Seven Great Lords of Narnia

The Seven Great Lords of Narnia are fictional characters in The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. They are briefly mentioned in Prince Caspian and are central to the plot in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the second and third published books, respectively, in the series.

In the book Prince Caspian, Caspian overthrows Miraz, with the help of the Old Narnians, to take his rightful position as King of Narnia. In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader he sets sail for the Lone Islands and beyond to look for the seven lords who had been sent to explore the lands beyond the Eastern Ocean.

In chapter 5 of Prince Caspian we learned that after the death of Prince Caspian's father, Miraz initially ruled Narnia as "Lord Protector" for his young nephew. A Lord Protector is a person who acts as the King or Queen if the actual ruler is too young, ill or away on a trip. In order to become more powerful, Miraz arranged for the lords who were loyal to Caspian IX to be removed from Narnia. Some were killed deliberately, some died in battle, and some were sent on impossible missions in the hope that they would never return. Once these loyal lords were removed from Narnia, Miraz allowed himself to be proclaimed King by his own followers. He had already placed these followers into high office as part of his scheming to be accepted as King. Dr. Cornelius, Caspian's tutor, told young Caspian of Miraz's rise to power in the following quote:

And then, one by one, all the great lords who had known your father, died or disappeared. Not by accident, either. Miraz weeded them out. Belisar and Uvilas were shot with arrows on a hunting party: by chance, it was pretended. All the great house of the Passarids he sent to fight giants on the Northern frontier till one by one they fell. Arlian and Erimon and a dozen more he executed for treason on a false charge. The two brothers of Beaversdam he shut up as madmen. And finally he persuaded the seven noble lords, who alone among all the Telmarines did not fear the sea, to sail away and look for new lands beyond the Eastern Ocean, and, as he intended, they never came back.

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