DArtagnan is a fictional character created by Alexandre Dumas who first appears as the protagonist in the novel The Three Musketeers. Like several of Dumas characters, he is loosely based on a real person - Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d&...
Athos or Count de La Fère (born c. 1595; died 1661) is a fictional character, a Musketeer of the Guard in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père.In The Three Musketeers, he and the other...
Porthos, baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds (his first name is unknown) is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two musketeers Athos a...
Aramis is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two musketeers Athos and Porthos are friends of the novels protagonist, dArtagnan. ...
Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), was a French clergyman, noble, and statesman.Consecrated as a bishop in 1608, he later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu ...
Louis XIII (27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) reigned as King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643.Cardinal Richelieu played a major role in Louis XIIIs administration from 1624, decisively shaping the destiny of France for the next eighteen years...
Anne of Austria (22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen Consort of France and Navarre and regent for her son, Louis XIV of France. During her regency (1643–1651) Cardinal Mazarin served as Frances chief minister. She is one of the central fi...
Milady Clarick de Winter, often referred to as simply Milady, is a fictional character in the novel The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas, père. She acts as a spy for Cardinal Richelieu and is one of the chief antagonists of the story.A capable a...
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592 - 1628) was the favourite, claimed by some to be the lover, of King James VI of Scotland and I of England. Despite a very patchy political and military record he remained at the height of royal favour for the ...
Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Troisville (or Tresville), was a French officer born at Oloron-Sainte-Marie in 1598 and died on 8 May 1672 at Trois-Villes. He was fictionalized under the name Monsieur de Tréville in Alexandre Dumass novel The Three ...