Katharine's Life Long Love Affair

The story of Katharine Swynford's life long love affair with John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster, would be exciting in and of itself. When you add the fact that the first seeds of the Reformation were planted by their friend John Wycliffe (John Wyclif), not merely with his radical theology of Back to the Bible, but also because he translated the Bible into English, you have the beginnings of a massive conflict that would change church history.

Geoffrey Chaucer, John Wycliffe, the Black Prince, Richard II, and Henry IV were just some of the people John of Gaunt knew; loved; feared; or worked with. Truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. Something called the Lollard underground was established in this first stage of the Protestant Reformation. The Lollards and their underground involved both John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford in dangerous times.

This struggle between the established church, and those who wished to reform the church, was only one of the smaller skirmishes in John of Gaunt's eventful life. The Duke of Lancaster extended his arm and the Morning Star of the Reformation, John Wycliffe, was protected by the strength of John of Gaunt and his far reaching influence.

The Black Death, the Peasant's Revolt, the Good Parliament, the Hundred Years War, and the fact that the Duke of Lancaster was known as a peace monger, were just some of the everyday problems that John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford faced in their dramatic and turbulent lives.

John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford found themselves in the centre of a maelstrom of changes that happened in their century. Love, Honour and Royal Blood is a well researched novel, which tells one of the world's great love stories. It details Katharine Swynford's rise from mistress to Duchess of Lancaster - ancestress of United States Presidents and English Kings. Read all three books in the Love, Honour and Royal Blood trilogy to discover the world of John of Gaunt and Katharine Swynford, and their impact on history.