Anthony a Roberts

City of the legions 5. Anthony a Roberts

City of the legions 5 moves on another two hundred and fifty years into the reign of Edward the third. The English king will invade Normandy to lay claim to the French throne.1346 is a year that will live on in history. The battle of Crecy will destroy the flower of the French upper class and after a siege lasting a year Calais will fall to the English. In the Mediterranean a pestilence that originated in the far the East begins to kill off the population in droves. Tragedy will follow Triumph. Lady Rosesia inherits a manor in the great Chestersyre wood and must bend the knee to the King's eldest son, Edward of Woodstock, Earl of Chester. Young Edward, later known to history as the Black Prince, needs an education. Rosesia must acquire a new husband and where better for a widow to display her assets than a Royal Court?Marriage was an institution. Women were sold into wedlock on the whim of a father, brother, master, mother, Lord, or Royal, only a few had an element of choice and for that to happen you had to be clever or lucky. It is true female assets could sometimes play a leading part in nature's game. This is known as female manipulation. Let the battle begin.