# Trifaldin — Don Quixote character guide

> Trifaldin in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Trifaldin of the White Beard

**First appearance:** 0100-part-ii-xl

## Who they are

The squire of the Countess Trifaldi, with a famously long beard.

## In the story

### [Wherein is related the strange and undreamt-of adventure of the distressed Duenna, alias the countess Trifaldi, together with a letter which Sancho Panza wrote to his wife, Teresa Panza.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxvi)

Squire to the Countess Trifaldi, delivers her message with great solemnity.

### [XXXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxviii)

Squire of the Countess Trifaldi, with a white beard, leading her by the hand.

### [XXXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxix)

Trifaldin responds to Sancho's comment about burial, clarifying that only the dead are buried in Kandy.

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