Author: David Phelps

Turpin, Archbishop of Reims, faithfully recorded the events of Charlemagne’s reign and this is one of his stories. A knight

In the time of Roger, bishop of Worcester, a man died without being shriven. For a month or more his

William Laudun, an English knight, came to Gilbert Foliot when he was bishop of Hereford and said, “My lord, I

A boy from Hay went to cross the Wye, carrying a bow and two arrows in order to see what

Genillyn was a notorious thief who lived in North Wales. Eventually things became too hot for him there and he

Conan was the leader of a gang of robbers. He decided to plunder the home of a rich knight who

A German knight by the name of Franco wished to speak to Louis d’Outremer, son of Charlemagne. He came upon

OF GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELLEN This great king had married Ealdgyth, daughter of Aelfger, earl of Mercia, who was accounted the

There was a man, a small Welsh farmer, who, in the spirit of hospitality, took in a stranger. The following

MacGhillie Easbuig, whose name, for those of you without the Gaelic, means the son of the bishop’s servant, was one