Knight's fee
by Rosemary Sutcliff · 1960

Popularity 16
In late eleventh-century England, Randal, a young orphan at Arundel Castle, is won by a minstrel in a chess game and finds his life transformed when he is sent to be companion and squire to the grandson of the kind Sir Everard of Dean.
Juvenile fictionHistoryChildren's storiesKnights and knighthoodOrphansFictionFriendshipChildren's fictionGreat britain, history, norman period, 1066-1154, fiction