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Kenneth and Sharon's Family

House of Lynch Part 2
Kenneth and Sharon - Continued


Sir Kenneth and Lady Sharon became the parents of a baby boy in mid June and twin girls three autumns later. The boy was named Angus after Sharon’s grandfather, the girls Magna and Ashley after Kenneth’s mother and aunt respectively.

As the children grew older, they improved in both grace and stature.

By the time he was fourteen, Angus was acting as his father’s squire. It was common in those days for the sons of knights to follow in the ways of their father, and important to Kenneth that his should do the same.

Lady Sharon did not approve of her son traveling too far during her husband’s errands, but as the opinions of women mattered very little in those days, she did not have much say in the matter. So she bit her lip save for those very few times when both had come home with wounds from some skirmish or duel. Then, she would tear into her husband with the fury of a wife and mother who has almost lost her two favorite boys.

Sir Kenneth and Angus would be almost to the point of contrition when the girls would join their mother, trying to look cross and wagging their fingers. However, at the age of eleven, and with flowers braided into their hair, this came off more as comical than cross and both father and son always ended up laughing heartily, despite their wounds. After a while, mother and daughters would join in, all just happy that neither father nor son was fatally wounded.

When the girls were of courting age, Lady Sharon brought them with her to a number of social gatherings which were held at the homes of the town’s three finest noblewomen; Lady Sarah of House MacMillan, Lady Dores of the Noble and Most Equitable House of Holmes, and Lady Bethany of the House of Stephens. All three had fine sons of courting age and it was the hope of Lady Sharon of the Noble House of Lynch that her daughters might be noticed but one such as they.

So it was to her horror that she had discovered that Ashley had eloped with Vincent Ainsley, son of John Ainsley who was butler to the House of Stephens.

The following year saw Magna married to Lord Albert Holmes. Ashley and her husband were not invited. This, as you may have guessed, caused a bit of a row between her Ashley and her mother when she spotted her sister in the marketplace several months later, both great with child and realized what must have happened.


As for Angus, he met with a woman warrior named Brynhilde Eriksdotter during a campaign that took him and his father across the ocean. The two began a most curious relationship, courting during quiet times, and fighting side-by-side in times of battle. It was shortly after one such battle that Angus received his knighthood. And shortly after this, Sir Angus asked for Brynhilde’s hand.

The warrior-maiden gladly accepted the proposal and the two married in the winter on the coast of the North Sea. In the following winter, their son Aldrik was born.

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