Equinox Coup (Educandi)

Equinox Coup
Part of Reformist Confict
Date Fallset 1 1489 (September 22) Location Edurre, Educandi Result Bonifassian Victory
Belligerents
City Guard of Educandi	Patrician Coalition
Commanders and leaders
Bonifaas I Bonifacius Lodejwik Campaje	Mattejus Preternaster  † Capt. Hjalt Hjaltson  †
Strength
900 mercenaries (900 infantry)	1,000 Guard Regulars (800 Infantry, 200 Cavalry)

The ‘’’Equinox Coup’’’, or the ‘’’Battle of Fallwane’’’, was a failed coup d’état attempted by the Patrician families of Educandi, namely the Praternaster clan headed by Mattejus Praternaster. Comprised of a group of mercenaries hired by each of the 4 families, the army attempted to assassinate Bonifaas on the day of his innaguration as Burgemeister, a step in his consolidation of power that would have given him the authority to tax any citizen of the city. Failing that, the force went with the second phase of the plan anyway, and attempted to seize the Guild Hall. Due to Bonifaas still being able to command his force, the mercenaries were repulsed, and scattered. The core of the millitia then went to Praternaster’s warehouse, and wholed up to resist a seige. Without assistance from the other three families, Bonifaas broke the defenders, and his army threw any survivors into the adjacent canal, thus beginning a long history of failed and unpopular politicians being thrown in a canal.