Guillaume the Marshal

Guillaume the Marshal ( William Marshall in English) (towards 1145 - 1219, Caversham), English knight, 1st count de Pembroke, count de Longueville. Tournoyeur considered, it is called “best the knight world”.

Biography

He is the son of Jean the Marshal and Sybille de Salisbury, his second wife. The nickname of Maréchal goes up with his Gilbert grandfather the Marshal, Maréchal of the court of the king Henri Beauclerc.

It makes its training with Guillaume de Tancarville, his first cousin, Chambellan of England. It enters then to the service of Patrice de Salisbury, his maternal uncle. It is pointed out by valiantly defending Aliénor of Aquitaine whose convoy, which it escorted, was attacked by the lord of Lusignan. His/her uncle dies in the court of the confrontation.

He is in charge of the education of the king Henri the Young person († 1183). In 1173 - 1174, it follows it in the revolt of this one against his/her father Henri II of England. During several years, it carries out a band of knights brought together around the young king of tournament in tournament. With died of this last, he escorts his body with Rouen. Then it leaves two years in Croisade. It is of return in 1187, some time before the demolished of Hattin.

The king Henri II then takes it with his service. He grants to him the stronghold of Cartmel in the Lancashire. He is one of the faithful last of the old king in the fight of this last against his sons, with the first chief of which the young person Richard Lion-hearted.

In 1189, Henri II had promised the “virgin of Striguil to him”, promise confirmed by Richard Lion-hearted. He thus marries Isabelle de Clare (towards 1172 - 1220), girl of Richard de Clare known as '' Strongbow '' († 1176), Count de Pembroke and of Buckingham.

Isabelle was the grand-daughter of Dermot, king of Leinster, and also the back-small-girl of Robert de Beaumont, Count de Meulan, and of his second wife Elisabeth de Vermandois, of the house capétienne. Isabelle brings all her titles and terres&thinsp to him;: the county of Pembroke, half of the County of Longueville and nearly the quarter to the Ireland.

Regent of England, it beats the May 20th 1217 the French troops with the battles of Lincoln during which it kills the count Thomas of the Pole.

The large knight died in 1219, his Isabelle wife died one year later.

Family and descent

He married Isabelle de Clare (towards 1171 - 1220), girl of Richard de Clare known as '' Strongbow '' († 1176), count de Pembroke and of Buckingham. They had five wire and five girls. Their sons did not have any descent  :

  • Guillaume known as the Young person († 1231), 2nd Count de Pembroke. Husband in second weddings of Aliénor of England (1215 - 1275), girl junior by the King d' Angleterre Jean I {{er}}. It will be then the wife of Simon V of Montfort. Without descent  ;

  • Richard († 1234), 3rd count de Pembrocke, who will inherit Longueville. Was assassinated with Kilkelly, Ireland. Without descent  ;
  • Gilbert († 1241), ecclesiastic, 4th count de Pembroke. Without descent  ;
  • Gauthier († 1245), 5th count de Pembroke. Without descent  ;
  • Anseau or Aselme († 1245), 6th count de Pembroke. Without descent  ;
  • Maheut ( Maud ), wife of Hugues Religious bigot which will become count de Norfolk, then wife of Guillaume IV of Warenne, 5th Count de Surrey  ;
  • Isabelle († 1240), wife of Gilbert de Clare, 5th Count d' Hertford and 1st of Gloucester  ; then she marries Richard de Cornouailles, Count de Cornouailles then King of the Romans, younger brother of the king Henri III of England  ;
  • Eve, wife of Guillaume de Braose, lord of Brecknock (died 1231 in Wales)  ;
  • Sybille, wife of Guillaume de Ferrières, count de Derby  ;
  • Jeanne.

Its currency was: “ God helps the Marshal ”.

The biography of Guillaume the Marshal emanates mainly from the Histoire of Guillaume the Marshal , work of 19  214 worms, in Verse S rhyme S octosyllabic S, written little time after its death at the request of his/her son, in Anglo-Norman, starting from the testimony of its rider Jean D' Erlay.

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