Arthur Conan Doyle 
Sir Nigel 

Arthur Conan Doyle — Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the early phase of the Hundred Years War, spanning the years 1350 to 1356, by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1906, it is a fore-runner to Doyles earlier novel The White Company, and describes the early life of that books hero Nigel Loring, a knight in the service of King Edward III in the first phase of the Hundred Years War.