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Brother Cadfael: "Brother Cadfael's Chronicles" truth or fiction?

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Brother Cadfael is a fictional character, the detective in a series of murder mysteries by Edith Pargeter

Brother Cadfael - encyclopedia article about Brother Cadfael. . What does Brother Cadfael mean? What is Brother Cadfael? Provided by the Free Online Encyclopedia.

Edith Mary Pargeter (September 28, 1913 - October 14, 1995) was a prolific British author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honored for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern.

Born in the village of Horsehay (Shropshire, England), she had Welsh ancestry, and many of her short stories and books (both fictional and non-fictional) were set in Wales and its borderlands.



writing under the name "Ellis Peters."

Cadfael is a Benedictine

The longest lasting of the western Catholic monastic orders, the Benedictine Order traces its origins to the adoption of the monastic life by St. Benedict of Nursia (Norcia) in 529.

Benedict, founder of the monastery of Monte Cassino between Naples and Rome, wrote a "Rule" or plan of life for his monastery that remains an influence on monasticism today, the Rule of St Benedict. His sister, Saint Scholastica, founded the women's order at the monastery.


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monk, the herbalist at an abbey An abbey (from the Latin abbatia, which is derived from the Syriac abba, "father"), is a Christian monastery or convent, under the government of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serve as the spiritual father or mother of the community. A priory only differed from an abbey in that the superior bore the name of prior instead of abbot. Priories were originally offshoots from the larger abbeys, to the abbots of which they continued subordinate; however, the actual distinction between abbeys and priories was lost by the Renaissance.
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For other places of the same name, see Shrewsbury (disambiguation)


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Shrewsbury (pronounced both Shroozbury and Shrozebury) is the principal town in the county of Shropshire, England. It may have been founded by the Romans who had the city of Viroconium (Wroxeter) nearby. It is also the main town in Shrewsbury and Atcham district.
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Wales (Welsh: Cymru; pronounced /"k@mrI/ 'Kumree', ) is one of the nations that forms the United Kingdom. (The term 'Principality of Wales', Welsh: 'Tywysogaeth Cymru', though often used, is rejected by many in Wales, the Prince of Wales having no role in the governance of Wales.)

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Stephen becomes King of England.
Owain Gwynedd of Wales defeats the Normans at Crug Mawr.
The domination of Baghdad by the Seljuk Turks ends

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Construction begins on Notre-Dame d'Chartres in Chartres, France
Korean historian Kim Pusik compiled the historical text Samguk Sagi.

, during the civil war

The Anarchy in English history commonly names the period of civil war and unsettled government that occurred during the reign (1135 - 1154) of King Stephen of England. Stephen was a favourite nephew of King Henry I of England (reigned 1100 - 1135), whose only legitimate son died in 1120 in the "White Ship" disaster. Henry then named his daughter, Matilda, known as Empress Maud, as heir to his throne. He forced his barons, including Stephen, to swear allegiance to her several times, but it went against the grain -- no woman had ever ruled over all England in her own right. To make matters worse, Mathilda had married Geoffrey of Anjou, who did not enjoy a good reputation in England.
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between the forces of King Stephen
Stephen (1096 - October 25, 1154), the last Norman King of England, reigned from 1135 to 1154, when he was succeeded by his cousin (or, as the gossip of the time had it, his natural son) Henry II, the first of the Angevin or Plantagenet Kings.

Stephen was born at Blois in France, the son of Stephen, Count of Blois, and Adela, daughter of King William I of England. He became Count of Mortain in about 1115, and married Matilda, daughter of the Count of Boulogne, in about 1125.


and Empress Maud Empress Maud (February 7, 1102 - September 10, 1169) is the title by which Matilda, daughter and dispossessed heir of King Henry I of England and his wife Maud of Scotland (herself daughter of Malcolm III Canmore and St. Margaret of Scotland), is known, in order to differentiate her from the many other Matildas of the period. Matilda is the Latin form of the name "Maud" (or "Maude").

Maud was christened Adelaide, but took her mother's name of Matilda when she married for the first time, on January 7, 1114. Her first husband was Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, but the marriage was childless and Henry died in 1125. In 1128, she was married again, at Le Mans in Anjou, to Geoffrey of Anjou, who was eleven years her junior. He was nicknamed "Plantagenet" from the broom flower

. Cadfael became a monk in middle age, after going on Crusade

This article is about the Crusades, the series of European military campaigns.




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The Crusades were a series of several military campaigns sanctioned by the Papacy that took place during the 11th through 13th centuries.

They began as Catholic endeavors to capture Jerusalem from the Muslims but developed into territorial wars.

Later crusades were called against the remaining pagan nations of Europe such as the Polabians and Lithuania, and against heresy, such as the crusade against Bohemia, 1418-1437 (see Northern Crusades).
, and is more familiar with the secular world than most of his brother monks.
In addition, his personality more reflects modern attitudes and ethics than his own time which often puts him in conflict with his brethen on matters of justice and conscience.

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