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24 de ene. de 1993 · Thurgood Marshall Sr. Jurist, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice. He served in that position from October 1967 until October 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African American justice and is best remembered for his jurisprudence in the fields of civil rights and criminal procedure. Born Thoroughgood Marshall, his father was a...
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.
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 ...
William II Marshal. William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman Son of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare, grandson of John Marshall and Sybilla of Salisbury, Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke and Aoife, the daughter of the King of Leinster. His birth at Normandy has been estimated to be in the spring of 1190.
William Marshall's service to Richard I. Upon Richard I 's ascension to the throne in 1189, Marshal was already a renowned knight, valued for his loyalty and military skills. Richard, a warrior king known for his bravery and leadership in the Crusades, saw in Marshal a dependable and capable ally. Marshalplayed a key role in defending the ...
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.
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 ...
