Don Sancho de Azpeitia

Also known as: the Biscayan / the gallant Biscayan / the valiant Biscayan · Role: squire in attendance upon the coach · First appears: Part 1, Ch. 8.2

Life events

• Don Quixote and the Biscayan begin a fierce sword fight, leaving the battle unresolved.(Part 1, Ch. 8.2)
  • With: Don Quixote
  • “The Biscayan, when he saw him coming on, though he wished to dismount from his mule, in which, being one of those sorry ones let out for hire, he had no confidence, had no choice but to draw his sword; it was lucky for him, however, that he was near the coach, from which he was able to snatch a cushion that served him for a shield; and they went at one another as if they had been two mortal enemies.”
• Don Quixote defeats Don Sancho de Azpeitia and spares his life after a promise to visit Dulcinea.(Part 1, Ch. 9.2)
  • With: Don Quixote
  • “Then, on the faith of that promise,” said Don Quixote, “I shall do him no further harm, though he well deserves it of me.”

Part 1, Ch. 8.2

• enemies with Don Quixote “On, then, as aforesaid, came Don Quixote against the wary Biscayan, with uplifted sword and a firm intention of splitting him in half, while on his side the Biscayan waited for him sword in hand, and under the protection of his cushion; and all present stood trembling, waiting in suspense the result of blows such as threatened to fall, and the lady in the coach and the rest of her following were making a thousand vows and offerings to all the images and shrines of Spain, that God might deliver her squire and all of them from this great peril in which they found themselves.”

Part 1, Ch. 9.1

• enemies with Don Quixote “In the First Part of this history we left the valiant Biscayan and the renowned Don Quixote with drawn swords uplifted, ready to deliver two such furious slashing blows that if they had fallen full and fair they would at least have split and cleft them asunder from top to toe and laid them open like a pomegranate;”

Part 1, Ch. 9.2

• enemies with Don Quixote “Don Quixote stood looking on very calmly, and, when he saw him fall, leaped from his horse and with great briskness ran to him, and, presenting the point of his sword to his eyes, bade him surrender, or he would cut his head off.”

Part 1, Ch. 25.3

• enemies with Don Quixote (Sancho refers to the Biscayan as among those vanquished by Don Quixote.) “But I must own the truth to your worship, Señor Don Quixote; until now I have been under a great mistake, for I believed truly and honestly that the lady Dulcinea must be some princess your worship was in love with, or some person great enough to deserve the rich presents you have sent her, such as the Biscayan and the galley slaves, and many more no doubt, for your worship must have won many victories in the time when I was not yet your squire. But all things considered, what good can it do the lady Aldonza Lorenzo, I mean the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, to have the vanquished your worship sends or will send coming to her and going down on their knees before her?”

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Extracted from the original text of Don Quixote (Ormsby's translation). Made with Rho MD.