![]() Missions accomplished, Tancred will join the William the Conqueror’s army marching north to York. Tancred and his men are tasked with conducting Malet’s wife and daughter to safety in London before going on to Wilton with Malet’s English chaplain, who is to deliver a secret message from Malet to someone at the abbey. Determined to avenge their lord’s death, he and his surviving conroi take service with Guillaume Malet, vicomte of York, who is preparing to face an army led by Prince Eadgar, the last of the English royal line. In the ensuing battle, the earl is killed, and Tancred barely escapes with his life. Tancred a Dinant, oath-sworn knight in the household of Robert de Commines, earl of Northumbria, returns to Durham from hunting English rebels to find that the town is being attacked by a Northumbrian army. ![]() ![]() Two years after the Battle of Hastings, Northumbria is the last English province to hold out against Norman rule. ![]()
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