This is what Sidney Painter had in mind when he wrote a William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England. The subject has proved a peculiarly fortunate one.
This man, by his unwise trumpeting of the Marshal's fame, roused a good deal of animosity against the Marshal in the court of the ... As we have seen, the Marshal had another ward in Heloise, the heiress of Kendal, around this time.
Baldwin of Béthune now took the heiress of Châteauroux, while his old friend William Marshal found himself granted the morsel he coveted, the “damsel of Striguil.” Here he drew a winning card: Helvis of Lancaster meant only one knight's ...
Ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative politician and brutal, efficient soldier: this is William Marshal as portrayed by David Crouch in his widely acclaimed biography of 'the Marshal'.
Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagenets, knight extraordinaire, the flower of chivalry.
The rise to prominence of administrative law in the second half of the twentieth century is often remarked upon as the greatest legal development of the period. In this process...
Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England Sidney Painter. whose sally from the castle had been severely repulsed ... caught between three fires. While Faulkes' crossbowmen raked their ranks from the castle ramparts, William and his ...