The Emma of Normandy collection
Shadow on the Crown
The Price of Blood
Patricia Bracewell
Harper
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Shadow on the Crown first published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
The Price of Blood first published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
Copyright © Patricia Bracewell 2013, 2015
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The Price Of Blood: Cover photographs © Dave Wall / Arcangel Images (medieval interior); Gordon Crabb / Alison Eldred (woman) Shadow On The Crown: Cover photography © Richard Jenkins
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These novels are entirely works of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination
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Source ISBNs: 9780007481750, 9780008104597
Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780008134990
Version: 2015-05-29
Contents
Harper
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
Copyright © Patricia Bracewell 2013
Map © Matt Brown 2013
Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2013 Cover photography © Richard Jenkins
Patricia Bracewell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
Source ISBN: 9780007481767
Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007481750
Version: 2014-01-02
For Lloyd, Andrew, and Alan
The English Court, 1001–1005
Æthelred II, Anglo-Saxon king of England
Children of the English king, in birth order:
Athelstan
Ecbert
Edmund
Edrid
Edwig
Edward
Edgar
Edyth
Ælfgifu (Ælfa)
Wulfhilde (Wulfa)
Mathilda
Leading Nobles and Ecclesiastics
Ælfhelm, ealdorman of Northumbria
Ufegeat, his son
Wulfheah, his son (Wulf)
Elgiva, his daughter
Ælfric, ealdorman of Hampshire
Ælfgar, his son
Hilde, his granddaughter
Ælfheah, bishop of Winchester
Godwine, ealdorman of Lindsey
Leofwine, ealdorman of Western Mercia
Wulfstan, archbishop of Jorvik and bishop of Worcester
The Norman Court, 1001–1005
Richard II, duke of Normandy
Robert,