![]() She becomes entangled in the quarrels and heartbreaks of her jailers, even as she tries to remember her place among them. She finds her hostess cold and embittered, but when her husband William FitzOsbern returns from the Conquest, Catheryn's heart is torn by unwanted emotions. Catheryn is sent to the castle of the noble FitzOsberns - but will her new captivity be any better than the cruelty she faced at Geffrei's hands? When Queen Matilda, William the Conqueror's wife, sees her plight, she takes pity on her. Catheryn is treated like an animal, and left in a cell, until she begins to despair. ![]() Her husband Selwyn is dead, slain in the Conquest, and her daughter Annis has been left behind in England at the mercy of the invaders. She arrives, a prisoner, at the castle of Lord Geffrei, a ruthless invader who hopes to gain a ransom for her. Lady Catheryn, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, is taken against her will to Normandy after the invasion. England has been brought to its knees by the invasion of William the Conqueror and his Norman troops. ![]()
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