General Notes

3rd Earl of Pembroke, Marshall of England, Protector, Regent of theKingdom 1216-1219. He was made regent during the minority of Henry III. He was considered a wise ruler and he helped defeat the French forces in 1217 who tried to take the English crown.  A biography was written about his life shortly after his death.  He was considered the greatest Knight of the Templar at the time of his death.  He was captured in 1167 but was ransomed by the Queen.

History of Rutland: Earls of Pembroke. Weis 66-27

MAGNA CHARTA: mentioned in the Magna Charta, advisor to King John in 1215




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William the Marshal, Earl of Pembroke (via his young wife), Lord of Striguil and Regent of England (in the minority of Henry III) was appropriately eulogised at his funeral by Archbishop Langton of Canterbury who said, "Here lies all that remains of the best knight of all the world who has lived in our time." William was renown across Europe for his courage, honesty and loyalty to his country, and served with much distinction as a chief officer of several kings. {His biography is "L'Historie
De Guillaume Le Marechal," probably written by his squire, John Earley. His life and importance are summarized in "The Magnificent Century," Thomas B. Costain (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & County, 1951), pp. 41ff.} He fought in more than 500 duels in the tilting ring and lost none nor was
seriously injured in any of the many battles in which he fought. He was in the Holy Land on crusade c. 1185-87, was one of the regents duringRichard's absence (1190), etc. His five sons succeeded him one by one asearl.
Source: Alabama Myers
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William Marshall, the powerful earl of Pembroke, was one of the outstanding men of his day, a landless son of an English, knightly family, who had made a name for himself in Angevin France by his
formidable fighting ability and his uncompromising loyalty to those he served. He stayed loyal to the old king, Henry II, when almost all others deserted him for his rebel sons. Richard "Lionheart," one of these sons, respected Marshall both for his loyalty to his father and for his skill as a soldier (he had unhorsed Richard in a skirmish, but spared his life). When Richard became king he married William to La pucelle d'Estriguil - "The Maid of Chepstow," the heiress Isabelle De Clare. The phrase comes from a
spirited verse biography in medieval French, which makes William Marshall one of the few men of his age who appears to us, to some extent, as an individual rather than an anonymous figure in a suit of mail or a bishop's mitre.
William fitz Osbern's great castle of Chepstow had stood unchanged for nearly a century and a half. William Marshall, however, was a notable castle builder who remodelled several strongholds in the up to date techniques of military architecture familiar to him from his career in France. His most impressive work is the great round keep at Pembroke, guarding the sea route between his British and Irish lands. Marshall also built the castle at Usk, northwest of Chepstow.
Source: http://www.castlewales.com/marshall.html

_NAMS: The Protector