![]() ![]() After training in the household of a great Norman magnate, he distinguished himself in tournaments, which were exceedingly popular during the day. ![]() Son of a minor noble, Marshal matured in a time when England still ruled much of France. of London The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, 2010) delivers an intensively researched but lucid portrait of a knight who triumphed in an age much nastier than that of Arthur’s mythical kingdom. Acknowledging its value as well as its bias-it presented its hero “as the perfect knight”-Asbridge (Medieval History/Univ. Marshal’s reputation stems from a fulsome epic poem commissioned after his death (“In its pages William almost became the living embodiment of the mythical Arthurian knight, Lancelot”), which thrilled scholars when it turned up in 1861. Biography of William Marshal (1146-1219), Earl of Pembroke, the epitome of medieval chivalry, who battled for great kings (Henry II, Richard the Lionheart) and the not-so-great (Henry III). ![]()
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