# Sir Adhelmar de Nointel — The Line of Love character guide

> Sir Adhelmar de Nointel in The Line of Love by James Branch Cabell.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Cousin Adhelmar, Adhelmar, Sang Adhelmar

**First appearance:** 0005-i-the-episode-called-the-wedding-jest

## Snapshot

A knight-poet who reads old love stories aloud in an April garden and sighs for a lady who will not have him, while a rival waits in the hedges.

## Who they are

Adhelmar de Nointel is a proven soldier and a maker of songs, lodging at Puysange and reading to Mélite of Helen, Melior, and Morgaine. He loves her; she pities him and kisses him from tenderness, which Hugues d'Arques witnesses with black brows. A vow to his King's quarrel postpones the reckoning for a year, and the delay is the story's whole engine.

## In the story

### [The Line of Love](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_line_of_love_se/chapters/the-line-of-love)

A member of the de Nointel family, likely involved in the marital arrangements and the social dynamics of the chapter.

### [II: The Episode Called Adhelmar at Puysange](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_line_of_love_se/chapters/ii-the-episode-called-adhelmar-at-puysange)

A valiant knight and poet, cousin to Mélite and Reinault. He is deeply in love with Mélite, but his love is unrequited. He challenges Hugues and later dies from a wound after being condemned as a traitor.

### [X: The Envoi Called Semper Idem](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_line_of_love_se/chapters/x-the-envoi-called-semper-idem)

Mentioned among those who loved greatly despite not always acting sensibly.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_line_of_love_se/chapters/endnotes)

Praised in verse for his courage and poetic skill.

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