He was travelling home on a stormy night when they shot him and left him for dead. An innocent man severely wounded on the orders of an avaricious Marcher Lord. They should have made sure he was dead but they didn’t realise their mistake until a raiding party came back over Offa’s Dyke to exact their revenge. Soon men were dying and the Welsh Marches  were not a safe place for the Norman English Lords.

The mistakes of one Marcher Lord soon grew into a full scale rebellion in Wales. A Welsh Prince emerged to challenge the English occupation.

Edward Tudor was born at Llanllwchaiarn in Montgomeryshire. All the plaeces described in the book exist, especially the castles. He is developing a tour of the castles described in the book, Ludlow, Clun, Montgomery and Dolforwyn so you can share in the medieval world the book describes.