# Chivalry — Character guide

> Key figures in Chivalry by James Branch Cabell.

- [Richard Holland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/richard_holland.md): Richard has spent years in the East, assumed his half-brothers' surname, and received Glyndwyr's summons that England is now fit pasture for the White Hart. He proposes to wait, disguised and apparently unguarded, at Cae
- [Osmund Heleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/osmund_heleigh.md): Messire Osmund Heleigh is the Queen's escort on a journey that requires them to pass as wandering minstrels, and he procures the viol, the clothes, and the long falchion himself. He is lank, white-thatched, humorously pe
- [John Copeland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/john_copeland.md): Sir Gregory Darrell is bound by a promise — a truth once spoken may not be disowned — to perform a lengthy ditty detailing the Queen's treacheries, adulteries, and assassinations without stuttering. He delivers it desper
- [Edward Maudelain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/edward_maudelain.md): Edward Maudelain, once the Blessed Evrawc, is visited by an emissary in flame-colored satin who brings a message — Time is — and a lock of hair that should have been dust five years since. He scatters it hair by hair, pr
- [Antoine Riczi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/antoine_riczi.md): Riczi's desires clutch like starving persons at the sorry sustenance of a love he cannot have, since Jehane is married to old Jehan the Brave; he asks her to bid him live, and she prays she may be denied even Judas's one
- [Lady Katharine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/katharine.md): Lady Katharine meets Alain, a harper bound for Milan to take Duke Filippo's service, when his hunt for a chicken-stealing fox leads him to her wall; they talk two hours as if seated on the loftiest turret of Paradise, an
- [Sir Gregory Darrell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/gregory_darrell.md): Darrell moves through Lord Berners' fief of Ordish at his own discretion during the choppy warfare between Sire Edward and Queen Ysabeau, notoriously an adherent of the captured King. Brought fettered before the Queen an
- [Rosamund Eastney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/rosamund_eastney.md): Rosamund is the desire of Sir Gregory Darrell's heart, the woman for whom he risks his life riding past the Queen's gates toward Ordish, and she is contracted to marry the Earl of Sarum, a four-times-widowed goat of grea
- [Dame Jehane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/dame_jehane.md): Jehane sits enthroned among applauding courtiers while Antoine Riczi, her sworn servant in domnei, reminds her of the May morning in Pampeluna when first he kissed her. Drunk on wealth and power, she insists that Jehane 
- [Queen Philippa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/queen_philippa.md): With King David's Scots ravaging the north and the island defenceless, Philippa faces lords shouting for a ship to entreat Sire Edward's return, and answers them with the flat question of who commands here. She knows her
- [King Charles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/king_charles.md): Charles belongs to the world of kings who have their policies and wars wherewith to drug each human appetite, while their consorts are denied such makeshifts and must play the game of life upon a loftier, ruthlessly illu
- [Queen Ysabeau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/queen_ysabeau.md): Ysabeau sits in her carven chair, a handsome woman stoutening from too much wine, and regards her fettered prisoner with lazy amiability while Adam Orleton and the Earl of March croak for his death. She has harried the K
- [Prince Edward](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/prince_edward.md): Edward is heir to a kingdom stripped of its men-at-arms, with the Scots pouring south and his father, King Edward III, far away besieging France. His mother Philippa must choose between recalling her husband and holding 
- [Sang Miguel de Rueda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/sang_miguel_de_rueda.md): A character, Sang Miguel, who appears in the narrative.
- [Dame Alianora](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/dame_alianora.md): A lady, Alianora, who appears in the story.
- [Branwen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/branwen.md): A character, Branwen, who is near to someone's heart.
- [Messire Gwyllem](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/messire_gwyllem.md): A knight, Messire Gwyllem, who appears in the narrative.
- [Queen Jehane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/queen_jehane.md): A queen, Jehane, who appears as a character in the story.
- [Nicolas de Caen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/nicolas_de_caen.md): An old knight, Messire Nicolas, who appears in the narrative.
- [King Richard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/king_richard.md): King Richard II, a historical figure appearing in the story.
- [Gui Camoys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/gui_camoys.md): A character, Gui Camoys, who appears in the narrative.
- [Messire de Gâtinais](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/messire_de_gatinais.md): A knight, Messire de Gâtinais, who appears in the story.
- [Princess Jehane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/princess_jehane.md): A princess, young Jehane, who appears in the narrative.
- [Gloucester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/gloucester.md): A character, Gloucester, who appears in the narrative.
- [Dame Blanch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/dame_blanch.md): A lady, Dame Blanch, who appears in the story.
- [Lord Hastings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/hastings.md): Lord Hastings, a character appearing in the narrative.
- [Owain Glyndwyr](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/owain_glyndwyr.md): Owain Glyndwyr, a historical figure appearing in the story.
- [Marquess of Hastings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/marquess_of_hastings.md): The Marquess of Hastings, a character in the narrative.
- [Vicomte de Montbrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/vicomte_de_montbrison.md): The Vicomte de Montbrison, a character appearing in the story.
- [King Henry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/king_henry.md): King Henry, a historical figure appearing in the narrative.
- [Lady Ellinor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/ellinor.md): The Lady Ellinor, a character in the story.
- [King Edward](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/king_edward.md): King Edward, a historical figure and character in the narrative.
- [Count Manuel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/count_manuel.md): Count Manuel of Poictesme, a character appearing in the story.
- [Earl of Neville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/earl_of_neville.md): The Earl of Neville, a character appearing in the narrative.
- [Queen Anne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/queen_anne.md): Queen Anne, a character appearing in the story.
- [King Alphonso](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/king_alphonso.md): King Alphonso, a historical figure in the story.
- [Duke Jehan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/duke_jehan.md): Duke Jehan, a character appearing in the story.
- [Isabel of Valois](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/isabel_of_valois.md): Isabel of Valois, a historical figure in the narrative.
- [Queen Isabeau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/queen_isabeau.md): Queen Isabeau, a character appearing in the story.

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