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Jordan de St Pol, exiled vicomte de Ribérac, father of Simon

Katelina van Borselen, wife of Simon and niece of Henry van Borselen of Veere

Henry de St Pol, son of Katelina

Agnès, her servant

*Henry van Borselen of Veere, Knight of the Golden Fleece

*Franck van Borselen, Knight of the Golden Fleece

*Wolfaert van Borselen, son of Henry

*Mary, princess of Scotland, wife of Wolfaert

*Charles van Borselen, son of Wolfaert and Mary

*Alexander, Duke of Albany, Scottish royal nephew of Wolfaert and Mary

*Pierre Bladelin, Treasurer of the Golden Fleece and Controller to Duke Philip, founder of the Golden Fleece Order

*Louis de Gruuthuse of Bruges, Knight of the Golden Fleece, husband of Marguerite van Borselen

Genoa and Milan

*Anselm Adorne of the Hôtel Jerusalem, Bruges

Pagano Doria, sea adventurer

Michael Crack-bene, his sailing-master

Noah, his Negro page

*Jacques Doria, Genoese merchant, Bruges

*Prosper Adorno, Doge of Genoa and kin to Anselm Adorne

*Prosper Schiaffino de Camulio de’ Medici, envoy of the Duke of Milan

Greeks and Byzantines

*David Comnenos, 21st Emperor of Trebizond

*Helen Cantacuzenes, his Empress

*Anna, their younger daughter

*George VIII, King of Georgia, their son-in-law

*Maria Gattilusi, Genoese widow of the Emperor’s brother Alexander

*Alexios, son of Maria and Alexander

*George Amiroutzes of Trebizond, philosopher, Great Chancellor, Treasurer, Protovestarios to the Emperor

*Alexander and Basil, sons of George Amiroutzes

*Altamourios, Chief Secretary and half-Muslim cousin of the Emperor David

*Violante, daughter of Niccolò Crespo, Duke of Naxos, grand-daughter of Emperor John IV of Trebizond and great-niece of the Emperor David

*Bessarion (John) of Trebizond, Cardinal of Nicaea

*Paraskeuas, servant to the Cardinal’s late mother

*Thomas, Despot of the Morea, brother of the late Constantine, last emperor of Constantinople

*Demetrius, brother of Thomas and joint Despot of the Morea

Persia (The Ak-Koyunlu, the White Sheep Tribe of Turcomans)

*Uzum Hasan, Muslim prince of Diyarbekr, lord of High Mesopotamia and of the White Sheep Tribe and grandson of a princess of Trebizond

*Sara Khatun of Syria, Christian mother of Uzum Hasan

*Sheikh Hüseyin, Muslim kinsman of Uzum Hasan’s Kurdish wife

*Theodora, Christian wife of Uzum Hasan, aunt of Violante, and niece of the Emperor David

Diadochos, Archimandrite of the Greek Orthodox Church, chamberlain to Uzum Hasan’s Christian household, and to Violante of Naxos

*Mahon Turcomannus, Uzum Hasan’s envoy to the West under Ludovico da Bologna

Latin/Greeks, Modon, Constantinople (Pera) and Venice

*Giovanni Bembo, Venetian Bailie at Modon

*Piero Bembo, kinsman, merchant of Venice

*Nicholai Giorgio de’ Acciajuoli, kinsman of the former Florentine dukes of Athens

*Bartolomeo Giorgio/Zorzi his brother, alum farmer and silk merchant in Pera

*Girolamo Michiel of Venice, partner of Bartolomeo

*Dietifeci of Florence, agent for Florence in Pera

*Bastiano da Foligno, partner of Dietifeci

*George Scholarius, Greek Patriarch of Constantinople

*Giovanni da Castro, godson of Pope Pius and former dyer, Constantinople

*Caterino Zeno, Venetian merchant, husband of Violante of Naxos

*Marco Corner, Venetian merchant, married to the sister of Violante of Naxos

*Doge Pasqual Malipiero of Venice

Eastern delegation to Europe

*Fra Ludovico de Severi da Bologna, Franciscan Observatine friar

*Michael Alighieri, Florentine envoy of Emperor David of Trebizond

Ottomans

*Sultan Mehmet II

*Grand Vizier Mahmud Pasha, renegade son of a mother from Trebizond

*Tursun Beg, Turkish secretary to Mahmud

*Thomas Katabolenu, Greek secretary to Mahmud

*Kasim Pasha, the Sultan’s admiral

*Yakub, Kasim’s deputy

*Jacopo of Gaeta, the Sultan’s physician

Introduction

THE ELEGANT WORKING out of designs historical and romantic, political and commercial, psychological and moral, over a multivolume novel is a Dorothy Dunnett specialty. In her first work in this genre, the six-volume “Lymond Chronicles,” suspense