Ferdinand.
The son of a duke who has seduced Dorothea with the promise that he will marry her. After tiring of Dorothea, he fell in love with a woman named Lucinda, who was engaged to his good friend Cardenio. Ferdinand tried to force her into marriage, but she faints and then runs away. Going in search of her, Ferdinand meets up with both Lucinda and Dorothea at the inn where Don Quixote and his party are staying. There, he is moved by Dorothea's words of love into agreeing to marry her.
Friendships and love relationships.
Sancho Panza.
He is Don Quixote's squire and companion throughout most of Don Quixote's expeditions. Sancho Panza is a short and stout peasant from the same village as Don Quixote, married with two children. He misses his family but would rather be apart from them than miss this opportunity for adventure and riches. Labeled by some as the most humorous character in all of fiction, Sancho Panza is a comic foil to Don Quixote's grave convictions. Sancho loves to talk, and to eat and drink so much that he is always scheming or sneaking off to do one or the other. He often resents the discomforts of their journeys and the difficult situations in which Don Quixote involves him. Although he believes that Don Quixote is truly mad, he continues in the adventures because Don Quixote has promised him that he will one day win Sancho an isle to govern, or at least promote him to the status of nobility. Eventually, a great affection and loyalty develops between Sancho Panza and Don Quixote, who, along with other characters, continually marvels at his squire's ability to be so shrewd despite, or because of, the simplicity of his peasant mentality. He believes nothing for the Spanish peasant is skeptical of all but his own experience, yet, by virtue of his unlettered ignorance, is infinitely credulous. .
The Priest.
Along with the barber, the priest is Don Quixote's friend and neighbor who try to protect Don Quixote from himself.