Marie of Hungary, Queen of Naples, Clemence's grandmother.Clémence of Hungary, Louis' second wife.Eudeline, servant with whom Louis has an affair and a daughter.Robert Bersumée, Captain of the fortress Château Gaillard.Alain de Pareilles, Captain of the King's Archers.Jean de Longwy, nephew of Jacques de Molay.Everard, Knight of the Order of Templars.Lormet le Dolois, aide-de-camp to Robert of Artois.Béatrice d'Hirson, first lady-in-waiting to the Countess Mahaut.Jean de Marigny, Archbishop of Sens, younger brother of Enguerrand de Marigny.Eliabel Cressay, widow of the Squire of Cressay.

Spinello Tolomei, a Siennese Lombard banker.Geoffroy de Charney, Templar Preceptor of Normandy.Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar.Hugues de Bouville, Philip's chamberlain.Enguerrand de Marigny, Philip's Chamberlain.Guillaume de Nogaret, Philip's prime councillor and keeper of the seal.Philippe d'Aunay, equerry to Charles, Count of Valois, and lover of Marguerite.Gautier d'Aunay, equerry to Philippe, Count of Poitiers, and lover of Blanche.Louis, Count of Évreux, Philip's youngest brother.Charles, Count of Valois, Philip's younger brother.

Mahaut of Artois, Robert's aunt, and mother to Jeanne and Blanche.

Robert of Artois, Lord of Conches and Count of Beaumont-le-Roger.

Isabella, Queen of England, Philip's daughter, called the 'She-Wolf of France'.

Blanche of Burgundy, Charles' wife and Jeanne's sister.

Charles, Count of La Marche, Louis and Philippe's younger brother.

Jeanne, Countess de Poitiers, Philippe's wife and Blanche's sister.

Philippe, Count de Poitiers, Philip's second son.

Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, Louis' wife.

The succession of monarchs that follows leads France and England to the Hundred Years' War. Set in the 14th century during the reigns of the last five kings of the direct Capetian dynasty and the first two kings of the House of Valois, the series begins as the French King Philip the Fair, already surrounded by scandal and intrigue, brings a curse upon his family when he persecutes the Knights Templar. Martin called The Accursed Kings 'the original game of thrones', citing Druon's novels as an inspiration for his own series A Song of Ice and Fire. Published between 19, the series has been adapted as a miniseries twice for television in France.Īmerican author George R. The Accursed Kings ( French: Les Rois maudits ) is a series of historical novels by French author Maurice Druon about the French monarchy in the 14th century.

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