# Mathias — The Black Tulip character guide

> Mathias in The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0014-xv-the-little-grated-window

## Who they are

A minor character who assists in the prison escape plot.

## In the story

### [In Which Van Baerle, Before Leaving Loewestein, Settles Accounts with Gryphus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_black_tulip_se/chapters/xxix-in-which-van-baerle-before-leaving-loewestein-settles-accounts-with-gryphus)

Referenced as a prisoner executed five years earlier for a lesser offense, used as a warning to Cornelius.

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