Jeremy Ottewell

The Catalan Knight Jeremy Ottewell

1282. After a century of contraction, the ancient but impoverished Crown of Catalunya-Aragón, under the ambitious King Peter II of the House of Barcelona, is set to become a Mediterranean power, challenging the mighty Kingdom of France. Josep, rootless and fatherless, and on a personal journey of self-discovery, finds himself in the midst of all the action and poised to help his King as an epic David-and-Goliath power struggle breaks out. Great Kings war against pauper Crowns, Popes against Emperors, chivalric tradition against almogàver savagery. This is the turbulent story of Josep Goodman serving his knight as page and squire while travelling across the Christian and Muslim Mediterranean and winning his own spurs serving his King.