The mother in 'Le Fresne'Ī woman who slanders her neighbor cruelly when the neighbor has twins. He ultimately discovers his own daughter many years after his wife gave her away in a plot to save her reputation. When the first has twins, the second is happy, and chastises his wife for maligning the other couple. Two kind knights who live near one another. Instead, she dies at her husband's hands after being discovered in Equitan's arms. The woman with whom Equitan has an affair, who plots her husband's murder so they can be together.

He takes care of the king's lands and judicial duties for him, but is cuckolded by the king. The seneschalĮquitan's trustworthy servant. The title character of 'Equitan.' The lord of Nantes, he falls in love with the wife of his seneschal, and dies tragically because of it. He loves her and won't let her go, and Guigemar ultimately has to defeat him to win her back. MeriaducĪ king in 'Guigemar' who finds Guigemar's beloved lady when she lands in Brittany. The lady's trustworthy attendant, who helps the lady to investigate Guigemar once he arrives and helps her keep the affair secret. The wife of a lord in a far-away land, she lives in an isolated enclosure until the titular character arrives and they fall in love. The lady with whom Guigemar falls in love. He is perpetually jealous of his wife, and keeps her trapped in an isolated enclosure. The husband of the lady with whom Guigemar falls in love. The title character of 'Guigemar.' A virtuous knight who initially has no interest or use for love until a magic set of circumstances brings him overseas, where he falls in love with a married woman for whom he will ultimately fight.

She sometimes poses the explicit moral of a particular poem, and other times praises her own talent as a storyteller. In addition to being the author of the lays, Marie often interposes herself into the work as an active narrator.

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