Knight, Bernard list



Bernard Knight CBE Bernard Knight is a retired Home Office pathologist and Professor of Forensic Pathology in the University of Wales. He has been writing for over 40 years and has had some 30 books published, as well as radio and television dramas and documentaries. He reviews crime books for the Tangled Web site on the Internet and is one of the judges for the Silver Dagger Award of the Crime Writers Association. He is author of the successful Crowner John series of historical mysteries, based on the first coroner for Devon in the 12th century. He previously published two novels about that century, Lion Rampant being one, and Madoc, Prince of America, the other. Bernard Knight was born and lives in Cardiff.

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Lion Rampant Princess Nest and the Lord Owain probably the most romantic, exciting and yet most tragic story to come out of the Norman conquest of Wales. Nest, a daughter of the King of South Wales, has become known to history as ‘Helen of Wales’, not only because of her unsurpassed beauty, but for the passions she aroused in so many men and the consequent bloodshed and vendettas. Born a princess, she became bride of Gerald of Windsor, then mistress of her husband’s lord, Henry I of England. Abducted by the dashing son of another Welsh ruler, she had children by them all, as well as by two other Norman knights. From this varied progeny have arisen famous names Giraldus of Cambrensis, the Fitzgeralds of Ireland (who included John F. Kennedy) and many other notabilities right down to our own day. Nest herself was connected with the Tudors and another main character in the story was an ancestor of Oliver Cromwell. Her central position in this vital period of history affected the future of Wales, England and Ireland but the historical accuracy of the story does not prevent it being a fast-moving tale of love and lust, tenderness and passion, which brings the true atmosphere of the twelfth century vividly to life. to top