Poisoned Chalice: Mabel De Belleme Normandy’s Wicked Lady

‘Small, very talkative, ready enough to do evil, shrewd and jocular, extremely cruel and daring.’

Orderic Vitalis on Mabel de Belleme. Mabel is the daughter of William de Belleme, known as Talvas, the Hard Shield, for his fierceness in battle…and at home. When William murders Mabel’s mother, he is expelled from his castle into exile, but Mabel follows him loyally, despite what he has done. As the Belleme fortunes gradually return, Mabel is married to an upstanding young lord, Roger de Montgomery, a close friend of the new Duke of Normandy, William, who will one day become the Conqueror of England.

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