Warwick Howard Grace

They Served the Devil's Brood (eBook, ePUB)

The 12Th C. Norman-Welsh Invasion of Ireland

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1135, during the civil conflict between the usurper King Stephen and Empress Matilda (the daughter of Henry I), two cousins, Raymond and William (unavoidably, one of the many Williams in the story), are born and raised at Carew, in southwest Wales. Their growth through infancy to maturity becomes an important part of the theme of They Served the Devils Brood. It is a critical time in England and Wales as the barons are torn between loyalty to either faction, as well as having to deal with an increase in Welsh opposition to their presence. Calls are also being made for their knights and vassals to join the crusade against the infidels, who have taken control of the Holy Land. Henry Plantagenet, the son of Matilda, enters the fray as a youth but has to be content to wait till Stephen, bereft of a viable heir, agrees to name Henry as his successor. The Welsh Church is also facing increased demands from the centralized hierarchy of Rome. As Henry II takes over the reins of government, his influence on all involved becomes apparent. He is kept busyand with him, all his servantstravelling his domains in France and England. An exiled minor Irish king appeals to Henry to help him recover his rightful place and territory. He is given permission to gather such help as he can from the Norman-Welsh barons. Richard de Clare (Strongbow)rather down on his luck at the timeresponds. It takes some time, but with Raymonds help, plus that of Raymonds relations, the FitzGeralds, they invade the southeast corner of Ireland. Raymond proves to be a capable warrior and brilliant commander but has to struggle with his own troubles as he seeks the hand of the higher-born sister of Richard, Basilia de Clare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris AU
• Seitenzahl: 792
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503500655
• Artikelnr.: 52555069

Autorenporträt

Warwick Grace was born in 1932 at Wellington, New South Wales, a small country town gradually dwarfed by three other nearby towns-Orange, Dubbo, and Mudgee. He nearly died from peritonitis in 1949 when about to sit for his final school exams. He and his parents thanked God and the local doctor, Dr. Glasson, who used penicillin for the first time in the hospital there, enabling his recovery. Two years later, he entered a four-year training as a high school art teacher, commencing teaching in Sydney. The same year, he and Pam (Murphy) were married. Work led them to Newcastle for three years and then back to Sydney, where he worked part-time as well with Stanmore Missionary Press, in editing, layout, and illustration. By now they had two children, John and Susanne. In 1961 they moved to Wollongong, after resigning from the education department, to assist Warwick's parents in their Hardware Company, Graces of Fairymeadow. Two brothers had joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in Papua New Guinea. He managed the firm for twenty years, during which time Christine, the last of their three children, was born, and a university degree was completed. In 1982, the business was sold. Warwick took his father, Noel, to England, Wales, and Ireland to further their research into the story that Noel had commenced some years earlier. On their return, Warwick was invited to join a friend in his Staircase Joinery, where he was designing and estimating. In 1991, the Joinery almost closed, but he and Pam were both able to go with other church friends to the USA and UK in 1992 and again to the USA in 1994. He joined another friend in his local funeral company, where he regularly assisted and, as a hospital ward chaplain, began to conduct services. Hobbies have included the completion of the historical novel and work on other studies, singing with their church choir, as well as a barbershop quartet and a local community men's choir, the Arcadians Lamplighters. In 2006, he was asked to commence tutoring a free art class in the local Baptist church, where he had been an elder since 1977-an enjoyable return to his original vocation.