Catherine de Montsalvy...Lexicon letter G

Galauba, Donat de, died 1436
Old Master of Arms at Château de Montsalvy - it was him who instructed Arnaud and Michel de Montsalvy how to handle a sword - died during the siege of Montsalvy -defending with a couple of village boys, the gate at Aurillac.

there is no Donat de Galauba in the tv-series.

Gautherin Mathieu, cloth merchant and wine producer, read more on Who is Who...
Catherine and Loyse uncle, who lives in Burgundy. He befriended also Abou-al_Khayr, Catherine's great doctor friend from Granada. Uncle Mathieu was also once at Montsalvy, when Catherine and Arnaud returned from Granada.

Christian Alers played Catherine uncle in the TV-adaption of "Catherine"

Gauthier, Strongitarm read more on Who is Who...
a Norman woodcutter, whose life Catherine had saved - when La Hire wanted him hanged. He asked to become her servant - he loved Catherine until his dying day - Catherine herself gave a part of her heart to this faithful and honest man.

(in French he is called Gauthier le Bûcheron or Gauthier Malencontre)
there is no Gauthier Strongitarm in the TV-Adaption Catherine Il suffit d'un amour. Most of his role was given to Barnaby the beggar, who dies in book 1 (Philippe Clay gave a fantastic performance as Barnaby!)

Garrouste, Saturnin read more on Who is Who...
old Bailiff of Montsalvy, who lived on a farm under a copse of pines on the side of a hill. Isabelle de Montsalvy and her niece Marie de Comborn had found shelter there. He tried to protect his Dame Catherine, when she arrived at the village - where Arnaud had gone to challenge the brigand Valettte, one of Count Rodrigo Villa-Andrade's lieutenant's.

Jacques Dichamp played Saturnin in the TV-Adaption Catherine

Donatienne, his gentle wife, see Who is Who for portrait
she was Dame Isabelle's de Montsalvy's personal maid and accompanied herl lady also to
Carlat.

Béatrice Lord played Donatienne in the TV-Adaption Catherine

Gaucourt, de Raoul read more on Who is Who...
Catherine met Raoul de Gaucourt at Orléans in the days of Jeanne d'Arc. His kind words to her when they met years later at Chinon:

extract from "Catherine and Arnaud"
"it gives me much more pleasure to welcome Madame de Montsalvy to Chinon than it gave me to receive Madame de Brazey at Orléans once upon a time! The devil take it if I'd have guessed that it was love of Montsalvy which brought you into that wasp nest! Especially since that noble lord of yours did his uttermost to get you hanged!"

...and it was Lord de Gaucourt, who prevented Catherine from killing Comtetsse Catherine de Trémoille with the Montsavly dagger! The woman responsible for all the agony and dreadful road Arnaud and Catherine had to go through at that time!

Michel Duplaix played Raoul de Gaucourt in the TV-Adaption Catherine

non fictive character
Titles of nobility : Lord of Gaucourt (in Hargicourt, Somme), Hargicourt (Somme) and Maisons-sur-Seine (Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines).

Official and military functions : Knight (Nicopolis, 1396), chamberlain of the Duke of Orléans (1411), councillor and chamberlain of the King (1427), bailli and captain of Orléans (1429), governor of Dauphiné (1431), first chamberlain (1437), captain of the city and the Royal Castle of Chinon (1440-1459), captain of Rouen and Gisors (1449), High Steward (grand maître de l’hôtel) of the King (1453-1461).wife:Jeanne de Preuilly († 1455), daughter of Gilles, baron of Preuilly, and Marguerite de Naillac.Descendants : Charles, Jean, Raoul, Marie.

Raoul de Gaucourt, Lord of Gaucourt, Hargicourt and Maisons-sur-Seine (actually Maisons-Laffitte). Became knight in 1396, to Nicopolis (Bulgaria). Chamberlain of the Duke of Orleans in 1411. Councillor and chamberlain of the King, named bailli and captain of Orleans in 1428. One of six lay peers to the coronation of Reims. He was a messenger to the pope to ask him for the revision of the Joan of Arc's trial. He died very old on June 10, 1462.

Gérvais
old sorcerer - living in the caves of Mâlain - was in leaque with Pâquerette the young girl who betrayed Catherine to Garin de Brazey. But when Sara and Catherine are hiding in his caves - he does not refuse to help them and shows them the way to the Abbey of Saint-Seine. He meets a terrible death at the hands of Garin de Brazey's henchmen.

there is no Gérvais in the TV-Series...

Historical facts Wikipedia and other various internet sources 2009