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Just before his death, he fulfilled a promise he said he made in his youth while on crusade by taking vows as a Knight Templar and is buried in the Temple Church in London. Before him, his father's family held a hereditary title of Marshal to the king, which by his father's time had become recognised as a chief or master Marshalcy, involving ...
15 de may. de 2018 · Just as William had promised himself when in the Holy Lands years before, he was invested as a Knight Templar and interred in Temple Church in London where his effigy still rests. Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury (1207-1228 CE) described Marshal as 'the greatest knight that ever lived'.
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7 de jun. de 2020 · William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, and Lord Regent of England, died on May 14th in the year 1219 at the age of 73 years and was buried as a simple Knight of the Temple, in the Temple Church in London.
16 de jun. de 2023 · The earliest surviving biography of a medieval knight. The Greatest Knight. This extensive and biographical poem was written by an unknown author shortly after Marshal’s death. It gives us a valuable account of the turbulent times in which he lived, survived, thrived, and ultimately served four English kings.
William spent two years in the Holy Land fighting with King Guy of Jerusalem and the Knights’ Templar. On his return to England in 1185, William swore allegiance to King Henry II and served as his loyal captain against his rebellious son and heir Richard, soon to be Richard I, The Lionheart.
The illustrious knight William Marshal was a good example of the problems involved in this period. He was a long-standing Templar supporter and patron who had given the order lands in Herefordshire. William had been at the deathbed of Henry the Young King (Henry II’s eldest son) in the summer of 1183.
Introduction: William Marshal, hailed at his death as the “greatest knight in the world” by the Knights Templar and the Archbishop of Canterbury, certainly lived up to those claims. Living in the turbulent, almost mythological, era of the Angevian Empire, Marshal himself lived a life worthy of the legends of the time.
