Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John Salah Rais, Viceroy of Algiers Aga Morat, Turkish Governor of Tripoli Gabriel de Luetz, Baron et Seigneur d'Aramon et de Valabregues, French Ambassador to Turkey Roxelana Sultan (Khourrem), wife of Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of Turkey and Lord of the Ottoman Empire Jean Chesnau, French Chargé d'Affaires at Constantinople Main locations Baden, in Switzerland Algiers, in modern-day Algeria Bône, modern-day Annaba (and ancient Hippo) in Algeria Monastir, in modern-day Tunisia Mehedia, modern-day Mahdia in Tunisia Zakynthos, an island off the coast of Greece Aleppo, in Syria Djerba, an island off the coast of modern-day Tunisia Thessalonika, in Greece Zuara, in modern-day Libya Chios, in modern-day Greece, close to the coast of Turkey Constantinople, capital city of the Ottoman Empire The Ringed Castle (1971) Lymond arrives at the court of the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible. Main fictional characters Francis Crawford of Lymond Richard Crawford, 3rd Baron of Culter, Lymond's older brother Sybilla Crawford, Dowager Lady Culter, Lymond's mother Danny Hislop, Alec Guthrie, Adam Blacklock, Fergie Hoddim, Lancelot Plummer, and Ludovic d'Harcourt, men of the company of St Mary's Kate Somerville, English landowner and friend of the Crawfords Philippa Somerville, daughter of Kate Somerville Guzel, kingmaker Main historical characters Ivan IV Vasilyevich, Tsar of Russia Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox Diccon Chancellor, explorer and navigator Osep Nepaja, ambassador Mary I of England, Queen of England Princess Elizabeth of England John Dee, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, Lithuanian prince Main locations The Lowlands of Scotland (including the fictional Midculter Castle) London, England Moscow, in the then Tsardom of Russia Archangel, in the then Tsardom of Russia Checkmate (1975) In 1557, Lymond and Sevigny are once again in France, leading an army against England. Meanwhile, Mary, Queen of Scots, prepares to marry the French Dauphin. Main fictional characters Francis Crawford of Lymond Richard Crawford, Lymond's older brother Sybilla Crawford, Lymond's mother Philippa Somerville Main historical characters Mary Stewart, queen of Scots Henri II, king of France Catherine d'Albon, French noblewoman Reading aids The Dorothy Dunnett Companion (1994, ) and The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II (2002, ) by Elspeth Morrison – Dorothy Dunnett aided in the compilation, and wrote some of the entries for this book, which provide background information to historical characters and events featured in the Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolò, as well as explanations of classical