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Chevalier Claude de Guise

A flamboyant French nobleman and adventurer at the Spanish court.

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Also known as the Chevalier Claude de Guise, the Guise, the Chevalier de Guise, Chevalier, le Chevalier de Guise

First appearance: v

Chevalier Claude de Guise shows up with force in VIII. The page is where that presence becomes real.

The identity Beauvallet assumes after killing a Guise scion; the dead man carried papers from the Guise to King Philip.
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QEQueen Elizabet…MDMaster DawsonSNSir Nicholas B…DDDoña Dominica …KPKing Philip II…CCChevalier Claude de …

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  • Spanish Court Intrigue
  • English Power Brokers
  • Minor Characters & Servants
  • Protagonist

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