The Heart of the Princess

Alix (or Alice) of Lisander was the wife of Johannes II, second Prince of Lisander. With the premature death of her husband, after just four years of reign, and when future prince Johannes III was only nine years old, Alix reigned as regent on behalf of her son for six years. Daughter of the first Baron of Salinas, Alix was known as "a generous heart."

One spring, on her way to her father's mansion, she was struck by beggars, who had lost everything they had to the rigorous snow that had fallen on them the previous winter. The guards wanted to push them away, but the Regent took pity on them. Reports from her lady-in-waiting, Luisa Viana, Future Countess of Soria, note that

Alix received many impoverished families on that trip, to deal with the cruel winter that the north faced.

The "land of the homestead" was one of the lands she had inherited from her father, the Baron. She had them build a village in the strip of their estate by the sea, so that those who had been impoverished, on the condition of paying an annual tax on products to the crown. In a few years, the "Royal Village of Her Highness Alix" became a major fish producer for the capital. With that action, Alix became even more popular, because by offering her land to produce food, she fell into the graces of the people and the nobility could not call her inept or weak.

When the village was finally finished, they offered a chapel to the princess. Aristotelic faithful and fervent, he thanked them, saying that "her heart rejoiced from the gift", and that in gratitude her heart would be there forever. And as was the wish of the Princess, while she was buried in the Harmin Pantheon in the City of Lisander, her heart was offered to the Chapel of the Village which she had founded as a relic.

To this day, his heart is in a golden urn in the current Alix City Basilica. The Coat of Arms of the city was augmented with a silver canton, with a Heart of Gules (red).