Count Riol of Nantes

Also known as: Count Riol · Family: Nantes · Role: count · First appears: Chapter 13 · Part 1

Life events

• Count Riol launched an assault against Carhaix, forcing its defenders to arm and meet his army.(Chapter 13 · Part 1 · 📍 Carhaix)
  • With: Duke Hod
  • “Lords, you have slept too long; rise, for an assault is on.”

Chapter 13 · Part 1

• liege: Duke Hod “For you must know that this Count Riol was the Duke’s vassal.”
• sworn: Duke Hod “For you must know that this Count Riol was the Duke’s vassal.”
• enemies with Duke Hod “Lord, it is Breton land which Duke Hod holds, and once it was rich in pasture and ploughland, but Count Riol of Nantes has wasted it. For you must know that this Count Riol was the Duke’s vassal. And the Duke has a daughter, fair among all King’s daughters, and Count Riol would have taken her to wife; but her father refused her to a vassal, and Count Riol would have carried her away by force. Many men have died in that quarrel.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Romance of Tristan and Iseult. Made with Rho MD.