by Griff Hosker
sennight – a week (seven nights)
Thelwæl – Thelwall, Cheshire
Uluereston – Ulverston, Cumbria
Wrechcessham – Wrexham
Historical Notes
The events based around Northampton and the chevauchée into Derby happened almost exactly as I wrote them. The capture of de Montfort was just as I described it. Truth is often stranger than fiction. Prince Edward’s brief war in North Wales was, like the one I write about, less than successful, but I have changed the time scale and events to suit my story. I am a writer after all!
The next book in the series will begin with the campaign which led to the infamous battle of Lewes and end with the even more notorious battle of Evesham. They will be the backdrop for my story of Gerald the Archer. The kings and lords are incidental. It is the archers of England and Wales that I celebrate in this series of books.
Books used in the research:
The Normans – David Nicolle
The Knight in History – Francis Gies
The Norman Achievement – Richard F Cassady
Knights – Constance Brittain Bouchard
Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries – J. H. Round
Peveril Castle – English Heritage
Norman Knight AD 950–1204 – Christopher Gravett
English Medieval Knight 1200–1300 – Christopher Gravett
English Medieval Knight 1300–1400 – Christopher Gravett
The Scottish and Welsh Wars 1250–1400 – Christopher Rothero
Lewes and Evesham 1264–65 – Richard Brooks
