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What is loyalty worth when serving an emperor means turning against your own family?
In Maugis, Ye Sorcerer, credited to Lord Gilhooley, knights, spells and rebellion fill the world of Charlemagne. A small band stands against a great emperor, and strength alone is not enough. Maugis, the clever enchanter and thief of the old French legends, brings another weapon to the struggle: cunning.
This tale draws on the legends of Charlemagne and his rebel barons, where loyalty to a ruler presses against the claims of kin. Castles, feasts, sword fights and magic give the conflict its colour. At its heart stands a hero who uses wit as often as strength, inviting you to weigh obedience against family and defiance.
What you’ll discover
- A cunning enchanter Meet Maugis, whose magic and cleverness offer a different kind of chivalric strength.
- Rebels against an emperor Follow a small band facing imperial power, with loyalty itself open to question.
- Swords beside spells Enter a world where sword fights and sorcery share the pleasures of adventure.
- The pull of kin Explore what a hero owes his family when a ruler is hard to serve.
- The flavour of legend Enjoy castles, feasts and the old chivalric world behind this tale of rebellion.
Who will love it
Readers who love tales of knights, sieges and daring escapes will find plenty here, along with a love story, a bitter rivalry at court and a sorcerer who struggles to keep his word.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A dying hermit trusts a stranger with a secret
- A prince's death starts a war
- Ganelon's treachery drives Maugis from court
- Montfort holds, then burns
- Love and a kingdom in the south
- Roland arrives and Yon betrays his guests
- Maugis breaks his oath and fights a duel
- Honor and loyalty pull against each other
- A minstrel's voice and a framed manuscript
Who’s who
- MaugisEldest son of Duke Aymon, a seven-foot knight with Eastern learning, who fights for his family's honor and has sworn never to use his magic.
- YolandeA princess from the south and Maugis's love, who sees past slander and stands by him after doubts divide them.
- CharlemagneThe emperor of France, brave and generous but proud, who burns for revenge after his son's death and listens too easily to flatterers.
- RenaudMaugis's cousin and the son of the murdered Duke d'Aigremont, who has sworn to avenge his father and fights beside the brothers.
- RolandThe emperor's young nephew, a peerless knight who first hunts Maugis and then comes to admire and befriend him.
- GanelonA jealous courtier who plots against Maugis, covets Yolande, and feeds the emperor's anger.
- King YonYolande's brother, ruler of Aquitaine, who shelters Maugis and his brothers but struggles to stay faithful when the emperor's army draws near.
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Maugis, Ye Sorcerer
A seven-foot sorcerer knight defies Charlemagne from fortress after fortress, sworn never to use his magic.
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Maugis, Ye Sorcerer, by Lord Gilhooley, retells the old French legend of the four sons of Duke Aymon and their cousin Renaud, who defy Charlemagne. The tale is framed as a secret manuscript passed to the author by a half-mad scholar in Mouzon, in the Ardennes.
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A dying hermit trusts a stranger with a secret
The book opens with a cable to the author in New York. A hermit of Mouzon has died, and his rooms are stripped bare. Only scraps of burned parchment remain.
Three months earlier, the author is led through the crooked streets of this walled town. A schoolmaster points to an oak door that once belonged to Maugis. Behind it lives Charles Voudran, an old man with wild gray eyes.
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What is Maugis, Ye Sorcerer about?
It follows Maugis, eldest of the four sons of Duke Aymon, who defies Charlemagne after a series of murders and betrayals. He builds fortresses, wins a wife, and uses secret knowledge to survive against the emperor's armies.
Who is Maugis the sorcerer?
Maugis is a legendary knight of the Charlemagne cycle, a seven-foot warrior who learned occult knowledge from an Eastern scholar. In the book he fears his powers as sin and uses them both to escape danger and to humble his enemies.
Is Maugis, Ye Sorcerer a true story?
It is based on a medieval legend, not a documented history. The book wraps the tale in a story of a scholar and a lost manuscript in Mouzon, and it gives the eighth century a colorful setting.
The author
Lord Gilhooley
Writer
Lord Gilhooley is the pen name of Frederick O'Hoolihan, who died in 1913. In this book he appears as the Irish narrator who receives the manuscript in France. The tale draws on the old legend of the sons of Aymon, known from medieval romance and song across northern France.
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