Roger III (Prince of Caledon)
| Roger III | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 79 | |
| Preceded by | Laurence I |
|---|---|
| Succeeded by | Simon I |
| Born | 45 |
| Died | 80 |
Roger Haslett Douglass, oldest son of Prince John III and Princess Arianne.
When Laurence abdicated, Roger was next in line - which was cause for muted, and sometimes not-so-muted, worry througout the various royal families.
Roger had been quite clearly mentally ill since his teens - and by his thirties was quite severely bipolar. Medication controlled it, if barely - while Roger was a mid-level noble with little hope of acceding to the throne.
But as his older half-brothers' reigns collapsed, suddenly he was in line for the throne.
He was crowned on 195-79 - and the stresses of government, especially over such a fractious nobility, were almost immediately too much for him. By the dawn of 80, he was incapable of functioning at all; his regent, Alistair MacCorquedale, advised his removal, prompting a constitutional crisis that overshadowed the first year or two of Simon I's reign.