Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu is the Prime Minister of France and plans to have absolute power by controlling King Louis. The thing standing in his way is Treville and the Musketeers, he spend the series trying to get the King to let his guards guard the palace which would give him total control. He has his pet raven with him all the times, probably because it annoys Widimer.
In real life Richelieu (Armand-Jean du Plessis) was not the villain of Dumas' novels, he aimed to increase the power of the monarchy and the Catholic church (so he was a villain, not the villain). He destroyed the political power of the Huguenots, French Protestants and Urbain Grandier. Most of Richelieu's harshness was probably down to Louis XIII's weak leadership, overall his leadership changed France so it could become a world power under Louis XIV.
