Norman Conquest

The Bastard’s Son examines the lives of the Conqueror’s three sons – Robert, William Rufus, and Henry – all very different characters, but with the same agenda, to gain control over the Anglo-Norman realm their father had carved out ‘at the edge of the sword’. On his death-bed, William anticipated in-fighting to come. His middle-son, William Rufus, possibly with his...

One of the first things I had to do when planning Silk and the Sword: The Women of the Norman Conquest was to decide which women would be included in the book. I had to decide whether I would include as many as possible, with short biographies (which was pretty much how I had written Heroines of the Medieval World...

Emma of Normandy, Cnut and the Norman Conquest of 1066 There is no year in English history more famous than 1066. The events of half a century before when Cnut the Great, ultimately king of both England and Denmark, took the throne of the country are however much less remembered. That is a shame, for there are some important links...

1068 and all that: Secret Exeter, Gytha and the Norman Conquest It is one of the most famous years in English history: 1066. Like 1936 and (perhaps) 1483, it was to be a year of three kings. In January, just five days into the year, Edward the Confessor, king of England since 1042, died. Harold Godwinson, a leading Saxon nobleman...