David IV

David IV is the current emperor of the Holy Empire of Excalbia. He succeeded his father, David III, who was the grandson of Empress Mary I.

As a prince, David received basic military training. Unlike most of the Imperial family, however, David chose to turndown an honorary commission in the Imperial Navy, electing instead to attend the Imperial Naval Academy as an ordinary cadet. Commissioned as an Ensign in 1978, the future Emperor received flight training and earned his wings as a carrier-certified naval aviator. In his nearly 20 year career, David IV also served on various surface ships, eventually rising to command the destroyer INV Valmiera as a Commander. His last assignment in the Imperial Navy was a professor of naval tactics and military history at the Academy.

In 1980, David IV married Elizabeth Karlson. Their first son, Prince Joseph of Excalbia was born in 1983. Their daughter, Princess Rebecca, was born in 1990 and their second son, Prince James, was born in 1995.

After ascending the throne in 1998, David IV embarked on an ambitious military modernization program and an expansion of the Empire's foreign relations. The culmination of the Emperor's new foreign policy was the inauguration of an alliance with the Holy and Most August Empire of Pantocratoria. The Alliance was cemented when Prince Joseph married Princess Anna Capet of Pantocratoria. Upon their marriage, David IV granted the newlyweds a patent and Imperial charter to establish an independent nation in Excalbia's unincorporated Western Maritime Peninsula as co-sovereigns. This new nation became the Principality of Langeais.