The Lady Ann was born in a fateful year. Henry, the first king of that name, had died with no son to succeed him and England had plunged headlong into civil war, with the crown as the victors prize. The unrest had spread deep into that unhappy land, even as far as her beloved Cambray, from whose ...
Out of long silence do I write them, not in my own tongue but in priestly fashion of the Norman courts, that men who came hereafter should read and remember. It is for the Lady Ann of Cambray I speak, wife now to Lord Raoul, Earl of Sedgemont, Count of Sieux in France. At...