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LIST OF CHARACTERS

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Aimeric de Sévignan, a knight

Alessandro da Selva

Alys de Sévignan

*Arnaut-Aimery, Abbot of Cîteaux and Papal Legate

Azalais de Tarascon, a trobairitz

Berenger, Lord of Digne

Bernardina, a joglaresa

*Berta, Marchesa of Monferrato

Bertran de Miramont, a troubadour

Blandina le Viguier

Borel, ferryman between Arles and Saint-Gilles

Clara de Sévignan

Elinor de Sévignan

*Ermengaud, Bishop of Béziers 1205–8

*Folquet de Marseille, Bishop of Toulouse, formerly a troubadour

Garsenda, servant of the Lady Iseut

*Guglielmo VI, Marchese of Monferrato

Gui le Viguier, a knight, foster son of Lord Lanval

Hugo, the cook

Huguet, a joglar

Iseut de Saint-Jacques, widow of Jaufre, a trobairitz

*Innocent III, Pope (1198–1216)

Lanval de Sévignan

Lucatz, a troubadour

Maria, a joglaresa

*Maria de Montpellier, the Lady of that city

*Milo, Papal Legate, a Cistercian monk

Miqela, an old servant in Sévignan, formerly a wet nurse

Nahum, a Jewish spice trader of Béziers

*Bishop of Couserans, a Papal legate

*Otto IV of Brunswick, Holy Roman Emperor

*Pedro II, King of Aragon

Peire, a child orphaned at Béziers

Pelegrina, a Catalan joglaresa

Perrin, a joglar

Philippe-Auguste, King of France 1180–1223

*Pierre of Castelnau, Papal Legate, murdered in 1208

*Peire-Roger, Lord of Cabaret

*Raimon VI, Count of Toulouse

*Raimon-Roger Trencavel, Viscount of Béziers, Albi, Rezés

and Carcassonne

*Raimon, Lord of Termes

*Renaut de Montpeyroux, Bishop of Béziers, 1208–11

*Simon de Montfort, one of the most ferocious leaders of the crusade

Thibaut le Viguier, a nobleman

Victor, a jailer at Saint-Gilles

* = a historical character