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When Sir William Marshal died on 14 May 1219, he was the most powerful man in England. As earl of Pembroke, he ruled vast estates stretching across England, Wales and Ireland (including Cartmel, where he founded the Priory in around 1189). He also governed the kingdom as regent on behalf of the eleven-year-old King Henry III (1216-1272).
16 de abr. de 2016 · William Marshal (also called William the Marshal), 1st Earl of Pembroke, is one of the most important figures in the history of medieval England. He was a knight and nobleman who lived between the 12th and 13th centuries AD, during which he served five English monarchs – Henry the Young King, Henry II, Richard I, John, and Henry III.
21 de nov. de 2018 · 10. He is buried in the heart of London. By the spring of 1219 Marshal’s health was failing, and he died at Caversham on 14 May. Having joined the order of the Knights Templar on his deathbed – a promise he allegedly made on crusade – he was buried in Temple Church in London. Discovering the real William Wallace.
The career of William Marshal, who rose from being the penniless, landless younger son of a middle-ranking nobleman to be regent of England in the minority of Henry III, is one of the most extraordinary stories of the Middle Ages.His biography was completed shortly after his death by a household minstrel and we are fortunate that it survives to give a unique portrait of a twelfth-century ...
12 de may. de 2019 · William Marshal's tomb in the Temple Church, London "William's father, John Marshal, backed Empress Matilda against King Stephen during the anarchy which raged during the mid 12th Century," he said.
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.
Yet William Marshal – or William the Marshal – was one of the greatest men ever to have lived and arguably the greatest ever Englishman. Although inexplicably omitted from schoolroom history he has a dozen claims to fame. He unhorsed Richard, the future King Richard I, the Lionheart, in battle and spared his life.