Wait, I'm confused about the relationship between house Friedrich and house Bastache. It says that Bastache used to belong to Friedrich but gained independence. However that independence somehow involves Bastache swearing absolute obedience to Friedrich?? That seems like the opposite of gaining independence.
The only way I can think this makes any sort of sense is if Bastache started as part of Friedrich and in order to actually create the separate house Bastache they had to swear that house Bastache would still obey Friedrich for 100 years. I mean that is still really stupid, but that's the best I can come up with.
Does somebody else have a better understanding of what's going on?