Caprice and Rondo (3 page)

House of Niccolò

Nicholas de Fleury, former governor of the Banco di Niccolò Szalec Jelita, his servant

VENICE BANCO DI NICCOLÒ:

Gregorio of Asti, lawyer and director

Margot, his wife

Jaçon, their son

Egidia (Gelis) van Borselen, wife of Nicholas de Fleury

Jordan (Jodi), their son

Clémence de Coulanges, his nurse

Pasque, his former nursemaid

Captain Cuthbert, his Scottish master-at-arms

Raffo, his ‘groom’

Manoli, ‘servant’ to Clémence

Tobias Beventini of Grado, physician

LOW COUNTRIES: HOF CHARETTY—NICCOLÒ, BRUGES:

Diniz Vasquez, director, nephew of Simon de St Pol

Mathilde (Tilde) de Charetty, his wife, step-daughter of Nicholas

Marian, their daughter

Catherine de Charetty, Tilde’s unmarried younger sister

Father Moriz of Augsburg, chaplain and co-manager

Govaerts of Brussels, management, Bruges and Cologne

Jooris, agent in Antwerp

GERMAN COMPANY:

Julius of Bologna, notary and director

Gräfin Anna von Hanseyck, his wife

Bonne, her daughter

Brygidy, her maid

Petru, her guide

Friczo Straube, company agent in Thorn

Sinbaldo di Manfredo, company agent, Black Sea

MERCENARY COMPANY:

Astorre (Syrus de Astariis), mercenary commander

Thomas, deputy to Astorre

John le Grant, engineer, gunner, sailing-master

PERIPATETIC:

Michael Crackbene, shipmaster

Ochoa de Marchena, former sailing-master on African voyage

Duchy of Burgundy

DUCAL HOUSEHOLD AND ARMY:

Charles, Duke of Burgundy and Brabant, Count of Flanders, Holland, Zeeland, etc.

Margaret of York, his wife and sister of King Edward IV

Marie, daughter of Duke Charles by previous wife

Bastard Anthony of Bourbon, natural brother of Duke Charles

Baudouin, bastard and half-brother of Anthony

William Hugonet, lord of Saillant, Chancellor of the Duchy

Jean de Rubempré, sire de Bièvres, governor of Lorraine

Niccolò de Montfort/Gambatesta, Count of Campobasso, Italian mercenary leader

Jacopo Galeotto, Italian mercenary leader

Philip de Croy, comte de Chimay, company commander

Josse and Jean de Lalaing, Burgundian captains

Matteo Lope de la Garde, Portuguese physician to the Duke