# Beauvallet — Character guide

> Key figures in Beauvallet by Georgette Heyer.

- [Sir Nicholas Beauvallet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/nick_beauvallet.md): Sir Nicholas Beauvallet — 'Mad Nick' to his crew — is a sea-captain of legendary nerve, heir to a line of reckless Beauvallets, and the terror of Spanish galleons. Capturing the Governor's daughter Doña Dominica, he lose
- [Doña Dominica de Rada y Sylva](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/dominica_de_rada.md): Doña Dominica de Rada y Sylva moves through the Spanish court under her aunt's watchful eye, expected to marry her oily cousin Diego and never to speak of the English corsair who once held her ship. Her pride and her hon
- [Joshua Dimmock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/joshua_dimmock.md): Joshua Dimmock follows Sir Nicholas into Spain with the resigned devotion of a man who has long since stopped being surprised by his master's escapades. Voluble, resourceful, and never short of an improvised tale — briga
- [Doña Beatrice de Carvalho](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/beatrice_de_carvalho.md): Doña Beatrice de Carvalho presides over Madrid society with an imperturbable smile, arranging her niece's marriage and observing the scandal of El Beauvallet with more amusement than alarm. She is no fool: she reads the 
- [Don Diego de Carvalho](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/diego_de_carvalho.md): Don Diego de Carvalho dresses in white to match his cousin, presses roses on her, and hovers at her elbow with possessive fury, convinced that the Chevalier de Guise is no Frenchman at all. His jealousy sharpens into ope
- [Don Manuel de Rada y Sylva](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/manuel_de_rada.md): Don Manuel de Rada y Sylva, broken by West Indian fever and stripped of his governorship, shields his daughter aboard the captured galleon with the last dignity of a Spanish grandee. His infirmity and diminished fortune 
- [King Philip II of Spain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/king_philip_ii.md): Philip rules from a desk as much as a throne, receiving reports of the English pirate's audacity with hooded eyes and a pen that never stops moving. Where his captains rage and predict disaster, he answers with memoranda
- [Mr. Dangerfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/mr_dangerfield.md): Dangerfield serves aboard Beauvallet's ship as a conscientious young officer, the kind of lad who sets a lady on a pedestal and answers her questions about sailing with painful sincerity. Dominica seizes on him as a tool
- [Sir Francis Drake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/francis_drake.md): Famous English privateer and admiral, a friend and ally of Beauvallet.
- [Don Cristobal de Porres](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/cristobal_de_porres.md): A Spanish nobleman and courtier, involved in the intrigue around Dominica.
- [Don Maxia de Perinat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/maxia_de_perinat.md): A Spanish admiral and ally of the de Rada family.
- [Don Rodriguez de Carvalho](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/rodriguez_de_carvalho.md): A Portuguese nobleman, relative of Beatrice and Diego.
- [Chevalier Claude de Guise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/claude_de_guise.md): A flamboyant French nobleman and adventurer at the Spanish court.
- [Gerard Beauvallet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/gerard_beauvallet.md): Nick's younger brother, also an English privateer.
- [Sir Francis Walsingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/walsingham.md): Queen Elizabeth's spymaster, who employs Beauvallet.
- [Simon the Coldheart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/simon_beauvallet.md): Legendary ancestor of the Beauvallet family, mentioned in the pedigree.
- [De Lauvinière](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beauvallet_se/characters/de_lauviniere.md): A French gentleman or diplomat at the Spanish court.

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