House Corrino
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Imperial House Corrino is a Great House and ruling family in the fictional Dune universe of Frank Herbert.
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Founding
The Legends of Dune prequel trilogy written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson about the Butlerian Jihad gives explanation to the origins of House Corrino:
The Imperial House Corrino originated when Viceroy Faykan Butler, the grandnephew of Serena Butler, managed to combine the titles of Viceroy and Grand Patriarch into one office - his - through much deft political maneuvering. In a speech given immediately after the Battle of Corrin, the final battle of the Jihad, Faykan took much of the credit for the battle (which in fact was mainly organized and carried out by Supreme Bashar Vorian Atreides) and announced that he would change his name to Corrino, to reflect this bit of history. Faykan married Jessica Boro-Ginjo, a descendant of both the first Grand Patriarch Iblis Ginjo, and longer back to the last Emperors of the Old Empire. He became the first Padishah Emperor.
Rule as Emperors
Members of this Imperial House ruled as Padishah Emperors of the Known Universe from the time of the Butlerian Jihad until the defeat of the 81st Emperor of the Imperial House Corrino, Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, by "Muad'dib" (Paul Atreides) and the Fremen approximately 10,000 years later. The Emperor had five daughters, all of them trained as Bene Gesserit (albeit in a somewhat superficially 'courtly' way), but only two play a part in the events of Dune:
- Princess Irulan Corrino became the wife (in name only) of Paul Atreides who ousted the Emperor to assume the mantle of power himself.
- Princess Wensicia Corrino was the mother of Farad'n, the future companion of Ghanima Atreides
The Imperial House Corrino's ancestral planet was Salusa Secundus, the seat of imperial power since the Butlerian Jihad. Due to an atomic aggression by a renegade House, House Corrino and the Golden Lion Throne moved to Kaitain. The offending house is unknown, erased from history. The harsh conditions of their homeworld encouraged the survival of the strong, and allowed the Corrinos to develop the universe's most-feared military units, the warrior-fanatic Sardaukar, the means by which House Corrino controlled the Empire.
Exile
Following their exile to Salusa Secundus after being defeated by Paul Atreides, the Corrinos gradually recovered strength. A few years later, Prince Farad'n Corrino, the grandson of Shaddam IV and last hope for a new Corrino Emperor, made a bid for the throne (spurred on by his mother, Princess Wensicia).
The proposed return to glory for the Imperial House Corrino did not succeed, as the remaining Atreides were Leto II and his sister-wife, Ghanima. Leto II had been rendered sterile by the sandworm binding process, so to continue the line, Leto II reached an agreement with the Corrino: Farad'n would never rule or marry Ghanima, but he would sire all future heirs apparent to the throne, so all Padishah Emperors and Empresses after that point would be part-Atreides, part-Fremen, and part-Corrino. (After the tragic death of his father on Arrakis, Leto II married his twin-sister Ghanima only in name, for political power and made her the mother of his offspring.)
Following Leto II's death 3,500 years later, the Empire of a Million Worlds collapsed in The Scattering. There were no more Corrino Emperors left, or any other Atreides Emperors for that matter. And there were no more Fremen royals inheriting the Golden Lion Throne at all.
1,500 years after the Scattering, the legendary commander of the armies of the Bene Gesserit was Miles Teg, a descendant of the Ghanima/Farad'n union.
Corrino Family Tree
Harkonnen family Butler family
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Ulf Harkonnen = Katarina Harkonnen Manion Butler = Livia Butler
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Piers Harkonnen Xavier Harkonnen = Octa Butler Serena Butler
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Roella Harkonnen Omilia Harkonnen Wandra Harkonnen = Quentin Vigar
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Faykan Butler (Corrino) Rikov Butler Abulurd Harkonnen the Elder
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75 Padishah Emperors
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Raphael Corrino
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Vutier Corrino II
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Fondil Corrino III
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Yvette Hagal = Elrood Corrino IX = Habla Corrino
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Edwina Corrino |
: Shaddam Corrino IV = Anirul Sadow-Tonkin Corrino
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Chani = Paul Atreides Φ Irulan Corrino Chalice Corrino Wensicia Corrino Josifa Corrino Rugi Harkonnen
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Leto Atreides II Ghanima Atreides = Farad'n Corrino
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many children
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