Leopold von Bildhofen was the former Elector Count and Grand Duke of Middenland as well as the Prince of Carroburg. He was one of the twelve most powerful nobles in the Empire.[1a][2a][2b] After the political reorganisation of the Empire in the wake of the Turmoil of 2512 IC, he was stripped of his more powerful titles, and he retained only the rule of the principality of Carroburg.[3a]
Leopold was not a man who looked his high station; he always appeared bored and tired when not in action.[1a]
Leopold had a son, Udo von Bildhofen, but his chosen successor was actually his brother, the Baron Siegfried von Bildhofen. His wife is a Tilean woman.[1a][4] Duke Leopold was popular in his province, as he is a regular donor to the region's temples and charities and openly supports Carroburg's charter as "the wave of the future," an idea that appalls his more traditionalist-minded noble cousins. Some among the Empire's aristocracy see Leopold as a defender of the "western" interests in the court at Middenheim.[3a]
Leopold is a distant descendant of the former Emperor Magnus von Bildhofen, the famed Magnus the Pious who earned victory in the Great War Against Chaos and reunited the Empire in its wake.[2a]