Cormac Fitzgeoffrey is a fictional character created by Robert Ervin Howard, creator of Conan . He is a half-Norman , half-Gael, taking part in the Third Crusade . Howard wrote two short stories featuring the character and a synopsis that was later completed by another author:Â
Hawks of Outremer (1931)Â
The Blood of Balshazzar (1931)
The Slave-Princess (unfinished – completed by Richard L. Tierney and published in 1979)
The Cormac stories have a purely historical setting, albeit one with a heroic theme.Â
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Cormac, son of Geoffrey the Bastard – a renegade Norman knight – was born on or around the year, 1162. He is said to stand at 6`2“ and weigh around 210 lbs…