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The Englishman Sir William Marshal (c. 1146-1219 CE, aka William the Marshal), Earl of Pembroke, is one of the most celebrated knights of the Middle Ages. Renowned for his fighting skills, he remained undefeated in tournaments, spared the life of Richard I of England (r. 1189-1199 CE) in battle, and rose to become Marshal and then Protector of the Kingdom - king in all but name. Shortly after ...
13 de may. de 2019 · 13 May 2019 By Elizabeth Chadwick. On 14 May, 1219, William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, soldier, statesman and regent of England, died at his home in Caversham. To mark the 800th anniversary of his death, historian and novelist Elizabeth Chadwick looks at how this remarkable man’s fame grew, then disappeared until relatively recently.
Marshal, William (I) ( c. 1146–1219), earl of Pembroke , regent of England and lord of Leinster, was the fourth son of John fitz Gilbert (John the Marshal), his second son by his second wife, Sibyl, daughter of Walter of Salisbury. At the age of six he was given as a hostage for his father's good behaviour to King Stephen; despite his father ...
12 de may. de 2019 · Twice Marshal was appointed Lord Protectorate, effectively stand-in king, in 1199 when Richard was on crusade, and again in 1216, when King John died leaving the infant Henry III as monarch.
15 de ene. de 2015 · ‘A rip-roaring new life of Marshal … [a] splendid account of a great medieval life' Dan Jones, author of Crusaders‘A thoroughly entertaining account of England’s most colourful and courageous medieval knight’ Sunday Times Drawing upon an array of contemporary evidence, renowned historian Thomas Asbridge’s authoritative and dramatic account brings to life the often overlooked figure ...
3 de feb. de 2019 · William Marshal, wohl um 1147, mitten in den Wirren eines jahrelang andauernden Bürgerkrieges um die englische Thronfolge geboren (mehr über diesen Krieg, die sogenannte „Anarchy”, lest ihr hier), war das zweite Kind des anglonormannischen Adligen John FitzGilbert und dessen Frau Sibyll von Salisbury. Über die Kindheit William Marshals ist nur wenig bekannt. Es ist jedoch wahrscheinlich ...
William Marshal is a man that you have all probably seem depicted in movies, mentioned in books, and now immortalized in the Ros Tapestry, in the heart of the Town he founded with his wife Isabel de Clare. There is an old phrase that always reminds me of William Marshal “If wishes were horses then beggars would ride”. He was a man of no property, no wealth but he had loyalty, an aspect of ...
