For the King’s Favor (44 page)

—Elizabeth Chadwick

For readers wanting to read further on the matter of the Bigod family, their life and times, I enclose a short bibliography. This covers the most pertinent volumes and is by no means an exhaustive list.

Appleby, John T.,
England Without Richard
(Bell, 1967).

Atkin, Susan A. J.,
The Bigod Family: An Investigation into Their Lands and Activities 1066–1306
(University of Reading, published on demand by the British Library Thesis Service).

Brakelond, Jocelin of,
Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds
(Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0 19 283895 4).

Brown, Morag,
Framlingham Castle
(English Heritage, ISBN 1 85074 853 5).

Brown, R. Allen,
Castles, Conquests and Charters: Collected Papers
(Boydell, 1989, ISBN 0 85115 524 3).

Brown, R. Allen, “Framlingham Castle and Bigod 1154–1216” (
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, XXV,
1951).

Eyton, Revd R. W.,
Court, Itinerary and Household of Henry
(Taylor & Co., 1893).

The Feet of Fines of the Seventh and Eighth Years of King Richard I
(The Pipe Roll Society, 1896).

Gillingham, John,
Richard I
(Yale University Press, 2002, ISBN 0 300 09404 3).

Gravett, Christopher and Adam Hook,
Norman Stone Castles: The British Isles 1066–1216 (Osprey,
2003, ISBN 1 84176 602 X).

The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Ninth Year of the Reign of King Richard I Michaelmas 1197
, ed. by Doris M. Stenton (The Pipe Roll Society, 1931).

Green, Monica H.,
The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, ISBN 978 0 8122 1808 4).

Harper-Bill, Christopher, ed.,
Anglo Norman Studies XVII: Proceedings of The Battle Conference 1994
(Boydell, 1995, ISBN 0 85115 606 1).

King, Alison, Akashic Records Consultant.

Landsberg, Sylvia,
The Medieval Garden
(British Museum Press, 1995, ISBN 0 7171 2080 4).

Morris, Marc,
The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century
(Boydell, 2005, ISBN 1843831643).

Sancha, Sheila,
The Castle Story
(Collins, 1993, ISBN 0 00 184177 7).

Stenton, Doris M.,
English Justice between the Norman Conquest and the Great Charter 1066–1215
(George Allen & Unwin, 1963).

The Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England Commonly Called Glanvill,
ed. and trans, by G. D. G. Hall (Oxford Medieval Texts, Clarendon Press, 1993, ISBN 0 19 822179 7).

Tyerman, Christopher,
Who’s Who in Early Medieval England
(Shepheard Walwyn, 1996, ISBN 0 85683 132 8).

Warren, W. L.,
Henry II
(Eyre Methuen, 1977, ISBN 0 413 38390 3).

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I’d like to say a brief but heartfelt thank you to the people behind the scenes, who have kept the ship afloat during its journey across the ocean between the first word and the last.

In the publishing profession I’d like to thank the editors and the rest of the team at Little, Brown—Barbara Daniel, Joanne Dickinson, Richenda Todd, Alexandra Richardson, Emma Stonex, and Rachael Ludbrook. As always, my thanks go out to my agent Carole Blake, her assistant Oli Munson, and the rest of the staff at Blake Friedmann for all their hard work on my behalf, and their friendship. Who says you can’t combine work and pleasure? I would also like to thank Dominique Raccah, Shana Drehs, and Danielle Jackson at Sourcebooks for their enthusiasm and guidance and for bringing my novels to the attention of American readers.

On the domestic front, as always, I send my love and gratitude to my husband Roger. It has been a bit strange having a husband with the same name as my hero for this novel. Two very different men, eight hundred years apart—and I know I have the better deal re: the housework and ironing!

A warm thank you, too, to Alison King, a special friend with an exceptional gift.

On the writing front (as opposed to the publishing) I want to thank the members of the RNA for their support and friendship down the years. The same goes for the list members of Friends and Writers and Penman Review. You colour the world and help me to keep both oars in the water!

Elizabeth Chadwick lives in Nottingham with her husband and two sons. Much of her research is carried out as a member of Regia Anglorum, an early medieval re-enactment society with the emphasis on accurately re-creating the past. She also tutors in the skill of writing historical and romantic fiction. Her first novel,
The Wild Hunt
, won a Betty Trask Award. She was shortlisted for the
Romantic Novelists’ Award in 1998 for
The Champion
, in 2001 for
Lords of the White Castle
, in 2002 for
The Winter Mantle
, and in 2003 for
The Falcons of Montabard
. Her sixteenth novel,
The Scarlet Lion
, was nominated by Richard Lee, founder of the Historical Novel Society, as one of the top ten historical novels of the last decade.

For more details on Elizabeth Chadwick and her books, visit www.elizabethchadwick.com.