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PREFACE
When my chronicle of Francis Crawford of Lymond ended, it seemed to me that there was something still to be told of his heritage: about the genetic lottery, as well as the turmoil of trials and experience which, put together, could bring such a man into being.
The House of Niccol, in all its volumes, deals with the forerunner without whom Lymond would not have existed: the unknown who fought his way to the high ground that Francis Crawford would occupy, and held it for him. It is fiction, but the setting at least is very real.
The man I have called Nicholas de Fleury lived in the mid-fifteenth century, three generations before Francis Crawford, and was reared as an artisan, his gifts and his burdens concealed beneath an artless manner and a joyous, sensuous personality. But he was also born at the cutting edge of the European Renaissance, which Lymond was to exploit at its zeniththe explosion of exploration and trade, high art and political duplicity, personal chivalry and violent warfare in which a young man with a genius for organization and numbers might find himself trusted by princes, loved by kings, and sought in marriage and out of it by clever women bent on power, or wealth, or revengeor sometimes simply from fondness.
There are, of course, echoes of the present time. Trade and war dont change much down through the centuries: todays new multimillionaires had their counterparts in the entrepreneurs of few antecedents who evolved the first banking systems for the Medici; who developed the ruthless network of trade that ran from Scotland, Flanders, and Italy to the furthest reaches of the Mediterranean and the Baltic, and ventured from Iceland to Persia, from Muscovy to the deserts of Africa.
Scotland is important to this chronicle, as it was to Francis Crawford. Here, the young Queen of Scots is a thirteen-year-old Scandinavian, and her husbands family are virtually children. This, framed in glorious times, is the story of the difficult, hesitant progress of a small nation, as well as that of a singular man.
Dorothy Dunnett
Edinburgh, 1998
(Those marked * are recorded in history)
Rulers
*France: Charles VII; Louis XI
*England: Henry VI; Edward IV
*Flanders: Duke Philip of Burgundy
*Pope: Pius II
*Milan: Duke Francesco Sforza
*Ottoman Empire: Sultan Mehmet II
Charetty company, Bruges, Louvain and Trebizond
Marian de Charetty, owner
Nicholas vander Poele (Niccol), her husband and former apprentice
Mathilde (Tilde), her older daughter
Catherine, her second daughter
Julius, her notary
Tobias Beventini of Grado, her physician
Father Godscalc of Cologne, her chaplain
Gregorio of Asti, her lawyer
John le Grant, Scots engineer and shipmaster
Astorre (Syrus de Astariis), her mercenary leader
Loppe (Lopez), a former Guinea slave; bursar to Nicholas
Thibault, vicomte de Fleury of Dijon, husband of Marian de Charettys late sister
Tasse of Geneva, maid to Marian de Charetty
Margot, mistress of Gregorio
Patou, assistant to Julius
Thomas, under-captain to Astorre
Medici company, Florence, Pisa, Bruges and Venice
*Cosimo di Giovanni de Medici of Florence, head of the Medici Bank
*Giovanni de Medici, his son
*Cosimino de Medici, son of Giovanni
*Pierfrancesco de Medici, nephew of Cosimo
*Laudomia Acciajuoli, wife of Pierfrancesco
*Angelo Tani, manager, Bruges
*Tommaso Portinari, under-manager, Bruges
*Antonio di Niccol Martelli, sea-consul, Pisa
*Roberto di Niccol Martelli, manager, Rome
*Alessandro di Niccol Martelli, manager, Venice
The company of Strozzi, Florence and Bruges
*Alessandra Macinghi negli Strozzi of Florence, widow of Matteo Strozzi
*Lorenzo di Matteo Strozzi, Bruges, her exiled son
*Filippo di Matteo Strozzi, Naples, exiled elder brother of Lorenzo
*Caterina di Matteo, her daughter
*Marco di Giovanni da Parenti, silk merchant and husband of Caterina
*Jacopo di Leonardo Strozzi, manager, Bruges, and cousin of the late Matteo
Merchants and noblemen, Scotland and Flanders
Simon de St Pol of Kilmirren, landowner and merchant of Scotland
Jordan de St Pol, exiled vicomte de Ribrac, father of Simon
Katelina van Borselen, wife of Simon and niece of Henry van Borselen of Veere
Henry de St Pol, son of Katelina
Agns, 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 Htel 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 Emperors 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 Niccol 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 Cardinals 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 Hseyin, Muslim kinsman of Uzum Hasans 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 Hasans Christian household, and to Violante of Naxos
*Mahon Turcomannus, Uzum Hasans envoy to the West under Ludovico da Bologna
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