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Asbridge, Thomas S.
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Pembroke, William Marshal, Earl of, 1144?-1219.
Knights and knighthood -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Regents -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Great Britain -- History -- Angevin period, 1154-1216.
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Asbridge, Thomas S.
Pembroke, William Marshal, Earl of, 1144?-1219.
Knights and knighthood -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Regents -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Great Britain -- History -- Angevin period, 1154-1216.
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The greatest knight : the remarkable life of William Marshal, the power behind five English thrones / Thomas Asbridge.
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Asbridge, Thomas S.
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]
Call #:
942.03 P396a
Subjects
Pembroke, William Marshal, Earl of, 1144?-1219.
Knights and knighthood -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Regents -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Great Britain -- History -- Angevin period, 1154-1216.
ISBN:
9780062262059 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xx, 444 p. : ill. (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (394-423) and index.
Contents:
Childhood & youth: becoming a knight -- Adulthood: a knight in service -- Middle age: a lord of the realm -- Old age: England's great magnate -- Epilogue.
Summary:
The story of the largely forgotten William Marshal Pembroke of the English medieval period, who, "as a five-year-old boy ... was sentenced to execution and led to the gallows, yet this landless younger son survived his brush with death, and went on to train as a medieval knight. Against all odds, [he] rose through the ranks--serving at the right hand of five English monarchs--to become a celebrated tournament champion, a baron and politician and, ultimately, regent of the realm"--Amazon.com.
As a five-year-old boy, William was sentenced to execution and led to the gallows, yet against all odds rose through the ranks - serving at the right hand of five English monarchs - to become a celebrated tournament champion, a baron and politician and, ultimately, regent of the realm. Marshal befriended the great figures of his day, from Richard the Lionheart and Eleanor of Aquitaine to the infamous King John, and helped to negotiate the terms of Magna Carta. By the age of seventy he was the most powerful man in England, yet he was forced to fight in the frontline of one final battle, striving to save the kingdom from French invasion in 1217.
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