# Walter — The Canterbury Tales character guide

> Walter in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sir Walter Scott

**First appearance:** 0023-the-clerk-s-tale

## Who they are

A young marquis of Lombardy who weds a poor village girl, then subjects her to ever harsher trials to test her patience.

## In the story

### [The Clerk's Tale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_canterbury_tales_se/chapters/the-clerk-s-tale)

The nobleman who marries Griseldis and tests her obedience through extreme trials.

### [The Clerk's Tale of Griselda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_canterbury_tales_se/chapters/the-tale)

The Marquis of Saluces who tests his wife Griselda's patience by taking away her children and feigning divorce.

### [Pars Prima](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_canterbury_tales_se/chapters/pars-prima)

The young marquis of Saluces, initially reluctant to marry, agrees under pressure from his people but insists on choosing his own wife.

### [Pars Secunda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_canterbury_tales_se/chapters/pars-secunda)

The marquis who chooses to marry the poor Griseldis, testing her obedience.

### [Pars Tertia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_canterbury_tales_se/chapters/pars-tertia)

The marquis, driven by a marvellous desire to test his wife, feigns sternness and falsely claims noble pressure to justify taking their daughter.

### [Pars Quarta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_canterbury_tales_se/chapters/pars-quarta)

Continues to test his wife Griseldis's patience, ordering their son taken away and later forging papal bulls to justify a divorce.

### [Pars Quinta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_canterbury_tales_se/chapters/pars-quinta)

The marquis who continues to test his wife's patience by publicly announcing he will take a new wife and sending her away.

### [Pars Sexta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_canterbury_tales_se/chapters/pars-sexta)

The marquis who tests his wife Griselda's patience by pretending to marry another, then reveals the truth.

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