# Ivanhoe — Character guide

> Key figures in Ivanhoe by Walter Scott.

- [Rebecca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/rebecca.md): Rebecca is the daughter of Isaac of York, a wealthy Jewish merchant navigating a hostile Christian England where her learning and beauty make her both prized and vulnerable. Her father grants her unusual liberty because 
- [Cedric the Saxon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/cedric.md): Cedric of Rotherwood is a Saxon nobleman whose fierce loyalty to his conquered people drives him to scheme for their political revival under Athelstane's leadership. He has banished his son Ivanhoe for loving the Norman-
- [Wilfred of Ivanhoe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/ivanhoe.md): Wilfred of Ivanhoe is a Saxon knight torn between his father's nationalist ambitions and his own loyalty to King Richard, a division that costs him his inheritance and his place at home. Wounded and anonymous, he compete
- [Lady Rowena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/rowena.md): Lady Rowena is Cedric's ward, a woman of noble Saxon blood whose wealth and lineage make her desirable to Normans seeking to legitimize their power through marriage. Accustomed to deference and untested by real danger, s
- [Prince John](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/prince_john.md): Prince John is the usurping brother of King Richard, holding court at Ashby while Richard languishes in captivity abroad. He plots to marry Rowena to his follower De Bracy, both to reward a vassal and to neutralize a wea
- [Brian de Bois-Guilbert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/brian_de_bois_guilbert.md): Brian de Bois-Guilbert is a Preceptor of the Knights Templar, renowned for his crusading exploits and considered a possible future Grand Master. His forbidden fascination with Rebecca leads him to defend her against his 
- [Isaac of York](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/isaac.md): Isaac of York moves through a hostile England where his gold buys influence but never safety, financing Prince John's rebellion while dreading the return of Richard. When the wounded Ivanhoe needs shelter, Isaac balks at
- [Gurth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/gurth.md): Gurth wears the metal collar of a thrall, but his Saxon pride runs deeper than his servitude to Cedric. When Ivanhoe needs a squire, Gurth buckles on gilded spurs and rides out of the convent gate, half servant and half 
- [Wamba](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/wamba.md): Wamba's cap and bells are his passport through a world where a Saxon's plain speech can cost him his head. He jests at Norman arrogance and Saxon stubbornness alike, but his loyalty to Cedric and Ivanhoe is deadly seriou
- [King Richard the Lionheart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/king_richard.md): Richard Plantagenet moves through his own realm as the Black Knight, testing the loyalty of men who have never seen his face and jesting with Robin Hood's band as if the crown were a trifle. Ivanhoe watches his sovereign
- [Athelstane of Coningsburgh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/athelstane.md): Athelstane of Coningsburgh carries the blood of Saxon kings in a frame better suited to feasting than ruling. Prince John's court dismisses him as a Saxon ox, yet his lineage makes him a threat to Norman ambition and a c
- [Reginald Front-de-Boeuf](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/front_de_boeuf.md): Front-de-Boeuf holds his lands by conquest and his prisoners by force, a man whose gigantic frame matches his appetite for gain and vengeance. When Ivanhoe falls wounded at Ashby, the baron quietly counts the day's outco
- [Maurice de Bracy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/de_bracy.md): A Norman mercenary captain whose hunger for Saxon lands and a Saxon bride makes him Prince John's eager instrument—and a dangerous rival to any man who stands between him and Rowena.
- [Waldemar Fitzurse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/waldemar_fitzurse.md): Prince John's cold-eyed advisor, who reads grief and ambition alike with the same calculating glance and turns every banquet and tournament into a move in his master's quiet war for the throne.
- [Locksley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/locksley.md): A yeoman outlaw whose bow speaks with more authority than any Norman writ, and whose greenwood band answers to a name the Sheriff would give much to learn.
- [Lucas de Beaumanoir](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/lucas_de_beaumanoir.md): The Grand Master of the Templars, whose iron piety and unbending law make him the most feared judge in Christendom—and the most merciless enemy of anyone his order condemns.
- [Prior Aymer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/prior_aymer.md): Worldly and pleasure-loving prior, companion of Bois-Guilbert.
- [Ulrica](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/ulrica.md): An aged Saxon crone whose hatred of her Norman masters burns colder and longer than any siege fire, and who waits within the walls of Torquilstone for a reckoning only she can deliver.
- [Albert de Malvoisin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/albert_malvoisin.md): Corrupt Templar preceptor of Templestowe, ally of Bois-Guilbert.
- [Friar Tuck](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/friar_tuck.md): Stout and merry outlaw friar, companion of Locksley.
- [Conrade de Mont-Fitchet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/conrade_mont_fitchet.md): Templar knight, companion of the Grand Master.
- [Baldwin de Oyley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ivanhoe_se/characters/baldwin_de_oyley.md): Norman knight, follower of Prince John.

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