthur and the aforementioned generals by the Joyongheans.

===War of Lorican Aggression===

==Later Life==

==Legacy==

Mountbatten took pride in enhancing intercultural understanding and in 1984, with his elder daughter as the patron, the Mountbatten Institute was developed to allow young adults the opportunity to enhance their intercultural appreciation and experience by spending time abroad.

Field Marshal [[Daidoji Kitagawa|Sir Daidoji Kitagawa]], a close friend of Mountbatten, named one of his grandsons, [[Kiriya Kitagawa]] after him. Kiriya would later go on to be one of the [[Lucis Army]]'s finest and leading commanders.