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Claude and Leith
Cluade n Leith
Real Names: Claude de Valois
Leith Bayard
Status: Over, broken up
Relationship:

Engaged couple

Length of Relationship:

Couple of months

Affiliates:

Kingdom of France

First Appearance: Tempting Fate
Last Appearance: Love & Death
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"You're going to end up with someone. Why not someone a step above, but within reach?"
Claude to Leith

History

Season 2

Queen Catherine calls Leith Bayard into her office and assigns him as Princess Claude's personal body guard. Claude bursts into the room after hearing the news and starts complaining, until she turns around the face Leith, and suddenly changes her mind.

Queen Catherine asks Leith to keep Claude away from the castle. Leith tries to get out of it, but the Queen insists on it.

And so, the two take a carriage to town, in which Claude complains that Leith is deliberately wasting her time and assumes that her mother is the reason why. Leith leaves the carriage on the note that he needs to run an errand, and asks Claude to stay in the carriage, but of course, she disobeys him.

Reversal of Fortune12 - Claude n Leith

Must you ruin my fun?!

Instead, Claude has the driver take her to a brothel, which happens to be Greer's brothel, too. Leith gets there a bit later and finds her drunk, shaming Greer's customers away. He attempts to take her away, but she slips away from him and gets on a table, where she starts dancing. Leith eventually swoops her into his arms and takes her back to the carriage.

While passing by Greer's courtesans, they greet Leith and Claude teases him about being known by the girls in a whorehouse. Back at the castle, Kenna walks up to Leith and Claude and offers her condolences for Francis' illness. Kenna quickly realizes that Claude didn't know prior and is about to lose her temper, so she leaves before she can.

Claude realizes that Leith kept her away from the castle on purpose, in order not to cause any problems to her already troubled mother. She complains about being treated like a problem that needs to be solved, and when asked why she thinks she is treated that way, Claude gives Leith a run-down on her love-life, adding that he is a promising fellow, but he rejects her by clarifying why the courtesans recognized him: he is dating their madam.


Season 3

A friendship soon developed between the two. After Leith and Lady Greer ended things for good, a secret romance blossomed between Leith and Princess Claude. Their relationship was an uphill battle, but Catherine De Medici gave the couple her blessing to wed when Leith saved both Catherine and Claude from an assassination attempt. Before Leith went on a mission to capture the Red Knights, he gave Claude a ring. During his mission, Leith was stabbed and presumed dead while Claude went into mourning.

Quotes

Princess Claude: I expect you'll be wearing that when we play cards tonight. [1]

Leith Bayard: Why do you want to help me?
Princess Claude: Because you're going to end up with someone. Why not someone a step above, but within reach? [2]

Leith Bayard: Sons of goatherds don't get to be with princesses. [3]

Leith Bayard: Marry me. [3]

Leith Bayard: One thing I will never do, is risk getting on Catherine de Medici's bad side.
Princess Claude: You'd rather get on my bad side?!
Leith Bayard: A million times, yes. [4]

Princess Claude: If you go on that mission... I'll stop loving you!
Leith Bayard: You can do that. Just like that?
Princess Claude: Yes. Ask anyone. I'm as fickle as they come.
Leith Bayard: I suppose that does change things. Before, I had reason to return home quickly and all in one piece. [5]

Leith Bayard: I wanted to hate Luc, but he's a good man. And he's your husband. I'm not. [6]

Leith Bayard: I feel a poison in my heart. How long until I give into it? [6]

Leith Bayard: We never got to see that vineyard in Tuscany.
Princess Claude: What if we met there? A year from tonight. Leith, in a year, everything will be different. I'll have an heir, I-I'll never have to be with Luc again.

Notes

  • Leith is very well educated, a rare occurance for the 16th century commoner. He can read, has bible verses memorized, and is able to give the history of Saint Michael during the The Michaelmas Banquette. [7]
  • Leith's first kill was while the castle was held hostage by a group of Italian men.[8] Since then he has killed up to two dozen English soldiers while at war. [9]
  • After Leith saved Francis's life, and once they get back at court, Francis gives Leith some titles and lands. It's not made clear how much, but Leith is now a noble.[10]
  • Promoted to the new position of Captain of the Royal Escort and recieved his old lands back from Stéphane Narcisse who was charged with embezzlement. [11]
  • They consumate their relationship, before Cluade finds out she's engaged to Duke Boinel. [12]
  • Princess Claude officially married Duke Boinel, but it was annulled as it was never consummated, and due to his abusive behaviour. [3]
  • Were unofficially engaged. [3]

Appearances

Season Two
The Plague Drawn and Quartered Coronation The Lamb and the Slaughter Blood for Blood Three Queens The Prince of the Blood Terror of the Faithful Acts of War Mercy Getaway
Banished Sins of the Past The End of Mourning Forbidden Tasting Revenge Tempting Fate Reversal of Fortune Abandoned Fugitive The Siege Burn
Season Three
Three Queens, Two Tigers Betrothed Extreme Measures The Price In a Clearing Fight or Flight The Hound and the Hare Our Undoing Wedlock
Bruises That Lie Succession No Way Out Strange Bedfellows To The Death Safe Passage Clans Intruders Spiders in a Jar
Season Four
With Friends Like These A Grain of Deception Leaps of Faith Playing With Fire Highland Games Love & Death Hanging Swords Uncharted Waters
Pulling Strings A Better Man Dead of Night The Shakedown Coup de Grace A Bride. A Box. A Body. Blood in the Water All It Cost Her

References

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