William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)
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Lived 1146–1219, aged 73United Kingdom
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He served five kings across forty years of English civil war and crusade, died a Knight Templar, and was called by a 13th-century chronicler "the best knight that ever lived." William Marshal turned tournament winnings and a strategic marriage into an earldom, then at seventy became regent for a child king and held a kingdom together.
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Knighted in 1166, William Marshal made his name and fortune on the tournament circuit, a landless younger son whose family held the hereditary office of Marshal to the King. In 1189 he married Isabel de Clare—daughter of Richard de Clare and Aoife MacMurrough—and became Earl of Pembroke, though the title wasn't officially granted until 1199. He served Henry II, the Young Henry, Richard I, and John as soldier and adviser, his prowess earning him Stephen Langton's tribute as the greatest knight who ever lived. When John died in 1216, the realm appointed seventy-year-old William protector for nin…
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