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Minister of State | |
| Predecessor: | Sir Giovanni de' Medici |
| Successor: | Lord Gustav Dreadre |
| King: | Alexander I of Switzerland |
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Royal Steward | |
| Predecessor: | General Antoin Herman |
| Successor: | Position Abolished |
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Secretary of State (Spain) | |
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Personal Details | |
| Born: | c. 1721 |
| Died: | c. 1750 (aged 29-30) |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Political party: | Swiss Progressive Assembly |
| Alma mater: | University of Zurich |
| Profession: | Politician, Royalty |
| Religion: | Roman Catholicism |
Samuel Carlos Bermúdez Clemente (c. 1721 - c. 1750) was the only son of British general Eric Machawk and Spanish Princess Sparky Clemente. He served as Minister of State and Royal Steward to Alexander I of Switzerland in early-1750, before defecting to Spain where he was named Secretary of State for External Relations, or Foreign Minister.
Life[]
After the outbreak of the third Deltan War in 1728, Samuel and his mother Sparky would flee Spain, taking up residence in Denmark, where his father General Eric Machawk was stationed. He was brought up alongside his half-sister, Maddison Machawk, and developed a close bond with her.
In 1739 Samuel began attending the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Due to the outbreak of the Paradoxian War only a few months later, he was henceforth unable to contact his family for several years. After finishing his studies in Switzerland, he joined the Swiss Progressive Assembly, a liberal political party that had been founded that year, albiet without any seats in the nation's Tagsatzung. When Lord Jon Kroshbon, leader of the Progressive Assembly, was elected Prime Minister in December 1749, Samuel became one of the leading members of legislation within the Tagsatzung, bringing nearly thirty resolutions to the floor. However, only three months into the premiership of Lord Kroshbon, he resigned his post and moved to Denmark citing irrevocable differences with the King.
Samuel subsequently gained the leadership of the SPA due to the resignations of Lord Kroshbon's cabinet, leaving a power vacuum. While the King installed Lord Kohleschmied of the SPP as Prime Minister once more, in order to compromise on the parliamentary majority the SPA held, he appointed a relatively inexperienced Samuel as Minister of State, and gave him a wide range of powers. The Minister was given control over foreign and national security related matters, while the domestic and legal policies were left to Prince Richard Kroshbon as Minister of Interior.
Samuel eventually would betray the Swiss by leaking sensitive documents, namely a contingency plan prepared against Denmark-Norway following the tensions of March 1750 called Operation Wolfsbane, causing an international incident and leading to a British mediated peace. He subsequently escaped rom Switzerland, and fled to Spain, where the government of Premier Leonardo Cortes named him Secretary of State.
When the Syndicate government fell and Cortes was ousted from power, Samuel fled into hiding, and King Alexander subsequently sentenced him to death in absentia. He is believed to have died while fleeing Spanish authorities somewhere along the Franco-Spanish border.