Ages given for the year 1241, unless otherwise noted.
PRINCIPALS
Dolssa de Stigata, eighteen: a young noblewoman raised in the city of Tolosa
Botille Flasucra, seventeen: a peasant girl, tavern wench, and matchmaker in the seaside village (vila) of Bajas
Friar Lucien de Saint-Honore, twenty-five: a traveling friar of the newly founded Dominican Order of Friars-Preachers, from the Dominican convent in Tolosa
BOTILLE’S FAMILY
Plazensa Flasucra, twenty-one: Botille’s older sister, head tavern wench and brewer at the Three Pigeons
Sazia Flasucra, fifteen: Botille’s younger sister, of a fortune-telling and prognosticating persuasion
Jobau, fifties: a drunkard, and Sazia’s father, who makes his home with the three sisters
CHURCHMEN
Prior Pons de Saint-Gilles, middle-aged: head of the Order of Friars-Preachers in Tolosa, supervising the daily living, preaching, and inquisitorial activities of a group of Dominican brothers
Bishop Raimon de Fauga de Miramont, middle-aged: Dominican friar and bishop of Tolosa, originally from the city of Miramont
Dominus Bernard, forties: parish priest of the Church of Sant Martin, Bajas
Friar Arnaut d’Avinhonet, fifty-four at the time of his writing; a Dominican historian working in the archives of the Convent du Jacobins in Tolosa in 1290
TOLOSANS OF RANK
Count Raimon VII, forty-four: the count of Tolosa, with lands extending far throughout the region; the most powerful and influential lord in Provensa, in spite of heavy losses suffered when Pope Innocent III declared a holy crusade against his father, Raimon VI, and excommunicated him for harboring heretics
Senhor Hugo de Miramont, thirty-eight: a knight from Miramont who makes his home in Tolosa and serves as man-at-arms for Count Raimon VII
VILLAGERS OF RANK IN BAJAS
Senhor Guilhem de Bajas, late twenties: Lord of Bajas, and of its castrum, or grand fortified house
Na Pieret di Fabri, sixties: noble in origin, the childless widow of a prosperous vintner, owner of many of the vineyard plots in the countryside surrounding Bajas
Symo, twenty-two: Na Pieret’s nephew, originally from San Cucufati
Gui, twenty-one: Symo’s brother and Na Pieret’s nephew, also from San Cucufati
Lop, forties: the bayle (bailiff), an officer to Senhor Guilhem
PEASANT VILLAGERS
Martin de Boroc, thirty: a fisherman, husband to Lisette, and father to Ava
Lisette, twenty-five: daughter of the goat-cheese man, wife to Martin de Boroc, and mother to Ava
Ava, two: Martin and Lisette’s daughter
Paul Crestian, fifties: Lisette’s papà, the goat-cheese man
Joan de Prato, thirty-one: farmer, husband to Felipa, and father
Felipa de Prato, twenty-eight: wife to Joan and mother to two young children
Astruga, nineteen: an unmarried young woman in search of a husband, known for her beauty
Sapdalina, twenty-two: another unmarried young woman in search of a husband, a skilled seamstress
Focho de Capa, fifties: a musician, jack-of-all-trades, and master of revels at village celebrations
Azimar de Carlipac, forty-six: a shipbuilder
Amielh Vidal, thirty-three: raises and sells, among other things, ducks
Litgier, twenty-seven: a fisherman
Plastolf de Condomio, seventies: the oldest man in the village
Jacme, Andrio, and Itier, twenties: unmarried peasant farmhands to Na Pieret di Fabri
Garcia the elder, fifty: a trusted and experienced servant on Na Pieret di Fabri’s farm
Garcia the younger, fourteen: Garcia the elder’s only son
Saura, forty: Garcia the elder’s wife, the mother of Garcia the younger
Peire, thirty-three: a fisherman, Rixenda’s husband
Rixenda, twenty-nine: a fishwife, Peire’s wife