CAST of CHARACTERS

ROYAL HOUSE OF ENGLAND

Henry Fitz Empress (b. 1133), second of the name to rule England since the Conquest; also Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou, Maine, and Touraine

Eleanor (b. 1124), Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right; Henry’s queen; former consort of Louis VII, King of France

Their children

William (1153–1156)

Hal (Henry, b. February 1155), their eldest surviving son, crowned King of England in 1170

Richard (b. September 1157), Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou

Geoffrey (b. September 1158), Duke of Brittany upon his marriage to Constance

John (b. December 1166), youngest son, known as John Lackland

Tilda (Matilda, b. June 1156), Duchess of Saxony and Bavaria

Leonora (Eleanor, b. September 1161), Queen of Castile

Joanna (b. October 1165), later Queen of Sicily

Geoff, Henry’s illegitimate son (b. c. 1151)

Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, Henry’s illegitimate half brother

Emma, later Princess of Gwynedd, Henry’s illegitimate half sister

Rainald, Earl of Cornwall, illegitimate son of Henry I, Henry’s uncle

Rico, Rainald’s illegitimate son

Ranulf, illegitimate son of Henry I, Henry’s uncle

Rhiannon, Ranulf’s Welsh cousin and wife

Morgan and Bleddyn, Rhiannon and Ranulf’s sons

Roger, Bishop of Worcester, Henry’s first cousin

Maud, widowed Countess of Chester, Henry’s cousin and Roger’s sister

Hugh, Earl of Chester, Maud’s son

Rosamund Clifford, Henry’s concubine

William Marshal, Hal’s household knight

ROYAL HOUSE OF FRANCE

Louis Capet, King of France

His wives

Eleanor, marriage annulled in 1152

Constance of Castile, died in childbirth

Adèle of Blois, sister to Thibault, Count of Blois, and Henri, Count of Champagne

Philippe, Louis and Adèle’s son and heir

Louis’s daughters

Marie, Eleanor’s daughter, wed to Count of Champagne

Alix, Eleanor’s daughter, wed to Count of Blois

Marguerite, Constance’s daughter, wed as a child to Hal

Alys, Constance’s daughter, betrothed to Richard

Agnes, Adèle’s daughter, later Empress of Byzantium

Robert, Count of Dreux, Louis’s brother

BRITTANY

Constance, Duchess of Brittany, Geoffrey’s betrothed

Conan, late Duke of Brittany, her father

Margaret, sister of Scots king, her mother, wed to English baron, Humphrey de Bohun

Raoul de Fougères, André de Vitré, and Roland de Dinan, Breton barons

ENGLISH AND FRENCH BARONS

William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, Henry’s close friend

Robert Beaumont, Earl of Leicester

Peronelle, Countess of Leicester, his wife

Maurice de Craon, Angevin baron

Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux

Henri, Count of Champagne, and Thibault, Count of Blois, Louis’s sons-in-law and brothers-in-law

AQUITAINE

Petronilla, Eleanor’s sister, deceased

Isabelle and Alienor, her daughters, wed to Counts of Flanders and Boulogne

Raoul de Faye, Eleanor’s uncle

Hugh, Viscount of Châtellerault, Eleanor’s uncle

Aimar, Viscount of Limoges, wed to Sarah, Rainald’s daughter

André de Chauvigny, Richard’s cousin and household knight

Raimon St Gilles, Count of Toulouse, enemy of Dukes of Aquitaine

FLANDERS

Philip, Count of Flanders, wed to Eleanor’s niece Isabelle

Matthew, Count of Boulogne, Philip’s brother, wed to Eleanor’s niece Alienor