Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
Noble person
1147 – 1219
Who was Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke?
Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, also called William the Marshal, was an English soldier and statesman. Stephen Langton eulogized him as the "best knight that ever lived." He served four kings – Henry II, Richard the Lionheart, John, and Henry III – and rose from obscurity to become a regent of England for the last of the four, and so one of the most powerful men in Europe. Before him, the hereditary title of "Marshal" designated head of household security for the king of England; by the time he died, people throughout Europe referred to him simply as "the Marshal". He received the title of "1st Earl of Pembroke" through marriage during the second creation of the Pembroke Earldom.
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- Born
- 1147
Caversham - Parents
- Spouses
- Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke
(1189/08 - )
- Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke
- Children
- Ethnicity
- English people
- Anglo-Norman
- Nationality
- Kingdom of England
- England
- Lived in
- Newbury
- Died
- May 14, 1219
Caversham
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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