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26 de mar. de 2014 · This programme is not currently available on BBC iPlayer. Documentary about the adventures, life and times of William Marshal - an eminent English knight who fought in battles across Europe and ...
17 de jun. de 2021 · Going beyond the Crusades. The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones (London: Simon & Schuster, 2015), is a fresh account of the life of William Marshal, perhaps the most significant English medieval knight.
Henry III. William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke ( c. 1146 — 14 May 1219), sometimes called William, the Marshal or simply the Marshal amd also William Marshal I and nicknamed the Great or the Fearless was an English knight and a nobleman who served four kings of England during his time as a knight: Henry II, Richard I, John, and Henry III.
Timeline. c. 1146 - 1219. The life of the great English knight Sir William Marshal . 1166. William Marshal is made a knight. 1166. William Marshal fights in the army of Henry II of England against the counts of Boulogne, Flanders and Ponthieu. 1167 - 1183. Sir William Marshal competes, and remains undefeated, in medieval tournaments .
William Marshal was a powerful, respected, wise and loyal knight and baron who had already served two Angevin kings. King John, however, accused Marshal of being a traitor, took all of Marshal's English and Welsh castles, took Marshal's two older sons as hostages, tried to take Marshal's lands in Leinster, and even tried to get his own household knights to challenge Marshal to trial by combat.
1 de sept. de 2022 · William Marshal’s knight gear In this period, plate armour had not been invented and so William would wear a mail hauberk made of 30 000 interlocking iron rings. It would cover his arms and chest and reach down to his knees with a couple of splits, front and back, so that he could skilfully ride his horse.
21 de nov. de 2018 · Little is known about the two years Marshal subsequently spent in the Holy Land on crusade, but he certainly sailed for Jerusalem in the winter of 1183. Marshal returned to England in either 1185 or 1186, joining the court of Henry II in the final years of the latter’s reign. 5. He fought and almost killed Richard the Lionheart.
