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Historical person
1293–1350
Philip VI was the first Valois king of France, ruling from 1328 to 1350. His accession was disputed by Edward III of England, helping set the dynastic framework for the Hundred Years’ War.
In David Gilman’s Master of War, Thomas Blackstone is forced into Edward III’s invasion of France after a murder charge leaves him with little choice but the gallows or the war bow. In Jonathan Lunn’s Kemp: The Road to Crécy, Martin Kemp joins Edward III’s army in France to escape execution and is trained as a longbowman in a force advancing through Normandy. Other novels featuring Philip VI of France include Maurice Druon’s The Lily and the Lion, Bernard Cornwell’s Harlequin, and Jonathan Lunn’s Kemp: Passage at Arms.
Series
The Grail Quest follows Thomas of Hookton, an English archer whose search for the truth about his family becomes entangled with the opening decades of the Hundred Years’ War. The novels move through the capture of La Roche-Derrien, the assault on Caen, the Battle of Crécy, Neville’s Cross,…
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The Master of War series follows Thomas Blackstone, an English archer and later knight, through the Hundred Years’ War. Beginning with the Crécy campaign in 1346, the sequence expands across France, Aquitaine, Brittany, Castile and northern Italy, using Blackstone’s career to show how medieval war was fought through…
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Arrows of Albion follows Martin Kemp, an English archer and sometime mercenary, through the campaigns and border wars of the mid-fourteenth century. Beginning with Edward III’s invasion of France and the Battle of Crécy, the series moves through the siege of Calais, warfare in Brittany and Scotland, Gascon…
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The Accursed Kings follows the French and English monarchies from the final year of Philip IV's reign in 1314 to the capture of John II at Poitiers and the political crisis of the late 1350s. Across seven novels, the direct Capetian line fails, the Valois dynasty takes the…
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