Willem Markoos

Markoos Willem (October 7, 1748-August 17, 1802) was a wealthy Dutch merchant who wanted to throw James Carrington off the throne in the plan known as the Coup of 1800.

Early life
Willem was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands to a very wealthy Dutch merchant and a lady-in-waiting. His family moved to Donderstad to have a better position in the Mediterranean trade zones. But once the French besieged Donderstad in the Franco-Brunanter War, his family escaped the city and went to Koningstad.

Invasion of Brunant
During the time between Willem as a kid and when the Invasion of Brunant happened, he traded with the French a lot, and when his father found out about this, he kicked out of his house at the early age of 15. But since he had lots of money, he was able to get a decent house. He started to also trade with Great Britain but once Carrington invaded, he stopped instatly. He hated Carrington because of many reasons: one, he was a foreigner, two, he stopped a lot of trade flow and only let people trade in central Europe and not anywhere else in the world, and three, he enforced many taxes and laws that hurt the economy all together. So, he started to hire a bunch of assassins to help him try to kill Carrington. But all the attempts failed and the assassins rebelled against him.

Coup of 1800
Once the assassins rebelled and left him, he started to give up and accept the fact that things were not going to be as perfect as it was back then. But once Adrian II started a coup to throw James Carrington out of Brunant's government in early 1800, he immediately joined. He also bribed some guards to throw Carrington in jail. And suprisingly, the plan worked! Once Carrington was put in jail, Adrian II held an election for the next president. Willem tried to run for President, but Carrington was released right when the election started to begin. Carrington then killed all of the guards, chased Adrian II away, and then threw Willem into jail. After about 2 years in prison, Willem was executed, and his last words were, "Adrian lives! Carrington dies!" in Dutch.

Personal life
Willem married Grushilda Marlaat in 1768, and had two kids: Markoos (born 1769) and Paul (born 1772).