A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Enguerrand - This person famously maintains his neutrality between England and France because familial and marriage bonds connect this person to both nations.

King Charles - This person takes the throne of France and loses sanity when an old man tells this person that this person has been betrayed.

Philippa - This person shared with a mother in the bounty of the autumnal monarch and died without having a child.

Perceval - This person was born of a woman to whom his father was not married.

Isabella - This person avoids marriage and...
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