Naming My Characters - The Heretic's Tomb

My fifth novel, The Heretic's Tomb, is historical fiction. As with The Sorcerers Letterbox, I once again researched names from medieval England, this time for a story set in 1349 at the height of the Black Death. While crafting the story, I investigated the name of the chief villain, Sir Roger de Walsingham, to make sure that I wasn't inadvertently using the name of an actual noblemen from medieval England. Roger was a name that was in use in this time period and Sir Francis Walsingham was...