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Historical person
1054–1134
Robert Curthose was the eldest son of William the Conqueror and duke of Normandy. He took part in the First Crusade but later lost Normandy to his brother Henry I after defeat at Tinchebray and spent the rest of his life in captivity.
David Field’s Traitor’s Arrow places Robert Curthose within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power and family, marriage and personal loyalty. Robert Broomall’s The Castle is set in 1106, Blanche, the Norman widow of the earl of Trent, and her English steward Miles Edwulfson attempt to take control of her estates after the earl’s death.
Historical context
Series
Miles Edwulfson in the 12th Century follows an English former soldier in the generation after the Norman Conquest, when royal law, local lordship and ethnic mistrust still shape daily life. The series uses murder investigations, land disputes and political intrigue to explore Anglo-Norman England under Henry I. Miles’s…
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The Medieval Saga follows interlinked fictional families through two centuries of English dynastic conflict, beginning with the invasions of 1066 and ending with Simon de Montfort’s challenge to Henry III. The sequence places ordinary soldiers, household officers and landed families beside the rulers whose wars repeatedly reshape their…
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