The Walking Drum - Characters

Characters

• Mathurin Kerbouchard – main character
• Jean Kerbouchard – also known as Kerbouchard the Coursair; Mathurin's father
• Baron de Tournemine – a local enemy in Brittany
• Taillefeur – lieutenant of the Baron de Tournemine; previously sailed with Jean Kerbouchard
• Walther – captain of the ship that takes Kerbouchard south to Spain
• Cervon – a Gaul; member of Walther's crew
• Eric of Finnveden – a member of Walther's crew
• Red Mark – rowing slave; companion of Mathurin on the trip south to Spain
• Selim – Moorish rowing slave on the trip south to Spain
• Aziza – wealthy Moorish girl captured from a merchant ship off the Spanish coast
• Count Redwan – Aziza's Norman companion
• Hisham ibn-Bashar – important Moor in Málaga, a friend of Redwan
• ibn-Haram – military commander in Spain; enemy of Redwan and Aziza, supporter of Yusuf.
• Duban – soldier in the service of Prince Ahmed; Mathurin first meets him in Málaga
• Abu-Abdallah – a friend of Caliph Yusuf
• Shir Ali – beggar in Cádiz who poses as a merchant
• Ben Salom – Jewish merchant in Cádiz who buys Walther's ship and cargo
• Abaka Khan – Mongol Mathurin befriends in Cádiz
• John of Seville – famous scholar and translator whose life Mathurin saves on the road to Córdoba
• Hassan – John's Bedouin travelling companion
• ibn-Tuwais – Mathurin's host in Córdoba
• Valaba – woman of influence in Córdoba, whom Mathurin meets in a coffee house
• Sharasa – A girl from a valley whom Mathurin meets after escaping imprisonment
• ibn-Rushd – also known as Averroёs, noted scholar of Valaba's acquaintance
• Mahmoud al-Zawila – Berber friend Mathurin makes in Córdoba; later, Sinan's right hand
• Haroun el-Zegri – friend of Mahmoud and later of Mathurin
• Prince Ahmed – Almoravid to whom Aziza is to be wedded, to cement an alliance with William of Sicily
• Akim, his daughter Sharasa, nephew Alan, and son Aric – Mathurin's Visigoth hosts in the hills east of Córdoba
• Safia – woman who helps Mathurin upon his return to Córdoba
• Khatib – acrobat from Córdoba
• Ya'kub – eldest and favourite son of Yusuf
• Ayesha – horse given to Mathurin by Safia
• Rupert von Gilderstern – Hansgraf (leader) of the merchant caravan
• Other caravan members: Lucca (from Lombardy), Johannes (an orphan from Bruges), Guido (from Piedmont)
• Peter von Gilderstern – Rupert's brother, leader of the second caravan
• Jacques, Paul – two of the peasants Mathurin assists
• Julot – student Mathurin meets in Paris
• Comtesse (Suzanne) de Malcrais – woman Mathurin and Julot meet near Paris, holder of the crusader castle Saône
• Persigny – man who helps Mathurin and the Comtesse escape
• Count Robert – man who wants to marry the Comtesse and becomes an enemy of Kerbouchard
• Lolyngton – chief of the acrobats and performers who join the caravans at Provins
• Yuri Olgevichi – a prince in Kiev, with some connections in the surrounding area
• Flandrin, Sarzeau, Grossefeldt – leaders of some of the other caravans
• Abdullah – story teller in Constantinople
• Bardas – friend of Andronicus Comnenus
• Andronicus Comnenus – cousin of Emperor Manuel I
• Manuel I – Byzantine ruler in Constantinople
• Phillip – son of a Macedonian mercinary; Mathurin meets him in Constantinople
• Ordric – Viking guard of Emperor Manuel I; he practices with Mathurin
• Mas'ud Khan – an emir in Tabriz and a spy for Sinan
• Rashid Ad-din Sinan – the Old Man of the Mountain at Alamut
• Sundari Devi – half Rajput, half Persian princess from Anhilwara, whom Mathurin meets in Qazvin
• Rachendra – Rajput guard of Sundari Devi
• Abdul – gate guard at Alamut
• Zubadiyah – girl in the Valley of the Assassins