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Simon de Montfort – aristocratic champion of the people, French-born crusader for English rights – blazed across the troubled thirteenth century to become one of the first true popular heroes of England. He also claimed the heart of the King’s sister, Nell, who loved this extraordinary man throughout their stormy, passionate marriage.

From the council chambers to the battlefields of Henry III’s England and Llewelyn’s divided Wales, amid courtiers, politicians and noblemen, Simon alone spoke his mind. And even for the greatest warrior in Europe, the favourite of the King, that was a dangerous thing …

Sharon Penman weaves the facts and fiction, private passions and public events of Simon’s life into a rich tapestry shot through with all the colour and vigour of the medieval world, plunging us into the sights and sounds of battle and the drama and intrigue of courtly life. Continuing her splendid sequence of novels on England and Wales, it is a story of great ambition, and even greater love, brought to brilliant life.