Battle of the Three Princes

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In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series, The Battle of Three Princes is an important event out of the history of Terre d'Ange. During a war to keep the Skaldic forces from overrunning the eastern borders, the decisive battle was fought in Camlach. The three Princes from which it gets is name were Dauphin Prince Rolande, son of the King of Terre d'Ange and heir to the throne, Prince Benedicte, the King's younger brother, and Percy L'Agnace.

During the battle, Prince Rolande led the third mounted charge, got too far ahead of the rest of his troops, and was lost in the fray when his standard-bearer's horse stumbled and went down. The rest of the d'Angeline forces could not find the Dauphin before the Skaldi did, and Rolande was killed. Though Terre d'Ange won the battle and pushed the Skaldi back into the mountains, the cost was great; Rolande's infant daughter Ysandre became heir to the throne, as the King had no other children. Rolande's premature death set into motion the politics that would dominate the next forty years of d'Angeline history.