Year: 2018

A knight buried his wife and was disconsolate. He mourned her deeply, long past the time that his friends considered

Edric the Wild, so called because of his behaviour, was lord of various manors in Shropshire and Herefordshire. His passion

Gwytin Gwestiniog lived by Llangorse Lake. One day he saw a band of women dancing in his field of oats.

As it says in Matthew: “Whoso forsaketh not all things for my sake is not worthy of me.” Cadog was

Helyas lived in the Forest of Dean with his brother Walenfriet and a few other hermits. As befitted his class

Both white and black monks recognise their prey, often in the shape of a knight who has squandered their patrimony.

At the Abbey of Sherborne Dominicans, the monks of the black habit were suffering under a strict abbot. Four of

Hugh de Payens went to Jerusalem to earn fame. There was a pool just outside the city where pilgrims were

At this time Beaujolais, that delightful region of France, was a semi-autonomous fiefdom. To be in charge of such a

Afonso, the first man who could claim to be king of Portugal, naturally had a lot of enemies. Lords, including