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16 de jun. de 2023 · William co-governed England and defended Richard’s lands in France whilst Richard was away on the Third Crusade in 1190. Indeed, even seven years later, a 50-year-old William Marshal apparently scaled the walls of a French castle at the centre of a rebellion and seized it successfully whilst awaiting reinforcements. Richard the Lionheart
19 de dic. de 2022 · This was in 1152 when England was mired in the Anarchy – a messy civil war triggered by a succession dispute between King Stephen and Empress Matilda. William’s father, John Marshal, was a minor nobleman who had originally supported the king, before switching allegiance to Matilda. King Stephen duly besieged Newbury Castle, where John and ...
8 de jun. de 2018 · Marshal, William (c.1147–1219).William the Marshal began life as the fourth son of a minor lord who was hereditary royal master marshal. From such modest beginnings, he rose to become earl of Pembroke (from 1189), through marriage to the heiress Isabella, and ultimately regent of England (1216–19) at the time of Henry III's minority, a spectacular example of the open-endedness of English ...
The remarkable story of the life of William Marshal is chronicled in the Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, the only known written biography of a non-royal to survive from the Middle Ages. The poem, composed after his death by an unknown author called John, extols William as being ‘the best knight in the world’, and offers a unique window ...
29 de sept. de 2022 · Yet here’s the weird thing. In William Marshal’s epic, 19,000+ line verse biography, commissioned shortly after his death by his family and friends, Marshal’s sojourn in the east is glossed over with bizarre haste. It is effectively a lacuna in an otherwise extremely detailed text. The biographer is weirdly coy about the entire expedition.
William Marshal, 1.º Conde de Pembroke (1146 — 14 de maio de 1219) era um soldado e estadista anglo-normando. Ele tem sido descrito como o "maior cavaleiro que já viveu" ( Stephen Langton ). Ele serviu quatro reis - Henrique II , Ricardo Coração de Leão , João e Henrique III de Inglaterra - e passou da obscuridade para se tornar regente de Inglaterra e um dos homens mais poderosos da ...
WILLIAM MARSHAL (II) (died 1231) The first of the five sons of William Marshal (I) who in turn became earls of Pembroke. In 1220 his domain in Dyfed was attacked by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth who had complained of the inroads made by the earl's tenants on the Welsh in spite of the truce. On appeal to the king a settlement was concluded.
