Line #251 Characters/BeforePlantagenet


1	[[foldercontrol]]
2	!Player Characters
3	----
4	[[folder:Foulques]]
5	!!Foulques
6	!!!Foulques d'Anjou
7	* AgeGapRomance: His wife is much older than him and almost all of his subsequent wives and lovers are significantly younger.
8	%%* AmbitionIsEvil: Or at least morally ambiguous.
9	* 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.
10	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Often wonders what his mother, Ermengarde d'Anjou, would think of his actions, especially deposing his brother.
11	%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: With King Philipe of France.
12	%%* TheLostLenore: His second wife [[spoiler:Aines]]
13	%%* TheOneThatGotAway: His lover [[spoiler:Allerade]]
14	* LecherousStepparent: Has an affair with his stepdaughter Ness and impregnates her twice.
15	* MaritalRapeLicense: Uses this on Haldora while she is pregnant.
16	* 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 Beatritz 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.
17	* RedBaron: The Iron Duke of the Franks
18	* RulingCouple: Forms this with Beatritz. He is never able to have that kind of relationship with any of his other wives.
19	* UnderestimatingBadassery: Like his son, he frequently underestimates the women in his life, in particular Beatritz and Allarade.
20	[[/folder]]
21
22	[[folder:Geoffrey the First]]
23	* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Lusts after three of his sisters and actually beds Agnes.]]
24	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Betrays almost all of his allies and some of his siblings and cousins as well as his King to achieve his ambition of founding the Kingdom of Aquitaine.
25	* CulturedBadass: Doesn't like war, yet expands his territory rapidly via military force. And oh boy is he cultured.
26	* FanBoy: Of Ancient Rome, and Augustus in particular.
27	* TheGoodKing: Tries to play this role in Aquitaine. Despite his, many, personal failings, he is the most successful monarch in the series to date, expanding his realm, and ensuring it's prosperity and internal cohesion.
28	* MySisterIsOffLimits: [[spoiler:Because he wants Agnes all to himself]]
29	* 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.
30	* UnderestimatingBadassery: Frequently underestimates the women in his life [[spoiler: this allows his sister Bella to trick him into revealing his incest with Agnes]]
31	* UsedToBeASweetKid: Grew up wanting to be different from his father, to be a kind lord who followed the church's teachings.
32	* WickedCultured: Geoffrey fancies himself a medieval Augustus and is in love with Aquitaine's culture. He is also highly morally ambiguous.
33	[[/folder]]
34
35	[[folder:Geoffrey the Second]]
36	* BuxomBeautyStandard: Enjoys his wife's sizable bust.
37	%%* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With his mistress Anna de Perigord
38	* KingIncognito: To see the true character of his future wife. [[spoiler: She keeps it up to see his true character, and finds it wanting.]]
39	* LikesOlderWomen: As a boy, he is obsessed with Princess Anne and Essa of Toulouse.
40	* PapaWolf: Does not take threats to his son's life lying down.
41	* RealMenLoveJesus: Is a pious King, in spite of having cheated on his wife numerous times.
42	[[/folder]]
43
44
45	!The House d'Anjou (and bastards)
46	They call them "The Devil's Brood" for a Reason.
47
48	[[folder:General Tropes]]
49	* BadassFamily: Have produced many strong warriors, cunning schemers, brave men and strong women. They may be morally reprehensible, but by god they are badass
50	%%* BigScrewedUpFamily: Let us count the ways...
51	[[/folder]]
52
53	[[folder:Agnes]]
54	* 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.
55	* BestFriend: Her best friend is Etiennette Karling.
56	* CoolBigSis: Was close to all her sisters at one point or another.
57	* ComforttheDying: Did this for [[spoiler:her oldest daughter Beatritz.]]
58	%%* Deuteragonist: Grows into this over the course of her life.
59	%%* HyperCompetentSidekick: To her father, brother, and nephew.
60	%%* NotWorthKilling: Ultimately comes to this conclusion about Duke Giles.
61	* OutlivingOnesOffspring:[[spoiler: Looses her oldest daughter Beatrice. She does not take it well.]]
62	* PoliticallyActivePrincess: Was politically active from a young age. She became this once her brother crowned himself King of Aquitaine.
63	* 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 Philippe of Champaign in Melun.]]
64	%%* SilkHidingSteel
65	%%* UndyingLoyalty: To her father and brother Geoffrey.
66	[[/folder]]
67
68	%%[[folder:Ancel (son of Foulques)]]
69	%%[[/folder]]
70
71	[[folder:Ermengarde (mother of Foulques)]]
72	* ParentWithNewParamour: Remarries to Duke Robert of Burgundy.
73	[[/folder]]
74
75	[[folder:Aines d'Anjou]]
76	The daughter of Geoffrey and Marguerite .
77	* UsedToBeASweetKid: Was her parent's ray of sunshine [[spoiler: then she tried to murder her nephew Guilhielm]]
78	[[/folder]]
79
80	[[folder:Bella]]
81	* BastardBastard: The oldest of Foulques's acknowledged bastards.
82	* 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.]]
83	* BigEater: Her mother often scolded her on her eating habits and by her thirties she has grown fat.
84	* BlackSheep: Because her brother Geoffrey rebelled against her father in law King Hughes and her husband Prince Henri
85	* BrutalHonesty: Has the honest trait and is blunt to her brother Geoffrey when they converse.
86	* DoomedMoralVictor: Views herself and Henri as this. They may have lost almost everything, but they are still god's children and haven't fallen into sin like adultery and [[spoiler:incest.]]
87	* FormerlyFat: By age 41, her portrait shows her slim and she has lost the fat trait.
88	* 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.
89	* HeteronormativeCrusader: Believes her brother is a sinner for allowing "sodomites" at his court.
90	* 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 Agnes.]]
91	* OutOfFocus: Compared to her mother. 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 Agnes in an interlude decades later.
92	* 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.]]
93	[[/folder]]
94
95	[[folder:Ermengarde]]
96	* AwfulWeddedLife: Duke Arnulf of Flanders is not kind to his wife and she is subject to horrible court gossip and mockery because of her dwarfism.
97	* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: People think of her as a monster and a freak because of her dwarfism.
98	%%* SiblingRivalry: With Bella and Antoinette, due to their husbands' feuds.
99	[[/folder]]
100
101	[[folder: Foulquesson]]
102	* BigBrotherBully: Bullies virtually all his younger brothers at one point or another, with varying degrees of maliciousness. In the case of his full brother Philipe he is genuinely concerned for his future.
103	%%* BloodKnight: Embodies this trope.
104	* HotBlooded: Never one to miss a fight.
105	* IBangedYourMom: Is not thrilled when Geoffrey starts sleeping with [[spoiler:his mother Haldora.]]
106	* LikeFatherLikeSon: He inherited his father's lust for battle [[spoiler:and also ended up in an iron mask.]]
107	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Is called Foulquesson to show his Norse roots and to differentiate him from Foulques the Younger and his father.
108	* SiblingRivalry: With his half brother Guilhem, who he interprets as acting above his station as a legitimized bastard.
109	[[/folder]]
110
111	[[folder:Foulques the Younger]]
112	%%* HappilyMarried
113	%%* NiceGuy
114	%%* TheRival: To his uncle Foulquesson.
115	%%* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: His mother certainly thinks so.
116	[[/folder]]
117
118	[[folder:Duke Guilhem]]
119	* BastardBastard: Something his siblings, especially Foulquesson will never let him forget, even if he is of the legitimized variety.
120	* {{Cuckold}}: [[spoiler: his wife sleeps with Geoffrey the Second.]]
121	* SiblingRivalry: With his half-brother Foulquesson. [[spoiler:At one point, he tried to have his child assassinated.]]
122	* SoldiersAtTheRear: Is Marshal, but rarely actively commands troops.
123	[[/folder]]
124
125	[[folder:Philippe]]
126	%%* HenpeckedHusband: At least if his full brother Foulquesson is to be believed.
127	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His first child dies young. His wife is convinced it was murder, but he is not sure.
128	[[/folder]]
129
130	[[folder:Charles]]
131	* AgeGapRomance: He sires a bastard with a woman old enough to be his mother.
132	* TheSmartGuy: Agnes 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.
133	[[/folder]]
134
135	!Wives
136	The women unfortunate enough to marry the head of the House d'Anjou
137
138	[[folder:Beatritz]]
139	The first wife of Foulques, and arguably his most irreplaceable asset.
140	* 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.
141	* BigEater: Has the Gluttonous trait and is quite overweight.
142	* IronLady: Gives off this appearance when she is regent in Anjou for her husband [[spoiler:though in actuality she has the craven trait.]]
143	* RulingCouple: Was her husband's right hand in Anjou.
144	[[/folder]]
145
146	[[folder:Aines]]
147	Foulques's second wife and the mother of Geoffrey's wife Marguerite as well as [[spoiler:his lover Ness.]]
148	* TheDogBitesBack: After years of putting up with her husband's abuse she finally [[spoiler: has him murdered. ]]
149	* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Played with, as 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.]]
150	* HeteronormativeCrusader: Forbid Marguerite from seeing Thomas Count of Limousin on account of his homosexuality.
151	* MistakenForPregnant: [[spoiler:At first, she thinks the cancer growing within her is a child.]]
152	* TheTopicOfCancer: [[spoiler:This kills her. The end is not pretty.]]
153	* WickedStepmother: What Foulques's children view her as. Ironically, she harbors no ill will or intent towards any of them.
154	[[/folder]]
155
156	[[folder:Haldora]]
157	Foulques's third and least loved wife.
158	----
159	* DomesticAbuse: Is domestically abused by Foulques.
160	* 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 Agnes, who had the advantage of knowing Anjou.
161	[[/folder]]
162
163	[[folder: Marguerite]]
164	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Does not take her father's murder well.
165	* BrokenBird: Is forced to wed the son of the man who [[spoiler:killed her 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.
166	* 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.]]
167	* 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.]]
168	%%* NearRapeExperience: With her father in law no less.
169	* NiceGirl: Has the Kind Trait, though her husband rarely sees this side of her.
170	%%* SecretKeeper: To Thomas, Count of Limousin.
171	* SexForServices: Is implied to have done this with [[spoiler:The pope. The service in question being not excommunicating her son.]]
172	[[/folder]]
173
174	[[folder:Princess Ælfflæd]]
175	* BuxomBeautyStandard: Her husband enjoys using her breasts as pillows. She finds it annoying.
176	%%* MamaBear
177	* ScreamingBirth: The birth of her son Guilhem is not a pleasant experience.
178	[[/folder]]
179
180	!The Court
181
182	[[folder:Allerade]]
183	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why Allerade is so loyal to Agnes. She helped shield her from her mother Beatritz's wrath when she fell pregnant.
184	* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Was ordered by Duchess Beatritz to abort her child with Foulques. She refused. This led to her losing much of her influence at court.
185	%%* TheMistress: To Foulques
186	* OldRetainer: Served the house d'Anjou in one capacity or another from age 12 [[spoiler: until her death at fifty something]]
187	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Her son with Duke Giles dies as a child.]] She is devastated.
188	* RejectedApology: Appears to have rejected [[spoiler:Aines's deathbed apology for forcing her into a relationship with Duke Giles]]
189	* RemarriedToTheMistress: What she hoped to happen after Beatritz died. Indeed unlike most examples of this troupe her stepchildren would have been thrilled to have her as she was already mentor to Agnes and Geoffrey was infatuated with her.
190	* SilverVixen: 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.
191	* TheSpymaster: Feeds information to Beatritz and Foulques and convinces both she is spying on the other one.
192	%%* UndyingLoyalty: To the House D'Anjou in general and Agnes in particular.
193	[[/folder]]
194
195	[[folder:Ness]]
196	* 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.
197	%%* FemmeFatale: Has shades of this.
198	* 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.
199	%%* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: What drew Foulques to her.
200	* MamaBear: Strives to get the best for her children. It is her most redeemable quality.
201	%%* TheMistress: To Foulques.
202	* OnlyKnownbyTheirNickname: Has the same name as her mother, but is called Ness by almost everyone.
203	* WickedStepmother: Foulques's legitimate children think of her like this, though she is, in spite of her own delusions, not married to Foulques.
204	[[/folder]]
205
206	[[folder:Mascarose De Limoges]]
207	* WhiteSheep: Unlike her sisters, Ness and Marguerite, she is a chaste woman who has never strayed from her husband.
208	[[/folder]]
209
210	[[folder:Herve]]
211	%%* ComfortTheDying: Does this for [[spoiler:Agnes.]]
212	%%* HappilyMarried: To Marscorse de Limoges
213	* NiceGuy: Has the kind trait and is courteous to Agnes 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.
214	* SecretKeeper: Was the first to be told of [[spoiler:King Geoffrey's leprosy.]]
215	%%* UndyingLoyalty: To the House d'Anjou
216	[[/folder]]
217
218	[[folder:Etiennette Karling]]
219	* BigEater: Has the gluttonous trait and is quite overweight.
220	%%* TheConfidant: To Agnes, her best friend.
221	* NiceGirl: Has the kind trait and has always been a loyal friend to Agnes and a devoted lover to her father.
222	%%* PleaseSpareHimMyLiege: Does this for [[spoiler:her brother Aubry after he beds Marguerite.]]
223	[[/folder]]
224
225	[[folder:Anna de Perigord]]
226	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With King Geoffrey the Second
227	* NiceGirl: Comforts Geoffrey in his darkest hours and seems to genuinely love him.
228	[[/folder]]
229
230	[[folder:Lithuaise de Normandie]]
231	* DeathByChildbirth: Dies giving birth to Edoard de Anjou, [[spoiler:Foulques's secret bastard.]]
232	[[/folder]]
233
234	!The French Nobility
235
236	[[folder:General Tropes]]
237	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Are more than willing to betray both each other and their King if it means achieving their ambitions.
238	[[/folder]]
239
240	[[folder:Countess Sarrazine of Thouars]]
241	* TheGoodKing: Well, the good countess. She genuinely cares about the common people under her rule and tries to shield them from harm.
242	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her first child died before her first birthday. The Countess believes it was murder.
243	* SpiritedYoungLady: Has the guts to chew out Geoffrey about allowing a Breton army to invade her lands. Foulquesson suggests her husband put her on a leash.
244	[[/folder]]
245
246	[[folder:King Philippe of France]]
247	* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: By the end of his life, both he and Foulques enjoyed a better relationship with each other than they did with their wives.
248	%%* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Allowing his family to be captured by Philipp Duke of Champagne.]]
249	* 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.
250	[[/folder]]
251
252	[[folder:King Hugh of France]]
253	* RealMenLoveJesus: Is a very zealous monarch.
254	[[/folder]]
255
256	[[folder:King Henri of France]]
257	* BadBoss: Is said to have nearly beaten to death a servant who got his wife's dress dirty
258	* TheManBehindTheMan: Was believed to be this in his father's last years.
259	* TheSmartGuy: Has the genius trait.
260	[[/folder]]
261
262	[[folder:Philipp Duke of Champagne]]
263	* 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.]]
264	[[/folder]]
265
266	[[folder:Count Allias of Perigord]]
267	* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: Not ignored, but Geoffrey does not return his romantic feelings.
268	[[/folder]]
269
270	[[folder:Duchess Essa of Toulouse]]
271	%%* IncompatibleOrientation: With her husband Duke Guilhem
272	%%* TheMistress: To [[spoiler: King Geoffrey the Second.]]
273	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Is named Agnes, like her idol Agnes d'Anjou, but everyone calls her Essa.
274	%%* ParentalSubstitute: Sees Agnes as something of this.
275	[[/folder]]
276
277	[[folder:Duke Giles of Berry]]
278	* HumiliationConga: Infected with [=STDs=], [[spoiler: captured by Geoffrey and paraded through the streets of Bordeaux, and forced to admit to fathering Agnes's daughter Beatritz. He is then thrown into the dungeon where he admits to Agnes 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.]]
279	%%* KarmicSTD: Is driven insane by the Great Pox
280	* KissingCousins: [[spoiler:Seduced his cousin Agnes and leaves her pregnant.]]
281	* 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 Agnes.]]
282	[[/folder]]
283
284	%%[[folder:King Alphonse the Great of France]]
285	%%* RightfulKingReturns: [[spoiler:How he views his restoration to the French throne.]]
286	%%[[/folder]]
287
288	%%! The English Nobility
289
290	! The Church
291
292	[[folder:Aubry Karling]]
293	%%* BastardBastard: The son of Marguerite and Aubry Karling
294	* 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.
295	[[/folder]]
296
297	[[folder:Pope Martinus]]
298	%%* EvilIsPetty
299	* LecherousPriest: To the point where he [[spoiler:tries to molest the Queen of Aquitaine.]]
300	[[/folder]]
301
302	%%[[folder: Bishop Edouard]]
303	%%* BastardBastard: Of Ness.

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