For a Life Forgotten
By Mark Lord
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When the cut from the blade runs deep - You need a heart of Stone
The English army commanded by Robert Knolles has reached Paris – the capital and the honour of the French kingdom is under threat. But against the backdrop of war another drama plays out – will Eolande find her father, who was captured by the French? Will Richard find the redemption he seeks after the terrible killing of his brother, and what will be the fate of the amoral Minsterworth, a captain in the English army, but only interested in his own gain?
Meanwhile secrets about the fate of Eolande's father will be revealed.
For a Life Forgotten is the third part of the Stonehearted series, a fast-paced medieval adventure story set during the epic Hundred Year War between England and France.
Mark Lord
Mark Lord studied Medieval Studies at the University of Birmingham and wrote his M. Phil. Thesis on Medieval Alliterative Poetry. Since then he has worked in publishing and writes historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction in his spare time.Mark is the author of the novels Hell has its Demons, The Return of the Free and numerous short stories. He is also editor of the popular Alt Hist magazine - one of the few literary magazines to focus exclusively on historical fiction and alternate history.He lives in Hertfordshire with his family.
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For a Life Forgotten
Stonehearted Volume 3
MARK LORD
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Chapter 1
The walls of Paris glistened in the sunshine. The old mixed with the new. New stone formed the fortress wall that guarded the Porte de la Bordelle facing the position where the English army camped. The stone was light grey, almost white in the sun. English soldiers covered their eyes as they gazed across at the city. Paris had changed since last an English army had marched to its gates. Ten years ago when the peace started, Charles V began building. This time the French would be ready. The building work was unfinished, but already the results were impressive. A large bastide, a fortress, guarded the main gate on the left bank, the Porte de la Bordette. Any army wishing to assault Paris from the south would have to reckon with the bastide, which bristled with armoured men-at-arms, crossbows, cannons and bolt throwers.
Inside the city, the royal castles had been improved. In the north of the city the palace-castle of Saint Pol had been extended and to the east of the city, looming over the forest like an ugly giant, was the great keep of Vincennes, the cost of which dwarfed all the other expenditure that Charles V had committed to building. Vincennes formed the core of a new royal city, a haven in case of disorder in Paris.
But where did the money come from to pay for all this expense? It came from the dividends of peace. And now this peace was threatened once more by the presence of an English army. Knolles and his four thousand soldiers were not able and not equipped to besiege a city as large as Paris. That was not their intention. Their aim was to show that the king of France was not able to defend his subjects, and so stir disorder and rebellion in northern France. If the French knights did not come out, so some said, then that showed they feared the English.
At the King’s principal residence, the palace of Saint Pol, the leaders of the French waited and debated. In his Grand Chambre, King Charles V sat at a desk. He looked more a clerk than a king. He wore long, loose robes, a plain woollen cap and shoes that were little more than slippers. On his desk lay letters, account rolls and lists of equipment and troops. All the detail of government and war. This was his world and he revelled in it. If you had entered that room without knowing who its inhabitants were, you might assume that Charles V was a perhaps the notary for the King’s Great Council and that he was there to provide the necessary details and to write down orders of the grandees assembled. About the desk were a number of men, all standing. They had little other choice. The only other places to sit were benches against the walls too far away to be of any use in continuing the discussion about the plans of the French. And these benches were for the actual servants and notaries of the king. Some had low tables before them, while the valets and squires of les grand hommes waited in case they were needed to take a message or fetch someone.
Who were these great men? With the king were the current constable of France, Sir Moreau de Fiennes, the count de St. Pol, the count de Tancarville, the count de Saltzburg, the viscount Meaux, sir Raoul de Coucy, the séneschal of Hainault, sir Odoart de Renti, sir Enguerrand d’Audin, the lord de Château-julien, sir John de Vienne, the lord de la Riviere.
A great and prestigious list of men. But the one that mattered, because he was a tough soldier, a Breton, and because the King’s thoughts agreed with him, was Olivier de Clissons. While the other great men boasted of the feat of arms they would do and how they would destroy the English—but with what? With only one thousand and two hundred gens d’armes—against an English army of four thousand. Oliver stood waiting. He was the friend and countryman of Bertrand du Guesclin, the stocky soldier who Charles V had sent for urgently to come to Paris. Bertrand’s arrival was expected any day. The great men knew it and they were jealous of it. They knew that when Bertrand arrived their views would be overshadowed. Their carefully nurtured chivalry put aside for a policy of warcraft that should be alien to any proud knight, but which was now the reality of warfare—the quick raid, the forced march. The escalade and disguise to take a castle rather than the formal siege.
Oliver was tall and handsome, where Bertrand was short and ugly. But the differences between the two men were superficial. He knew from bitter experience that this was the only way to wage war against an enemy that could always beat