Custance Timeline and Summary

As her father has ordered, Custance travels to Syria in a caravan to marry the Sultan.
The Sultan's mother casts Custance out to sea in a rudderless boat, where she drifts aimlessly for a few years.
Custance lands on the coast of Northumbria.
She makes friends with the Constable and his wife, who welcome her into their home.
Custance converts the Constable and his wife to Christianity.
A treacherous knight frames her for the murder of the Constable's wife.
Custance marries King Alla after he has helped her to prove her innocence.
Alla's mother, Donegild, conspires to have Custance cast out to sea in a rudderless boat with her baby son.
Custance drifts for a while, then washes up on the shores of another foreign land where a knight tries to rape her.
After fighting the knight off, Custance drifts on the open sea again.
A Roman senator on his way back from Syria picks up Custance's boat and takes her and her baby into his household.
Custance comes face to face with Alla again when he travels to Rome on pilgrimage.
Reunited with her husband and father, Custance returns to Northumbria.
After Alla dies, Custance returns to Rome and lives a life of prayer and almsgiving until her death.