Berwick Coates

Geoffrey de Montbrai, Bishop in Arms

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Produktbeschreibung

Geoffrey de Montbrai, second son of a poor knight of Western Normandy, is waiting for his brother to provide his share of their late father's fortune as he reaches the age of twenty-one. He is looking forward to a career of adventure and fortune in the rising Duchy of Normandy which the young Duke William is building, and to winning the hand of the lady Sybil, youngest daughter of a neighbouring knight, Sir Tancred of Hauteville. He is baffled, horrified, and infuriated to discover that brother Mauger has used the money to buy him a bishopric.There is no way out. A Church Council confirms the appointment, and in any case Duke William is not going to give him his money back; he needs it too badly.Worse still, Coutances, his new bishopric, lies at the Western edge of Normandy; there is nothing beyond it but the Great Western Ocean which goes on for ever.With the stamp of a single seal on wax, brother Mauger has taken away his fortune, his career, and his future wife (the Pope has just forbidden clerical marriage). All he has left is a ghost of a town (after the Viking raids) and a ruin of a cathedral - at the end of all the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paragon Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781787920941
• ISBN-10: 1787920941
• Artikelnr.: 75176549

Autorenporträt

Berwick Coates was educated at Kingston Grammar School, and read History at Christ's College, Cambridge. Since then, he has been, at various times, an army officer, author, artist, lecturer, careers adviser, drama producer, games coach, and teacher of History, English, Latin, General Studies, and Swahili. He has published seventeen books, including two historical novels with Simon and Schuster. He lives in Devon, where he is the Archivist of West Buckland School.