Four brother-kings were ruling over the Kingdom of the Franks in the second half of the sixth century. They were Merovingians, grandson of the great King Clovis and were renowned for their golden hair, which they wore long as a symbol of their royalty. It is they who are the central figures of Paul Murray Kendall's dramatic historical novel. The age was one of the blackest in European history. The old Roman order was disintegrating; Rome itself had been sacked over a century earlier and Italy was in the possession of the Barbarians - the Pope was in Byzantium. The brother-kings - Charibert, Sigibert, Guntram (who tells the story) and Chilperic -were in a constant state of war with each other; greed and debauchery were the dominant passions and Fredegund, Chilperic's queen, one of the most appalling characters in European history, presided over the tragedy. Good King Guntram appears as the only hope in a dark and pitiless age. He survived his brothers, determined to rescu e Chilperic from the Hell where his misdeeds had condemned him.
- ISBN10 1842125907
- ISBN13 9781842125908
- Publish Date 20 September 2006 (first published 15 November 1979)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 6 May 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English