To Lie with Lions (2 page)

*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