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Historical person
1173–1240
Llywelyn the Great was a thirteenth-century ruler of Gwynedd who became the dominant Welsh prince of his generation. Through war, diplomacy and marriage, he expanded his authority and negotiated with both King John and Henry III of England.
Sharon Kay Penman’s Here Be Dragons places Llywelyn the Great within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, political ambition and government, and court politics and dynastic power. Sharon Kay Penman’s Dragon’s Lair places Llywelyn the Great within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, court politics and dynastic power, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life.
Series
The trilogy follows native Welsh rulers and their families across the thirteenth century, from Llywelyn the Great and Joanna through Simon de Montfort’s baronial reform movement to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd’s final struggle against Edward I. It treats Welsh politics, marriage, kinship and resistance alongside English royal expansion.
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These medieval mysteries follow the fictional royal agent Justin de Quincy in 1193, while Eleanor of Aquitaine governs for the captive Richard I and John manoeuvres for the throne. Each investigation links murder, theft or conspiracy to the political instability of the Angevin realm.
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