Gauthier de Costes de la Calprenede is said to have written the first historic romance novel when 1668 he compiled the history of the Merovingian Frankish Kings in his monumental work ‘Pharamond’. Within we have an account of Pharamond’s love for Rosemonde, the Cambrian princess whose tribe, the Cimri, are mentioned in the Bible. “Gaultier … Continue reading Mary Magdalene Rosamond de Toxandria