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The fictional Thomas of Hookton leaves his native Dorset after the murder of his father by Thomas's own cousin and joins an English army under Edward III as an archer. In Harlequin, he is involved in the fighting in Brittany and subsequently at the Battle of Crécy. The battle is a decisive victory for the English, despite being seriously ...
Thomas of Hookton - leader of a band of English and Welsh longbowmen and men-at-arms of various nationalities; Genevieve - Thomas's wife; Hugh - Thomas's son; Robbie Douglas - Scottish noble, Thomas's friend; William, Lord of Douglas - uncle of Robbie Douglas, fighting for the French so he can fight the English
Pages in category "Thomas of Hookton novels" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. -The Grail Quest;
Thomas kills four men, but the rest leave with the lance and captives. Thomas learns from his dying father that he is a French count who fled his evil family and that the Harlequin is Thomas's first cousin. Three years pass. Thomas is in France with the English army, serving under Will Skeat, a successful mercenary leader.
Heretic is the third novel in The Grail Quest series by English author Bernard Cornwell, first published in 2003.Set during the first stage of the Hundred Years' War, the novel follows Thomas of Hookton's quest to find the Holy Grail, a relic which may grant decisive victory to the possessor.
Vagabond is the second novel in The Grail Quest series by English author Bernard Cornwell, first published in 2002.Set during the first stage of the Hundred Years' War, it follows Thomas of Hookton's quest to find the Holy Grail, a relic which will grant decisive victory to the possessor.
In Bernard Cornwell's series The Grail Quest, the Earl of Northampton plays a minor role as protagonist Thomas of Hookton's lord. The Earl of Northampton is also a major character in Dan Jones' debut novel Essex Dogs and it's sequel Wolves of Winter.
Cornwell was planning at one point to write more books about Thomas of Hookton and said that, shortly after finishing Heretic, the third novel in the series, he had "started another Thomas of Hookton book, then stopped it—mainly because I felt that his story ended in Heretic and I was just trying to get too much from him. Which doesn't mean I ...