# Ayrart de Montors — Domnei character guide

> Ayrart de Montors in Domnei by James Branch Cabell.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** de Montors, Ayrart, Messire de Montors

**First appearance:** 0010-ii-how-the-vicomte-was-very-gay

## Snapshot

A knight and ally of Perion, bound to him in the field where domnei's impossible dreams must survive contact with blood, loyalty, and armed men.

## Who they are

Ayrart de Montors serves as a knight and ally of Perion, standing with him in a life of singular violence where blood hangs scarlet before men's eyes like a tapestry. His loyalty places him among the few who share the practical burden of Perion's exalted service, caught between the demands of comradeship and the madness that domnei can breed. He matters because he gives Perion's quest a human company, showing that the religion of love is carried not by one dreamer alone but by men who ride and fight beside him.

## Relationships

### [Perion de la Forêt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/domnei_se/characters/perion_de_la_foret)

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Ayrart de Montors is a fellow knight and colleague of Perion, sharing martial duties and courtly obligations.

### [Perion de la Forêt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/domnei_se/characters/perion_de_la_foret)

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Ayrart de Montors is a fellow knight and colleague of Perion, sharing martial duties and courtly obligations.

## In the story

### [III: How Melicent Wooed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/domnei_se/chapters/iii-how-melicent-wooed)

Mentioned as the one who, out of love for Melicent, arranged for Perion's escape.

### [IV: How the Bishop Aided Perion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/domnei_se/chapters/iv-how-the-bishop-aided-perion)

The bishop who aids Perion's escape; his identity is later revealed to be Melicent in disguise.

### [How Melicent Wedded](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/domnei_se/chapters/v-how-melicent-wedded)

Reveals he has known Perion's identity and eavesdropped; he argues against the match and plans to use King Theodoret's friendship to become a cardinal.

### [XXII: How Misery Held Nacumera](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/domnei_se/chapters/xxii-how-misery-held-nacumera)

Ayrart de Montors, now Pope Adrian VII, is mentioned as having been aided by Mélusine in securing the papacy through bribery.

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