# Simon the Coldheart — Character guide

> Key figures in Simon the Coldheart by Georgette Heyer.

- [Simon the Coldheart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/simon_the_coldheart.md): Simon arrives at Montlice's gate with nothing but nerve, demanding employment from a lord notorious for his temper, and earns a place through sheer audacity. He rises by strategy rather than charm: his men follow him bec
- [Lady Margaret of Belrémy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/lady_margaret_of_belremy.md): Margaret holds Belrémy against the English and treats with Simon only on her own terms — alone, under truce, inside her castle where she believes he is helpless. She is defiant, sharp-tongued, and unused to being outmane
- [Geoffrey of Malvallet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/geoffrey_of_malvallet.md): Geoffrey fights beside Simon through every campaign and is the one who notices when Simon starts speaking like a man settling his affairs before a battle — and says so, anxiously, to his face. His loyalty is absolute and
- [Fulk of Montlice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/fulk_of_montlice.md): Fulk is a giant of a lord, hot-tempered and loud, who tests the boy Simon at his own table and finds himself out-faced by a stripling who refuses to be called a vagrant. Wounded at Shrewsbury, he rages at being carried f
- [Jeanne de Faucourt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/jeanne_de_faucourt.md): Jeanne rides with Margaret out of beleaguered Belrémy and banters with Geoffrey about being carried to the altar by force, all mock-severity and dimples. Under the flirtation she is startlingly clear-sighted: she insists
- [Alan of Montlice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/alan_of_montlice.md): Alan is the young Montlice, courteous and quick to laugh, who overrides his father's men and brings the ragged Simon before Lord Fulk out of sheer instinctive liking. He becomes Simon's devoted friend and Master of his H
- [King Henry V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/king_henry_v.md): Henry is the soldier-king whose victories at Agincourt and beyond have made him the sun around which ambitious men orbit, and he prizes Simon enough to keep him at court if Simon would only stay. Where others see only Si
- [Maurice of Gountray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/maurice_of_gountray.md): A French knight and ally of Lady Margaret's cause.
- [Ranaud](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/ranaud.md): A French soldier or knight serving under Lady Margaret.
- [Raoul the Terrible](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/raoul_the_terrible.md): A brutal French lord who captures Lady Margaret.
- [Roger of Maitland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/roger_of_maitland.md): An English knight and companion to Simon.
- [Charles of Granmere](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/charles_of_granmere.md): A French nobleman and ally of Lady Margaret.
- [Gregory Arnold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/gregory_arnold.md): A young boy or servant in Simon's household.
- [Hélène](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/helene.md): A French lady-in-waiting to Lady Margaret.
- [Chevalier de Fleurival](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/chevalier_de_fleurival.md): A French knight who serves Lady Margaret.
- [Bernard of Talmayne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/bernard_of_talmayne.md): A French knight allied with Lady Margaret.
- [Madame la Comtesse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/madame_la_comtesse.md): The Countess, likely Lady Margaret's mother or a relative.
- [John Holland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/john_holland.md): An English nobleman and ally of King Henry.
- [Fernand de Turincel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/fernand_de_turincel.md): The lord of Turincel castle, an ally of Raoul.
- [Cedric of Gountray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/simon_the_coldheart_se/characters/cedric_of_gountray.md): A French knight, possibly related to Maurice.

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