House Courcel

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In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series, House Courcel is the reigning family of Terre d'Ange, descended in a straight, unbroken line from Blessed Elua. The emblem of House Courcel is a silver swan on a field of midnight blue.

[edit] Family tree

The family tree at the start of the saga is as follows:

House L'Envers

House Courcel

House Trevalion

House Stregazza

Ganelon

Genevieve

Lyonette

Marc

Benedicte

Maria

The Doge

Barquiel

Isabel

Rolande

Baudoin

Bernadette

Dominic

Thérèse

Marie-Celeste

Ysandre

Note that both Maria and Dominic are of House Stregazza; Genevieve de la Courcel's family is not given.

[edit] Members of House Courcel

Ganelon is the King of Terre d'Ange. Ganelon had one son, Rolande de la Courcel, who died young, and is succeeded by his grand-daughter, Ysandre de la Courcel. Ganelon dies during the Bitterest Winter, victim of a stroke.

Josephine is a long-dead queen, who had an affair with a player and had a secret passage built to connect the Queen's quarters with the theatre complex in the Palace.

Rolande is the deceased Dauphin of Terre d'Ange, only son of Ganelon, who was killed at Battle of the Three Princes.

Ysandre is the daughter of Prince Rolande and Isabel L'Envers, and is the reigning Queen of Terre d'Ange for most of the series.