History Characters / BeforePlantagenet

* AmbitionIsEvil: Or at least morally ambiguous.
* AmicableExes: Is eventually this with [[spoiler: Allerade]] but it takes a lot of time and pain to get to that point, and he never entirely gives up trying to win her back.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With King Philipe of France
* TheLostLenore: His second wife [[spoiler:Aines ]]
* TheOneThatGotAway: His lover [[spoiler:Allerade ]]

* MaritalRapeLicense: Uses this on Haldora while she is pregnant
* PanickyExpectantFather: Rushes back from a siege to witness the brith of his first child. He busts down a door and demands to know if his wife Beitriz and the child are ok. This does nothing but cause panic, but it's the thought that counts, and one of Foulques's most human moments.

* RulingCouple: Forms this with Beitriz. He is never able to have that kind of relationship with any of his other wives.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Like his son he frequently underestimates the women in his life, in particular Beitriz and Allarade.

[[folder: Geoffrey the First]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler: Lusts after three of his sisters and actually beds Anges]]

* MySisterIsOffLimits! [[spoiler: Because he wants Anges all to himself]]
* NiceGuy: Has the kind trait and tries in his younger years to be a good person. But his father's influence and [[spoiler: his wife's adultery with his best friend ]] lead him down a dark path.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Frequently underestimates the women in his life [[spoiler: this allows his sister Bella to trick him into revealing his incest with Anges]]

[[folder: Geoffrey the Second]]

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With his mistress Anna de Perigord

* LikesOlderWomen: As a boy he is obsessed with Princess Anne and Essa of Toulouse.

[[folder: General Troupes]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Let us count the ways...

[[folder: Anges]]
* BecauseYouWereNicetoMe: Why she is so loyal to her father. He did not punish her for getting [[spoiler: pregnant by Duke Giles]] so she is willing to do almost anything to further his interests.
* BestFriend: Etiennette Karling

* ComforttheDying: Did this for [[spoiler: her oldest daughter Beatrice.]]
* Deuteragonist: Grows into this over the course of her life.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: To her father, brother, and nephew.
* NotWorthKilling: Ultimately comes to this conclusion about Duke Giles

* ShowingUpChauvinists: Often does this. Especially when she [[spoiler: leads an army to rescue her father, the King, and the Royal Family, when they are besieged by Philipe of Champaign in Melun.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: To her father and brother Geoffrey.

%%[[folder: Ancel (son of Foulques)]]

* ParentWithNewParamour: Remaries to Duke Robert of Burgundy.

The daughter of Geoffrey and Marguerite

[[folder: Bella]]
* BastardBastard: The oldest of Foulques's acknowledged bastards at that.

* FormerlyFat: By age 41 her portrait shows her slim and she has lost the fat trait.

* OneSceneWonder: While she has been in multiple scenes, she only plays a significant role in one when she [[spoiler: discovers Geoffrey's incest with his sister Anges.]]
* OutOfFocus: Compared to her mother without a doubt. Even during the rebellion Geoffrey most conversed with her husband, to the point that her most significant political and personal moments during that period happen off screen, only being mentioned by Anges in an interlude decades later.
* PutOnABus: Married to the heir to France, and then the King of Denmark. All of these take her out of the court, and thus the spotlight for the series. [[spoiler: And Geoffrey's wars against her husband do not help things.]]

[[folder: Ermengarde]]

* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: People think of her as a monster and a freak because of her dwarfism
* SiblingRivalry: With Bella and Antoinette, due to their husbands's feuds

* BloodKnight: Embodies this troupe
* HotBlooded: Never one to miss a fight
* IBangedYourMom: Is not thrilled when Geoffrey starts sleeping with [[spoiler: his mother Haldora]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: He inherited his father's lust for battle [[spoiler: and also ended up in an iron mask.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Is called Foulquesson to show his norse roots and to differentiate him from Foulques the Younger and his father.

[[folder: Foulques the Younger]]

* TheRival: To his uncle Foulquesson
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: His mother certainly thinks so

[[folder: Duke Guilhem]]

* {{Cuckold}}: [[spoiler: his wife sleeps with Geoffery the Second]]
* SiblingRivalry: With his half brother Foulquesson [[spoiler: at one point he tried to have his child assassinated.]]
* SoldiersAtTheRear: Is Marshal but rarely actively commands troops.

[[folder: Philippe]]
* HenpeckedHusband: At least if his full brother Foulquesson is to be believed
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His first child dies young. His wife is convinced it was murder, he is not sure.

[[folder: Charles]]

* TheSmartGuy: Anges calls him the smartest of her siblings after herself and Geoffrey, though she may have said so to appease her friend, his mother, her friend, Etiennette Karling.

[[folder: Beitriz]]

* IronLady: Gives off this appearance when she is regent in Anjou for her husband [[spoiler: though in actuality she has the craven trait]].

Foulques's second wife and the mother of Geoffrey's wife Marguerite as well as [[spoiler: his lover Ness]]

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Played with, her husband is abusive but she has cheated on him before, though if his abuse started before or after is debatable. She eventually regrets her decision to [[spoiler: have him killed.]]
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Forbid Marguerite from seeing Thomas Count of Limousin on account of his homosexuality
* MistakenForPregnant: [[spoiler: At first she thinks the cancer growing within her is a child.]]
* TheTopicOfCancer: [[spoiler: This kills her. The end is not pretty.]]
* WickedStepmother: What Foulques's children view her as. Ironically she harbors no ill will or intent towards any of them.

* FishOutOfWater: When she first came to Anjou she couldn't speak the language. Throughout her married life she was isolated and out maneuvered for power by her step daughter Anges, who had the advantage of knowing Anjou.
* TheWoobie: Is domestically abused by Foulques.

* BrokenBird: Is forced to wed the son of the man who killed her [[spoiler: father.]] After she [[spoiler: cheats on him with his best friend ]] she is placed under house arrest and starved of human contact. Just when relations with her husband improve [[spoiler: her oldest legitimate son is killed in battle ]]. No wonder she has the depressed trait.
* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler: Not to any of her sons, all of who she loves and cherishes, but to her daughter Aines after she attempts to murder her grandson]]

* NearRapeExperience: With her father in law no less.

* SecretKeeper: To Thomas Count of Limousin
* SexForServices: Is implied to have done this with [[spoiler: The pope. The service in question being not excommunicating her son.]]

[[folder: Princess Ælfflæd]]

* ScreamingBirth: The birth of her son Guilhielm is not a pleasant experience.

[[folder: Allerade]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why Allerade is so loyal to Anges. She helped shield her from her mother, Beitriz's wrath when she fell pregnant.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Was ordered by Duchess Beitriz to abort her child with Foulques. She refused. This led to her loosing much of her influence at court.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Her son with Duke Giles dies as a child.]]. She is devastated.
* RejectedApology: Appears to have rejected [[spoiler: Aines's deathbed apology for forcing her into a relationship with Duke Giles]]
* RemarriedToTheMistress: What she hoped to happen after Beitriz died. Indeed unlike most examples of this troupe her stepchildren would have been thrilled to have her as she was already mentor to Anges and Geoffrey was infatuated with her.

* TheSpymaster: Feeds information to Beitriz and Foulques and convinces both she is spying on the other one.
* UndyingLoyalty: To the House D'Anjou in general and Anges in particular.

[[folder: Ness]]

[[folder: Mascarose De Limoges]]
* WhiteSheep: Unlike her sisters, Ness and Marguerite she is a chaste woman who has never strayed from her husband.

[[folder: Herve]]
* ComfortTheDying: Does this for [[spoiler: Anges.]]
* HappilyMarried: To Marscorse de Limoges
* NiceGuy: Has the kind trait and is courteous to Anges where other men mock her for [[spoiler: having a child out of wedlock and leading an army.]]
** He is also one of the few nobles to care about what war does to common people.
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Was the first to be told of King Geoffrey's leprosy]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To the House d'Anjou

[[folder: Eitinete Karling]]

* TheConfidant: To Anges, her best friend.
* NiceGirl: Has the kind trait and has always been a loyal friend to Anges and a devoted lover to her father.
* PleaseSpareHimMyLiege: Does this for [[spoiler: her brother Aubry after he beds Marguerite]]

[[folder: Anna de Perigord]]

[[folder: Lithuaise de Normandie]]
* DeathByChildbirth: Dies giving brith to Edoard de Anjou, [[spoiler: Foulques secret bastard]]

[[folder: General Troupes]]

[[folder: Countess Sarrazine of Thouars]]
* TheGoodKing: Well the good countess. She genuinely cares about the common people under her rule and tries to shield them from harm.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her first child died before her first birthday, the Countess believes it was murder.

[[folder: King Philippe of France]]
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: By the end of his life both he and Foulques enjoyed a better relationship with each other than they did with their wives.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Allowing his family to be captured by Philipp Duke of Champagne]]
* StarCrossedLovers: With his first wife, a common born Muslim girl he met while conducting a siege. The church and nobility were not pleased when he wed her.

[[folder: King Hugh of France]]

[[folder: King Henri of France]]

[[folder: Philipp Duke of Champagne]]

[[folder: Count Allias of Perigord]]

[[folder: Duchess Essa of Toulouse]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Is named Anges, like her idol Anges d'Anjou, but everyone calls her Essa.
%%* ParentalSubstitute: Sees Anges as something of this.

[[folder: Duke Giles of Berry]]
%%* HateSink
* HumiliationConga: Infected with STD's [[spoiler: captured by Geoffrey and paraded through the streets of Bordeaux and forced to admit to fathering Anges daughter Beatrice. He is then thrown into the dungeon where he admits to Anges that he a Duke of the realm ended up worse than a women he bedded and then abandoned. And to top it all off, after he is forced to pay a hefty ransom, he is captured again.]]

* KissingCousins: [[spoiler: seduced his cousin Anges and leaves her pregnant.]]
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Points this out to Geoffrey as both have rebelled against the Frankish King, both have sired legions of bastards, [[spoiler: and both have slept with Anges.]]

%%[[folder: King Alphonse the Great of France]]
%%* RightfulKingReturns: [[spoiler: how he views his restoration to the French throne]]

[[folder: Aubry Karling]]

* OutOfFocus: In spite of all the trouble his birth caused he gets very little screen time. Mostly because the members of the House d'Anjou prefer to keep him out of the spotlight out of embarrassment.

[[folder: Pope Martinus]]

* LecherousPriest: To the point where he [[spoiler: tries to molest the Queen of Aquitaine.]]

* BuxomIsBetter: Enjoys his wife's sizable bust.

* BuxomIsBetter: Her husband enjoys using her breasts as pillows. She finds it annoying.

* DarthVaderClone: After he outs on his mask he is often compared to Darth Vader, by both the author and the audience

* SmartGuy: Has the genius trait.

* SmartGuy: Anges calls him the smartest of her siblings after herself and Geoffrey, though she may have said so to appease her friend, his mother, her friend, Etiennette Karling.

* HalfBreed: Half Norse half Frankish. It is often blamed for his violent temper.

* NotSoDifferent: Points this out to Geoffrey both have rebelled against the Frankish King, both have sired legions of bastards, [[spoiler: and both have slept with Anges.]]

* AgeGapRomance: His wife is much older than him and almost all of his subsequent wives and lovers are significantly younger.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With King Philipe of France
* RedBaron: The Iron Duke of the Franks

* UsedtoBeaSweetKid: See above
* MySisterIsOffLimits! [[spoiler: Because he wants Anges all to himself]]
* FanBoy: Of Ancient Rome, and Augustus in particular.
* WickedCultured: Geoffrey fancies himself a medieval Augustus and is in love with Aquitaine's culture. He is also highly morally ambiguous.
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler: Lusts after three of his sisters and actually beds Anges]]

* UsedtoBeaSweetKid: Grew up wanting to be different from his father, to be a kind lord who followed the church's teachings.

* LikesOlderWomen: As a boy he is obsessed with Princess Anne and Essa of Toulouse.
* KingIncognito: To see the true character of his future wife. [[spoiler: She keeps it up to see his true character, and finds it wanting.]]

They call them "The Devil's Brood for a Reason.

* BadassFamily: Have produced many strong warriors, cunning schemers, brave men and strong women. They may be morally reprehensible, but by god they are badass

* SilkHidingSteel
* ShowingUpChauvinists: Often does this. Especially when she [[spoiler: leads an army to rescue her father, the King, and the Royal Family, when they are besieged by Philipe of Champaign in Melun.]]

* NotWorthKilling: Ultimately comes to this conclusion about Duke Giles

[[folder: Ancel (son of Foulques)]]

[[folder:Ermengarde (mother of Foulques)]]
* ParentwithNewParamour: Remaries to Duke Robert of Burgundy.
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* UsedtoBeaSweetKid: Was her parent's ray of sunshine [[spoiler: then she tried to murder her nephew Guilhielm]]

* BigEater: Her mother often scolded her on her eating habits and by her thirties she has grown fat.

* BigBeautifulWoman: In spite of her weight men still find her attractive. [[spoiler: The Duke of Orleans even sexually harasses her, earning a beating from King Henri. Her own brother is even willing to sleep with her.]]

* GodSaveUsfromtheQueen!: Has this reputation. How much of it is earned and how much of it is due to prejudice as a result of her bastard birth is left up to the reader.

* PutonaBus: Married to the heir to France, and then the King of Denmark. All of these take her out of the court, and thus the spotlight for the series. [[spoiler: And Geoffrey's wars against her husband do not help things.]]
* OutofFocus: Compared to her mother without a doubt. Even during the rebellion Geoffrey most conversed with her husband, to the point that her most significant political and personal moments during that period happen off screen, only being mentioned by Anges in an interlude decades later.

* SiblingRivalry: With Bella and Antoinette, due to their husbands's feuds

* OnlyKnownbyTheirNickname: Is called Foulquesson to show his norse roots and to differentiate him from Foulques the Younger and his father.
* HalfBreed: Half Norse half Frankish. It is often blamed for his violent temper.
* HotBlooded: Never one to miss a fight
* SiblingRivalry: With his half brother Guilhem, who he interprets as acting above his station as a legitimized bastard.

* TooGoodforThisSinfuEarth: His mother certainly thinks so

* HappilyMarried
* NiceGuy

* SiblingRivalry: With his half brother Foulquesson [[spoiler: at one point he tried to have his child assassinated.]]

* SoldiersattheRear: Is Marshal but rarely actively commands troops.
* Cuckhold: [[spoiler: his wife sleeps with Geoffery the Second]]

[[folder: Edouard]]

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* BehindEveryGreatMan: Was never the most beautiful of women but she was a skilled steward who ran Anjou throughout her husband's wars. When she died he found it impossible to replace her.
* RulingCouple: Was her husband's right hand in Anjou.
* IronLady: Gives off this appearance when she is regent in Anjou for her husband [[spoiler: though in actuality she has the craven trait]].

* MistakenforPregnant: [[spoiler: At first she thinks the cancer growing within her is a child.]]

* TheTopicofCancer: [[spoiler: This kills her. The end is not pretty.]]
* GoodAdultery,BadAdultery: Played with, her husband is abusive but she has cheated on him before, though if his abuse started before or after is debatable. She eventually regrets her decision to [[spoiler: have him killed.]]

* FishoutofWater: When she first came to Anjou she couldn't speak the language. Throughout her married life she was isolated and out maneuvered for power by her step daughter Anges, who had the advantage of knowing Anjou.

* NearRapeExperience: With her father in law no less.
* BewaretheNiceOnes: Does not take her father's murder well.

* IHaveNoSon!: [[spoiler: Not to any of her sons, all of who she loves and cherishes, but to her daughter Aines after she attempts to murder her grandson]]
* JerkassWoobie: The House D'Anjou have made her life a living hell, yet as the people who harmed her die off she increasingly turns against those who have done her no wrong [[spoiler: like her daughter in law.]].
* SexforServices: Is implied to have done this with [[spoiler: The pope. The service in question being not excommunicating her son.]]

* MamaBear

* BecauseYouWereNicetoMe: Why Allerade is so loyal to Anges. She helped shield her from her mother, Beitriz's wrath when she fell pregnant.
* TheMistress: To Foulques
* TheSpymaster: Feeds information to Beitriz and Foulques and convinces both she is spying on the other one.

* RemarriedtotheMistress: What she hoped to happen after Beitriz died. Indeed unlike most examples of this troupe her stepchildren would have been thrilled to have her as she was already mentor to Anges and Geoffrey was infatuated with her.

* OnlyKnownbyTheirNickname: Has the same name as her mother, but is called Ness by almost everyone.

* TheMistress: To Foulques.

* ComeBacktoBedHoney: Does this frequently to Foulques. It is left ambiguous if she genuinely enjoys having sex with him or is just doing it to gain favor.
* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: What drew Foulques to her.
* FemmeFatale: Has shades of this.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: She may have made the most of her status but at the end of the day her relationship with Foulques started when she was in her teens and he was well over forty, not to mention the fact that he held her sister in prison and almost absolute power over her.

* ComforttheDying: Does this for [[spoiler: Anges.]]

* HappilyMarried: To Marscorse de Limoges

[[folder: Knud]]


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* BigEater: Has the gluttonous trait and is quite overweight.
* PleaseSpareHimMyLiege!: Does this for [[spoiler: her brother Aubry after he beds Marguerite]]
* TheConfidant: To Anges, her best friend.

* DeathbyChildbirth: Dies giving brith to Edoard de Anjou, [[spoiler: Foulques secret bastard]]

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her frist child died before her first birthday, the Countess believes it was murder.
* TheGoodKing: Well the good countess. She genuinely cares about the common people under her rule and tries to shield them from harm.

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Allowing his family to be captured by Philipp Duke of Champagne]]
* LikeanOldMarriedCouple: By the end of his life both he and Foulques enjoyed a better relationship with each other than they did with their wives.

* TheManBehindtheMan: Was believed to be this in his father's last years.

[[folder: Philipp Duke of Champagne]]
* AllforNothing: Undermined the Kingdom of France in the hopes of being the puppet master behind a weak king [[spoiler:this weakens the realm so much that Geoffrey is able to seize multiple duchies and create the Kingdom of Aquitaine, leaving France a rump state.]]
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* ParentalSubstitute: Sees Anges as something of this.
* OnlyKnownbyTheirNickname: Is named Anges, like her idol Anges d'Anjou, but everyone calls her Essa.
* TheMistress: To [[spoiler: King Geoffrey the Second.]]
* IncompatibleOrientation: With her husband Duke Guilhem

* KarmicSTD: Is driven insane by the Great Pox

* HateSink
* HumiliationConga: Infected with STD's [[spoiler: captured by Geoffrey and paraded through the streets of Bordeaux and forced to admit to fathering Anges daughter Beatrice. He is then thrown into the dungeon where he admits to Anges that he a Duke of the realm ended up worse than a women he bedded and then abandoned. And to top it all off, after he is forced to pay a hefty ransom, he is captured again.]]

[[folder: King Alphonse the Great of France]]
* RightfulKingReturns: [[spoiler: how he views his restoration to the French throne]]

! The English Nobility

! The Church

[[folder: Aubry Karling]]
* BastardBastard: The son of Marguerite and Aubry Karling
* OutofFocus: In spite of all the trouble his birth caused he gets very little screen time. Mostly because the members of the House d'Anjou prefer to keep him out of the spotlight out of embarrassment.
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* EvilIsPetty

[[folder: Bishop Edouard]]
* Bastard Bastard: Of Ness.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Cheats on two out of his three wives.

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: With her brother amongst others.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: sleeps with King Geoffrey the Second, her husband's nephew.]]

* RealMenLoveJesus: Is a pious King, in spite of having cheated on his wife numerous times.

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Has the attractive trait and is still desirable until the day she dies. Foulques believes she is more beautiful at thirty than sixteen and his son Geoffrey admits that he would have slept with her had she been willing and alive when he became duke.

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[[folder: King Alphonse the Great of France]]
* RightfulKingReturns: [[spoiler: how he views his restoration to the French throne]]
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* One-SceneWonder: While she has been in multiple scenes, she only plays a significant role in one when she [[spoiler: discovers Geoffrey's incest with his sister Anges.]]