# Lady Mary Loring — The White Company character guide

> Lady Mary Loring in The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mary, the Lady Mary

**First appearance:** 0003-ii-how-alleyne-edricson-came-out-into-the-world

## Who they are

Sir Nigel's wife and mother of Maude.

## In the story

### [How a Young Shepherd Had a Perilous Flock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/chapters/xi-how-a-young-shepherd-had-a-perilous-flock)

Requests Alleyne to tutor Lady Maude and discusses his father and brother the Socman.

### [XIII: How the White Company Set Forth to the Wars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/chapters/xiii-how-the-white-company-set-forth-to-the-wars)

Gives Sir Nigel a purse of money and her glove, then watches him depart from a hilltop.

### [How the Blessed Hour of Sight Came to the Lady Tiphaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/chapters/xxix-how-the-blessed-hour-of-sight-came-to-the-lady-tiphaine)

Sir Nigel's wife, mentioned as defending Twynham Castle during the siege vision.

### [XXXVIII: Of the Homecoming to Hampshire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/chapters/xxxviii-of-the-homecoming-to-hampshire)

The Lady of Twynham, who has pined for her missing husband and allows Alleyne to search for Sir Nigel.

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