Dramatis personae

Accompanying Merrivale

Simon Merrivale, herald to the Prince of Wales and queen’s envoy to the north

Mauro, his servant

Warin, his groom

Diccon, his groom

Tiphaine de Tesson, Norman noblewoman and daughter of an executed rebel

Peter de Lisle of Chipchase, the herald’s apprentice

In Kent and London

Reginald, Lord Grey of Hargate

Lady Grey, his wife

Lady Mary Grey, his daughter and wife of Sir Richard Percy

Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England

John Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury and president of the council

William de la Pole, banker and merchant

John Pulteney, banker and merchant

The Percy family and relations

Henry Percy, Baron Percy of Alnwick

Lady Idonia, his wife

Harry Percy, their eldest son and heir

Richard Percy, their younger son, currently fighting in France

John Grey, her brother, currently fighting in France

The Disinherited

Edward Balliol, claimant to the throne of Scotland, now defeated and in exile

Gilbert d’Umfraville of Harbottle, Lord of Redesdale and claimant to the Earldom of Angus in Scotland

Lady Joan, his wife

Jamie Hall, hobelar from Redesdale, in Umfraville’s service

Thomas Clennell of Hesleyside, claimant to the Lordship of Selkirk in Scotland

Thomas Wake, Baron Wake of Liddell

Walter Selby of Biddlestone, captain of Liddel Strength

William Selby, his son

Robert de Lisle of Chipchase, father of Peter de Lisle

David Harkness of Blackfell

Northern lords and their followers

Ralph Neville, Baron Neville of Raby

Thomas Rokeby, High Sheriff of Yorkshire and royal commander in Berwick

Tom Rokeby (Young Tom), his nephew

John Coupland, border landowner

John Stryvelyn, keeper of the castle at Berwick

Roger Heron, Stryvelyn’s deputy

John Croser (Kalewater Jack), hobelar in Heron’s retinue

Eckies Nickson, hobelar in Heron’s retinue

Eustace de Manenghem, Lord Rowton

Ecclesiastical figures

William de la Zouche, Archbishop of York and Warden of the Marches

Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, currently with the army in France

Hugh de Tracey, treasurer of Durham Priory

John of Bridekirk, prior of Hexham

Gilbert de Tracey, formerly the king’s banker, now a canon at Hexham Priory

Oswald of Halton, Dominican friar

John of Bothcastle, prior of Lanercost

John of Eskdale, abbot of Jedburgh

Alexander Seton, preceptor of the Order of Saint John in Scotland

Merchants and traders

William Blyth, merchant of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Oliver Woodburn, man-at-arms in Blyth’s service

Adam Murton, alderman of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Egidia Murton, his wife

Kristoffer Tielt, Flemish merchant resident in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

John Brotherton, merchant of Berwick-upon-Tweed

Henry Cheswick, merchant of Berwick-upon-Tweed

Oppicius Adornes, banker in Bruges

Scots

David II Bruce, King of Scotland

Niall Bruce of Carrick, his half-brother, illegitimate son of Robert the Bruce

Patrick Dunbar, Earl of Dunbar and March

Agnes Randolph, his wife, Countess of Dunbar and March and Lady of Mann and Annandale

Lady Mora of Islay, shieldmaiden in the service of the Countess of Dunbar

Somairle of Mann, man-at-arms in the service of the Countess of Dunbar

John Randolph, Earl of Moray, brother of the Countess of Dunbar

Sir William Douglas of Liddesdale

James Craig, Master of Kinross

Archibald Graham, Lyon Herald

John Graham, Earl of Menteith

William Murray, Earl of Sutherland

Robert Keith, Marischal of Scotland

French

Rollond de Brus, Norman nobleman and cousin of the Scottish Bruces

Guy Dampierre, Count of Béthune and Lord of Hamilton in Scotland

Yolande of Bohemia, Countess of Béthune, his wife