Hasimir Fenring
| Count Hasimir Fenring | |
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| Dune character | |
Miroslav Táborský in the Dune miniseries (2000)
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| First appearance | Dune (1965) |
| Last appearance | Paul of Dune (2008) |
| Created by | Frank Herbert |
| Portrayed by |
Miroslav Táborský (2000 miniseries) |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Assassin Governor of Arrakis Siridar-Absentia of Caladan |
| Affiliation | House Corrino |
| Spouse(s) | Margot Fenring |
| Children | Marie Fenring |
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Count Hasimir Fenring is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He is featured in the 1965 science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert, and is also a key character in the Prelude to Dune trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. He later appears in the 2008 novel Paul of Dune.
Herbert's Appendix IV: The Almanak en-Ashraf (Selected Excerpts of the Noble Houses) in Dune reads:
COUNT HASIMIR FENRING (10,133—10,225) A distaff cousin of House Corrino, he was a childhood companion of Shaddam IV. (The frequently discredited Pirate History of Corrino related the curious story that Fenring was responsible for the chaumurky which disposed of Elrood IX.) All accounts agree that Fenring was the closest friend Shaddam IV possessed. The Imperial chores carried out by Count Fenring included that of Imperial Agent on Arrakis during the Harkonnen regime there and later Siridar-Absentia of Caladan. He joined Shaddam IV in retirement on Salusa Secundus.
In Dune, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen describes Fenring as "a killer with the manners of a rabbit ... the most dangerous kind." Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen has this impression of Fenring: "a small man, weak-looking. The face was weaselish with overlarge dark eyes. There was gray at the temples. And his movements — he moved a hand or turned his head one way, then he spoke another way. It was difficult to follow." In her work In My Father's House (referenced via an epigraph in Dune), Shaddam's daughter Princess Irulan later writes of Fenring: "My father had only one real friend, I think. That was Count Hasimir Fenring ... one of the deadliest fighters in the Imperium." She goes on to describe him as "a dapper and ugly little man."
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