26 HENRY VI Characters The English King Henry VI – King of England Duke of Bedford – Henry VI's uncle and regent of France Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester – Henry VI's uncle and Lord Protector of England Duke of Exeter – Henry VI's great-uncle Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester – Exeter's younger brother and Henry VI's great-uncle Duke of Somerset (a conflation of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset and his younger brother Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset) Richard Plantagenet – later 3rd Duke of York Earl of Warwick (Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick—often mistakenly identified as Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, from Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3[2]) Earl of Salisbury William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk Lord Talbot – Constable of France John Talbot – his son Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March (a conflation of Sir Edmund Mortimer and his nephew, Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March) Sir John Fastolf – a cowardly soldier Sir William Glasdale Sir Thomas Gargrave Sir William Lucy Vernon – of the White Rose (York) faction Basset – of the Red Rose (Lancaster) faction Richard Woodville – Lieutenant of the Tower Mayor of London The French Charles – Dauphin of France Reignier, Duke of Anjou – titular King of Jerusalem Margaret – Reignier's daughter, later betrothed to King Henry Duke of Alençon Bastard of Orléans Duke of Burgundy General of the French forces at Bordeaux Countess of Auvergne Master Gunner of Orléans Master Gunner's son Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc) Shepherd – Joan's father Governor of Paris (non-speaking role) French Sergeant Sentinels Watchman of Rouen Porter Other Papal Legate Fiends Messengers, a captain, lawyer, a gaoler, soldiers, heralds, scouts, on both the English and French sides .