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I also love "Hiding from the Light" but my overall favourite is still "Child of the Phoenix.". Any chance another like that? Maybe one of the characters could forsee glimpses of our modern world? ... now, that could really be a chiller!! Hay Castle, Herefordshire. The Residence of the Dowager Lady Glanusk. Several pictures and accompanying text, removed from an original issue of Country Life Magazine, 1914. Lady of Hay" by Barbara Erskine reminds me of a Michael Bolton song because at times this author is over-dramatic to the extreme. Otherwise I did enjoy the drama and suspense and wouldn't mind reading another book by Erskine. For those into a whole lot of drama you won't be displeased with this one. why is a strong modern woman getting raped past and present by the men in her life and then just getting on with these guys as if nothing much really happened, I understood why they got away with this in the past.. but in present day? it is just to hard to believe. Maybe this is the problem with 80's romance.
Maud and William are reputed to have had 16 children.[6] The best documented of these are listed below. https://historytheinterestingbits.com/2015/03/20/maud-de-braose-kin... m secondly (1219) as his second wife, RHYS ap Rhys"Gryg/the Hoarse", son of RHYS ap Gruffydd & his wife Gwenllian of Powys (-Llandeilo 1234, bur St David´s). In contemporary records, she was described as beautiful, very wise, doughty, and vigorous. She kept up the war against the Welsh and conquered much from them.[15]A question exists as to which of her father's two wives was Mathilde's mother. Both Charles Crawley of Medlands and Etienne Pattou of Racines et Histoires position her as a daughter of Bernard's second marriage, to Anora (Eleanore), although some sources (see below) position her as the child of his first wife, Mathilde, who died c 1151. A historian by training, Barbara Erskine is the author of many bestselling novels that demonstrate her interest in both history and the supernatural, plus three collections of short stories. Her books have appeared in at least twenty-six languages. Her first novel, Lady of Hay, has sold over three million copies worldwide. She lives with her family in Hay-on-Wye. b) MAREDUDD (-Dyryslwyn 6 Aug 1271, bur Whitland). The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales records that "Maredudd son of Rhys the Hoarse" died 6 Aug 1271 "in the castle of Dyryslwyn and was buried at Whitland"[481]. m ---. The name of Maredudd´s wife is not known.
Sonnets to a red-haired lady (by a gentleman with a blue beard) and famous love affairs by Don Marquis drawings by Stuart Hay. 1925 [Hardcover] The pain and suffering of Matilda's life threaten to take over Jo's, as she finds herself spontaneously regressing and reliving Matilda's life. The plot is complicated by the presence of three men in Jo's life who seem to be the reincarnations of John, William and Richard.Matilda de Braose was probably born in the early 1150s in Saint-Valery-en-Caux, France, to Bernard IV, Seigneur de Saint-Valery and his wife, Matilda. Contemporary records describe her as tall and beautiful, wise and vigorous. William de Braose ([c. ]1175- 1210). Starved to death with his mother in Corfe Castle. Married Maud de Clare, daughter of Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and Amice FitzRobert de Meullant of Gloucester, by whom he had issue, including John de Braose. [Probably born a few years earlier.]
She had many siblings and half-siblings, including Thomas de St. Valéry (died 1219), who was a son of Bernard by his second wife Eleanor de Domnart. Thomas married Adele de Ponthieu, by whom he had a daughter, Annora, who in her turn married Robert III, Count of Dreux, by whom she had issue. Thomas fought on the French side, at the Battle of Bouvines on 27 July 1214. [6] Her husband died a year later in exile in France where he had gone disguised as a beggar to escape King John's wrath after the latter had declared him an outlaw, following his alliance with Llywelyn the Great, whom he had assisted in open rebellion against the king, an act which John regarded as treason. He was buried in the Abbey of St. Victor, Paris.Daughter of Bernard III (IV) de Saint-Valery, seigneur de Saint-Valéry and Anora (Eléonore) de St. Valéry The final fall of her husband may owe a lot to her hasty reply to King John when he requested her son William as a hostage in 1208. She refused on the grounds that John had murdered his nephew Arthur whom he should have protected. The dispute between John and the de Braoses led to Maud dying of starvation in the King's castle at Windsor along with her son, while her husband, stripped of all his lands, died the following year in exile in France. In London, journalist Jo Clifford plans to debunk the belief in past-lives in a hard-hitting magazine piece. But her scepticism is shaken when a hypnotist forces her to relive the experiences of Matilda, Lady of Hay, a noblewoman during the reign of King John. And then, at a publisher’s meeting in 2010 when we were discussing the anniversary edition I suggested in a moment of madness writing a ‘sequel’ (as I had done a few years before for Whispers in the Sand. This time it was to be a single long short story to bring Lady of Hay up to date and carry the characters forward to 2011. I went home from the meeting in a state of euphoria and sheer terror. I know it’s my book, but somehow adding to it seemed almost to be tempting fate. And the fact that I had to reread it for the first time in 25 years, and couldn’t remember some of it at all, and that my computer didn’t recognise such words as de Braose, Abergavenny . even Bramber, emphasised the extraordinariness of the whole thing for me.
Fascinating plot for those into time-travel historical fiction/romance. I would class this as historical fiction since along with all the pathos, I learned a great deal about Wales and King John of England. Maud de St. Valéry de Braose (c. 1150-1210) was the wife of William de Braose, 7th Baron Abergavenny, 4th Lord Bramber, a powerful Marcher baron and court favorite of King John of England. She would later incur the wrath and enmity of the King. She is also known in history as Matilda de Braose, Moll Wallbee, and Lady of La Haie.[1] Reading Lady of Hay you will meet King John up close and personal as well as learn so much about the reign of probably the worst King of England ever. An absorbing Medieval mystery you won’t be able to put down ! For fans of Freda Lightfoot, Anthony Doerr, Sebastian Faulks and Kate Atkinson . Whatever the reason, in 1207 King John moved to make a public example of one of his most powerful barons, and punish him for his debts to the Exchequer. John demanded William and Matilda give up their sons as hostages.
I was hoping I would like this book, as it is my favorite genre of historical fiction. I did find it fairly enjoyable for that reason but with some large irritating flaws: Maud de Braose features in many Welsh folklore myths and legends. There is one legend which says that Maud built the castle of Hay-on-Wye single handed in one night, carrying the stones in her apron.[12] She was also said to have been extremely tall and often donned armour while leading troops into battle.[13] The Histoire is thought to have been written in the mid 13th century and appears to be by someone who was familiar with the people he wrote about. In 1210, however, King John sent an expedition to Ireland. Maud and William escaped from Trim but were apprehended on the Antrim coast while attempting to sail to Scotland.[3] Maud de St. Valery married William de Briouze, son of William de Briouze and Bertha of Hereford.1 She died in 1210 at dungeons of Corfe, Windsor, Berkshire, England, starved to death.1
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