Floris van Rozemond Junior, son and heir of a long line of knights of that name, refuses to go in the military and becomes an actor, a profession scorned by his homonymous father, the general of the duke of Burgundy. The duke chose this year to pay for his people to have bread, rather then canons for the army, but relies for Floris senior's defense force on a novelty Holy relic from the East.
