Andre de Bergiac was the official (token) Governor of Puerto Lejos for seven years. He is a 26 year old man, handsome and stylish but something of a fop. He had a poor reputation in the town while governor as being a young and inexperienced figurehead and having no real power, but is redeeming himself in his new position as Duke.
He was only Governor due to a technicality of the treaty that established the town. After the The Pirate Crusade, three The Merchant Houses of Haven were given an exclusive charter over trade and commerce in the The Northern Reach. Since there existed a degree of distrust between those houses, one of the stipulations of the charter was that the governors of the important towns of the reach would never be from any of the three houses.
Even though Vetrini had controlled all aspects of Puerto Lejos, they were still forbidden from appointing one of their own as Governor. Since Andre is not technically a member of the Vetrini House but his family is entirely under the thumb of the House Vetrini, he was a logical workaround for this legal limitation.
When the Vetrini withdrew from Puerto Lejos , Andre, somewhat surprisingly, ended up being voted in and crowned Carlos VII by the newly formed Town Council, under the philosophy “Better the devil you know”. In addition he was also the only available candidate that was of noble blood and that the various power blocks of the town felt confident they could control.
So far, to everyone’s surprise, Carlos VII has proved a surprisingly competent Duke