Authors: Dorothy Dunnett
*Hans (Henne) Memling, German artist working in Bruges
*Jehan Metteneye, host to Scots merchants in Bruges
*Lambert van de Walle, merchant kinsman of Adorne
*Colard Mansion, scribe and illustrator
*Pieter Reyphin, merchant kinsman of van de Walle
*João Vasquez, secretary to Duchess Isabelle of Portugal
*Henry Cant, Scots merchant
*William Caxton, former Governor of the English merchants: adviser to Duchess of Burgundy
VEERE AND MIDDLEBURG:
*Henry van Borselen of Veere, Count of Grandpré, ‘uncle’ of Gelis van Borselen
*Wolfaert van Borselen, his son
*Charlotte de Bourbon, Wolfaert’s second wife
*Lodewijk van Borselen, their son
*Anna van Borselen, their daughter
*Paul van Borselen, bastard son of Wolfaert
*Stephen Angus, Scottish agent at Middleburg
DIJON/FLEURY:
Enguerrand de Damparis, friend of Marian de Charetty’s sister
Yvonnet, his wife
The Vatachino Company
Martin, broker, merchant and agent
*David de Salmeton, the same, in Cyprus
COMPLEMENT OF THE
UNICORN
:
Svartecop of Revel, master
Mogens Björnsen, pilot
Reinholdt, Cologne merchant
(with Martin, and Anselm and Katelijne Sersanders)
Anjou and the Loire
ANGERS:
*René, Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence and titular King of Naples and Sicily
*Jeanne de Laval, his wife
*Margaret, his daughter, wife of King Henry VI of England
*Edward of Wales, her son
*Nicholas of Calabria, Duke of Lorraine and grandson of King René
*René, grandson of King René and Duke of Lorraine after Nicholas, his cousin
*Fleur de Pensée, herald
*Ardent Désir (Pierre de Hurion), herald
*Jehan du Perrier (‘Le Prieur’), chamberlain
*Master Guillaume, keeper of lions
*Bertrand, master of works
*Cresselle, Bertrand’s Moorish wife
*Pierre de Nostradamus, physician to René’s late son John
*Pierre Robin, physician and architect
*John Perrot, Abbot of Angers, King René’s confessor
VALLEY OF CISSE:
Bernard de Moncourt, seigneur de Chouzy
Claude d’Échaut, dame de Chouzy, his wife
France and Franco-Scots
*King Louis XI
*Francis II, Duke of Brittany, his nephew
*Charles, Duke of Guienne (Aquitaine), the King’s brother
Jordan de St Pol, vicomte de Ribérac, merchant-magnate of Scotland and France
Simon de St Pol the Younger of Kilmirren, his son
Henry de St Pol, son of Simon’s late wife Katelina
*Andro Wodman, former Archer of the King’s Scottish Guard
*Louis de Luxembourg, Count of St Pol, Constable of France
*William, Lord Monypenny, lord of Concressault, envoy to Scotland
*Gaston du Lyon, equerry, seneschal of Toulouse
*Guillaume Fichet, rector of Sorbonne and printer, Paris
*Jacques d’Orson, master gunner
*Odet d’Aydie, Gascon lord of Lescun, chief counsellor to Duke of Brittany
*Colombo, French privateer
Scotland
ROYAL HOUSEHOLD AND NOBLES:
*James Stewart (Third of the Name), King of Scotland
*Margaret, daughter of Christian I of Denmark, his Queen
*Georgie Bell (Little Bell), King’s chamber valet
*Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran, the King’s elder sister
*Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran, her husband
*James and Margaret, their children
*Robert, Lord Boyd, father of Thomas
*Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, the King’s brother
*Sir James Liddell of Halkerston, Albany’s steward
*John Stewart, Earl of Mar, the King’s younger brother
*Margaret Stewart, the King’s younger sister
*Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Master of the Royal Household
*Archibald Whitelaw, Royal Secretary
*Andrew Stewart, Lord Avandale, Chancellor
*John Laing, Treasurer
*Patrick Graham, Bishop of St Andrews
*William Tulloch, Bishop of Orkney, Keeper of the Privy Seal
*William Scheves, cleric, royal apothecary
*James Hommyll, royal tailor
*David Guthrie of Kincaldrum, Clerk-Register
*Master Conrad, physician
*Archibald Crawford, Abbot of Holyrood
*Robert Blackadder, Abbot of Melrose, brother of John Blackadder, Rome
*David Arnot, cleric, kinsman of Henry, Abbot of Cambuskenneth
*William Sinclair, Earl of Caithness
*Sir William Knollys, Preceptor in Scotland of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St John of Jerusalem
*David Lindsay, 5th Earl of Crawford
*James Hamilton of Cadzow, 1st Lord Hamilton of Kinneil
*Sir Robert Semple of Elliotstoun, sheriff of Renfrew
*William Semple his son, ‘second cousin to Oliver Semple’
MERCHANTS AND OTHERS:
*William of Berecrofts (Old Will), Canongate merchant
*Archibald Berecrofts the Younger (Archie), his son
*Robin, son of Archie
Isobella (Bel) of Cuthilgurdy, neighbour to the St Pols of Kilmirren
*Elizabeth, Prioress, Cistercian Priory, Haddington
*Elizabeth (Betha) Sinclair, daughter of the Earl of Caithness, widow of Patrick Dunbar, Haddington Priory
*Catherine Sinclair, daughter of the Earl of Caithness by another wife, wife of the Duke of Albany
*Euphemia (Phemie) Dunbar, Betha’s cousin, daughter of George Dunbar, Earl of March, Haddington Priory
*Dame Alisia Maitland, nun of same priory
Ada, servant at Coldingham Priory
*William Roger (Whistle Willie), Court musician
*Thomas Cochrane, master mason
*Edward Bonkle, Provost of Trinity College, Edinburgh
*John Lamb, Leith merchant
*Thomas (Thom) Swift, Edinburgh merchant
*Andy Crawford, merchant
Richard, his son
*John Muir, merchant-burgess of Canongate
*John Lauder, burgess of Canongate
*Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston, merchant, vice-admiral
Constantine (Conn) Malloch, Borders landowner and merchant
Benedict (Ben) Bailzie, landowner and merchant
The Duchy of the Tyrol
*Sigismond, Duke of Austria & Styria and Count of the Tyrol
*Eleanor Stewart, his wife, aunt to the King of Scotland
Urbino
*Federigo da Montefeltro, Count of Urbino and mercenary leader
*Battista Sforza, his second wife
Rome (including envoys)
*Pope Paul II, Sixtus IV
*Henry Arnot, Abbot of Cambuskenneth, and procurator of James III at the Curia
*John Blackadder, brother of Abbot of Melrose, Scotland
*Bessarion (John) of Trebizond, Cardinal Legate, Archbishop of Nicaea, Patriarch of Constantinople
*Jacques Scéva, his Greek-Cypriot major domo
*Niccolò Perotti, his secretary, Archbishop of Manfredonia
*Antonio Bonumbre, Genoese Bishop of Accia, Corsica, and papal envoy to Muscovy
*Zoe Palaeologina, grand-daughter of Manuel II, past Emperor of Constantinople, and protégée of Bessarion
*Andrew and *Manuel, Zoe’s brothers
*Father Ludovico de Severi da Bologna, Patriarch of Antioch
*Hadji Mehmet, legate of Uzum Hasan, Turcoman Prince, Persia
*Nicholai Giorgio de’ Acciajuoli, Greek-Florentine kinsman by marriage of Pierfrancesco de’ Medici
Nerio of Trebizond, exile, Burgundian Court and Rome
*Michael Alighieri, of Florence and Trebizond, counsellor and chamberlain to Duke Charles
*Benedetto Dei, seamaster and Florentine merchant trading in Africa
*Marco Barbo, Cardinal of San Marco and nephew of Pope Paul
*Oliviero Caraffa, Cardinal of Naples, Admiral of papal fleet
*Lorenzo de’ Medici of the Republic of Florence, envoy
*Donato Acciajuoli, Florentine orator
*Domenico Martelli, Florentine envoy
*James Goldwell, Bishop of Norwich, English delegate
*Philibert Hugonet, Bishop of Mâcon, later Cardinal (brother of Chancellor Hugonet of Burgundy)
*Prospero Schiaffino de Camulio de’ Medici, Genoese and Milanese agent
Cyprus
*King James de Lusignan (Zacco)
*Charlotte (Charla), Eugène and Janus, his natural children
*Marietta of Patras, his mother (Cropnose)
*Jorgin, his servant
*Sir Rizzo di Marino, Sicilian chamberlain to the King
*Sor de Naves, Sicilian Constable of Cyprus
*Louis Perez Fabrice, Catalan Archbishop of Nicosia
*Peter Davila, constable of men-at-arms, Cyprus
*Catherine Corner, Zacco’s Queen
*Marco Corner of Venice, sugar-grower in Cyprus, her father
*Fiorenza of Naxos, his wife, sister of Violante & Valenza
*Andrea Corner, his brother, Auditor of Cyprus
*Violante of Naxos, wife of *Caterino Zeno, Venetian envoy to Uzum Hasan, Persia
*Marco Bembo, cousin of Queen Catherine
*Nicolas Pasqualigo, Venetian Bailie
*Josaphat Barbaro, Venetian envoy and trader of Tana
*Muzio Constanzo, Admiral of Cyprus
*Gabriel Gentile, royal physician
*Toma Phicard, King’s chancellor and notary
Rhodes
*Carlotta de Lusignan, half-sister and rival of Zacco
*Giambattisti Orsini, Grand Master of the Knights of St John
*Tobias Lomellini, Treasurer of the Knights of St John
Faroes
Torolf Mohr, sea pilot
Hanseatic League: Poland
COMPLEMENT OF THE
PRUSS MAIDEN
:
*Paúel Benecke, Danzig privateer
Stanislas, lodesman
*Filippo Buonaccorsi (Callimachus), Italian humanist in exile
England
Jonathan (Jo) Babbe, master of the
Charity
of Hull
Ultima Thule
Tryggvi-Sigurdsson, fisherman, guide from Markarfljót
Glímu-Sveinn, fisherman, farmer, wrestler
Hristin, his wife
Herra Oddur, Bishop’s bailiff, Skálholt
Sigfús Helgason, guide from Skálholt
The Germantes
*Frederick III of the House of Habsburg, German Emperor and King of the Romans
*Archduke Maximilian, his son
*Jacques, Comte of Montfort, an Imperial chamberlain
*John of Baden, Archbishop of Trèves
*Charles, Margrave of Baden, his brother
*Albert-Achille, Margrave of Brandebourg
*Frederick, Count Palatine of the Rhine (Fritz le Mauvais)
*Adolf de Nassau, Archbishop of Mayence and Grand Chancellor of the Empire
*Calixtus Ottomanus (Bayazid Osman), half-brother of Sultan Mehmet II, protégé of Emperor
Gräfin Anna von Hanseyck, Cologne, widow of Graf Wenzel von Hanseyck
Bonne, her daughter