WILLIAM THE BASTARDBorn illegitimate. Died a king. The conquest was just the beginning. Before he was William the Conqueror, he was William the Bastard, the son of a duke and a tanner's daughter, fighting for survival in a world that wanted him dead. At seven years old, assassins came for him. At twelve, he killed his first man. By twenty, he'd crushed three rebellions and learned that compassion was a luxury he couldn't afford.
From the brutal politics of Norman court intrigue to the blood-soaked fields of Hastings, from treachery to the systematic devastation of the Harrying of the North, this is the untold story of how an illegitimate duke became the most feared king in Europe and changed England forever. A historical retelling of ambition, violence, and the price of power, told with neither mercy nor sentiment. Some men inherit kingdoms.
Others build them on bones.
WILLIAM THE BASTARDBorn illegitimate. Died a king. The conquest was just the beginning. Before he was William the Conqueror, he was William the Bastard, the son of a duke and a tanner's daughter, fighting for survival in a world that wanted him dead. At seven years old, assassins came for him. At twelve, he killed his first man. By twenty, he'd crushed three rebellions and learned that compassion was a luxury he couldn't afford.
From the brutal politics of Norman court intrigue to the blood-soaked fields of Hastings, from treachery to the systematic devastation of the Harrying of the North, this is the untold story of how an illegitimate duke became the most feared king in Europe and changed England forever. A historical retelling of ambition, violence, and the price of power, told with neither mercy nor sentiment. Some men inherit kingdoms.
Others build them on bones.