# Lady Maude Loring — The White Company character guide

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

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Maude, the Lady Loring, the Lady Maude

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

## Snapshot

Sir Nigel's spirited daughter, Maude Loring, turns her back on the world for a nunnery—until a golden-haired squire rides to bar the church door.

## Who they are

Lady Maude Loring is the sole heiress of Sir Nigel, a young woman of spirit and beauty whose heart has been captured by Alleyne Edricson, her father's squire. When news of the company's supposed destruction reaches her, she seeks the cloister's peace, only to be confronted at the very threshold by the lover she thought dead. Her choice between the nunnery's safety and the risks of love and nature gives the story one of its most vivid romantic set-pieces.

## Relationships

### [Alleyne Edricson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/characters/alleyne_edricson)

_romantic_

Alleyne and Lady Maude are lovers, with a tender and chaste romance that overcomes social barriers.

### [Sir Nigel Loring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/characters/sir_nigel_loring)

_family_

Lady Maude is Sir Nigel's daughter, and their relationship is one of loving but formal familial duty.

### [Hordle John](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/characters/hordle_john)

_social_

John is a respectful subordinate and acquaintance of Lady Maude, interacting within the social hierarchy of the company.

### [Alleyne Edricson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/characters/alleyne_edricson)

_romantic_

Alleyne and Lady Maude are lovers, with a tender and chaste romance that overcomes social barriers.

### [Sir Nigel Loring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/characters/sir_nigel_loring)

_family_

Lady Maude is Sir Nigel's daughter, and their relationship is one of loving but formal familial duty.

### [Hordle John](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/characters/hordle_john)

_social_

John is a respectful subordinate and acquaintance of Lady Maude, interacting within the social hierarchy of the company.

### [Alleyne Edricson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/characters/alleyne_edricson)

_romantic_

Alleyne and Lady Maude are lovers, with a tender and chaste romance that overcomes social barriers.

### [Sir Nigel Loring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/characters/sir_nigel_loring)

_family_

Lady Maude is Sir Nigel's daughter, and their relationship is one of loving but formal familial duty.

## In the story

### [How Hordle John Found a Man Whom He Might Follow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/chapters/x-how-hordle-john-found-a-man-whom-he-might-follow)

Present with Sir Nigel; receives a box of sugar from Sir Claude Latour.

### [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)

Observes Alleyne secretly with a mirror; is to be tutored by him in letters.

### [How Alleyne Learned More Than He Could Teach](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/chapters/xii-how-alleyne-learned-more-than-he-could-teach)

Alleyne's pupil, whose passionate and wayward nature both challenges and attracts him; she fiercely defends him against any perceived disrespect.

### [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)

Weeps at the sight of the departing men, exchanges words with Alleyne, and gives him her green veil.

### [How Sir Nigel Wrote to Twynham Castle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/chapters/xxv-how-sir-nigel-wrote-to-twynham-castle)

Mentioned in Alleyne's letter as the recipient of his humble regards.

### [How Sir Nigel Took the Patch from His Eye](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_white_company_se/chapters/xxxvi-how-sir-nigel-took-the-patch-from-his-eye)

Mentioned as safe after the siege; object of Alleyne's love.

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

Believing Alleyne dead, she is about to become a nun at Romsey, but is intercepted by Alleyne at the church door and chooses to marry him instead.

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