Florencia

Florencia (フロレンツィア Furorentsia) is a character that appears in the Ascendance of a Bookworm series. She is the first wife of Sylvester.

Due to having to handle Sylvester and Wilfried, she's described as a strict, no-nonsense mother.

Florencia was born as the daughter of the Archduke of the neighboring province of Frenbeltag.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 2 She met her future husband at the Royal Academy. Sylvester put a lot of effort into earning the right to escort Florencia at her graduation ceremony despite being two years younger than her, a very unusual thing. But his hard work payed off and he eventually was able to pull the impressive feat off.

When coming to Ehrenfest her new mother-in-law was less than welcoming, driving Florencia to join the Elvira faction, which was opposed to Veronica's faction. Due to her higher rank the faction took on Florencia's name, but Elvira remained as the leader. Upon the birth of her first child Wilfried, Veronica took charge of the boy, practically stealing him away from his mother. The only times she got to see him was at dinner. Veronica claimed this was to make sure the boy got a proper upbringing worthy of the next archduke, but in reality he spoiled him rotten, leading to dire consequences, which almost caused him to be disinherited and sent to the temple shortly before his introduction to noble society after his baptism.

Her access to her oldest son was so restricted she wasn't even aware of how horribly uneducated Wilfried was until Rozemyne joined the family, at which point it was almost too late to salvage the situation.

Thankfully Veronica was satisfied with getting her hands on the firstborn son alone, so Florencia was at least able to raise her other two children Charlotte and Melchior with all the love and strictness they needed to become proper archduke candidates. Under her mother's guidance Charlotte quickly surpassed her older brother in practically every single subject, despite being a year younger.

Florencia welcomed Rozemyne into her family with open arms. She attended tea parties with Elvira and Rozemyne and supported Rozemyne's charity concert.

When Rozemyne and Wilfried swapped roles for a day, she first realised Wilfried's dire state and also blamed Sylvester for Wilfried's state. From then on she wants to take Wilfried's education into her hands as well, as she was unable before due to Veronica.


 * She is interested in Ferdinand's harspiel play only and decides to get a cheap ticket for the charity concert.
 * She is two years older than Sylvester.
 * She is the youngest daughter of the previous Aub Frenbeltag, who was killed during the noble purge.
 * She is the younger sister of the current Aub Frenbeltag