num_pages: 560
description: Simon de Montfort - aristocratic champion of the people, French born crusader for English rights - blazed across the troubled thirteenth century like an afterglow of Camelot. Amid the wars and intrigues, courtiers and crusades, of Henry III's peevish England and Llewelyn's divided Wales, Simon alone lacked the art of dissembling. And even for the greatest warrior in Europe, the privileged husband of the King's favourite sister, that was a dangerous failing..
language: English
title: Falls the Shadow
titlecomplete: Falls the Shadow  (Welsh Princes, #2)
characters: Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Davydd ap Gruffydd, Nell de Montfort, Henry III of England, Llywelyn the Last, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
genres: British Literature, Historical, Fantasy, Novels, Plantagenet, Romance, Historical Fiction, 13th Century, Fiction, Medieval
ratings_count: 9994
places: Leicester, England, North Wales, Wales, England
series: Welsh Princes
publisher: Pengiun