Devil's Brood
EVIL’S
B
ROOD
LSO BY
S
HARON
K
AY
P
ENMAN
THE HISTORICAL NOVELS
The Sunne in Splendour
Here Be Dragons
Falls the Shadow
The Reckoning
When Christ and His Saints Slept
Time and Chance
THE MEDIEVAL MYSTERIES
The Queen’s Man
Cruel as the Grave
Dragon’s Lair
Prince of Darkness
EVIL’S
B
ROOD
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Penman, Sharon Kay.
Devil’s brood / Sharon Kay Penman.
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ISBN: 1-4406-4238-9
1. Henry II, King of England, 1133–1189—Fiction. 2. Eleanor, of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122?–1204—Fiction. 3. Great Britain—History—Henry II, 1154–1189—Fiction. 4. Marriages of royalty and nobility—Fiction. 5. Great Britain—Kings and rulers—Family relationships—Fiction. I. Title.
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TO VALERIE PTAK LAMONT
AND LOWELL E. LAMONT
of
CHARACTERS
ROYAL HOUSE OF ENGLAND
Henry Fitz Empress (b. 1133), second of the name to rule England since the Conquest; also Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou, Maine, and Touraine
Eleanor (b. 1124), Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right; Henry’s queen; former consort of Louis VII, King of France
Their children
William (1153–1156)
Hal (Henry, b. February 1155), their eldest surviving son, crowned King of England in 1170
Richard (b. September 1157), Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou
Geoffrey (b. September 1158), Duke of Brittany upon his marriage to Constance
John (b. December 1166), youngest son, known as John Lackland
Tilda (Matilda, b. June 1156), Duchess of Saxony and Bavaria
Leonora (Eleanor, b. September 1161), Queen of Castile
Joanna (b. October 1165), later Queen of Sicily
Geoff, Henry’s illegitimate son (b. c. 1151)
Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, Henry’s illegitimate half brother
Emma, later Princess of Gwynedd, Henry’s illegitimate half sister
Rainald, Earl of Cornwall, illegitimate son of Henry I, Henry’s uncle
Rico, Rainald’s illegitimate son
Ranulf, illegitimate son of Henry I, Henry’s uncle
Rhiannon, Ranulf’s Welsh cousin and wife
Morgan and Bleddyn, Rhiannon and Ranulf’s sons
Roger, Bishop of Worcester, Henry’s first cousin
Maud, widowed Countess of Chester, Henry’s cousin and Roger’s sister
Hugh, Earl of Chester, Maud’s son
Rosamund Clifford, Henry’s concubine
William Marshal, Hal’s household knight
ROYAL HOUSE OF FRANCE
Louis Capet, King of France
His wives
Eleanor, marriage annulled in 1152
Constance of Castile, died in childbirth
Adèle of Blois, sister to Thibault, Count of Blois, and Henri, Count of Champagne
Philippe, Louis and Adèle’s son and heir
Louis’s daughters
Marie, Eleanor’s daughter, wed to Count of Champagne
Alix, Eleanor’s daughter, wed to Count of Blois
Marguerite, Constance’s daughter, wed as a child to Hal
Alys, Constance’s daughter, betrothed to Richard
Agnes, Adèle’s daughter, later Empress of Byzantium
Robert, Count of Dreux, Louis’s brother
BRITTANY
Constance, Duchess of Brittany, Geoffrey’s betrothed
Conan, late Duke of Brittany, her father
Margaret, sister of Scots king, her mother, wed to English baron, Humphrey de Bohun
Raoul de Fougères, André de Vitré, and Roland de Dinan, Breton barons
ENGLISH AND FRENCH BARONS
William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, Henry’s close friend
Robert Beaumont, Earl of Leicester
Peronelle, Countess of Leicester, his wife
Maurice de Craon, Angevin baron
Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux
Henri, Count of Champagne, and Thibault, Count of Blois, Louis’s sons-in-law and brothers-in-law
AQUITAINE
Petronilla, Eleanor’s sister, deceased
Isabelle and Alienor, her daughters, wed to Counts of Flanders and Boulogne
Raoul de Faye, Eleanor’s uncle
Hugh, Viscount of Châtellerault, Eleanor’s uncle
Aimar, Viscount of Limoges, wed to Sarah, Rainald’s daughter
André de Chauvigny, Richard’s cousin and household knight
Raimon St Gilles, Count of Toulouse, enemy of Dukes of Aquitaine
FLANDERS
Philip, Count of Flanders, wed to Eleanor’s niece Isabelle
Matthew, Count of Boulogne, Philip’s brother, wed to Eleanor’s niece Alienor