Pierre is technically a Guise, but he is illegitimate, and has no legal claim to that part of his heritage.
Meanwhile, in France, a young student named Pierre Aumande is caught trying to use the royal Guise surname and brought to the Cardinal and the Duke of Guise for questioning. He hopes Elizabeth, a Protestant, will prove a more tolerant ruler over both her Catholic and Protestant subjects. Accordingly, he goes to Westminster to support young Princess Elizabeth, possible heir to Mary’s throne. He never wants to witness the death of a fellow countryman over religious persecution again.
Horrified, he vows that he will spend his life working for religious tolerance. Ned experiences a pivotal moment when Rollo burns a Protestant villager at the stake. Ned’s mother Anne also loses the family’s money to a bad deal made with the Fitzgeralds. At first Margery protests, but eventually decides the match is God’s will, and agrees to marry Bart. Margery’s father and her brother, Rollo, have promised her instead to Bart, son of the Earl of Shiring, a more prosperous-and Catholic-match. But he comes home to a series of ugly surprises. Ned Willard of Kingsbridge is the protagonist, recently returned from Calais and ready to marry the love of his life, Margery Fitzgerald. The Queen is a devout Catholic known for burning Protestants at the stake under charges of heresy. The novel begins in 1558, at the end of Mary I, or “Bloody Mary”’s reign. Follett is a British author of bestselling spy thrillers and historical novels, including the Kingsbridge series and such works as Edge of Eternity and A Dangerous Fortune. Like the other two novels in the series, A Column of Fire follows a pair of star-crossed lovers from the village of Kingsbridge through a period of significant historical events in this case, through the religious strife between Catholics and Protestants before, during, and after Queen Elizabeth’s reign.
It’s the third book in Follett’s Kingsbridge series and serves as a loose sequel to his other novels, The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End.
A Column of Fire is a 2017 historical fiction novel by Ken Follett.
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