Egmund von Hohenheim

''Cardinal Hohenheim is one of the main male supporting characters in "Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai Deshou!" He is a Bishop in the main church in the Helmut Kingdom and a advisor to King Helmut. He is the grandfather of Elise Katharina von Hohenheim and the father of her mother 's husband.''

Appearance
That close to 70-years-old man was wearing gorgeously decorated priest’s clothes. Undoubtedly he was a church official. Moreover he was in a position of being able to freely enter the royal palace. He was sure to be quite the big-shot at the Head Church.

Background
Nothing is really given about his background.

Plot
He first appears when Wendelin von Benno Baumeister is explaining how he defeated the Undead Ancient Dragon and agrees with the king that Wend is a very powerful magician. He then offered to preform a true baptism for Wend. Wend accepts this due to Arterio_Marchen recommendation. After Wend has the true baptism, Elise Katharina von Hohenheim ,enters the room to serve tea and the Cardinal basically tricks Wend into taking her as his wife when he comes of age.

When the current pope was ill and about to pass away he surprised everyone by declaring he was not going to run for the position even though he was a shoe in to win. His reasoning was that his great grand children, Wend and Elise's kid, were going to marry into the royal family with his great granddaughter becoming the future Queen. He felt that if he became pope that people would feel he had too much power.

Etymology

 * Cardinal means "a leading dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church."
 * Hohenheim in Icelandic means "Child of the night sky" or in German means "High Home."

Abilities
He has no magic Abilities

Skills
He is master at working the political landscape. Since he is one of the leaders of the church, no one wants to be on his bad side as he has considerable political clout.

Wendelin von Benno Baumeister
He thinks highly of Wend given the fact he gave Elise to him as his head wife.

Finance Minister Rückner
After Kurt von Benno Baumeister attempted assassination of Wend and his party he came to Finance Minister Rückner and let him know he was highly upset that Rückner gave concessions to Baron Rückner when his plot almost killed Elise Katharina von Hohenheim. This hurt Rückner's standing somewhat.

Trivia

 * He had already gotten King Helmut's permission to marry Elise Katharina von Hohenheim to Wendelin von Benno Baumeister before he had even meet him.
 * He pushed Elise to make sure she bore the first male child to Wend.
 * When he went to King Helmut to get his permission to marry the two, he was informed by King Helmut that Wend's peerage would be rising to Baron soon.

Quotes
"Wendelin-dono is a pious Son of God as well? Good, good."

- Hohenheim to Wend

"Ooooh! So you will kindly receive Elise as wife?"

- Hohenheim to Wend

"Son-in-law, many call me devil in society, but the person in front of me is a real devil."

- Hohenheim to Wend about Emily

"My son-in-law has little to nothing to do with the church. He has been cooperating with us, but he lacks any faith"

- Hohenheim to Emily about Wend