# Dame Jehane — Chivalry character guide

> Dame Jehane in Chivalry by James Branch Cabell.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Jehane

**First appearance:** 0004-i-the-story-of-the-sestina

## Snapshot

Once a Navarrese girl in a green gown, now Duchess of Brittany and Countess of Rougemont, who has traded her one true title for a golden collar she cannot cast off.

## Who they are

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 is dead, yet her heart rages when Riczi accepts her cruel command to go to England as her proxy and marry the King in her place. Her refusal to renounce the chain of rank, and the oath she breaks, make her the story's sharpest study of love traded for station.

## Relationships

### [Antoine Riczi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/antoine_riczi)

_romantic_

Antoine Riczi is secretly enamored with Dame Jehane, composing poetry and performing chivalric deeds to win her heart.

### [Antoine Riczi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/characters/antoine_riczi)

_romantic_

Antoine Riczi is secretly enamored with Dame Jehane, composing poetry and performing chivalric deeds to win her heart.

## In the story

### [The Epilogue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/chivalry_se/chapters/the-epilogue)

The noble lady whose service provided Nicolas de Caen with the matter of the ninth and tenth stories.

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